Building new computer from scratch

[zemiguel6000]

Budget (including currency): 2500€

Country: Portugal

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly day to day stuff, watching series and movies but would love to play some games like forza horizon, some battleroyale, minecraft with mods (yeah, I know I have weird tastes) but also like to design in solidworks for projects

Other details: 

I'm brand new to the PC building community. I'm finally looking to upgrade from a 7-year-old Asus laptop and get a much better computer now that I have some money saved up.

I've been looking for some good monitors to start with, already got some suggestions, but haven't found a great deal yet. Any help on that are highly appreciated!

My main issue is the PC itself. I'm very lost.
With the recent news about rising hardware prices (RAM, GPUs, etc.), I don't know if I should just give up for the moment and keep saving, or start the build now because the situation might get worse.

I would have to buy everything. I don't own a single part yet.

Should I keep waiting, or just start the build because it might get worse?

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Ha-Satan]

Honestly I think you should probably build right now because the situation could very well get worse and stay worse for a long time.

 

BTW, it's not entirely clear from your post, but if you are planning on buying parts over time, we don't recommend that. You should always try to buy everything at once so that you can assemble the build and make sure everything works before any of the components leave their return windows.

 

What needs to be included in the 2500€? Just the tower + monitor, or do you also need a keyboard, mouse, and other peripherals? Also, are you comfortable buying Windows from a grey market key reseller (or just using it unauthenticated) or do you want to include the "official" ~140€ price of a Windows license in the 2500€?

[zemiguel6000]

Monitor + tower 2500€. I was think around 2k tower, 500 monitor. Does that makes sense?
For monitor, I wanted and OLED with something around 29 inch because image quality is very important for me.
About windows, my computer already has a windows that I didn't pay (problems with dual boot, had to wipe everything and start fresh), I don't mind doing it again, do not include that in the price
 

[Ha-Satan]

43 minutes ago, zemiguel6000 said:

Monitor + tower 2500€. I was think around 2k tower, 500 monitor. Does that makes sense?
For monitor, I wanted and OLED with something around 29 inch because image quality is very important for me.
About windows, my computer already has a windows that I didn't pay (problems with dual boot, had to wipe everything and start fresh), I don't mind doing it again, do not include that in the price
 

OK, cool! Just FYI, thread responders don't get alerted you made a reply unless you use the quote or @ features (i.e. @zemiguel6000 ).

 

So basically, what I'm looking at with this budget is that you're going to have to make some kind of sacrifice somewhere in order to get this under 2500 euros and still have it be relatively high-end. A few months ago before the RAM price crisis, things would have been different, but now that RAM is about 3-4 times more expensive than it was then, you're going to be forced to make a few choices.

 

I'll list what I would do and then discuss where you could make cuts.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€376.99 @ Chipman) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (€43.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€179.90 @ Chipman) 
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€429.90 @ Globaldata) 
Storage: Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€103.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: Phanteks XT PRO ULTRA ATX Mid Tower Case  (€74.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€91.36 @ PC Componentes) 
Monitor: LG 27GS95QE-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€529.16 @ Chipman) 
Total: €2629.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-09 17:03 WET+0000

 

CPU: The 7800X3D is the second-best gaming CPU on the market, after the 9800X3D. It's also about 100 euros cheaper than the 9800X3D so it fits in your budget. For Solidworks, it also should be...solid. Heh. The thing to keep in mind about Solidworks is that most of the workflow is not particularly dependent on having a ton of extra cores, but a few specific tasks are, as detailed in this article:

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/cad-workstations/solidworks/hardware-recommendations/

 

For the most part, the 7800X3D is probably OK. If you are really concerned about performance in some of the more thread-intensive parts of the Solidworks workflow, you could go for the 7900(X), which is actually a little cheaper. It has more cores so it would be better in the Solidworks operations that are more core-intensive, but it would be a bit worse at gaming. Pick which is more important to you.

 

CPU Cooler: The Peerless Assassin is a great pick for either the 7800X3D or 7900X. If you go for the 7800X3D, you could also save a little money by dropping it down to a single-tower cooler like the Thermalright Assassin X SE, but I wouldn't do that for the 7900X, which uses more power.

 

Motherboard: The B850 Eagle Wifi6E is a good all-around choice that has PCIe 5.0 for both the top PCIe slot and the top M.2 slot for decent future upgradability. There are cheaper B850 and B650 options like the MSI Pro B850-S Wifi, but most of them are lacking in connectivity compared to the B850 Eagle. This difference in PCIe speed for the slots might not make a big difference now, but it could make a difference in the future as you upgrade.

