My first time building a (mid-range) pc

Posted by JustAl1ce4laifu@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments

I did some research here and there, but obviously not enough. It's my first time ever building a pc so a lot of stuff sounds like magic to me.

So far, I have gotten myself 2 sticks of DDR5 RAM, and after some lurking around old posts I'm thinking of getting these for the best value:
- 7500f

- PowerColor Reaper RX 9060XT 16GB

But everything else, like the mainboard, power source,... I have no clue about. I'm afraid of incompatibility, overheating, too much power (?), those things. So I'd really appreciate wise words from the pros for the other parts.

*Budget: Flexible, preferably low to mid range, best value.

*Purpose: Gaming and some coding.

*Peripherals: Two screens

Thanks again!

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nnodante@reddit

Well, if u want nvidia them it's gonna cost you $100 or more for the 16gb version of 5060ti and at that point you add another 70 and u got 5070 which has less vram cuz only 12gb but is way faster overall. So 9069xt is the value option but it's up to you to decide what you care about more.

For the case you could go montech xr, pretty good value for the price

As for ssd you'd generally want a tlc one for your main drive, for example silicon power ud90 is one of the cheaper ones but availability will vary depending on where you're from.

For the cooler take peerless assassin or phantom spirit 120, even if u won't need all that cooling now, it will serve you for years even with more power hungry cpus.

If you plan on going amd then ASRock b650m-HDV/m.2 is one of the best value board but no argb connector so keep that in mind.

Alternatively if you wanna make a bit bigger of an investment then ASRock b860 + Intel 250k plus is great value but will cost you a bit more.

I'd recommend an 850w psu so you can upgrade in the future without bigger issues.

Tell us where you're from so it's easier to look at stuff.

JustAl1ce4laifu@reddit (OP)

I'm from Vietnam, and after some digging, I found that local LLMs are not viable without setups way more busted than this. So I'm going full AMD for the gaming route, I guess.

Also tysm for the detailed answer!

n0strildamus@reddit

PC Part Picker is pretty solid at helping with compatibility. https://pcpartpicker.com