Building a PC for the first time
Posted by HungryH1ppio@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 9 comments
I’m in the USA, currency USD, budget 2k
This is my parts list so far.
CPU- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
CPU Cooler- Thermalight peerless assassin 120 SE
Motherboard- B650 Eagle AX ATX AM5
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB
Kingston NV3 1 TB
RTX 5070
Case- Montech XR ATX
Power supply- MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750
My questions
Is this a decent build for the price?
Is this optimally built?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
BaronB@reddit
Consider a Phantom Spirit 120 SE over a Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Very similar price, but the PS120SE runs a bit cooler & quieter. PCPP doesn’t always show the best price for it, as there are 4-5 official listings for the PS120SE on Amazon at very different prices.
RGB RAM like the Trident Z5 Neo RGB conflicts with the front fan on dual tower coolers. You can mount the front fan high, but it’ll block most of the RAM from being seen. Or you can leave the front fan off entirely as the middle fan does do 90% of the work. Or you can go with low profile non-RGB RAM instead.
I would go with the UD90 instead of the NV3. In synthetics the NV3 looks like the better drive, but in practice the UD90 actually beats it and is cheaper.
Check out the RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT instead of the RTX 5070. They’re both faster than the 5070 while being either cheaper or roughly the same price. The 9070 XT is on par with a 5070 Ti for example. Though if you’re planning to also use the GPU for Blender rendering or similar non-gaming applications that can be GPU accelerated, stick with the 5070.
For the case, consider the Lian Li Vector V100R. The Montech XR is fine, but it‘s a runs a little bit warmer than some other options. The Montech XR Wood is also a great option, though is a very different looking case than the XR despite the similar name.
Apprehensive-AR@reddit
I agree with almost all this, and the original selection was already going in the right direction but yep, Baron make it more efficient
Only point is the graphic card, I know in rasterization (basic 3D rendering like 90% of the time) AMD are seriously hitting at Nvidia, they give you more for less money
BUT, if you go ray tracing (and most modern AAA games do), nVidia one a beefer like a lot
So is it ok to pay 20% or more just for that? Well, it's up to you
Me, I have choose to pay the price, even if I hate nVidia for that (they practice abusive prices)
But hey AMD will not save gaming, they also benefit for nvidia high prices so there is no good guy here
Anyway, if your budget is thigh go AMD, if you can go Nividia (and 5070ti for the 16GB VRAM). But in booth scenario you will be fine and have a really good gaming PC who can run 1440p games (and if you are in 1080p it will be effortless for it for a few years)
LittlePanda0623@reddit
If you don't need a super fast ram you can consider those microcenter bundle with crappy Corsair CL36 ddr5 and mystery B850 motherboard.
arcusford@reddit
That's alright but I could cook up something better for that price.
HungryH1ppio@reddit (OP)
That would be awesome. Thank you.
PixelPete27@reddit
You near a microcenter?
HungryH1ppio@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately I’m not near a microcenter. I’m open to suggestions though.
PixelPete27@reddit
Honestly, I really didn't change much, and I'm not sure what the prices were of the components you had, but this is what I came up with:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fW4zNp
Biggest changes are the PSU, I put an 850W A- tier PSU in there, it's a bit bigger and better tier than the msi mag.
And then the 9070XT. Has 16gb VRAM vs the 12gb on the 5070. The 5070 is better if you like DLSS and ray tracing. But otherwise, the 9070XT has more raw power and VRAM, so I always default for that one, and it's only $70 more.
All in all, what I have came out to $1900. So probably not a huge difference over yours, biggest change is that GPU. But you can definitely still go with the 5070 if that's what you like! lots of people swear by them.
bl-uecup@reddit
u sure itll be 2k?