RobertCrentis146
Active member
Hi all,
Just like everyone else I imagine, over lockdown I've been making some savings and have been thinking of buying my own pc for the first time. In my life I've only owned laptops and thought it was about time I cashed out and got myself my dream computer. Obviously with the price hikes and stock shortages this isn't exactly the right time to be doing that so this build is more of a vague idea of what I want rather than an order I'm about to place, but I wanted to get the opinion of people with more experience of pc builds and I have a LOT of questions: (I'll post the actual specification below)
My budget: No particular budget - though obviously I don't want to be spending money unnecessarily
My usecase: This will be mainly be used for gaming, however I work in datascience and have been using my decently-spec'd laptop (at the time i bought it in early 2019) to occasionally run my ML models and analysis frameworks on and I'd love to be able to do that more on this PC, hence the need for a large amount of memory. I have a bunch of spare harddrives available around the house so I'll be slotting those all in for more disk space
Monitor: I think I'll try and find a monitor separately through curry's or similar. Hoping to get a 4K 144Hz one to be able to handle the high end RTX cards. I'm still a little confused about DP/Gsync etc but I'll be doing a lot more research in monitors closer to purchase
Questions:
- Are the Lian Li cases no longer available? I watched a few videos on it and it seemed like a really nice case/cooling system but when I select RGB Lian Li EKWB Liquid Cooling build to configure all the cases are greyed out, and the lian li case doesn't appear. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere down the line.
- I am a really big fan of these ThermalTake Tower cases, however saw the Gamers Nexus video on ThermalTake and he had a lot of negative things to say about the case regarding its airflow (
) however this only through a conference meeting. Are these problems still true? Would the white (Level 20 HT) be better?
- adding onto this: a lot of the marketing with these ThermalTake cases have a temperature/fan controller display at the bottom of them, but the images on PC specialist don't have this controller. Is it possible to get one through pc specialist? If not how easy would it be to install one myself?
- When I checked out the spec I got a warning message that said I only needed 686W but the power supply i selected is 850W, but there aren't any power supplies with wattages less than this. Was this a mistake?
- Is liquid cooling complete overkill in this day and age? I've heard a lot of talk about how air cooling can pretty much give you the same results but if I plan to overclock my components surely
- Regarding the supply issue: I realise this is a question probably everyone and their mums have asked but is there a vague idea about how long it takes for the 'pre-order' parts to be arrive and how far in the queue people ordering now will be? (Is it on the order of days, weeks, months?) I'm not in any particular hurry at the moment so I don't mind the wait too much. I'm more than aware of all the logistic issues with shipping and parts at the moment but obviously it would be nice to have a better idea of the timescales.
- How much of builds like this come pre-built and how much do you need to do yourself?
Sorry for the wall of text! I would be incredibly happy if someone were able to answer even one of these questions. And please let me know if there's any part of this that you feel would be unnecessary because obviously 4K pounds for a computer is an insane amount (to me at least) whether I can afford it or not!
Here is the specification:
Case
THERMALTAKE TOWER 900 FULL VERTICAL GAMING CASE
Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series RGB High Kit - EK
Tubing
Clear Hardline Acrylic Tubing (Metallic Fittings)
Graphics Card Cooling
GPU Water Block - For One Graphics Card!
Coolant Colour
Mayhems X1 Clear
LED Lighting
50cm ARGB LED Strip
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core (3.4GHz @ up to 4.65GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 - HDMI, DP
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Liquid Series® Build - Approximately 12 to 15 working days
Price: £3,963.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-liquid/dP7Df4rjYq/
Just like everyone else I imagine, over lockdown I've been making some savings and have been thinking of buying my own pc for the first time. In my life I've only owned laptops and thought it was about time I cashed out and got myself my dream computer. Obviously with the price hikes and stock shortages this isn't exactly the right time to be doing that so this build is more of a vague idea of what I want rather than an order I'm about to place, but I wanted to get the opinion of people with more experience of pc builds and I have a LOT of questions: (I'll post the actual specification below)
My budget: No particular budget - though obviously I don't want to be spending money unnecessarily
My usecase: This will be mainly be used for gaming, however I work in datascience and have been using my decently-spec'd laptop (at the time i bought it in early 2019) to occasionally run my ML models and analysis frameworks on and I'd love to be able to do that more on this PC, hence the need for a large amount of memory. I have a bunch of spare harddrives available around the house so I'll be slotting those all in for more disk space
Monitor: I think I'll try and find a monitor separately through curry's or similar. Hoping to get a 4K 144Hz one to be able to handle the high end RTX cards. I'm still a little confused about DP/Gsync etc but I'll be doing a lot more research in monitors closer to purchase
Questions:
- Are the Lian Li cases no longer available? I watched a few videos on it and it seemed like a really nice case/cooling system but when I select RGB Lian Li EKWB Liquid Cooling build to configure all the cases are greyed out, and the lian li case doesn't appear. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere down the line.
- I am a really big fan of these ThermalTake Tower cases, however saw the Gamers Nexus video on ThermalTake and he had a lot of negative things to say about the case regarding its airflow (
- adding onto this: a lot of the marketing with these ThermalTake cases have a temperature/fan controller display at the bottom of them, but the images on PC specialist don't have this controller. Is it possible to get one through pc specialist? If not how easy would it be to install one myself?
- When I checked out the spec I got a warning message that said I only needed 686W but the power supply i selected is 850W, but there aren't any power supplies with wattages less than this. Was this a mistake?
- Is liquid cooling complete overkill in this day and age? I've heard a lot of talk about how air cooling can pretty much give you the same results but if I plan to overclock my components surely
- Regarding the supply issue: I realise this is a question probably everyone and their mums have asked but is there a vague idea about how long it takes for the 'pre-order' parts to be arrive and how far in the queue people ordering now will be? (Is it on the order of days, weeks, months?) I'm not in any particular hurry at the moment so I don't mind the wait too much. I'm more than aware of all the logistic issues with shipping and parts at the moment but obviously it would be nice to have a better idea of the timescales.
- How much of builds like this come pre-built and how much do you need to do yourself?
Sorry for the wall of text! I would be incredibly happy if someone were able to answer even one of these questions. And please let me know if there's any part of this that you feel would be unnecessary because obviously 4K pounds for a computer is an insane amount (to me at least) whether I can afford it or not!
Here is the specification:
Case
THERMALTAKE TOWER 900 FULL VERTICAL GAMING CASE
Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series RGB High Kit - EK
Tubing
Clear Hardline Acrylic Tubing (Metallic Fittings)
Graphics Card Cooling
GPU Water Block - For One Graphics Card!
Coolant Colour
Mayhems X1 Clear
LED Lighting
50cm ARGB LED Strip
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core (3.4GHz @ up to 4.65GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 - HDMI, DP
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 1800MB/sR | 1800MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Liquid Series® Build - Approximately 12 to 15 working days
Price: £3,963.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-liquid/dP7Df4rjYq/
