Second opinion on build

steeltoon · January 23, 2023

Posting here to mainly make sure i am not making a really dumb mistake, been a while since i built a system. Please do point out any small detail i am missing.

Budget (including currency): 4000$ (canadian rubles XD)

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Main games are Apex, League. Been also been playing around with Blender and Unity.

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): My old pc has served me well and will be going into the hand of my sister (amd 2600, 1080 gtx). Only need a full tower, basically a system that will serve me another 5 years.

CPU: AMD R9 7900X

Cooler: Noctua NH-D12L (seems like everywhere i look this is good enough)

Motherboard: ASRock B650 ( no idea what to look for in motherboard)
RAM: DDR5 4000-5000 (depends on what is on sale at the time)
GPU: RTX 4080 or AMD 7900XTX (still on the fence)
CASE: (basically anything that fits things in/ No RGB)
POWER: 1000W corsair ( think this is enough)
Storage: 1 TB M.2 (nothing special here) + some disk storage probably, got some internal hard drive already

Neutraliz · January 23, 2023

15 minutes ago, steeltoon said:

basically a system that will serve me another 5 years.

You can get lucky, and unlucky on that end.
Good exemple : i7-2600k / GTX 1080Ti.
Bad exemple : FX cpus as a whole / i5-8600k / 9600k.
Personnally I never recommand anything related to "futur proofing", unless it's pretty much DOA like the 9600k or the whole 11th gen series of intel for exemple. Like it's easy to tell it's not gonna end well. But most of time, "futur proofing" is a bunch of BS, and you should just go by what you need for X budget and X use case, so you have more budget either for mater the most to you, or left overs for much more agressives upgrades.
Agressive upgrade path, even on modest mid-range hardware, will pretty much always slap the crap out of anything high end lasting in an old pc mid to long term AND with a better consistancy on performances on newer games if not just straight up better.
Personally, I think you're on the wrong track atm. Going for higher end CPUs than a i5-13500, or 13600k will not really help you in any ways to achieve better gaming results. Yes, technicly they are higher on charts, but it's a really minor upgrade compared to what you're spending on it, and, overclocking or going for higher end ram will well compensate for it. And the more agressive upgrade path will make a joke out of it. You're overspending, going for that "future proof", but you'll be better having left overs for upgrades like just said.
To finish, knowing the resolution you're planning to play on would help to understand your needs. But as you go higher, typicly you want a bigger GPU (which is obvious) but CPU doesn't matter as much, since the GPU become your limiting factor.

Ryuikko · January 23, 2023

What resolution are you going to be playing at? Your original list was mostly fine except the ram since ddr5 5000 is pretty slow, since 5600 is pretty much the standard

I'd consider something like this

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor ($545.50 @ shopRBC)

CPU Cooler: Deepcool AG620 67.88 CFM CPU Cooler ($74.98 @ Amazon Canada)

Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($319.99 @ Canada Computers)

Memory: ADATA XPG LANCER RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL40 Memory ($199.99 @ Memory Express)

Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($200.50 @ Vuugo)

Video Card: PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card ($1291.11 @ Newegg Canada)

Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.99 @ Best Buy Canada)

Power Supply: Corsair RM1000e 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($219.99 @ Amazon Canada)

Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan ($14.29 @ Amazon Canada)

Total: $2986.34