I like my Fractal R5 just fine. I did get it mostly for its storage capacity though (lots of HDDs).

Handle9:

I’m not sure you’re going to see any meaningful performance improvement between an 8700K and a 12700K for your use cases. With a 3070 or 3070ti you’re still likely GPU bottlenecked at 1440p. You’ll get a few fps but it’ll likely be negligible, particularly with DDR4.

Benchmarks I've seen indicate ~30-60 FPS difference comparing a 1080TI to a 3070 at 1440p. Pretty much everything is >100FPS.  Plus I get DLSS. My gaming monitor is 144hz, but pretty much nothing I play can touch 144 FPS on my current rig.

Benchmarks seem to indicate at 1440p, ~7FPS difference between a 3070TI and 3070 and there is a $300-400 difference in price. I think for me it's either 3070 or 3080 and no way can I justify a 3080 for the small amount of PC gaming I do (which is partly because my rig struggles with some games now and I can get better results from my Xbox or PS5 on a much bigger screen).

Decided to bite the bullet, as my gut says pricing won't be going down significantly and are actually potentially increasing. 

I went with a 

12700KF

Noctua Black D15S with Adapter for LGA1700

Asus Z690-P Wifi D4

32GB DDR 4 3600Mhz

1TB 980 Pro NVME

Gigabyte 3070

Fractal Define 7 Compact. 

I didn't really want to spend the 3070 money, but with a 1080i, anything less that had DLSS would have been a downside or sideways step at least.

Happy to take the old parts off your hands, no cost of course, sounds like I'd be doing you a favour. 😋

wratterus:

 

Happy to take the old parts off your hands, no cost of course, sounds like I'd be doing you a favour. 😋

 

I am actively going to be looking to sell the old gear in about 10 days once everything data wise has come across.

Feel free to PM me with a decent offer, I'd prefer to sell as a whole thing.

Full specs are 8700K (has been lightly overclocked and stable for over a year), 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, 1080TI, NH14S (I think) Noctua Cooler, Asus 370 chipset Motherboard, 1TB Samsung Pro 980 brand new, DVD/Blu-Ray Drive, Fractal Define Case, HX620 PSU

That is a nice build @networkn . If you dont mind telling, what was the cost for the build? Are you going with Windows 10 or Windows 11?

The 12700K/KF is much more $ for value CPU compared to 12900 with being only 7% to 8% slower.

I ended buying a pre built Alienware Aurora R13 from Dell during their boxing day sale which came out a lot cheaper than custom build and trying to procure the GPU and DDR5 RAM.

i7-12700KF with liquid cooling

32GB DDR5 @ 4400Mhz

RTX3080

512GB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 (Rebadged Samsung 980 Pro). I will add a separate gen4 M.2 NVMe as there is a spare slot.

1TB 7200rpm 6GB/s that came with the bundle that you cannot remove.

billgates:

 

That is a nice build @networkn . If you dont mind telling, what was the cost for the build? Are you going with Windows 10 or Windows 11?

 

The 12700K/KF is much more $ for value CPU compared to 12900 with being only 7% to 8% slower.

 

I ended buying a pre built Alienware Aurora R13 from Dell during their boxing day sale which came out a lot cheaper than custom build and trying to procure the GPU and DDR5 RAM.

 

i7-1200KF with liquid cooling

 

32GB DDR5 @ 4400Mhz

 

RTX3080

 

512GB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 (Rebadged Samsung 980 Pro). I will add a separate gen4 M.2 NVMe as there is a spare slot.

 

1TB 7200rpm 6GB/s that came with the bundle that you cannot remove.

 

 

 

Thanks! I am pretty excited. I used to buy a new PC every 12 to 18 months as I was gaming a lot on PC back then, but it's been 6 years since I had a totally new build.

I *really* wanted to get the 12900K but it's unlikely I'd use it to it's full potential, and it was $400 more. The build cost me just under 4K and I am kinda hoping I can pickup around $1500 for my old rig.

I looked at the Alienware but it was around $5000 recently for what I bought.

This is probably the best bang for buck combo right now and should sort me for the foreseeable future for 1440p gaming.

Nice build.

I'm jealous. Most of my system is new (last year). The only exception being my gtx980, which I really want to upgrade.. current prices are too hard to justify tho

Deamo:

 

I'm jealous. Most of my system is new (last year). The only exception being my gtx980, which I really want to upgrade.. current prices are too hard to justify tho

 

Yeah, I feel pretty salty at effectively being forced to pay 30% more on a graphics card because of the market pressures etc. I waited pretty much as long as I could hoping things would get to a reasonable level but I don't see anything significantly improving until middle of next year if even then. 

On the plus side, my old PC is probably worth more than it usually would be.

I really don't want Windows 11 either, but W10 scheduler doesn't make full use of the 12th Gen processor and doesn't seem it ever will. Seems a waste to spend that money and not get all the performance I possibly can from it. Such a pain to have to reinstall all my apps etc. 

d15 and the 3070's are huge components - double check to make sure you're going to have enough room in the compact case to build it comfortably [if you're going to build it yourself :)]

Also you getting a new PSU or re using an existing? 

from my recent experience [last weekend!] make sure you plug in all your cables i.e psu, header cables etc into your mobo before mounting your cooler or you'll regret it.. I was hating life during my build from that mistake 😁

only 16 of the 32 gb's of ram I ordered came and I got impatient couldn't wait to build and it looks like im going to have to remove the cooler anyways to be able to install the additional 16gb.. grrr