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Budget (including currency): $1250 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming only Other details All peripherals needed. Mouse, keyboard, headset, monitor. No previous parts, from scratch A friend of mine asked me to build him a computer that he doesn't know what he's going to do with it besides game. He has no tech knowledge. He's giving me a budget of $1250 USD to work with (after according for tax). The only thing that I know he wants is a headset and one monitor, but I'm doing my best to convince him to get a 2nd monitor or at least an ultra-wide I quickly threw these parts together. I already know that I'm spending too much on the PSU. I'm also considering buying DDR5 and something like a 7500f to give him an upgrade path.. that he might or might never upgrade to (again he has no tech knowledge). Nothing in here is set in stone, so feel free to nit-pick, call me an idiot, or suggest your own list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8FJZxf

Got it. Thank you all!

I thought that too, but my cooler doesn't have any clearance issues with any of the slots.

I purchased a GIGABYTE B850M DS3H AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard. When I was installing my RAM on it, it had a small graphic on the board to install the RAM in an odd sequence to me. Normally on a 4 slot RAM mobo, if I have two sticks, I would install them on slots 0 and 2. (01 being the closest to the CPU, 0123 being all the slots). My mobo told me to use slots 1 and 3 first with a small graphic on the mobo: So I did install it as per the motherboard's instructions, but it just feels weird and wrong to me. Is this normal? Should I swap the placements?

@podkall@dark_globe I bought a 2080ti for I think is a great price. I really wanted an EVGA 3-fan of this card, but had to settle for this, which I'm still very happy with it: I tried for bids on many different cards, but I'm happy with this win. @dark_globeThe games I was already running on my 4690k and 16gb DDR3 I thought were fine. I was prioritizing the one and only "high"-end game I could not run well which was vrchat. VRchat loves an x3d chip and high vram. I can't spend 4090/5090 prices for vram, but I would be happy with a high vram amd card or this 2080 ti. Won this card first.

I only play CPU intensive games. I stand-by my decision. It's already in my system along with its cooler and motherboard. Only looking at GPUs now

Honestly not even upset at my 970's performance right now. It's just running out of VRAM. Just looking to pickup a value card. I'm keeping those nvidia cards in my radar, but they're not regularly as cheap as I'd like

catch me dead enabling ray tracing. DLSS I care but not much about. I don't play any graphically intensive games and almost never have. I also think that the 2080 ti is a great card. 3070/80 also. I'm just not willing to pay that significant extra for features when I just care about performance

I'm looking at a few 6700xt right now. 6750xt and 6800xt's shoot up quite a lot in price. I'd be happy to have one, but I don't think it makes sense to pay a premium for 'em

every 2070+(almost regardless of the price i think this is too old) or 3070+ is shooting above the price range of so many of 6700xt's and are going for a fraction cheaper and compatible in terms of performance. I know that just because it's 12GB they're not all comparison. 20 series will never be on my radar. Specifically only the 3080 or 3080ti would be on my radar in my price range. Despite them having only 10GB of RAM they have an insane BUS. The rest of other nvidia cards, including 20 series are so meh..

Follow-up. Purchased this for my motherboard price was good so I hope the board is too: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gD8Pxr/gigabyte-b850m-d3hp-micro-atx-am5-motherboard- I finished taking apart my computer and rebuilding/upgrading it and all is working flawlessly My full specs are currently: 7600x3d Thermalright Burst Assassin 120 SE ARGB 32GB DRR5 @6000mhz Gigabyte B850M D3HP Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard Corsair RM850x 850watt Gold+ GTX 970 Win 10 Currently so happy with the games that I've tried this on. Can't detect any dropped frames. Very smooth 144+ fps Currently on the look-out for purchasing a used RX 6700 XT. I think it would suite this build and the price is good. Thoughts? I also considered a 3080/70 but I like the 6700xt more

Aren't current GPUs not even close to fully utilizing the bandwidth of PCIe 4? Why should I concern myself with future-proofing when I most than likely never purchase a top-end GPU in the next 5-10 years? Do you know of any B650 boards with good VRM? My Blender work is very light and far-in-between. It's not a concern of mine. Thank you for the GPU suggestions. I'll look into them

Dunno. Last black friday these pair of RAM sticks were $85 and I knew I wanted to upgrade at some point so I couldn't not buy them. I lucked out. Because I thought that I would play games that would be graphically intensive when I bought my 970 9 years ago, but I just play the same CPU dependent games that I always do. My 970 even now is still service-able, but I felt that a small upgrade is warranted if I'm to go to 1440p down the line. I'm aware. I know that nvidia's gpus hold good re-sale value. I was going to look into used AMD gpus, but I did not know what I might want. I really want an x3d. I was looking at B650 boards. Is there any reason why I might want a B850 board instead?

I already have RAM DDR5-6000 I bought it a year ago before the recent price hike. I mostly just want a recommendation on a mobo $80-120 And a GPU $150-250 used or new I'm quite set on getting a 7600x3d if not a 7800x3d

No more than $600 I forgot to mention that I already have all the peripherals, storage, case, etc. Just need mobo, cpu, cpu cooler, and gpu