I’m watching all this for 1450 bucks (e: after taxes):
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
- AMD Radeon RX 7700XT 12GB
- MSI B650 motherboard
- Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000MHz
- Corsair RMe 850W
- 2TB NVMe
- 360mm 320W liquid cooling
Is this a coherent build?
I’m watching all this for 1450 bucks (e: after taxes):
Is this a coherent build?
you don’t need liquid cooler (your cpu will be like 70-90w, the price of cooler is only for noise levels and looks), power supply is too big (you need like 500w tops with this) and maybe 9060xt makes some sense (?) in similar range, it’s newer and stuff. (also, if you are not doing professional stuff, 16gb memory is kinda fine, but maybe dodgy if it’s for 10 years).
(also 7700 and 9700 were kinda samey if memory serves, so if old one is drastically cheaper
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like if i were to make extreme cheapo gaming version for later upgrade, i would get 7700x (to get x3d/9950/10800x3d whaever later for games/work) with b650 (great motherboards), 512 gb hard drive (for system and 1 game, to upgrade later with additional drives, they can get like 2-3 nvme slots - that’s advisable even for your build, if you are trying to save money, but ready to upgrade later - 2tb nvme drive is actually very specific need, i think, big games on constant rotation (or large video projects, on constant rotation as well), 9070xt, and 550w power supply, that’s around 1000 bucks without taxes maybe? i think it will only choke on some high fps shooters. (unless you run 1080p, then 9060 is more than fine)
(also x3d is kinda meme thingy on lower end gpus/monitors, don’t bother unless you have 120 hz+ monitor)
Thank you for the advice. I kinda saw there weren’t better deals for the cpu, so I went with that one and skimped more on the gpu. I’ll assess the nvme thing, I was planning on dualbooting but I don’t know what my drives will look like, I just saw they weren’t that more expensive than 1TB. Lastly the power supply I immediately saw it shouldn’t be so beefy lmao
One drive dual boot works very meh for me, especially with encryption (or I haven’t figured nice way to move/cross use files, cause i dump them by habit in user folders or separate drive, would be happy to be corrected for next time i’m reinstalling). Also, be sure it’s not qlc for system drive
Also there are some times that 12/16 cores are priced lower (especially 12, cause it’s triggering lots of people) - but i think next year zen6 will be 12 core anyway, so that’s why if upgrading is an option it makes some sense to cheap out on cpu on am5, unless needed.
Ah, also if as comrade mentioned you want liquid cooler for dust, lately even cheaper cases come with dust filters, you just slide out to wash, so maybe check out if your case have it. It works fine, maybe once in 3 years the inside gets dusty enough to be vacuumed
I finally settled on 7700x and 9060xt and taking into account your (plural) advice I’m sitting at 1200 after taxes. Kinda tempted to go for 9060xt 8gb because it’s 80 bucks less but I’m not sure what that would get me. Also not sure if I should cheap out more and go to 7700 with the stock cooler for a 100 less.
i think 7700 is like 5% worse, it’s slightly downclocked or running eco mode constantly, something like that, it’s actually reasonable get, but you should recheck reviews, cause i don’t remember very well what was the deal with them and if they can be clocked back to full, or nah. Depending how much work you do, could be annoying enough to skip it or fine.
yeah, dunno, 8gb kinda dodgy for modern games, but if you do like decade old stuff might work (+it will definitely get worse for newer titles over time, the consoles target like 12 gb internally)
I see. The savings on the 7700 as it is in my case is pretty good for what I miss. I’ll get the better memory on the gpu