 

RAM: It is what it is with the price. I picked the cheapest 32GB RAM kit with DDR5-6000 and CL30. There are slightly slower 2x16 kits but they aren't that much cheaper so it's probably best to just get this kit. Solidworks can probably take advantage of more RAM but that's not in the budget.

 

SSD: SSD prices are going up too but this is a decent one for the price. 

 

GPU: I went with the 5070 ti even though it takes you a bit over budget because everything I have read suggests that Solidworks works better with Nvidia/CUDA compared to AMD GPUs. Otherwise I would recommend the 9070 XT, which is 180 euros cheaper and has similar gaming performance to the 5070 ti. I do not personally use Solidworks so I don't know exactly what a difference having Nvidia makes but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

Case: Decent-performance, inexpensive case. FWIW I have not given any consideration to matching aesthetics here, but I can try to edit the list to give a more consistent aesthetic if that is important to you.

 

Power supply: Good mid-range power supply that is more than enough for this system.

 

Monitor: I couldn't find a 29"+ OLED that wouldn't take you way over budget. This is 27" but it's a very good monitor with excellent reviews.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Why_Me]

Low profile RAM so that the heatsinks don't impede a dual tower cpu cooler.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€289.90 @ Chipman) 
CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  (€47.80 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro RS WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€188.85 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€444.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Storage: *MSI SPATIUM M461 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€139.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€77.18 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€102.90 @ Globaldata) 
Monitor: *AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 26.7" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€456.50 @ Switch Technology) 
Total: €2546.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-09 17:32 WET+0000

[zemiguel6000]

13 hours ago, Ha-Satan said:

OK, cool! Just FYI, thread responders don't get alerted you made a reply unless you use the quote or @ features (i.e. @zemiguel6000 ).

 

So basically, what I'm looking at with this budget is that you're going to have to make some kind of sacrifice somewhere in order to get this under 2500 euros and still have it be relatively high-end. A few months ago before the RAM price crisis, things would have been different, but now that RAM is about 3-4 times more expensive than it was then, you're going to be forced to make a few choices.

 

I'll list what I would do and then discuss where you could make cuts.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€376.99 @ Chipman) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (€43.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€179.90 @ Chipman) 
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€429.90 @ Globaldata) 
Storage: Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€103.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: Phanteks XT PRO ULTRA ATX Mid Tower Case  (€74.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€91.36 @ PC Componentes) 
Monitor: LG 27GS95QE-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€529.16 @ Chipman) 
Total: €2629.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-09 17:03 WET+0000

 

CPU: The 7800X3D is the second-best gaming CPU on the market, after the 9800X3D. It's also about 100 euros cheaper than the 9800X3D so it fits in your budget. For Solidworks, it also should be...solid. Heh. The thing to keep in mind about Solidworks is that most of the workflow is not particularly dependent on having a ton of extra cores, but a few specific tasks are, as detailed in this article:

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/cad-workstations/solidworks/hardware-recommendations/

 

For the most part, the 7800X3D is probably OK. If you are really concerned about performance in some of the more thread-intensive parts of the Solidworks workflow, you could go for the 7900(X), which is actually a little cheaper. It has more cores so it would be better in the Solidworks operations that are more core-intensive, but it would be a bit worse at gaming. Pick which is more important to you.

 

CPU Cooler: The Peerless Assassin is a great pick for either the 7800X3D or 7900X. If you go for the 7800X3D, you could also save a little money by dropping it down to a single-tower cooler like the Thermalright Assassin X SE, but I wouldn't do that for the 7900X, which uses more power.

 

Motherboard: The B850 Eagle Wifi6E is a good all-around choice that has PCIe 5.0 for both the top PCIe slot and the top M.2 slot for decent future upgradability. There are cheaper B850 and B650 options like the MSI Pro B850-S Wifi, but most of them are lacking in connectivity compared to the B850 Eagle. This difference in PCIe speed for the slots might not make a big difference now, but it could make a difference in the future as you upgrade.

 

RAM: It is what it is with the price. I picked the cheapest 32GB RAM kit with DDR5-6000 and CL30. There are slightly slower 2x16 kits but they aren't that much cheaper so it's probably best to just get this kit. Solidworks can probably take advantage of more RAM but that's not in the budget.

 

SSD: SSD prices are going up too but this is a decent one for the price. 

