First PC build

MisterR · October 11, 2023

Budget (including currency): 2000 Euros

Country: Lithuania

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CS2, AutoCad, SolidWorks.

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):

I am looking to build my self a new pc, so I have put together this build for now:

Motherboard :
MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi (181 €)
CPU :
Intel Core i7-13700K (470 €)
GPU :
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Windforce OC 12G (GV-N4070WF3OC-12GD) (671 €)
RAM :
G.Skill Ripjaws S5, 32GB (2x16GB), 6000 MHz (120,54 €)
Powersuply :
Cooler Master V Series V850 Gold - V2 - Netzteil - 850 Watt (143,50 €)
Case :
Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh Performance (147 €)
CPU Cooling:
Lian Li Galahad II 360 Trinity ARGB (141,99 €)

First of all I have some questions :

Is this a good and balanced build? (Will I get bottlenecked, etc.)
Are these parts even compatible with each other?
Are the prices good?
Is this a future proof build?

The reason that I went for this build is because :

I want it to be future proof.
I want it to be able to handle anything I throw at it, at the moment I don't really have the time to play a lot of games, but as new games have came out (hogwarts legacy etc.) I will want to play them in the cold winter evenings.

For now I will use it with LG UltraGear 27GN650 1080p 144 Hz monitor, but later down the line I plan to upgrade it to 1440p 240Hz.

For storage I have a samsung 980 1TB NVME ssd.

Thank you for your feedback!

GOTSpectrum · October 11, 2023

Out of curiosity, what made you choose intel?

ki8aras · October 11, 2023

8 minutes ago, MisterR said:

G.Skill Ripjaws S5, 32GB (2x16GB), 6000 MHz (120,54 €)

you sure you only wanna use 32 gigs for running cad and solidworks? cuz im pretty sure thats not "futureproof" even though that isnt a thing

jaslion · October 11, 2023

17 minutes ago, MisterR said:

First of all I have some questions :

Is this a good and balanced build? (Will I get bottlenecked, etc.)

Are these parts even compatible with each other?

Are the prices good?

Is this a future proof build?

1. It's not bad but for sure optimizations can be made as:
- Get a arctic liquid freezer cooler cheaper and better
- 32gb ram is NOT a lot for your workflow
- 12gb vram isnt a lot
Yes
No
Nothing is future proof but this one is kinda closed off

Id also look at a used 3090. That extra vram is gonna do a LOT.

tkitch · October 11, 2023

there's no reason that build won't work.

But yeah, for CAD/Solidworks? 64GB RAM

Failure 101 · October 11, 2023

20 minutes ago, MisterR said:

Budget (including currency): 2000 Euros

Country: Lithuania

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CS2, AutoCad, SolidWorks.

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):

I am looking to build my self a new pc, so I have put together this build for now:

Motherboard :
MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi (181 €)

CPU :
Intel Core i7-13700K (470 €)

GPU :
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Windforce OC 12G (GV-N4070WF3OC-12GD) (671 €)

RAM :
G.Skill Ripjaws S5, 32GB (2x16GB), 6000 MHz (120,54 €)

Powersuply :
Cooler Master V Series V850 Gold - V2 - Netzteil - 850 Watt (143,50 €)

Case :
Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh Performance (147 €)

CPU Cooling:
Lian Li Galahad II 360 Trinity ARGB (141,99 €)

First of all I have some questions :

Is this a good and balanced build? (Will I get bottlenecked, etc.)

Are these parts even compatible with each other?

Are the prices good?

Is this a future proof build?

The reason that I went for this build is because :

I want it to be future proof.

I want it to be able to handle anything I throw at it, at the moment I don't really have the time to play a lot of games, but as new games have came out (hogwarts legacy etc.) I will want to play them in the cold winter evenings.

For now I will use it with LG UltraGear 27GN650 1080p 144 Hz monitor, but later down the line I plan to upgrade it to 1440p 240Hz.

For storage I have a samsung 980 1TB NVME ssd.

Thank you for your feedback!

I wonder if you could get a better deal if you bought from Germany

MisterR · October 11, 2023

7 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Out of curiosity, what made you choose intel?

To be honest I like intel more, not sure why tho, I have Ryzen 7 in my laptop right now, and there are no problems with it, but in short I guess it's just a choice based on marketing

6 minutes ago, ki8aras said:

you sure you only wanna use 32 gigs for running cad and solidworks? cuz im pretty sure thats not "futureproof" even though that isnt a thing

What would you recommend? I will not be using it for industrial use, for now I only use it for university. In my opinion if I need it in the future I can just add two more sticks of ram.

GOTSpectrum · October 11, 2023

Just now, MisterR said:

To be honest I like intel more, not sure why tho, I have Ryzen 7 in my laptop right now, and there are no problems with it, but in short I guess it's just a choice based on marketing

That's fair, I was mostly curious if those programs needed Intel for some reason or another