First Build!

[Christopolis]

Hey all! Long time no talk. Well long story short, I'm over gaming on a laptop so I've decided to put some money into my first build! My budget is around $1500. This link has me around $1600 which is fine, this price is including two monitors and a keyboard as well. No biggie. I have been messing around with PC Part Picker as a guide with some light reading and have come up with the following preliminary build. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3cRX27 This isn't final, I'm getting together with my brother in the near future to bang out some details and a final build. Wanted to see what you gurus thought about it and if you had any suggestions.

Much love!

[Qicmee]

Hi Christopolis,
Not many of the experts check in here regularly. As an amateur, my only advice is to avoid Win10 Home. I worked with it over the holidays and discovered several features were intentionally gimped by Microsoft. Instead, I'd buy Win10 Pro and install the 64-bit version. If I were shopping today, I might get it here: https://pcmarket-online.com/en/opera...SABEgIhOfD_BwE

This is for the OEM version, meaning it cannot be transferred later to a different PC. For the price, I like that deal.

[goldenfooler]

sadly I am so out of place with what is good and bad now.

[oneforce]

Hi Christopolis,
Not many of the experts check in here regularly. As an amateur, my only advice is to avoid Win10 Home. I worked with it over the holidays and discovered several features were intentionally gimped by Microsoft. Instead, I'd buy Win10 Pro and install the 64-bit version. If I were shopping today, I might get it here: https://pcmarket-online.com/en/opera...SABEgIhOfD_BwE

This is for the OEM version, meaning it cannot be transferred later to a different PC. For the price, I like that deal.

This is really helpful, Kudos to you!

[Gamesta]

I wonder how good is the specs that you'll get now for $1500 budget. I mean, time does make some older stuff cheaper and new stuff to be much affordable than the previous new releases.

[oneforce]

Dude, you'll get a mid-range specs though it's still a monster itself on performance.

[Gamesta]

Already got one and currently playing ESO on Steam with full graphics on.

[oneforce]

Nice, what are the specs?

[SCameron]

Hey, so I have an RTX 3080 and an RTX 3080. Is one 850 watt PSU enough to power them both?

[oneforce]

Hey, so I have an RTX 3080 and an RTX 3080. Is one 850 watt PSU enough to power them both?

What?