I need help in choosing components for my first PC
Posted by KeicamKraz@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Hello everyone! I plan on building a pc somewhere mid July. I owned previously a prebuilt I got as a gift in 2018, so this is my first time actually choosing, paying, and building everything myself. And yes, I am aware that its a really bad time to build one but I have money saved up and tomorrow is uncertain.
Im not a complete newbie when it comes to hardware and PC's, I already did a bunch of research on what I want and some things are already pretty much locked in place. My budget is around 2-2,5k Euros, but I can go higher if needed. I need it to (obviously) play games and not worry if the new AAA shiny un-optimised EU5 game will run smoothly, but Im also studying in a technical university, and my uni laptop is kinda really dying. I work a lot in CAD softwares, 3D modeling software, all the adobe garbage, and I run a bunch of simulations, so I need the PC to have components great for productivity. If you know something that is important for productivity and I didnt mention it, please let me know.
For the GPU, I plan on getting Radeon 9070xt either Sapphire pure, nitro+ or hellhound. I really dont like NVIDIA personally and in my eyes the 7900xtx is not worth the small improvement.
For the CPU, the first thing I checked was AMD 7 9850x3d as I heard it was the best gaming CPU, but I also found out thats its quite shitty for productivity. So i found the 9950x3d, which seems to literally a couple of % slower in games, but is an absolute monster for productivity. It is quite a bit more expensive but I would like for the PC to last for a long long time, with maybe a GPU upgrade in a couple of years. So if one of you can confirm that the 9950x3d is actually a lot quicker in stuff outisde of gaming, and will be able to last for a very long time, I will pull the trigger.
I did already buy ddr5 32gb of RAM, as I knew I want an am5 socket and it was on a very decent discount. Here im wondering about actually getting a second pair for a total of 64gb? Afaik 32 is more than enough for gaming, but as I mentioned before I want this to be a powerhouse for productivity and I like to multitask on my PC, so if you could let md know if another 32gb would make a big difference, I would appreciate.
This is kind of where my knowledge ends? I now need to find a mother board that would work, a case that would allow for masive ammounts of airflow, as low temperatures are something I extremely care about and im willing to overpay a lot for additional fans so they can run on lower speeds and keep the noise down. I will try to get a good nvme 2tb drive but im willing to get only 1tb now as I have an external 2tb SSD I put my games on rn and just transfer them to my laptops main drive when I want to play. A really good power supply I obviously need as well. Its quite a lot of stuff I need advice on but choosing the GPU and CPU was already so overwhelming, so if anyone can recommend me some good remaining components I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance!
TL;DR - I need help with finding a good Power supply, motherboard, case, a lot of cooling fans and nvme ssd to match the Radeon 9070xt and 9 9950x3d.
Extra-Lawyer-2865@reddit
What country?
KeicamKraz@reddit (OP)
Netherlands until the end of June, then Poland for summer where I want to put it all together
melicitx@reddit
1) have you considered intel (specifically the 270k plus). You mention the AM5 socket but also how you dont want to upgrade for many years, the main benefit that AM5 gets is you can get zen 6 CPUs on it so you get 2 years or w/e it takes till zen 7 on AM6 of CPUs, but if you dont want to upgrade thats meaningless and is the reason most people would shy away from intel. This decision also depends on what software exactly you are looking to use, I would look at specifically those benchmarks to look at the gap.
2) I know you mentioned you didn't want nvidia but you know that nvidia has CUDA which is normally really useful for stuff like fluid simulations/physics, again would check if the software you specifically plan on using takes advantage of CUDA (this is why nvidia is normally pitched for productivity).
3) 4 sticks of DDR5 is not recommended (at least for gaming) idk if it substantially changes in productivity but the main issue is the motherboards might not be able to handle DDR5 coordination between 4 sticks at higher (6k+) speeds, hence you will need to lower the speed and dampening performance. Especially if you are mixing ram kits (like you ideally get a ram kit with the exact same timings and even thats not guaranteed to work).
SSDs are hard to recommend since you mentioned productivity which would take advantage on higher speed drives but gen 5 drives are marked up to shit and incredibly expensive. PSUs you can find off the tier list and its just a price to performance at that point. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/htmlview#gid=1078495601