I live in Canada. The hottest day during the heatwave last month was 89.24 Fahrenheit. Currently it is a sunny day and 76f
Air cooling is fine, particularly for that chip unless youāre doing heavy overclocking. Zen 2 does like to be kept cool though, but donāt feel pressured to do watercooling in any form. That cooler or the Noctua equivalent are both overkill for the stock build of that CPU.
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I think even that cheaper build is overkill, but thatās just me. You could get an i7 and a RTX 2070 and youād be real happy for a long time.
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Eh, youāre probably fine with just air then.
Irony: Zen 2 basically does that for you insofar as you keep the chip cool and buy a non-garbage motherboard that can supply the current. Overclocking can actually end up worse unless you really need an all-core overclock than the individual core boost. So it really depends on your workload. For wow or gaming I would actually suggest just leaving it stock and keeping it cool.
Final note on air coolers: The wattage rating on them is their ability to dissipate without saturating (the point where the heatpipes no longer work and are just copper convectors). Thatās usually well beyond the draw rate of most modern CPUs unless youāre buying a lower profile cooler.
Iāve sent out for all the parts (and Iāll be paying a nearby shop to assemble it, better safe than sorry)
Hereās hoping it doesnāt explode the moment I turn it on.
sad part I think the 1080ti still outperforms the 2080ti lol or itās a mere 10 percent better --bad buy- I wouldnāt buy either one 5700 amd or 5700xt is good enough
dunno the idea of water and computers scare meāadd more fans
Itās probably a little late but theyāre running a special deal starting tomorrow. Hereās an Asus build based on this.
Just remember that better is the enemy of good enough. You gotta build sometime. May as well be now.
Looks fine to me, but I would go with better cooling option!
OPā¦ Iām just really thankful that youāre here to talk about computer hardware.
I donāt know why I clicked the thread title if I was expecting otherwiseā¦
ā¦been so long since I built my own system I honestly would have to look at the hardware again to be useful with your listā¦ except:
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit
Let me say this, first off: You, the reader, are not going to agree with this.
I just know you wonāt.
But this is how it is, and I multibox(ed) on old AND new rigs using Win7.
You can get so much out of an optimized Windows 7 setup andā¦ while (again, not sure about the current hardware) you might run in to compatibility issues, I swear I donāt know why anyone would use any other version of Windows.
For Windows 8+ the telemetry alone is horrific for latency, not to mention all the other drawbacks of what modern software has becomeā¦ just a sort of bait and switch intended to get as much as possible out of the consumer while providing less and less optimized performance.
/rant
Point is, donāt know about the hardware anymore, but honestly, Iād never make a gaming system with anything other than Windows 7 at this point (maybe that makes me a dinosaur 
).
NOTE: I do have win7 running on a laptop that doesnāt officially support it. Runs great, just had to go driver hunting (youāre going to have to do that anyway if youāre building your own system).
MSI Z170A M5 Motherboard.
Intel i7 6700k CPU
32 Gigs Ripjaws Series V RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 Twin Frozr GPU
Samsung 1TB SSD x 2
Back when I built this thing it cost me a little over 2k for all of the parts. It could have been less if I didnāt buy Windows 8.1 and went with spin drives instead of SSD. Never had trouble with any games and it runs pretty damn fast. Just threw it out there in case someone is looking to build but cheaper. Pretty sure it would cost less to build my system now.
Windows 7? No way. Commodore 64 is the way to go.
The GTX 970 would be hard to find, but I have still seen new GTX 1060ās going for around $150, and they are quite a bit better than the 970. Iām still running my 1060 with an i7 7700k, and itās great. Probably almost exactly like your system.
If you mean max settings on wow, you dont need to be bleeding edge for that.
I can play retail on max settings now with a raedon 480 and a 4 year old i7.
You could spend 1/4th that and be at max settings 4 years from now.
But if you just got money to burn and want to have all the latest and greatest without regard to cost, then thatll do it. Just definitely unnecessary for wow.
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You can build a great computer for about 1/2 that money and still have it be viable for the next few years.
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Ive thought about going back to Win 7. It just felt like such a good OS back then.
Win 8 and Win 10 just feel like 10day old garbage.
I will probably do that this weekend since you make it sound tempting.
What version of Win 7 do you recommend?
Other than the fact that it is serious overkill for WoW and you obviously have money to burn, no.
Iāve had the same Core i7 CPU and GTX1080 for several years now and have been playing with setting maxed with no issues.