This is my first time building a Pc and I just wanna know if there are some better or alternative parts I could choose.
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Everything looks solid, a P3 SSD is ok, a cheaper P4 would be better. The main thing is your GPU and CPU are the same price which I would NOT recommend, take some off of the CPU and get a better GPU
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I highly recommend (cannot stress it enough) not getting an 8 gig video card of any brand. Unless you’re just gonna play competitive games on low settings. moving forward, most games are gonna be using more than eight gigs.
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Are there any that you could recommend?
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I am biased towards AMD so if you buy one of them buy the cheapest one that fits your build. This generation there’s not much difference between all the models except for the aesthetics. you’re paying for the RGB and if it’s white or black. With the Nvidia, I’m not sure but they perform very closely. I don’t know what your budget is either. The AMD will be cheaper no matter what you go with. The big thing is 16 GB.
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Alright, thank you.
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You should be able to get CL30 or CL32 RAM for about the same price as that CL36. I can’t say you’ll notice it but I’ve seen CL improvements bump FPS a percent or two but otherwise this looks pretty solid. We seem to have similar brand preferences, I have the ASUS Tuff X870 and I just bought the MSI Shadow 3X 5080. I think I have that RAM Kit you have selected because I forgot to check the CL.
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Just to echo off a few of the existing points made previously and to also make some other recommendations:
- Your CPU cooler is wildly overkill! The Ryzen 7 9700X is only a 65W CPU, it doesn’t take liquid cooling of any kind to get max performance out of this chip. A more reasonable Thermalright Peerless Assassin would net you the same performance for $50 less.
- The 8GB VRAM buffer will become an issue if you’re planning to play any games at 1080p with high/ultra settings; Bear in mind that DLSS takes additional VRAM, so if you were planning to use DLSS to make up for the lower performance of the 5060, that will cut even farther into your already-low VRAM. Try everything you can to get a 5060Ti 16GB - or, a solid alternative is the RX 9060 XT 16GB.
- With the RAM selection you made, the primary concern is actually not the CL36 latency - it’s the complete lack of AMD EXPO support. This kit of RAM only lists Intel XMP compatibility, and we wrote an article last week about Ryzen being picky about its RAM selection. If you make no other changes to this build, at least get AMD EXPO compatible RAM.
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good catch! I didn’t notice that with regards to the RAM
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with regards to your PSU. If you can swing it with your budget, I’d try to get one bigger than what you need and that has the 12V high power plug built-in. The PSU seems to be one of those components you can always move over to the next computer. I can’t tell you how many times either I upgraded the GPU or built a new computer and it required a higher wattage PSU. So instead of just buying one I ended up having to buy another one. where if I bought the larger one to begin with I would have saved myself money in the long run. An 850w GPU may seem like overkill for a 60 class card, and it is. But it is just about right for a 70 class card on another upgrade or new build down the road. The wattages required never seem to go down over the years.
@user391 So how does this look to you?very similar to what you got. a few faster components and I believe this memory is EXPO compatible. This even gives you a little bling with the cooler. Only $80 more than what you had. maybe ArsenlPC can critique it a bit they are more knowledgeable than I.
you will notice that the SSD is a PCIE5. That is probably not necessary but the cache on board that card will help. Its like buffer memory built into the SSD card and it was the cheapest one I can find with cache on board. there are also several 9060xt’s available at that price ($379) I just picked one.
total price of $1395 before your operating system and peripherals
The only concerns I have with this build would be.
#1 is the case wide enough to fit that cooler with the screen? I guess it’d be trial and error.
#2 I would add another fan to the front of the case that you selected. It only has one intake in one exhaust. You should be able to get that pretty cheap unless you find another case that has more fans in it for the same amount of money.
#3 I didn’t know if you wanted the AIO for “the look” or you thought it really needed it
#5 I think if I were to build in this case and not using an AIO at the top, I would play with the idea of blocking off the top vents so that the airflow is restricted to coming in the front and going straight out the back. Unless you’re ready to go crazy with fans and stick some on the top also.
@user391 here are some good videos and information being at your first time building
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The Assassin 120 you chose is Digital, so that’s the model with the screen on top. Assassin 120 Digital lists a height of 162mm, and the H5 Flow can take 165mm. It’ll be very close.
PCIe5 on an SSD is complete and utter overkill for any non-bandwidth constrained tasks. Gaming is not a drive bandwidth constrained task. If the OP is planning to do video editing with realtime scrubbing then sure, we can justify a PCIe5 SSD - but then we should go with a GeForce. In all other cases, 7GB/second read is solid, and 5GB/sec read is a realistic minimum. 129.99 for 1TB is terrible. Silicon Power’s US75 1TB is currently 58.75 for 7GB read and 6GB write on Amazon.
Bear in mind the RX 9060 XT is only a 160W card, and the 9700X is a 65W CPU. 850W is so overkill it’s not even funny, 650W is more than enough on this configuration. Amazon currently has the Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750W Gold for only 89.99, that’s $30 off the MSI unit listed.
there you go! I see you’re saving a little cash on the processor. You shouldn’t take too much of a hit from that choice.
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If you’re willing to forgo RGB lighting on your ram, you can save about $17 with this Silicon Power plain kit with black heatspreaders and no RGB lighting. Still DDR5-6000 with CL30 timings, AMD EXPO compatible, and free shipping on any order $50 or more (which this kit of RAM is by itself.)
The list looks great, hope you enjoy building it!
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