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  1. martinlest
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    I put 64GB of RAM (2x32GB DDR4 2667) into my latest hardware refresh last month for around US$200.
    As always, not that cheap in the UK, but still worth the one-off outlay. The rebuild is going to work out considerably cheaper than a new PC... I have more than enough PCs/laptops in the house already anyway!

    Decided to get a local PC firm to do this for me... my PC building days are over unfortunately. Looks like we're going with an i9-11900F in the end...
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  3. Lance1
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       New #12

    martinlest said:
    My PC building days are over unfortunately.
    Well... Don't take this literally! Symbolically...

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  4. martinlest
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    Looks like this will be the build... anyone see any immediate issues here?

    Case: Fractal Meshify C Mini Dark TG
    Motherboard: Asus Prime Z590M Plus
    CPU: Intel i9-11900F
    RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX
    GPU: nVidia GTX1070 8GB (retained from present PC)
    Evo SSDs (retained from present PC)
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  6. bobkn
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    martinlest said:
    Looks like this will be the build... anyone see any immediate issues here?

    Case: Fractal Meshify C Mini Dark TG
    Motherboard: Asus Prime Z590M Plus
    CPU: Intel i9-11900F
    RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX
    GPU: nVidia GTX1070 8GB (retained from present PC)
    Evo SSDs (retained from present PC)
    I was going to ask about the CPU cooler, but I suppose that you intend to use the stock version that is included with the I9-11900F. I presume that's adequate for a non-overclocked system.

    Are you getting the PC3200 Corsair DDR4? The plainest version of that in the US (newegg.com) is attractively priced.

    I've never owned a micro ATX board, but I presume that its 5 SATA ports are enough for you.

    I was going to recommend an AMD CPU instead, but it look like the Intel CPU may have a price/performance advantage. AMD beat Intel to market with PCI-E 4.0, but Intel has it now. (Looks like you'll have no PCI-E 40 devices, regardless.)
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  7. Steve C
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    FWIW, I have a shortlist to build a new PC soon to replace my 11 year old desktop PC. Currently AMD offer more 'bang for the buck'. I would choose a X570S (no chipset fan) motherboard, a high end AMD Ryzen CPU like the 5900x with a minimum of 32 GB RAM. I would reuse my drives but buy a cost effective high performance NVME drive with good warranty support.
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  8. Steve C
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    martinlest said:
    Looks like this will be the build... anyone see any immediate issues here?

    Case: Fractal Meshify C Mini Dark TG
    Motherboard: Asus Prime Z590M Plus
    CPU: Intel i9-11900F
    RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX
    GPU: nVidia GTX1070 8GB (retained from present PC)
    Evo SSDs (retained from present PC)
    Compare the Intel & AMD CPU benchmarks & prices and you might conclude an AMD CPU is better value
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  9. Steve C
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    bobkn said:
    I was going to ask about the CPU cooler, but I suppose that you intend to use the stock version that is included with the I9-11900F. I presume that's adequate for a non-overclocked system.

    Are you getting the PC3200 Corsair DDR4? The plainest version of that in the US (newegg.com) is attractively priced.

    I've never owned a micro ATX board, but I presume that its 5 SATA ports are enough for you.

    I was going to recommend an AMD CPU instead, but it look like the Intel CPU may have a price/performance advantage. AMD beat Intel to market with PCI-E 4.0, but Intel has it now. (Looks like you'll have no PCI-E 40 devices, regardless.)
    That Intel CPU has a similar price / performance to the Ryzen 7 5800X but the Ryzen has better multithread performance. The Ryzen 9 5900X cost more but has a better price / performance than the former.
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  10. bobkn
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    Steve C said:
    That Intel CPU has a similar price / performance to the Ryzen 7 5800X but the Ryzen has better multithread performance. The Ryzen 9 5900X cost more but has a better price / performance than the former.
    Depends on the benchmarks, I suppose. UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-11900F The userbenchmark benches may be biased towards single threaded performance. For example, UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs 9 5950X has the 5800X and 5950X as approximately equal, even though the 5950X has twice as many cores.

    I don't know where to go for benches relevant to the OP's needs.
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  12. tonez
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    martinlest said:
    Looks like this will be the build... anyone see any immediate issues here?

    Case: Fractal Meshify C Mini Dark TG
    Motherboard: Asus Prime Z590M Plus
    CPU: Intel i9-11900F
    RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX
    GPU: nVidia GTX1070 8GB (retained from present PC)
    Evo SSDs (retained from present PC)

    Top up the GTX 1070 to a 3070 and you are good to go buddy
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  13. Steve C
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    bobkn said:
    Depends on the benchmarks, I suppose. UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-11900F The userbenchmark benches may be biased towards single threaded performance. For example, UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs 9 5950X has the 5800X and 5950X as approximately equal, even though the 5950X has twice as many cores.

    I don't know where to go for benches relevant to the OP's needs.
    I've been using cpubenchmark.net:

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