Much needed upgrade

Klinaranze · February 13, 2025

Budget (including currency): 4000€

Country: Slovenia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: light editing and gaming

Other details: just need help confirming parts

1.gpu: xfx speedstwr merc 313 7900xtx

2.cpu: 9800x3d with artic liquid 360 freezer

3. Ram: g.skill 16gbx4 cl34 6800mhz

4.psu: seasonic vertex 1000w

5.ssd: kingston fury renegade 2tb

6.mb: aorus elite wifi 7

7.case: nzxt h6 flow

Monitors: (owned) samsung g40 240hz ips

Will buy: asus rog swift 4k 240hz qd oled

Anything else i need or should change?

RONOTHAN## · February 13, 2025

6 minutes ago, Klinaranze said:

3. Ram: g.skill 16gbx4 cl34 6800mhz

This is a bad idea. First off, without going into too much detail, Ryzen generally loses performance above DDR5 6000 with memory speed unless you do a fair bit of fine tuning, so the frequency is effectively too high. Second, 4x16GB is notorious for causing problems, to the point where the motherboards practically just shouldn't come with those 2 extra DIMM slots. It can work at decent speeds, but you need to either be pretty lucky or know what you're doing, so it's generally not something worth recommending. Either get a 2x32GB kit, or seeing how the workload you described doesn't seem like it would use that much RAM, just stick with a 2x16GB kit.

Other parts look fine, but I'd be curous about the prices, as there's a lot of parts here that in the US market at least aren't usually that great a value. That isn't to say over there they'd be a bad value, but there's probably an equivalent part for much cheaper and/or a better version of the same part for the same price for most of the options in here. Also scalped parts are a bit of a problem right now, so you might be spending a bit too much on the GPU, for instance.