A Solid All Rounder?

[cycladianpirate]

Case
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 275Q QUIET CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.25GHz/19MB CACHE/AM4)

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Motherboard
Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE: DDR4, USB 3.1 - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, 3 x DP - DX® 12 ()

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1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
2nd Storage Drive
3TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB INTEL® 660p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (upto 1500MB/sR | 1000MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1200 867Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KK3-00002]
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® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - 3 User, 1 Year
Browser
Firefox™
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
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
Price: £1,215.00 including VAT and Delivery


Any tweaks or is this fairly solid? I'll be using a low-end monitor and don't do any high end gaming. Just want a reliable workhorse.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[polycrac]

Unless you have a specific need for 32GB of RAM, I'd suggest less and faster, e.g. 16GB of 3000MHz.

 

[ubuysa]

Unless you have a specific need for 32GB of RAM, I'd suggest less and faster, e.g. 16GB of 3000MHz.

Agreed, and probably a faster NVMe SSD too....

 

[Oussebon]

Agreed about the RAM. For an general (purpose-unspecified) home PC, 32gb RAM is a waste and you'll get no benefit from more than 16gb.

The WD Black NVMe SSD is much faster and not outrageously more expensive.

Get faster RAM, Ryzen CPUs can benefit a good deal (as can Intel ones tbh)

Drop the antivirus. Windows Defender is actually very good these days, as are free options like Avast, which you can pair with something like Malwarebytes for on demand scanning.

I've struggled to find reviews of the 275Q that measure thermals but I'm not sure how great the airflow is. In your shows I'd probably go with the Define S as more of a known (and very good) quantity.

If going for a quiet system, get the H100x with the quiet fans, or indeed the Noctua cooler. The H100x is extremely effective, but quiet is not one of its virtues, out of the box anyway.

With this budget you could get the X470 Ultra Gaming which has some additional features like USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C.

Also if you're not into high end gaming NB the RX 570 is decent and £60 less than the RX 580. Depends what titles you play and what sort of settings you're after.

Also - why the 2 hard drives? Probably easier to get a single 5TB HDD and just organise things in folders or potentially partition the drive. A 5TB HDD will likely be faster too.

e.g.

Case
FRACTAL DEFINE S BLACK GAMING CASE (Window) ()
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.25GHz/19MB CACHE/AM4)

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Motherboard
Gigabyte X470 AORUS Ultra Gaming: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2933MHz ~ (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 580 - HDMI, 3 x DP - DX® 12 ()

World War Z & Division 2: Gold Edition FREE w/ select AMD Radeon GPUs!
1st Storage Drive
5TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 128MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB WD Black™ SN750 M.2 NVMe SSD (up to 3470MB/s R | 2600MB/s W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Ultra Quiet Fans
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1200 867Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KK3-00002]
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® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
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
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
Price: £1,259.00 including VAT and Delivery

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[cycladianpirate]

Thanks for the replies and advice. The reason I opted for two drives was to have a backup for all my data - I've been burned in the past!! They were supposed to be both 3TB - I must have misclicked.

Does anyone know which brand of Hard Drive is considered the most reliable? That's more important to me than speed to be honest. I can always stick the crucial stuff on the SSD.

Anyway, thanks again for the feedback. It's greatly appreciated.

 

[Oussebon]

I'd suggest backing up to an external drive rather than another internal one, or using network/cloud storage, so it's physically separate from the PC. Also, do versioned backups rather than RAID. Have a look at the WD Myclouds if you want an easy to use out of the box network drive.

As for reliability, there isn't much in it. PCS specify some of the drives as Seagate but they also use Hitachi, Toshiba and WD or at least they have. And they're all fine.