If your neighbor came to you and said I need to borrow a tool, what would you give him ? To provide and useful solution to your neighbor's problem, wouldn't you have to know whether he wants to bang in a nail, put in a crew of loosen a bolt ? What will the PC be used for ? Rather than tell you what I think you should do, since I have the time this morning, after some general comments in component choices, I'll address why "what you do with the PC matters" and how one might approach making that choice for themselves.
First on your selections:
Motherboard: The Unify is a great board with sound VRM componentry.
Cooler: Id grab the Fuma 2 which is cheaper and out performs the beQuiet by 3C and produces the same noise levels
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CPU: Here's where we have the "which tool to use problem" ... what will the PC be used for ? If it's all about gaming .... there's better choices
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The £276.95 3700x produces a score of 92.5% in gaming ....
The £249.00 10600k produces a score of 98.1% in gaming ....
The £187.49 10500 produces a score of 96.2% in gaming ....
The £162.40 10400F produces a score of 95.7% in gaming ....
Don't fall for the more cores / it's better in everything else thing .... Let's look at Video Editing for example
The £279.95 3700x produces a time of 253.1 in video editing ....
The £249.00 10600k produces a time of 241.0 in video editing .... .... £30 cheaper for more performance
The £187.49 10500 produces a score of time of 254.7 in video editing .... £92 cheaper for 99.4% of the performance
The £162.40 10400F produces a score of time of 267.4 in video editing ....
Look at the apps you actually use on an every day basis in TPUs performance tests ... look at which choice comes out on top. Comparing 3700X and 10600k, TPU wrutes:
"The differences vary wildly between applications, especially tasks that are easy to parallelize, like rendering, are AMD's strongest suit, and Intel has a clear lead in single and low-threaded apps, which are relevant to the majority of consumers today. "
Synthetic Benchmarks - Do you make your living or spend your spare time running benchmarks ? No ? then not relevant
Rendering - You want AMD if you spend a significant part of your day rendering
Software and Game Development - AMD has a 7 - 10% lead here, if that's your thing, you want AMD.
Web Browsing - Tossup, Intel takes 2/3 here
Science and Research - AMD averages 5% lead here so if you are involved in Brain Neuron Simulation on a daily basis, definitely should go AMD.
Office Apps - With the MS office programs, performance between the 2 choices is very close and AMD takes 2/3 ... but scripted benchmarks do not really indicate actual production as the script involves 100s of keystrokes and in real life, the user has a pause between each of those. This one doesn't reflect reality so it's one I ignore.
Photo and Video Editing - This is important to many gamers, well at least the latter. Intel has a 14% lead in photo editing and 5% on video editing
Photogrammetry and Text Recognition - Only surveyors will have an interest in photogrammetry; while in my business I use text recognition a few times a year I think most folks would have an occasional need. Intel takes the 1st by 13% / AMD takes the 2nd by 11% . In eather case, the frequency of use leaves this category out of consideration for most users.
Virtualization - If ya running MySQL or programming Java, you should definitely go AMD which has a 20% or more advantage here.
Compression - Unless you spend ya day compressing and uncompressing or encrypting files, this will hardly be a basis for comparison ... but in case ya do, RAR likes Intel by 14% .... 7 Zip likes AMD by 39% (avg compress / decompress) and encryption by 11%
Media Encoding - Like rendering, this is AMDs wheelhouse
Picking a CPU is not a popularity contest, it doesn't get you into a club or show your peers that you buck trends. When you want to bang in a nail, a hammer is better tool for that application than a screwdiver or a wrench. When you want to loosen a bolt, a wrench is better tool than a screwdiver or a hammer. You assemble the contents of a toolbox based upon the jobs you will have to do when you arrive at the place you are going to do them. There is no "best tool", just the best tool for your applications. There are applications where more RAM will make your PC perform faster, but if you don't use any of them, it's just a waste of money.
In short ... it's great help to those reading your posts, to list your intended uses so that you can get the best possible responses. Note also that and comparison of two specific CPUs will not carry over to another two CPUs ... If you move up in price tiers, what's true at one level may not hold at another.
Certainly there are things the the 3700X will do better, but if you don't do any of them, it's hardly relevant. If you switch, again the Unify is a solid choice
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Storage: Most go the Samsng route for SSDs but it hardy matters from a user point of view. It's not going to change our life in any way other than knowing it benchmarks faster. Howecer, the SSD ony affects the speed of what's on it ... anything oin the HD will be at HD speeds, unless you get a hybrid. We have been usng them exclusively for 9 years, all arte still in service, all report good condition and they are a lot faster than HDs.
Windows Boot Times:
SSD 15.6 seconds
SSHD 16,5 seconds
HD 21.2 seconds
And in gaming, after 2 of 3 game loads ... gaming bencmarks are up to 2.5 times faster. The X300 comes witha 1 year warranty ... the SSHDs w/ 5 years. I have seen the 2.5" 2 TB FireCudas selling for £99.00 in UK an amazon ... £95.00 for the 3.5" model The 4 TB HD's 1 year warrantee scares me ... I have twin 2 TB SSHDs tho there are 4 TB models also.
GFX Card - 2070S is a sweet spot right now, but it will be yesterdays news in 30 - 60 days. MSI is a sound choice as for the last 2 generations, this has been the brand / series most found at the top of TPUs performance testing
PSU: You could certainly get away with a smaller PSU ... but I like to have my systems closer to the peak eficiency poing to minimize heat generation, fan noise and better overclocking performance so no objection there.... but the SeasonicPrime Ultra Gold 850 is cheaper @ £163.99 and the Focus Plus Platinum is £181.40
The GX Focus Plus Gold (successor to the FX) mdrops in a week and is only £109.99
Buy from Scan - 850W Seasonic Focus GX 850 80PLUS Gold, Single Rail, Fully Modular, 70A, 120mm Fan, ATX PSU
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I think the componentry you have assembled warrants a better case. That case, with 2 fans is a bit weak for 365 watt load w/o the 238 watts GFX card
The cheapest I'd go with that set of components would be the Phanteks 400S @ £74,99 ... the the 600S is a significant step up (£116.00). Im not planning to do any builds till next year but Im tempted to buy the Evolv X just to put on my desk and look at .... as some reviewrrs have said, case should have a place in an art museum For the most part it's the same case as the 600S but "prettied" up a bit.