Help with a new build vs a prebuilt

badger85 · February 10

Budget (including currency): under 2000$ cad

Country: canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA games, I would like to start playing with AI

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've always built my own PCs but my last PC was around the time of the 980ti launch. For the past couple of years I haven't even owned a gaming PC.

I saw this deal on a prebuilt tower and was wondering if I can build my own PC for less. https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/desktops/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/-legion-tower-5i-gen-8-(26l,-intel)/90ut000wus?cid=ca:sem|se|google|shopping_else|gs_notebooks||90UT000WUS|9939988307|101472481835|pla-2269174642070|shopping|mix&gad_source=1

4070 or better is required. All help and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

filpo · February 10

7 minutes ago, badger85 said:

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/desktops/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/-legion-tower-5i-gen-8-(26l,-intel)/90ut000wus?cid=ca:sem|se|google|shopping_else|gs_notebooks||90UT000WUS|9939988307|101472481835|pla-2269174642070|shopping|mix&gad_source=1

Both builds below have 32gb of ram

this isn't bad but you can do better if you build it yourself

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor ($528.50 @ Vuugo)
CPU Cooler: *Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE WHITE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler ($41.90 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX ATX AM5 Motherboard ($199.95 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: *TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory ($119.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: *Crucial P3 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($150.75 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: PNY VERTO GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card ($699.99 @ Best Buy Canada)
Case: Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case ($70.05 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($134.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Total: $1946.12
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-02-10 13:10 EST-0500

even maybe up to a 4070 Ti SUPER (if you feel like you don't need the extra VRAM then go to a 4070 Ti non super and pop in a b650 gaming X ax

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($428.96 @ shopRBC)
Motherboard: ASRock B650M Pro RS Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard ($127.87 @ Vuugo)
Memory: *TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory ($119.99 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($78.48 @ Amazon Canada)
Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card ($1099.00 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case ($70.05 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.99 @ Best Buy Canada)
Total: $2044.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-02-10 13:12 EST-0500

badger85 · February 14

Damn that second one is tempting... Definitely will consider something exactly like that. Thank you!

Lewsh2 · February 14

Hey @badger85 not sure if you have bought yet, but I just build this pc about 2 weeks ago:

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

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor ($359.00 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: *Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler ($33.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: *ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Silicon Power Value Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory ($97.97 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($63.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: *Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card ($699.99 @ Newegg)
Case: *MagniumGear NEO AIR (2023) ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: *Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 - TT Premium Edition 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1504.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-02-13 23:03 EST-0500