Building a gaming desktop

[UTGrad98 2276]

Every 4 years or so I splurge and build myself a new desktop. Finally going to upgrade to a SSD. Pretty cool website I found to build it this time around. Here are my specs. Nothing crazy, I usually spend around the same every time, $600-$700 or so.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder/Custom/S93822-M810675.1024806.607339.89269vsS0-M?tab=GPU

Virtual Benchmarks
Gaming 79%   Battleship	Desktop 91%   Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74%   Battleship

Bench	Value		Bench       Value
					$715
CPU		AMD Ryzen 5 3600	84%	92%	$203			Copy from baseline
GPU		AMD RX 5600-XT	88%	74%	$280			Copy from baseline
SSD		Crucial P1 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB	250%	91%	$101			Copy from baseline
RAM		Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB	87%	122%	$58			Copy from baseline
MBD		Gigabyte B450M DS3H			$73			Copy from baseline

Got WoW Shadowlands and Godfall for free with the 5600-XT. Was a nice surprise sine my brother and I are gonna start playing WoW again after about a 6 year hiatus. 

[ConferenceRoom 6141]

What display are you rocking? Freesync support?

[Poolflood 845]

42 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Every 4 years or so I splurge and build myself a new desktop. Finally going to upgrade to a SSD. Pretty cool website I found to build it this time around. Here are my specs. Nothing crazy, I usually spend around the same every time, $600-$700 or so.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder/Custom/S93822-M810675.1024806.607339.89269vsS0-M?tab=GPU

Virtual Benchmarks
Gaming 79%   Battleship	Desktop 91%   Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74%   Battleship

Bench	Value		Bench       Value
					$715
CPU		AMD Ryzen 5 3600	84%	92%	$203			Copy from baseline
GPU		AMD RX 5600-XT	88%	74%	$280			Copy from baseline
SSD		Crucial P1 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB	250%	91%	$101			Copy from baseline
RAM		Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB	87%	122%	$58			Copy from baseline
MBD		Gigabyte B450M DS3H			$73			Copy from baseline

Got WoW Shadowlands and Godfall for free with the 5600-XT. Was a nice surprise sine my brother and I are gonna start playing WoW again after about a 6 year hiatus. 

This quadrennial we think you should focus on getting laid.

 

[UTGrad98 2276]

7 minutes ago, Poolflood said:

This quadrennial we think you should focus on getting laid.

 

Ive been married 13 years. Not gonna happen...

[UTGrad98 2276]

16 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

What display are you rocking? Freesync support?

Nothing fancy but I will probably get another monitor next. My brother is shaming me for not having dual monitors. Currently have a 32 inch 1920 x 1080

No freesync support.

[elfenix 34266]

nice computer.  userbenchmark is trash tho.

[Your Mom 4806]

My 12 year old son wants to build his first PC soon.  He's saving the money and is almost there.  I know nothing about it.  He has been looking at this one on PCpartpicker. (1st pic)

 https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/2cLrxr/modest-amd-gaming-build  

He plays Rainbow Six Siege, COD, etc...    He wants was to stream some of his stuff and earn a billion dollars on Twitch too.  Would that PC be a decent place for him to start?  If he had more money to spent how would is best be spent?  

The other option he's been looking at is NZXT (second pic, $899 version).  Any opinions?

Edited September 8, 2020 by Your Mom

[Sam Lin 3559]

Note there's a well established thread on building gaming PCs in the Video Games subforum, may get more feedback there:

 

[Lat22 4014]

I've been thinking about building one to handle the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.  

[52-80 19162]

14 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

I've been thinking about building one to handle the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.  

MS Flight Simulator ?

 

this little guy should do it

 

 

[Horn_Spanker 524]

Shocked that the Ryzen CPUs are becoming scarce.  One I want is out of stock until 10/16.  Guns and CPUs, new economics course.