Building my first PC

[Aira]

Budget (including currency): $1000-$1200 USD (about 100 000₽), wiggle room possible. I understand the Russian prices are different and I don't expect anyone to know them, so anywhere close that budget is fine.

Country: Russia
 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Main focus is on work performance. I need it to perform well for video editing (Premiere Pro, and a lot of After Effects work). Also Blender, and CLIP STUDIO PAINT (so I need strong single core). I only play indie and old games, maybe some Source games, it is not a big priority. I use three monitors.
 

Other details:
I already have an Mini iTX PC.
 
ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/ac 
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor, 3593 Mhz, 8 core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
CPU cooler barely works so no resell value
32GB of 3200 MT/s RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB 
KINGSTON SA2000M81000G (I definetely need more)
I don't need any peripherals or new monitors.
Everything but the CPU cooler seems to be in a good condition, but I didn't do a lot of in-depth testing.

Hello, 

I strongly feel the need to upgrade because I use a lot of softwares that rely on good single core performance and my Ryzen is just too old and weak. I want to rebuild my PC into a Micro-ITX possibly, but if that will cost too much, I don't mind about a full ATX build. I'm thinking about saving the GPU from my old pc, because it works very well for my needs in Blender, and it seems to work good in games I play, I only need a new CPU (and by extension, the rest of the PC). What would the best option for me? I never built a PC before, but I will ask my friend to help me. I know Intel is better for single-core, but I'm afraid of picking them because of all the recent news, and I'd rather be safe with a Ryzen.. And I probably want more DDR5 and storage, like at least another 1TB SSD. 

Is the idea of saving GPU stupid? I know it will bottle-neck in many games, but I'm fine with just upgrading the GPU alone in the future, maybe after the 50 series comes out, so the prices will go down.

Thank you so much for any replies, 
Best regards

 

[Tiredness]

If you are ok with going used, something like a r9 3900x so you can still upgrade to 5000 series ryzen if you so desire and thats assuming your keeping your 2070 depending on prices. If you want purely new something like the 7800x would be a bad choice either but you would need ddr5 so you wont be able to save some money on ram and obviously a new motherboard and probably cooler. For motherboard if your going with the 7800x getting a B660 chipset is the better value generally. For coolers there's stuff like the be quiet dark rock 4 pro, noctua u14 which handle the all the above cpus fairly well for air coolers, if you want a aio there's the corsair h100i which comes in a 240mm size or a 360mm size which should be plenty for the all the cpus mentioned.

 

For GPU personally I would wait till 50 series is out if you are going to stick with nvidia and try and see what the used prices of 30 or 40 series cards are for around the 70 class gpu like 3070/4070 area because usually you get the best mix of its not insane amount of money but pretty good performance. Usually whenever there's either a new CPU or GPU launch a lot of the people that upgrade to every new gen flip their cards or cpus and all current gen stuff drops like say 100 bucks or something on the used market if not more. Personally I have seen some GPU's like the 2060/2070 in my local area in Australia drop by 150 ish dollars when 30 series came out.

 

Hope this helps!

[Aira]

2 hours ago, Tiredness said:

If you are ok with going used, something like a r9 3900x so you can still upgrade to 5000 series ryzen if you so desire and thats assuming your keeping your 2070 depending on prices. If you want purely new something like the 7800x would be a bad choice either but you would need ddr5 so you wont be able to save some money on ram and obviously a new motherboard and probably cooler. For motherboard if your going with the 7800x getting a B660 chipset is the better value generally. For coolers there's stuff like the be quiet dark rock 4 pro, noctua u14 which handle the all the above cpus fairly well for air coolers, if you want a aio there's the corsair h100i which comes in a 240mm size or a 360mm size which should be plenty for the all the cpus mentioned.

 

For GPU personally I would wait till 50 series is out if you are going to stick with nvidia and try and see what the used prices of 30 or 40 series cards are for around the 70 class gpu like 3070/4070 area because usually you get the best mix of its not insane amount of money but pretty good performance. Usually whenever there's either a new CPU or GPU launch a lot of the people that upgrade to every new gen flip their cards or cpus and all current gen stuff drops like say 100 bucks or something on the used market if not more. Personally I have seen some GPU's like the 2060/2070 in my local area in Australia drop by 150 ish dollars when 30 series came out.

