Build Recommendation

[Alex772]

Budget (including currency): My budget is about $1,000

Country: United States 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I play all types of games. 

Other details: I already have a rx 9070 xt. I'm also thinking about getting a Ryzen 7 9700X.

I'm trying to decide everything else. 

I have a monitor and everything else already. 

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

11 minutes ago, Alex772 said:

My budget is about $1,000

Does this include the price of the 9070 XT or not? if it does, how much did you spend on it so we know how much there is left over?

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($418.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: *MSI PRO B850-P WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: *Silicon Power UD90 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($92.97 @ B&H) 
Case: *Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Best Buy) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($110.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $972.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-26 01:18 EDT-0400

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-free-or-cheap

[Alex772]

8 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Does this include the price of the 9070 XT or not? if it does, how much did you spend on it so we know how much there is left over?

No, I already spent $745 on the graphics card. The $1,000 is for the other parts. 

[Why_Me]

1 minute ago, Alex772 said:

No, I already spent $745 on the graphics card. The $1,000 is for the other parts. 

I edited my previous post so refresh your screen.

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, Alex772 said:

No, I already spent $745 on the graphics card. The $1,000 is for the other parts. 

in whch case go with @Why_Me's build. I might've picked a different motherboard (I'd probably recommend the B850 Eagle instead since IMO it's a little better featured for the same price, though both are plenty good enough that I'd be fine buying either one, or the B650 Gaming X AX which is $10 less and about the same features as the other two), but it's about where your build should be for the money. 

[Why_Me]

7 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

in whch case go with @Why_Me's build. I might've picked a different motherboard (I'd probably recommend the B850 Eagle instead since IMO it's a little better featured for the same price, though both are plenty good enough that I'd be fine buying either one, or the B650 Gaming X AX which is $10 less and about the same features as the other two), but it's about where your build should be for the money. 

The Eagle comes with the old school 1G LAN and not so great VRM's hence the reason it's priced so low.

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B850-EAGLE-WIFI6E#kf 

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B850-P-WIFI 

[RONOTHAN##]

20 minutes ago, Why_Me said:

The Eagle comes with the old school 1G LAN and not so great VRM's hence the reason it's priced so low.

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B850-EAGLE-WIFI6E#kf 

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B850-P-WIFI 

Unless you've got a home NAS equiped with 2.5G (not exactly that common), 1G vs. 2.5G LAN is unlikely to matter, especially since a lot of the 2.5G LAN chipsets have issues when operating in 2.5G mode. Realistically the two extra USB ports on the rear will be much more useful than the better networking. Besides, if you do care about the LAN, the Gaming X does come with the 2.5G LAN while also being $10 cheaper (admittely it's B650 rather than B850, though since it's a 7800X3D that's unlikely to matter that much). 

 

Also the VRM on the Eagle is about as good as the B850-P. Yeah, the Eagle has 4 fewer phases technically, but it's also using 60A rated DRMOS components which are much more efficient than the raw MOSFETs that the B850-P uses, so in practice they should be fairly similar (it's too late for me to actually do the math to show how similar, I can in the morning if someone cares enough). Also they're both plenty good enough to power a 7950X indefinitely, so talk about how good the VRM is more academic than it is actually relevant to whether you should buy a board or not.