 

GPU: I went with the 5070 ti even though it takes you a bit over budget because everything I have read suggests that Solidworks works better with Nvidia/CUDA compared to AMD GPUs. Otherwise I would recommend the 9070 XT, which is 180 euros cheaper and has similar gaming performance to the 5070 ti. I do not personally use Solidworks so I don't know exactly what a difference having Nvidia makes but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

Case: Decent-performance, inexpensive case. FWIW I have not given any consideration to matching aesthetics here, but I can try to edit the list to give a more consistent aesthetic if that is important to you.

 

Power supply: Good mid-range power supply that is more than enough for this system.

 

Monitor: I couldn't find a 29"+ OLED that wouldn't take you way over budget. This is 27" but it's a very good monitor with excellent reviews.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the list and the explaining everything sounds very good.
SolidWorks and CAD itself is not that big a deal for me, just a hobby that I might do a few things here and there. As I said, right now I use a Asus with a nvidea GTX1650, Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (integrated, not really sure how the systen handles this), 12GB RAM and works fine (it could be a bit better yeah). But this is from a student prespective, now that I'm working I think I'll stop using solidworks and start using inventor because its what my company has a license for.
As for aesthetics, don't really care about that. A simple case, no or very few RGB. Mostly a black pc, as discrete as possible would be cool
Anyway, I always though about building around a 5060 or 5070 like you sugested but with intel. Isn't intel CPUs better?
And after seeing the build, it might be a bit overkill, I'm not sure I need such a high end build. I really don't know if I am spending the money corectly... maybe take a few hundred euros and get a midrange pc. Whats your thoughs about this? How should I decide what I actually need if I never had a desktop before

[zemiguel6000]

12 hours ago, Why_Me said:

Low profile RAM so that the heatsinks don't impede a dual tower cpu cooler.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€289.90 @ Chipman) 
CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  (€47.80 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro RS WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€188.85 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€444.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Storage: *MSI SPATIUM M461 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€139.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€77.18 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€102.90 @ Globaldata) 
Monitor: *AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 26.7" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€456.50 @ Switch Technology) 
Total: €2546.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-09 17:32 WET+0000

Thanks for the sugestion, please look at my other response 
But seeing thiis build I have a question. Why air cooling? Aren't AIOs trending  now?

[Why_Me]

33 minutes ago, zemiguel6000 said:

Thanks for the sugestion, please look at my other response 
But seeing thiis build I have a question. Why air cooling? Aren't AIOs trending  now?

No need for a AIO with the 9700X.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF 3.9 GHz 20-Core Processor  (€298.90 @ Switch Technology) 
CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  (€47.80 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B860 EAGLE WIFI6E ATX LGA1851 Motherboard  (€174.20 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€444.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Storage: *MSI SPATIUM M461 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€139.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€77.18 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€102.90 @ Globaldata) 
Monitor: *AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 26.7" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€499.00 @ Globaldata) 
Total: €2583.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-10 07:12 WET+0000

[Ha-Satan]

8 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

Isn't intel CPUs better?

No, AMD is typically the better choice for most people these days.

 

For example, for gaming, the 9800X3D and 7800X3D typically range from being about the same as the Intel CPUs to being much faster depending upon the game:

 

https://www.techspot.com/review/2915-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/

 

Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 series processors are especially not great in gaming. The older-gen 13th and 14th gen Core i models were pretty good at gaming - about on-par with a Ryzen 7000 or 9000 non-X3D CPU - but they are not recommended due to the fact that they had massive quality control issues, including serious problems with oxidation inside the CPU and CPUs degrading over time. While AMD is not perfect either when it comes to quality control, Intel's recent issues are a lot more severe.

 

Furthermore, AMD's 6-core and 8-core CPUs are also quite efficient in terms of power draw, so they are great choices for most people when it comes to basic or mid-range builds which don't need a massive amount of multi-threaded CPU performance (and the X3D parts are actually the best gaming CPUs even for high-end gaming builds while still being not particularly power hungry).

 

Don't get me wrong, Intel's Core Ultra 200 series is the best choice for certain workloads, as you can see here, but in many workloads it's way behind AMD:

 

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-5-245k-linux

 

Furthermore, AMD's platform still should offer you at least one more generation of meaningful CPU upgrades on the same socket, meaning you will get more out of your motherboard in terms of future upgrades, while it seems likely that Intel will move on to a new socket without providing a meaningful upgrade path on their current socket.

 

So most likely, a Ryzen 5 or 7 is the best option for you.

