Thanks for your input, will consider the 3060ti GPU and the bigger cooler. Any thoughts on the AMD equivalent (assuming the RX6700XT) ? My previous card was the RX5700XT and was plagued with issues. Does the 6000 series still suffer driver issues ?
I was considering the Gigabyte Mobo only...
One final question maybe about the RTX3080 - Palit/Zotac in stock it seems but ASUS out of stock - should I wait or is it only marginal difference between card manufacturers ? splitting hairs maybe as it seems any RTX3080 will be perfectly fine.
Thanks for the quick ... that seems to be more in my budget and I will look at the alternate storage arrangement.
Regarding the B550 mobo - is it worth looking at this or should I stick with the X570 ?