Building First PC - Please Advise

[Dare Dreevs]

Hello,

 

So I'm building my first PC  very soon. I've watched tech videos for years and have swapped out many parts in past PC's that I've owned.

 

I'm a little nervous for things I won't know that can be an issue until I run into them.

 

This is the current plan:

 

5800x

3070

32GB RAM

1TB NVME

ATX Case(Not fully decided which yet)

 

 

My unsure areas are with the power supply and motherboard.

 

From what I looked up a 650w-750w supply is needed.

 

 

My biggest question is what motherboard will fit this build best? Pretty much all I know is that it will be on the AM4 platform. I'm not looking into doing overclocking or anything like that. Also, is there any compatibility issues I need to look for between power supply's and motherboard's?

 

 

Hope this all comes across clear, thanks!

[Dr. Will0hlep]

First, I suggest using PCPartPicker.com as it will do alot of the compatability checking for you.

 

Second, 650W to 750W is fine, 80+ ratings are kinda pointless cause the tests are flawed, Instead I'd just choose a cheap mid tier PSU from the tier list on the PSU section of the forum.

 

Third, When buying motherboards the best practice is to buy the cheapest thing that has all the features you need. Any AM4 motherboard should be fine... however, older chipsets might require bios updates to support the 5800X.

[Bombastinator]

An AMD motherboard with enough VRM to handle the CPU.  Whether you want pcie4 or not depends on how many slots you use.  The 5800x implies you DO want pcie4 (because why not just get a 5500 then)  so B550 or x570 atx or possibly microATX.  If you go miniITX there’s little reason not to get a 5500 and an a320 board, as pcie3x16 will have enough bandwidth for that card.  It’s only 6 cores of course.  A 5700 would also work.  NVME wise if you go pcie4 980pros are popular as they’re pretty fast and have good longevity. Budget is often a factor though and that market changes really fast. If you go pcie3 the 970 evo woth all the same caveats.

Edited January 19, 2023 by Bombastinator

[PDifolco]

5800X is good but not great, if you can get a 5800X3D, if you wanna go cheap get a 5700

Also for gaming you can save on RAM with only 16GB, and then rather get more storage, 2TB drives are faster than 1TB ones

Regarding GPU the 6800 is a better deal than a 3070, 10% faster and same price or cheaper

 

[Bombastinator]

18 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

First, I suggest using PCPartPicker.com as it will do alot of the compatability checking for you.

 

Second, 650W to 750W is fine, 80+ ratings are kinda pointless cause the tests are flawed, Instead I'd just choose a cheap mid tier PSU from the tier list on the PSU section of the forum.

 

Third, When buying motherboards the best practice is to buy the cheapest thing that has all the features you need. Any AM4 motherboard should be fine... however, older chipsets might require bios updates to support the 5800X.

While it can be useful for compatibility checking,and to see what is popular, it is not 100% reliable for cheapest pricing.  Sometimes it has cheap pricing sometimes the part that is cheap was out-of-stock everywhere it looked so it is listed without a price, or the only place that has it in stock has it for a non-competitive price.  Pay attention to the pricing graph at the bottom.  Imho pcpartpicker needs a better way to differentiate “no longer being produced” the supply chain crunch has made things difficult.  Often people are out of stock because the order hasn’t yet been fulfilled but is going to be rather than hasn’t yet been fulfilled and never will be, which used to be the case often enough to count on it.

 

That number is fine IF ithe PSU has the most recent atx compliance.  If it doesn’t I’d bump that by 100w myself.

Edited January 19, 2023 by Bombastinator

[Dare Dreevs]

Thanks for the advice, everyone!

 

Super helpful!