which cpu combo should i get?

Indian pc builder · November 19, 2022

Budget (including currency): irrelevant as i get all my parts from my local electronics wholesale market(the price still matters)

Country: india

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: warthunder, general tasks, minecraft, crossout, cod, valorant, pubg, video editing, all wargaming games,etc.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

Main Question:

Should i go amd or nvidia for the gpu:

basically should i get a 7900x, 7900xtx,rtx 4090 or 4tx 4080 (keep in mind that price matters still and i seem to have some specific performance needs)

edit: i just realised that i may also want to do video editing in the future and as a result i think that that takes amd gpus off the table. if not please tell me which one

and as for the cpu, if i am going nvidia should i get an amd cpu despite the high board price or an intel cpu despite the 0 longevity of the platform and lower efficiency for marginally better performance (i may be looking at a i7-13700k or ryzen 7 7700x or maybe 7800x3d if i delay until that comes out)

RONOTHAN## · November 19, 2022

27 minutes ago, Indian pc builder said:

i just realised that i may also want to do video editing in the future and as a result i think that that takes amd gpus off the table.

Depends on the video editing software you want to use, Davinci Resolve works very well with AMD cards, Premier does not. Nvidia cards are the safer bet since they always work pretty well no matter the software, but an AMD card doesn't mean that it will definitely suck.

We can't tell you which one to get now though, since the only cards that are out are the Nvidia cards and we don't know how well AMD's lineup will hold up. From the look of it, the 7900 XTX should be the best bet as long as you don't want to use Premier, but for all we know that card could be plagued with driver issues at launch and/or scalped into oblivion.

31 minutes ago, Indian pc builder said:

should i get an amd cpu despite the high board price or an intel cpu despite the 0 longevity of the platform and lower efficiency for marginally better performance (i may be looking at a i7-13700k or ryzen 7 7700x or maybe 7800x3d if i delay until that comes out)

No matter what I'd want the 13700K, it generally competes more with the 7900X rather than the price competitive 7700X. It's efficiency may be a lot worse (this can be somewhat fixed by undervolting it) and the platform may not have an upgrade path, but at the same time by the time you want an upgrade path you'll have saved so much over the similar 7900X and B650 board that you'll have enough saved to just buy a new board at that time anyway rather than hoping AMD is still giving socket support at that time (realistically you won't need to upgrade for ~4 years whether you go AMD or Intel, and that's beyond the promised 2025 support window for AM5). The 7800X3D might have an argument to be made for it when it comes out, but we don't know what it would be like until it's actually released, and Intel might have a competing CPU at that time as well with a Raptor Lake refresh.