My first own build

[CrazyBene]

Budget (including currency):  1000€ - 1500€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some Esports titles, newer games like Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Browsing, Programming

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): 
This is my current setup, with a cheap and small case. It was a custom prebuild 5 years ago, but I upgraded the power supply and GPU at the start of this year.

 

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

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($114.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 CPU Cooler  ($26.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Kingston KC600 512 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($53.29 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($79.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($584.79 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power 12 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($291.89 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1196.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-12-28 10:45 EST-0500

I want to upgrade and fully build my own PC, because it can not run the Jedi Survivor and is also quiet loud under heavier games (fans spinning up fast).
This is currently my plan, should I change anything?
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/F9s6N6

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€383.99 @ Mindfactory) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360 73.33 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (€155.98 @ Galaxus) 
Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€204.90 @ Alza) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€135.98 @ notebooksbilliger.de) 
Storage: Kingston KC600 512 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€151.00 @ Galaxus) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Case: be quiet! Dark Base 701 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€197.99 @ Mindfactory) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power 12 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Case Fan: be quiet! Light Wings PWM high-speed 71.7 CFM 140 mm Fans 3-Pack  (€68.79 @ Galaxus) 
Total: €1298.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-12-28 16:46 CET+0100

 

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, CrazyBene said:

Budget (including currency):  1000€ - 1500€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some Esports titles, newer games like Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Browsing, Programming

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): 
This is my current setup, with a cheap and small case. It was a custom prebuild 5 years ago, but I upgraded the power supply and GPU at the start of this year.

 

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

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($114.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 CPU Cooler  ($26.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Kingston KC600 512 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($53.29 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($79.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($584.79 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power 12 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($291.89 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1196.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-12-28 10:45 EST-0500

I want to upgrade and fully build my own PC, because it can not run the Jedi Survivor and is also quiet loud under heavier games (fans spinning up fast).
This is currently my plan, should I change anything?
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/F9s6N6

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€383.99 @ Mindfactory) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360 73.33 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (€155.98 @ Galaxus) 
Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€204.90 @ Alza) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€135.98 @ notebooksbilliger.de) 
Storage: Kingston KC600 512 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€151.00 @ Galaxus) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Case: be quiet! Dark Base 701 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€197.99 @ Mindfactory) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power 12 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Case Fan: be quiet! Light Wings PWM high-speed 71.7 CFM 140 mm Fans 3-Pack  (€68.79 @ Galaxus) 
Total: €1298.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-12-28 16:46 CET+0100

 

Honestly, I would just drop a 5800x3d in your current build and rock life.  Oh and get a new SSD and lose the HDD.  It's 2024 damn near!

 

Though your build should be able to run Jedi Survivor without issue.   Maybe reinstall Windows and refresh the machine?

 

Cuz these are the minimum requirements for J:S.  Which you crush.

Minimum Requirements

• Operating system: 64-bit required. Windows 10.
• Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7 - 7700 (4 core, 8 threads), Ryzen 5 1400.
• Memory (RAM): 8 GB RAM.
• Hard drive (free space): 155 GB.
• GPU: 8GB VRAM, Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD RADEON RX 580, or better.

[jaslion]

Honestly id just get 5800x3d, thermalright peerless 120 cooler, some more ram, a bigger ssd and a new gpu if need be.

 

A 5800x3d iz funnily enough STILL a top 5 gaming cpu to this day and its CHEAP now.

 

Like that would be maybe 500$ total for the upgrade in cpu and well your psu can easily power a top tier card sincd its WAY overbuilt so if ya want a 7900xt in there send it.

 

Going to a 7800x3d doesnt make a wholenlotta sense here.

 

However egardless your pc should run all the games well as is. Not when they are on a hard drive but welle easy fix there

[CrazyBene]

32 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Honestly, I would just drop a 5800x3d in your current build and rock life.  Oh and get a new SSD and lose the HDD.  It's 2024 damn near!

 

Though your build should be able to run Jedi Survivor without issue.   Maybe reinstall Windows and refresh the machine?

 

Cuz these are the minimum requirements for J:S.  Which you crush.

Minimum Requirements

• Operating system: 64-bit required. Windows 10.
• Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7 - 7700 (4 core, 8 threads), Ryzen 5 1400.
• Memory (RAM): 8 GB RAM.
• Hard drive (free space): 155 GB.
• GPU: 8GB VRAM, Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD RADEON RX 580, or better.

 

25 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Honestly id just get 5800x3d, thermalright peerless 120 cooler, some more ram, a bigger ssd and a new gpu if need be.

 

A 5800x3d iz funnily enough STILL a top 5 gaming cpu to this day and its CHEAP now.

 

Like that would be maybe 500$ total for the upgrade in cpu and well your psu can easily power a top tier card sincd its WAY overbuilt so if ya want a 7900xt in there send it.

 

Going to a 7800x3d doesnt make a wholenlotta sense here.

