7700X or Higher?

[Polarity45]

Budget (including currency): ~1700 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, often AAA

Other details:

Ryzen 7 7700X (w/ NH-U12A)

Gigabyte B650M DS3H (Micro-ATX)

Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 5200MHz CL40 

Radeon 7800 XT (whatever will be in stock)

SeaSonic 750W platinum

Silverstone FARA H1M

Using a 165hz 1440p display

 

Roughy 1500 USD

Is a 7700X a good combo with the 7800XT? Or do I need to up/downgrade one? Thanks!

[Hinjima]

5 minutes ago, Polarity45 said:

Budget (including currency): ~1700 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, often AAA

Other details:

Ryzen 7 7700X (w/ NH-U12A)

Gigabyte B650M DS3H (Micro-ATX)

Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 5200MHz CL40 

Radeon 7800 XT (whatever will be in stock)

SeaSonic 750W platinum

Silverstone FARA H1M

Using a 165hz 1440p display

 

Roughy 1500 USD

Is a 7700X a good combo with the 7800XT? Or do I need to up/downgrade one? Thanks!

7700x is a beast of a CPU and is one of the fastest gaming CPU's on the market.
You could easily go down to a Ryzen 7600 or 7600X without losing any noticeably performance.
Here are 2 pictures from Techspot ( hardware unboxed on Youtube ) with the 7700x paired with a RTX 4090.. Its a fast CPU, the 7600 is also very fast as you can see.  One picture is 10 game average at 1080p and one is 10 game average at 1440p. I personaly use the 7700x and I absolutely love it, I would be happy with a 7600 as well.
 

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, Polarity45 said:

Is a 7700X a good combo with the 7800XT?

Yeah, it's a fine option, probably what I'd aim for. 

 

I'd be trying to get a better RAM kit though, going for 2x16GB is not much more expensive and is a bit faster. 

[Brooksie359]

45 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

7700x is a beast of a CPU and is one of the fastest gaming CPU's on the market.
You could easily go down to a Ryzen 7600 or 7600X without losing any noticeably performance.
Here are 2 pictures from Techspot ( hardware unboxed on Youtube ) with the 7700x paired with a RTX 4090.. Its a fast CPU, the 7600 is also very fast as you can see.  One picture is 10 game average at 1080p and one is 10 game average at 1440p. I personaly use the 7700x and I absolutely love it, I would be happy with a 7600 as well.
 

Keep in mind all of these tests are run with the game only on a fresh windows install without much if any background programs running. If you add more background programs and have other programs open while gaming then 6 cores tends to struggle vs say an 8 core. 

[Tetras]

To answer your question directly: the 7700X is more than fine, but FYI: the 7700 non-X has a cooler that you can actually use (e.g. if stepping down gets you 32GB I'd rather have that).

[Polarity45]

On 9/14/2023 at 4:36 PM, RONOTHAN## said:

Yeah, it's a fine option, probably what I'd aim for. 

 

I'd be trying to get a better RAM kit though, going for 2x16GB is not much more expensive and is a bit faster. 

I was think of getting something like that, thanks!

[Hinjima]

17 minutes ago, Polarity45 said:

I was think of getting something like that, thanks!

6000 CL30 is a good kit to aim for  

[Polarity45]

On 9/16/2023 at 6:10 PM, Hinjima said:

6000 CL30 is a good kit to aim for  

I'm going for the G.Skill Ripjaws S5 6000 CL30, thanks!

And is the 750W good enough, not sure if I need a 850W PSU.

[Why_Me]

2 hours ago, Polarity45 said:

I'm going for the G.Skill Ripjaws S5 6000 CL30, thanks!

And is the 750W good enough, not sure if I need a 850W PSU.

Ripjaws are optimized for Intel builds (XMP). You want G.Skill Flare (AMD Expo).

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/LBstt6/gskill-flare-x5-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl30-memory-f5-6000j3038f16gx2-fx5  

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/cnbTwP/gskill-flare-x5-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl32-memory-f5-6000j3238f16gx2-fx5  

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pwxRsY/gskill-flare-x5-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl36-memory-f5-6000j3636f16gx2-fx5