Bought my Gaming PC today!
Posted by Althorg13@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 12 comments
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB VRAM)
Motherboard: MSI B650M Gaming WiFi
RAM: Teamgroup T Force Delta 32GB (16GBx2) DDR5 5600MHz CL36
Storage: 2TB Total (2 x 1TB Crucial E100 Gen 4 NVMe SSDs)
Case: MSI MAG Force M100 Black with 4 ARGB Fans
PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-750 (750W 80+ Gold Full Modular)
Cooler: Deepcool AK400 Zero Dark Plus Dual Fan
Monitor: MSI 27" Curved 1440p VA Panel 180 Hz
I would mostly play games from 2012 to 2026, mainly heavily-modded Skyrim (hence the 5060 Ti, vs a 5070).
I know that everyone would cringe at the Storage, but I don't regret it one bit. Crucial E100 is at least 30% cheaper right now compared to the insane prices from other brands. Spending more on storage right now would be crazy when I could spend the same price for an 8 TB Gen 5 just 2 to 3 years from now. I'd rather save my money for later when the real upgrade happens (possibly along with an NVIDIA 60 series). Until then, the E100 would perform similarly with other models for nearly the same price as the pre-2025 spike.
greggm2000@reddit
A very solid choice, except for that monitor. Be aware that you have a lot of improvement possible there, if you find that you aren't happy with the curve or the smearing/other VA faults, and choose to relegate it to "secondary monitor status" once you get a replacement.
Althorg13@reddit (OP)
Thanks for the heads up! U came from flat screens all my life, so I wouldn't know yet what 'good' curved screens are. The picture quality on mine is fantastic! I came from an IPS panel 240 Hz gaming laptop, and I'm surprised by how good the colors in this VA panel is.
I chose VA panel because I like deeper blacks for my Skyrim gameplay (Immersion is my top priority)
greggm2000@reddit
VA does tend to be better than IPS than that (and laptop screens are more likely to be crappy compared to desktop screen), so I'm not surprised you see a difference there. Motion smearing and off-angle viewing are where VA tends to not be great. Still, as long as you are happy, that's what matters!
Latest-gen OLED for color quality (with good text clarity), and IPS with Nvidia Pulsar for motion clarity are probably optimal at this point.. and 32" @ 4K will provide more immersion than 27" @ 1440p but with the downside of needing a more powerful GPU for equivalent fps. Ofc if you upgrade CPU/GPU/Monitor a few years from now, things will have evolved.
Fayieee@reddit
Congratulations! Can I ask how much did it all cost?
Althorg13@reddit (OP)
Thanks! Total was at 1660 USD, not including the monitor
DickSociety@reddit
Congratulations OP! Enjoy!
korpisoturi@reddit
Yeah, storage is insane right now. I'm making home server right now and 8Tb HDD costed the same as the used PC did.
Archon173@reddit
Congrats on the purchase, hope you enjoy your new rig!
lichtspieler@reddit
With storage and the current pricing, you did the best and used your own requirements.
Not sure about your future predictions. :D
The 2026 SSD manufacturing allocations are long gone and even most of 2027 is allocated for data centers. This means its more likely that even 1-2TB storage range will just continue to rise over the next 2+ years and higher capacity storage is currently heavily integrated in inference workflows - it might not help the DIY space when it comes to storage prices.
My 4TB NVMe's from 2023 are now around 2x MSRP, my 8TB SSD's are closer to 6x in price and worse as the RAM kit situation. Even just mid-capacity NAS HDDs went from 2022 -> 2025 with a massive price jump and 2025 -> 2026 alone went another 2x.
If you asked 1-2 year ago about storage upgrades (HDD, SSD or NVMe), it was considered a mistake to buy. Now 1-2 years later it was a mistake to wait.
Crazy times we live in in the hardware space.
Althorg13@reddit (OP)
Extremely wishful thinking on my part, but unless more wars pop up, I've heard several production facilities are about to go online within the next 2 years. So hopefully 2029 could see prices going back to pre-2025
wubbadubdub_zzz@reddit
2tb is enough. And 8tb is always worse value.
Althorg13@reddit (OP)
I'm actually just aiming for 4 TB only, but I just had to compare the crazy prices right now (2 to 3 times pre-price hike). 370 USD for other brands compared to Crucial E100's ~200 USD for 2 TB is crazy to me.