 

However egardless your pc should run all the games well as is. Not when they are on a hard drive but welle easy fix there

Ok, how about i upgrade my ssd, because my current is very weird and the performance is not that good. Then i can also reinstall windows.
I would sill go with a gen 4 nvme ssd, even tho my current motherboard just uses gen 3, just to future proof a little bit.

[Dedayog]

24 minutes ago, CrazyBene said:

 

Ok, how about i upgrade my ssd, because my current is very weird and the performance is not that good. Then i can also reinstall windows.
I would sill go with a gen 4 nvme ssd, even tho my current motherboard just uses gen 3, just to future proof a little bit.

Good call.  Let us know how it goes.

[jaslion]

34 minutes ago, CrazyBene said:

 

Ok, how about i upgrade my ssd, because my current is very weird and the performance is not that good. Then i can also reinstall windows.
I would sill go with a gen 4 nvme ssd, even tho my current motherboard just uses gen 3, just to future proof a little bit.

Sure soudns good a sn850x is in promo rn and about as good as it gets price/perf wise for a 4.0 ssd

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Drop in a 5800x3d as everyones been suggesting, 200-250$ used and still a top gaming cpu in the games that use the cache which is quite alot of games especially games like factorio

 

31 minutes ago, CrazyBene said:

 

Ok, how about i upgrade my ssd, because my current is very weird and the performance is not that good. Then i can also reinstall windows.
I would sill go with a gen 4 nvme ssd, even tho my current motherboard just uses gen 3, just to future proof a little bit.

Gen4 is worth it if you arent paying much more over gen3 and you arent getting dramless garbage

 

Teamgroup cardea a440 for 111€, about 15€ more than the cheapest drive thats worthwhile to buy (exceria g2) but its gen4 and a high end one at that and it has dram cache, for 15€ more absolutely worth it imo

Heres a review from tomshardware

[CrazyBene]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Sure soudns good a sn850x is in promo rn and about as good as it gets price/perf wise for a 4.0 ssd

Sorry but I have one more question. Do I need a heatsink?

My current motherboard does not have a heatsink/spreader for the nvme slot. In the future I will most likely pick up a motherboard that does have one (most have it now). So if I pick up one with a heatsink, then it will most likely not fit into a new motherboard (at least if I want to keep the motherboard heatsink). Am I fine if I don't use any kind of heatsink on that SSD or will it damage it in the long run?

[jaslion]

Nope

 

They dont run hot enough to warrant one and basically all consumer drives that arent top end top spec ultra fast bleeding edge stuff are fine with a smidge of airflow which yours will have

 

 

[CrazyBene]

On 12/28/2023 at 8:43 AM, Dedayog said:

Good call.  Let us know how it goes.

@jaslion
I now got everything to work. It was not as easy and I am not sure everything is stable. For some reason my pc only sometimes detected the new drive and sometimes it just wasn't there (in bios and old windows). Normally it stopped working after i put windows in sleep mode. It would wake up and crash instantly and then not show up (in the bios) anymore.
But I got it to update the firmware on the drive and updated my bios to the newest version and now it looks like it is fine (need more testing tho).

Jedi Survivor took a really long time to start at first (I think that is normal) and on low settings i get an average of 55 fps (at the moment), which is definitely playable. 

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, CrazyBene said:

@jaslion
I now got everything to work. It was not as easy and I am not sure everything is stable. For some reason my pc only sometimes detected the new drive and sometimes it just wasn't there (in bios and old windows). Normally it stopped working after i put windows in sleep mode. It would wake up and crash instantly and then not show up (in the bios) anymore.
But I got it to update the firmware on the drive and updated my bios to the newest version and now it looks like it is fine (need more testing tho).

Jedi Survivor took a really long time to start at first (I think that is normal) and on low settings i get an average of 55 fps (at the moment), which is definitely playable. 

Did you fresh install Windows?

 

55fps on LOW in Jedi Survivor is kind of odd, at 1080p?

[CrazyBene]

18 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Did you fresh install Windows?

 

55fps on LOW in Jedi Survivor is kind of odd, at 1080p?

Yes fresh windows install
i have 3440x1440 widescreen monitor

[Dedayog]

19 minutes ago, CrazyBene said:

Yes fresh windows install
i have 3440x1440 widescreen monitor

Oh, don't think you ever said your resolution, or I missed it?

 

The 6750XT isn't a 1440p UW card, so makes sense I guess.  I would have hoped for a bit more though, any game should run LOW with ease IMO.

[CrazyBene]

1 hour ago, Dedayog said:

Oh, don't think you ever said your resolution, or I missed it?

 

The 6750XT isn't a 1440p UW card, so makes sense I guess.  I would have hoped for a bit more though, any game should run LOW with ease IMO.

Yeah sorry never mentioned it, my bad.
I knew this will cost me some frames, maybe i will dial my resolution down for JS. But it is way better than before and I bought my GPU less than a year ago, I would not upgrade that at the moment.