1. I don't mean to shit on your build but you spent $150 on fancy fans and cables, $200 extra on a 3800x instead of a 3600, $122 extra on x570 instead of b450, $100 on a CPU cooler.
2. That's $550 you could have instantly saved without a performance compromise. I'm sure you bought these things because you wanted to and there is nothing wrong with that but that's not how someone spends their money if they want the best performance per dollar.
1. The way I use a PC those extra cores is needed*. But then someone say should have gotten the 3700x instead and saved money, sure could have, and saved €20 (yeah it was only €20 difference because the 3800x was on sale at that moment) but I would have lost out on extra free €60 software that came with the 3800x and not the 3700x
2. I guess. And then instead of buying a 12x00K CPU/MOBO combo you can buy a 9x00k or a 10x00k CPU/MOBO combo, and save money too.
* Web-browser always up multiple tabs, discord, sometimes OBS for streaming to friends because discord streaming sucks and cost money for better quality, hell sometimes I play multiple games at the same time, I mean its a PC that allow you to do things like this unlike consoles.
The idea is that you can get a decent PC, with plenty more power than current gen consoles, with less than 1300.
You don't need such expensive CPU to have a build that's better than current consoles. You can easily shave off 100$ off that and still get a great CPU, much better than what current gen consoles have.
2. You don't need 2x nvme drives. -47$ more.
3. You don't need such expensive mobo. More that 150$ for one is excessive. That's a -70$ from that.
4. You don't need more than 50$ for a PC case. -45$ more.
5. That CPU fan is also too expensive. I got mine for 45$ and it served my PC for 8+ years awesomely. That's another 50$ save.
6. Also, what's up with all these super expensive fans? Are you really going to spend 80$+ for extra fans? Why? You don't even need half. Save 50$ more from that.
7. And what exactly is that "Cablemod Modflex C-series RMi/RMx kit"? That's 60$+ down the drain.
8. Also, a 2060 for 450$+ Pretty sure you can now get a 3060 for as much. But if you want a 2060, you can easily shave off another 100$.
So yes. You can pay 1800 if you want more fancy stuff. Or 2000 if you want even more fancy stuff. Or 3000 while you are at it. You can spend as much if you really want. But if you want something good enough that does the job without all the extra fluff, useless RGB, etc, you don't need more than 1300-1400$. And that's without sacrifices in quality/temps/noise reduction. You can go even lower than that if you are willing to sacrifice some things but i think we are more than good at around 1300.
I'd think I'd never buy that equal to console PC sadly, its not enough for PC games and what they need/want 1-2 years later (hell I wanted to upgrade my GPU as soon as the 3x00 series released).
Well maybe... If SteamOS is really ending up being great on a PC beyond Steam Deck it could be a nice one (Windows bloating sucks).
1. True, but is there really people around that just ONLY buy a PC to be better then a current console, instead of buying a PC that's a great PC?
2. You're right I don't need 2 nvmes, I already have 3 because the 1TB is filled to 90%+ already (added a 2tb extra). The 250 was supposed to be a pure OS drive (but a lot of software save shit on the c: drive auto and is non changeable**), and kinda regret not making it a 512GB because I'm sub 10% free on that drive.
** Maybe If I were to setup that anything saved in My Documents folders was physically on a second drive (the way you can spec your /home folder on Linux to be a separate drive/partition it would help a lot)
The drive space is sadly because I can not download a 100gb game in minutes when I want to play it I need to plan ahead (hours or the day before) and keep many games locally stored, so space need to be large.
3. Was one of the cheapest x570's back then, and sure could have save some on a b450, but most didnt have bios flashback, and those who did was still €170-180 at the time (old stuff should be cheaper then that), so getting a x570 that was done/worked out of the box was convenient.
4. Well you don't need a case at all (if you wanted), just place the component on the wall. €0 for the case.
5. But it keeps the CPU super cool and do not make any noise while doing it, also any new CPU in the future also no need to get a new or better cooler.
6. Was supposed to be having a 3080 ish level gpu so wanted more airflow so more fans, true not needed with the 2060 super, had the price hiking of the 3x00 series cards not happened that's what would have been in the PC now.
7. Yeah cables was just for easier and better looking cable management, 1000% better than the crap that came with the PSU.
8. Yeah but I didn't buy my computer now I bought it in dec2019/jan 2020, I would have bought a 3060 then if it existed and was €450 no questions asked.
Sadly (or is it) buying the rgb version of a mobo/fan etc can actually save you money because there are more of them and stores sometime have to lower the price below the non rgb stuff to move it.
Price is part of the equation.. a 3060 GPU by itself being €450 should be better the a ps5/xsx, anything else would be embarrassing, it's just we can probably never agree on how much better it should be.
Also. my first computer ever a 286@12Mhz was also €2000 back in the day, yikes!