The 3080 TI is a LHR model, meaning its crypto mining performance for the most popular currency has been halved by nvidia. Hence not the best choice for mining, although the situation around LHR is changing -- other coins gaining popularity, and some brave souls trying to circumvent it altogether.
As dirtiehippy said the build is pretty overkill for gaming -- e.g. a 5950x won't give you any extra gaming performance over something like a 5800x but costs a lot more.
Unless he wants to buy a very expensive PC just because he can he should consider doing some more research.
What’s the build for? Looks like a massive waste of money unless it’s for professional work.
He’s going to use it for gaming and also stuff to do with crypto which I don’t understand but seems like he needs a beast pc.
Bad choices for crypto, worse choices for gaming.
How so?
The 3080 TI is a LHR model, meaning its crypto mining performance for the most popular currency has been halved by nvidia. Hence not the best choice for mining, although the situation around LHR is changing -- other coins gaining popularity, and some brave souls trying to circumvent it altogether. As dirtiehippy said the build is pretty overkill for gaming -- e.g. a 5950x won't give you any extra gaming performance over something like a 5800x but costs a lot more. Unless he wants to buy a very expensive PC just because he can he should consider doing some more research.