 

Hope this helps!

Thank you!
Regarding GPU, this is my current plan. I will probably get 3070 or something of that nature once the new series drops, I am not in rush for a new gpu.

For the CPU, it seems like Ryzen 9 3900x costs around $150 here used, so I have $900 for the rest of the PC.. For the other one, I only have found Ryzen 7 7800x3d on the used market for about $500, is this the one you have talked about, or do I need a simpler variant? 

If it costs as much, then I'm probably okay with putting $500 on that CPU, and then $500-$600 on everything else excluding the GPU. New 32gb DDR5 ram seems to cost about $130, same with a mobo. So this seems to fit my budget nicely, and I might even have some extra 

upd: although, I don’t really look for the best parts, so I’m okay to cut down the budget and save money.. I just need some future proofing 

Edited October 16, 2024 by Aira

[Tiredness]

14 hours ago, Aira said:

Thank you!
Regarding GPU, this is my current plan. I will probably get 3070 or something of that nature once the new series drops, I am not in rush for a new gpu.

For the CPU, it seems like Ryzen 9 3900x costs around $150 here used, so I have $900 for the rest of the PC.. For the other one, I only have found Ryzen 7 7800x3d on the used market for about $500, is this the one you have talked about, or do I need a simpler variant? 

If it costs as much, then I'm probably okay with putting $500 on that CPU, and then $500-$600 on everything else excluding the GPU. New 32gb DDR5 ram seems to cost about $130, same with a mobo. So this seems to fit my budget nicely, and I might even have some extra 

upd: although, I don’t really look for the best parts, so I’m okay to cut down the budget and save money.. I just need some future proofing 

Yea the 7800x3d is like the best mix of gaming and productivity cpu there is atm without going say 7950x3d which is usually a lot more (like 400 dollars from where I am in Australia) but between the 2 cpus I said it just depends on what you want to prioritize more, your editing/blender stuff or your gaming. Like you can go 3900x now and still have the option to upgrade to 5950x or a 5700x3d without changing motherboards and all you would need to do is a BIOS update if the motherboard isn't updated to support ryzen 5000 series 

[venomtail]

On 10/16/2024 at 2:43 PM, Aira said:

Budget (including currency): $1000-$1200 USD (about 100 000₽), wiggle room possible. I understand the Russian prices are different and I don't expect anyone to know them, so anywhere close that budget is fine.

Country: Russia
 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Main focus is on work performance. I need it to perform well for video editing (Premiere Pro, and a lot of After Effects work). Also Blender, and CLIP STUDIO PAINT (so I need strong single core). I only play indie and old games, maybe some Source games, it is not a big priority. I use three monitors.
 

Other details:
I already have an Mini iTX PC.
 
ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/ac 
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor, 3593 Mhz, 8 core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
CPU cooler barely works so no resell value
32GB of 3200 MT/s RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB 
KINGSTON SA2000M81000G (I definetely need more)
I don't need any peripherals or new monitors.
Everything but the CPU cooler seems to be in a good condition, but I didn't do a lot of in-depth testing.

Hello, 

I strongly feel the need to upgrade because I use a lot of softwares that rely on good single core performance and my Ryzen is just too old and weak. I want to rebuild my PC into a Micro-ITX possibly, but if that will cost too much, I don't mind about a full ATX build. I'm thinking about saving the GPU from my old pc, because it works very well for my needs in Blender, and it seems to work good in games I play, I only need a new CPU (and by extension, the rest of the PC). What would the best option for me? I never built a PC before, but I will ask my friend to help me. I know Intel is better for single-core, but I'm afraid of picking them because of all the recent news, and I'd rather be safe with a Ryzen.. And I probably want more DDR5 and storage, like at least another 1TB SSD. 

Is the idea of saving GPU stupid? I know it will bottle-neck in many games, but I'm fine with just upgrading the GPU alone in the future, maybe after the 50 series comes out, so the prices will go down.

Thank you so much for any replies, 
Best regards

 

Just upgrade your CPU to a 5700X for a fraction of the cost of you buying and building a new one just for CPU performance. Quick google search says you could double single core performance and nearly double multi core performance.

 

Just a $160 upgrade:

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CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($160.27 @ Amazon) 
Total: $160.27
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