Help me verify my mid-range gaming rig choices!

[kapikap0906]

Budget (including currency): 1,30,000 - 1,50,000 ₹INR (Approx. 1,500-1,800 $US)

Country: India

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly for Triple-A Games with some casual Valorant with friends

Other details: 

I have a laptop and want to move to something more powerful. I have most of the peripherals except a good monitor (ideally 1440p 27"/34" 144Hz/165Hz). I only have Wi-Fi. I'm looking for a point to start from and a decent upgrade path. I'll buy this around June of this year for my birthday. I'm lucky to have an area known for getting electronic goods for a decent price where I live so I'll buy from there for sure. The below parts are about the standard I'm looking for. I'm currently a little over budget. Anything I'm overpaying for? Any suggestions?

[WereCat]

DDR4 RAM does not work with the CPU and motherboard you've picked. You need DDR5 RAM.

6000MHz DDR5 is the sweet spot for 7000 series Ryzen CPUs. Preferably DDR5 RAM with EXPO.

 

You may also want to consider the non-X CPUs like Ryzen 7 7700 or Ryzen 5 7600 as they tend to be cheaper and not really worse than the X-parts. Considering the DDR5 costs quite a bit more you may need to drop down to Ryzen 5 7600 to stay within budget.

[will0hlep]

Getting an AIO for a 7700X is a waste of money, get a cheap tower cooler instead.

 

Also, if your looking to play graphically demanding titles you should above the 4060 Ti (especially the 8GB model).

[kapikap0906]

53 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

Getting an AIO for a 7700X is a waste of money, get a cheap tower cooler instead.

 

Also, if your looking to play graphically demanding titles you should above the 4060 Ti (especially the 8GB model).

Alright, I hear you.
How about getting something like a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Halo Black instead? It has 4 heat pipes and is aluminium.
These are some of the details

 

And on the GPU part I really wish I could go for something bigger but this is all my budget allows for so I have to make do. I heard 4060Ti is decent at 1440p gaming so I opted to go with that. Ideally I would've pushed for the 4070Ti or the 4070Ti Super but they went a little too over budget.

[kapikap0906]

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

DDR4 RAM does not work with the CPU and motherboard you've picked. You need DDR5 RAM.

6000MHz DDR5 is the sweet spot for 7000 series Ryzen CPUs. Preferably DDR5 RAM with EXPO.

 

You may also want to consider the non-X CPUs like Ryzen 7 7700 or Ryzen 5 7600 as they tend to be cheaper and not really worse than the X-parts. Considering the DDR5 costs quite a bit more you may need to drop down to Ryzen 5 7600 to stay within budget.

Noted. I'll bump up the RAM spec. Vengeance® 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 DRAM 6000MT/s CL36 Memory Kit is the one I've gone with. Couldn't really find one with EXPO tho. And for the CPU downgrade I kinda don't want to do that because it may not be that upgrade-able in the future so I think I'd rather just take the hit on the RAM than bump down the processor. And the difference in price wasn't enough to give it a serious thought as it was only around 3,000 ₹INR or 36 $US

[will0hlep]

21 minutes ago, kapikap0906 said:

Alright, I hear you.
How about getting something like a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Halo Black instead? It has 4 heat pipes and is aluminium.
These are some of the details

 

And on the GPU part I really wish I could go for something bigger but this is all my budget allows for so I have to make do. I heard 4060Ti is decent at 1440p gaming so I opted to go with that. Ideally I would've pushed for the 4070Ti or the 4070Ti Super but they went a little too over budget.

What games are you planning to play?

 

If they are very GPU intensive you might be better off going for an older CPU (5000 series) to get a better GPU and better performance overall.

 

(The 4060 Ti 8GB is not good for 1440p gaming)

[kapikap0906]

8 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

What games are you planning to play?

 

If they are very GPU intensive you might be better off going for an older CPU (5000 series) to get a better GPU and better performance overall.

 

(The 4060 Ti 8GB is not good for 1440p gaming)

The games I play aren't that too new so that's why I'm willing to risk it. The most intensive games I have right in my library are Hitman III, GTA V, Battlefield V, Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Witcher 3. But I'd like to play RDR2 as well. And obviously would like to be able to play GTA VI whenever that comes out even if I get 30FPS.

What about moving to Ryzen 7 5700X 3D and maybe reaching for that 4070?

[will0hlep]

1 minute ago, kapikap0906 said:

The games I play aren't that too new so that's why I'm willing to risk it. The most intensive games I have right in my library are Hitman III, GTA V, Battlefield V, Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Witcher 3. But I'd like to play RDR2 as well. And obviously would like to be able to play GTA VI whenever that comes out even if I get 30FPS.

What about moving to Ryzen 7 5700X 3D and maybe reaching for that 4070?

yeah, that seems alot better, cause a 4070 or a RX7800XT would be a huge upgrade over a 4060 Ti 8GB.

 

remember you need to swap to a B550 motherboard and DDR4 ram to make this change.

[kapikap0906]

If anyone is interested in the current build after all the recommendations are taken from here and other sources then they can follow the amazon list I'm using to keep a track of the components 

https://www.amazon.in/hz/wishlist/ls/ULTZ2696O6JO?ref_=wl_share

I've currently dropped the CPU down to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and bumped up the GPU to the RX7800XT since price is around the same and CPU performance difference is negligible and sometimes even outperformed by the 5800X3D and the 7800XT seems to compete neck to neck with the 4070 while being cheaper.