PC advice and tips

metje2000 · July 2, 2023

(First off, I would like to say that I have never used any forum before in my life. So if this is the wrong location to be asking this kind of question, or if you all don't really talk about this sort of thing normally, just let me know!)

Greetings everyone,

I don't really visit Forums, sub-reddits or other similiar forms of media, but this time I needed to make an exception. I was planning on upgrading my PC for a long time but never did it. Until recently where I finally did decide to upgrade. I am pretty happy with my choice but I was going to ask for some advice. I saw that Linus was both happy and disappointed about the GPU that I chose, and I wasn't sure aswell if the overall configuration works well together. Since, I remember some friends of mine talking about bottle-necking my setup or something like that. Also, about the "mix" of AMD and a GeForce card, instead of a AMD CPU with a AMD GPU. So I wanted to ask some people if they could tell me if I made the right choices, or if I need to chance some things up or not. Did I overspend? Could I have saved somewhere? Or should I have gone a bit deeper in some areas and left a lot of room for improvement? I'm not new to pc's and 'tech' perse, but I'm just not sure how well components work together and what items are concidered a waste or not.

I chose the parts, and the company will put the pc together and install the software/windows and all for me. But I can still ask them to chance some parts if it fits/works for them aswell. Considering if they have the items on hand or not for example.

Current specs:

CPU: i5-9400F

GPU: GTX 1650

RAM: 16GB 2666MHz

2TB SSD

500V Power

Why_Me · July 2, 2023

What country do you live in and what is your monitor resolution?

Ryuikko · July 2, 2023

12 minutes ago, metje2000 said:

about the "mix" of AMD and a GeForce card, instead of a AMD CPU with a AMD GPU

There's no problem with that, usually the main point of confusion is with freesync but it works with both amd and Nvidia

The h5 elite is usually regarded as a hotbox and if probably choose a different cooler since nzxt coolers tend to lean on the more expensive side.

What's the uses for the pc? What country?

PDifolco · July 2, 2023

10 minutes ago, metje2000 said:

(First off, I would like to say that I have never used any forum before in my life. So if this is the wrong location to be asking this kind of question, or if you all don't really talk about this sort of thing normally, just let me know!)

Greetings everyone,

I don't really visit Forums, sub-reddits or other similiar forms of media, but this time I needed to make an exception. I was planning on upgrading my PC for a long time but never did it. Until recently where I finally did decide to upgrade. I am pretty happy with my choice but I was going to ask for some advice. I saw that Linus was both happy and disappointed about the GPU that I chose, and I wasn't sure aswell if the overall configuration works well together. Since, I remember some friends of mine talking about bottle-necking my setup or something like that. Also, about the "mix" of AMD and a GeForce card, instead of a AMD CPU with a AMD GPU. So I wanted to ask some people if they could tell me if I made the right choices, or if I need to chance some things up or not. Did I overspend? Could I have saved somewhere? Or should I have gone a bit deeper in some areas and left a lot of room for improvement? I'm not new to pc's and 'tech' perse, but I'm just not sure how well components work together and what items are concidered a waste or not.

I chose the parts, and the company will put the pc together and install the software/windows and all for me. But I can still ask them to chance some parts if it fits/works for them aswell. Considering if they have the items on hand or not for example.

Current specs:

CPU: i5-9400F

GPU: GTX 1650

RAM: 16GB 2666MHz

2TB SSD

500V Power

Bad choice of over expensive NZXT stuff ending up with a poor GPU for a 2000EUR build !

Nononono would Jason say (PC builder channel)

Say you're in Germany you could get that

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor (€309.00 @ Mindfactory)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler (€39.97 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M GAMING X AX Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard (€186.28 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL30 Memory (€108.98 @ notebooksbilliger.de)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€62.67 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Palit GamingPro GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Video Card (€1176.99 @ notebooksbilliger.de)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G360A ATX Mid Tower Case (€92.89 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€157.97 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €2134.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-07-03 00:32 CEST+0200

metje2000 · July 3, 2023

2 hours ago, Why_Me said:

What country do you live in and what is your monitor resolution?

1080p and Netherlands

metje2000 · July 3, 2023

2 hours ago, Ryuikko said:

There's no problem with that, usually the main point of confusion is with freesync but it works with both amd and Nvidia

The h5 elite is usually regarded as a hotbox and if probably choose a different cooler since nzxt coolers tend to lean on the more expensive side.

What's the uses for the pc? What country?

Gaming mainly. And Netherlands.