Question Want feedback on this new build

[PW5843]

Interested in tips/criticism/feedback on my all new build. Will start buying parts next month. (sooner once ive made up my mind and the deal is right)

Primarily a gaming rig. I like to get 5 years out of a build.
Budget - 2000 US dollars (i can go higher but will be upgrading my 1080p monitor to a pair of 1440p/144Hz hopefully next spring)

Im kind of a power/heat conscious nerd so i try to look for quality power features, VRM ect.
AIR COOLING , The thought of liquid inside my rig would cause me to loose sleep.
I have been an Intel fanboy but i like what i see from the 3rd gen Ryzen. Used AMD GPU the past 15 years or so but im not married to them. Always used Corsair PSU and Ram, again not married.
Not a serious overclocker but i will play a bit.
This is my I7 build, (also working on a Ryzen build)

My biggest question mark is probably the GPU. The 2070 super looks like a good fit, im really not sure on which make/model. Were i to go AMD i like the Powercolor 5700 XT Red Devil or Sapphire Nitro+ Rx5700 Xt

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BxtGf9

If something looks way out of whack dont be afraid to call me out. Im not made of glass.

thanks in advance.

 

[Flayed]

Looks like a very nice build.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, looks good to me, too.

My only question is, why two different-capacity, identical-model SSDs? You can't RAID-0 or RAID-1 them effectively, because of the difference in capacity. And in 99.99% of use-cases, especially on Intel, because both NVMe sockets go through the same x4 DMI link, there's no performance advantages to splitting out an extra drive for OS or pagefile or photoshop scratch file or whatever. (There could be a difference on select AM4 boards, because they have dedicated NVMe socket PCI-E lanes. Likewise, on a HEDT platform.)

What I'm trying to get at is, if you're doing "consumer things", then just stick to ONE NVMe SSD, of a decent capacity, because you're not going to noticeably increase performance with 2x NVMe drives, on 1151 300-series platform.

And if you're doing things that you KNOW would really benefit, then change your platform to an HEDT platform, to get multiple independent NVMe sockets with their own dedicated PCI-E lanes, to get full performance from that sort of configuration.

Edit: And thirdly, if you insist on using 2x NVMe SSDs on a socket 1151 300-series platform, then AT LEAST get SSDs of the SAME capacity, such that NVMe RAID (if supported by mobo and chipset) is a possibility.

I myself am running 2x Intel 660p 1TB NVMe SSDs, in RAID-0 (daily backups to NAS!), on a B450-F ROG STRIX Gaming ATX board. On this particular board, it appears as though the primary NVMe socket is driven by the dedicated PCI-E 3.0 x4 link to the CPU/SoC for NVMe usage, and then the second PCI-E 3.0 x4 link, is driven by x4 PCI-E 3.0 lanes taken from the primary GPU PCI-E 3.0 x16 lanes. The mobo splits them up, to x8 3.0 for primary GPU slot, x4 3.0 for secondary GPU slot, and x4 3.0 for secondary NVMe socket. Also, the chipset supports x4 2.0 for the third physical x16 socket on the board. (Was useful for my 10GbE-T Asus card, until it mysteriously died and cannot be detected any more.)

I've got an RX 5700 8GB reference card in the primary PCI-E slot, and a GTX 1660 ti in the secondary GPU slot.

So I really sort of "maxed out" my board. I'm running DDR4-3600 RAM, 4x8GB, FCLK 1800, on a Ryzen R5 3600, the works. Works fairly well, when it's not burning out my NICs. (Lost the onboard Intel 1GbE-T LAN too, mysteriously. So I'm on a USB3.x 2.5GbE-T NIC, with a RealTek chipset.)

 

[PW5843]

Yeah, looks good to me, too.

My only question is, why two different-capacity, identical-model SSDs? You can't RAID-0 or RAID-1 them effectively, because of the difference in capacity. And in 99.99% of use-cases, especially on Intel, because both NVMe sockets go through the same x4 DMI link, there's no performance advantages to splitting out an extra drive for OS or pagefile or photoshop scratch file or whatever. (There could be a difference on select AM4 boards, because they have dedicated NVMe socket PCI-E lanes. Likewise, on a HEDT platform.)

What I'm trying to get at is, if you're doing "consumer things", then just stick to ONE NVMe SSD, of a decent capacity, because you're not going to noticeably increase performance with 2x NVMe drives, on 1151 300-series platform.

And if you're doing things that you KNOW would really benefit, then change your platform to an HEDT platform, to get multiple independent NVMe sockets with their own dedicated PCI-E lanes, to get full performance from that sort of configuration.

Very good point. I don't plan to RAID. I do need to rethink my old school "put the OS on a separate drive" ways. Actually ( i might be wrong) the x570 Aorus Pro for my Ryzen option does have the PCI-E lanes to accommodate. I put both drives in the Intel build without thinking. I might just toss the 500 and throw in a 2T SSD for media. I was going to keep media on an external.

Thank you VL (if i may call you that)