Opinions on this build? Starting a new job soon and will be hoping to purchase after...

[Robert Fitzgerald]

Opinions on this build? Starting a new job soon and will be hoping to purchase after Christmas when finances are better (and when the case is out of pre-order). I know the CPU may get a bit warm with the case/cooling but I'm willing to give it a shot, if need be I can downgrade the CPU. The heaviest game I'll be playing is Ark which runs fine on my current 10 year old machine so this new one should be a lot better. Long term plans are to add a second 1TB nvme SSD as well. I've already got the GPU here in my current machine so will be reusing that.

 

[Robert Fitzgerald]

I was going to consider Ryzen given the price/performance but I'll be using this for work as well which will include some virtualization and Intel seems to win at that. I'm hoping this machine would last me another 8-10 years.

 

[John Lahtinen]

Ryzen rocks at virtualization! No surprise given all the cores.

 

[James Owens-Case]

Ryzen would be more likely to last 8-10 years