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[spaghet rat]

Budget (including currency): 1700 usd ish

Country: murica

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: war thunder, maybe fusion360, krunker, steam stuff

upgrading from 2020 macbook air 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/RjGbbK

CPU: Intel Core i5-13600K 3.5 GHz 14-Core Processor  ($299.84 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black 82.51 CFM CPU Cooler 
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($220.00 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-5200 CL40 Memory  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($131.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: MSI RTX 3060 Ventus 3X 12G OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card  ($364.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000D RGB AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($149.99 @ Best Buy) 
Power Supply: NZXT C850 (2022) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack  ($72.98 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1459.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-03-28 21:57 EDT-0400

 

[RONOTHAN##]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/N8jBk9

 

The only thing slower in that system is the CPU and SSD, though they're both only barely slower. For gaming it's a much better overall system with a significantly better GPU that will put you right at your budget. There's debate whether the 4070 Ti or the 7900 XT is the better GPU, there's arguments on both sides, so pick whichever you'd prefer. The 7900 XT is faster in most non-RT based games, while the 4070 Ti is faster in ray traced titles while being significantly more power efficient and having CUDA support if you do something that uses it (IIRC Fusion360 does not, so this isn't really important for what you do, but if there's things you do that you didn't mention it you want the Nvidia card). 

[Dedayog]

Very similar post worth reading... because your build is very much going to perform not awesome.  I used nice words

 

 

 

[spaghet rat]

20 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/N8jBk9

 

The only thing slower in that system is the CPU and SSD, though they're both only barely slower. For gaming it's a much better overall system with a significantly better GPU that will put you right at your budget. There's debate whether the 4070 Ti or the 7900 XT is the better GPU, there's arguments on both sides, so pick whichever you'd prefer. The 7900 XT is faster in most non-RT based games, while the 4070 Ti is faster in ray traced titles while being significantly more power efficient and having CUDA support if you do something that uses it (IIRC Fusion360 does not, so this isn't really important for what you do, but if there's things you do that you didn't mention it you want the Nvidia card). 

i had a 6900 xt listed and then switched to a 3060 bc ray tracing sounds more future proof according to my friends who have all built their  own systems amd have worked with this stuff for a while, but i will wait for more input

[RONOTHAN##]

Just now, McrP87 said:

i had a 6900 xt listed and then switched to a 3060 bc ray tracing sounds more future proof according to my friends who have all built their  own systems amd have worked with this stuff for a while, but i will wait for more input

A 6900 XT has miles better ray tracing capabilities than a 3060 in everything but Portal RTX, and that game is only because it was developed by Nvidia and put zero effort into getting it to work on AMD cards. As someone who owns a 6900 XT and has owned in the past a 3080, the actual RT performance of both cards are more or less the same, the 3080 being slightly better at stock settings but overclocked are identical. A 3060 is just worse than a 6900 XT in every way imaginable. 

 

Besides, if you really want ray tracing, get the build I recommended with the 4070 Ti in it instead. That card is still faster than a 6900 XT, and has better RT support than the 7900 XT. 

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, McrP87 said:

i had a 6900 xt listed and then switched to a 3060 bc ray tracing sounds more future proof according to my friends who have all built their  own systems amd have worked with this stuff for a while, but i will wait for more input

Dating a porn star sounds more future proof for your sex life too but is it a good idea?

 

The 3060 ray tracing is pretty bad actually.  The 6900xt probably has just as good RT and will crush it in raw performance.

 

Really a no brainer.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

10 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Dating a porn star sounds more future proof for your sex life too but is it a good idea?

Well if you only care about that aspect and nothing else maybe? xD

[spaghet rat]

updated list

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wMKsDq

CPU: Intel Core i5-13600K 3.5 GHz 14-Core Processor  ($299.84 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black 82.51 CFM CPU Cooler 
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($220.00 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-5200 CL40 Memory  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($131.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($569.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000D RGB AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($149.99 @ Best Buy) 
Power Supply: NZXT C850 (2022) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack  ($72.98 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1664.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-03-29 07:12 EDT-0400

[Dedayog]

Increase your ram to 2x16gb.  8 gb sticks are shown to have issues in ddr5.

 

 

[spaghet rat]

3 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Increase your ram to 2x16gb.  8 gb sticks are shown to have issues in ddr5.

 

 

wdym?

[spaghet rat]

i only really need 16 gb of ram

 

[Dedayog]

10 minutes ago, McrP87 said:

i only really need 16 gb of ram

 

It may be better now but folks were having issues with the IC on 8gb ddr5 sticks.

 

Honestly with your specs, you may as well just go 32gb as you're going to break 16gb in a lot of games going forward, especially modded ones.

[RONOTHAN##]

7 hours ago, Dedayog said:

It may be better now but folks were having issues with the IC on 8gb ddr5 sticks.

 

It's not really the IC present on them that's the issue, they use the same ICs that are present on 2x16GB sticks of DDR5, it's the organization. The only way to make 8GB DDR5 is to use 1Rx16 based sticks, which are more or less half rank, and because of that their performance is more similar to DDR4 than they are to DDR5. I would rather have a 3600 CL14 kit of DDR4 than a 5600 CL36 kit of DDR5 if both are in a 2x8GB configuration, and the configs will cost about the same. I'd argue that if you can't afford 2x16GB of DDR5, you can't afford DDR5.