Planning my first ever pc. Will be buying within a month.

[krulkopf]

Budget (including currency): 1600 euros, might be able to push it to 1700

Country: Netherlands

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: All kinds of games (from AAA to potato), editing, streaming, screenwriting, color grading, compositing.

Other details

Right now, this is the build:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X

CPU COOLER: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 240 A-RGB

MOTHERBOARD: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 2x 32GB DDR5-6400 CL32

STORAGE: Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD

GPU: XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core RX 7800 XT (was planning on getting Gigabyte's 7800xt but the price went from 500 to 700 so now im eyeing this fugly one)

CASE: Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GT 750 W 80 + Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX

 

If anyone has any tips, please tell me

 

pcpartpicker: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/user/krulkopf/saved/q4bPK8

 

[Millios]

21 minutes ago, krulkopf said:

Budget (including currency): 1600 euros, might be able to push it to 1700

Country: Netherlands

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: All kinds of games (from AAA to potato), editing, streaming, screenwriting, color grading, compositing.

Other details

Right now, this is the build:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X

CPU COOLER: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 240 A-RGB

MOTHERBOARD: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 2x 32GB DDR5-6400 CL32

STORAGE: Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVME SSD

GPU: XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core RX 7800 XT (was planning on getting Gigabyte's 7800xt but the price went from 500 to 700 so now im eyeing this fugly one)

CASE: Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GT 750 W 80 + Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX

 

If anyone has any tips, please tell me

 

pcpartpicker: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/user/krulkopf/saved/q4bPK8

 

https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/pGs6VF

I'd go with this 

Better PSU, cooler,CPU, cheaper ram, better motherboard, better GPU for both streaming and productivity since

Nvidia might limit us too much and the 5070 is could be lil underpowered 

 

Your initia list was very much so "looks over performance" which wouldnt do you any good since you plan to not just game some not so demanding AAA games on it.

You could swap out the 9070 and 7700 for a 7800x3d and 7800xt (about the same price for the list aka >1700) to get somewhat lower overall FPS but more stable 1% lows but the 9070 would help with streaming and editing due to its newer benefits the 7000 series dont have and the 3D chache wouldnt help you at all in the previously mentioned not gaming tasks

[Why_Me]

https://www.techpowerup.com/338049/amd-readies-ryzen-7-9700f-8-core-zen-5-processor-without-igpu  <--- keep your eyes open for this cpu.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/broadcasting-guide/

 

This board supports PCIe 5.0 for the gpu as does this gpu. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 7700 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€273.67 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool GAMMAXX AG620 ARGB 67.88 CFM CPU Cooler  (€55.85 @ Megekko) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro-A WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€193.86 @ Azerty) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€219.90 @ Alternate) 
Storage: Western Digital WD_Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€152.99 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Video Card: *Asus PRIME OC GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB Video Card  (€599.00 @ Alternate) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 MAX ATX Mid Tower Case  (€77.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GT 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€89.99 @ Amazon Netherlands) 
Custom: Megekko kabelbinder (€5.00)
Total: €1668.16
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-06-16 13:10 CEST+0200

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7700-non-x/  

 

 

[krulkopf]

Thanks guys!

 

I've switched some things around now and I'm happy (at least for now lol)

 

@Millios said my old build was looks-over-performance and though that's true, I don't mind it. I might be autistic (my parents never had me tested but i fear the worst) and I WILL NOT have an ugly pc sitting on my desk.

 

Thanks for the advice

[Millios]

13 minutes ago, krulkopf said:

Thanks guys!

 

I've switched some things around now and I'm happy (at least for now lol)

 

@Millios said my old build was looks-over-performance and though that's true, I don't mind it. I might be autistic (my parents never had me tested but i fear the worst) and I WILL NOT have an ugly pc sitting on my desk.

I mean... theres nothing wrong with looks over performance but just be aware of what you are giving up for siad looks or if even for looks you are sure you a) like it b) dont spend ludicrous amounts on money on said looks to the point you get a fancy "potato"

If you share a bit more on what specifically you like/ want for looks perhaps me and @Why_Me could adapt out suggestions to make it to your liking or at least more pleasing to you