 

8 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

But seeing thiis build I have a question. Why air cooling? Aren't AIOs trending  now?

You just don't need an AIO for a Ryzen 5 or 7. At the high end, the best AIOs can outperform the best air coolers, but with CPUs like a Ryzen 5 or 7 that will never draw 150+ watts, it's just unnecessary. You really only need to consider an AIO if you are going to be using a very high-core-count CPU like the 14900K, which can draw 300W. AIOs have more potential points of failure than air coolers (pump, tubes, fittings, fans vs. just fans on an air cooler) so I don't see the point in using an AIO if you don't need to.

 

You can get great dual-tower air coolers for under 50 euros so that would be the maximum I would spend.

 

8 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

And after seeing the build, it might be a bit overkill, I'm not sure I need such a high end build.

 

I agree, you could definitely spend less and still have a great build. You could drop down to a Ryzen 5 and an RX 9060 XT 16GB or 5060 ti 16GB (don't get the 8GB models) and have a great experience. Personally, these GPUs might be a little under-powered for 1440p in the most demanding games, but the games you listed are not that demanding and should play great at 1440p on this class of hardware.

 

Here's an option with cheaper everything:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€148.90 @ Império Multimédia) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X SE 32.77 CFM CPU Cooler  (€20.20 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€143.90 @ Chipman) 
Memory: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€444.00 @ PCDIGA) 
Storage: SanDisk WD Blue SN5100 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€81.99 @ PC Componentes) 
Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card  (€364.90 @ PC Componentes) 
Case: Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case  (€69.90 @ Globaldata) 
Power Supply: MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€52.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Monitor: LG 27GS95QE-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 240 Hz Monitor  (€529.16 @ Chipman) 
Total: €1855.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-10 15:09 WET+0000

 

I left the same monitor because you can't get much cheaper and still get a really good OLED display, but if you were willing to go for non-OLED you could get quite a bit cheaper on the monitor. This would still be more than fine for the use case you listed. It's still overpriced by about 350 euros due to the RAM costing an insane amount but there's nothing to be done about that.

 

If you really want Nvidia, the 5060 ti 16GB would be a good option, though it does cost a bit more than the 9060 XT 16GB.

 

 

[zemiguel6000]

15 minutes ago, Ha-Satan said:

If you really want Nvidia, the 5060 ti 16GB would be a good option, though it does cost a bit more than the 9060 XT 16GB.

First of all, thanks, you are being very helpful and I'm learning a lot with you
Second, that's the thing, I don't really know what I want. Is Nvidia better or AMD? What's the true difference? Because I see a lot of pleople talking about both in terms of price to fps where AMD usually wins, but there's always other things like reability, software compatibilities, life expectancy, etc. 
But in term of the card itself, I think I prefer to go with somewhere in the region of a 5070 ti 16GB because thats plenty of GPU and in the future if I want I'll upgrade the others to match it better. The GPU is a big purchase therefore I don't want to save a few bucks to have to spend big again in a couple of years to have a really good one. Right I don't really game because I can't, when I start I might start to like demanding games. 
Side note: Isn't Forza Horizon (maybe 6... when it lauchs) considered a demanding game? I though it was because the graphics are incredible

[Ha-Satan]

5 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

Second, that's the thing, I don't really know what I want. Is Nvidia better or AMD? What's the true difference? Because I see a lot of pleople talking about both in terms of price to fps where AMD usually wins, but there's always other things like reability, software compatibilities, life expectancy, etc. 

Nvidia has better ray tracing performance in games with the most demanding ray tracing (for example, Black Myth Wukong). Nvidia also has better upscaling. AMD's FSR4 upscaling, which you can use on the RX 9000 series, is also pretty good, but it's not supported in anywhere near as many games as DLSS (and the newest "transformer model" DLSS is still better than FSR4).

 

Nvidia also definitely has better support in many professional applications due to lots of applications being able to leverage their CUDA cores. I don't know anything about whether the software you're planning to use (Inventor) actually favors Nvidia or not, so maybe ask the folks at your company.

 

AMD has historically been criticized for having "bad drivers" but at the moment, Nvidia seems to actually be the company with worse gaming drivers. That said, drivers get updates and change frequently so I wouldn't put too much stock in this when making a decision.

 

Here are some (gaming-focused) reviews that show off the differences between these cards:

 

9070, 9070 XT, 5070, 5070 ti compared

 

9060 XT 16GB and 5060 ti 16GB compared (also 5070 for reference)

 

Personally, if it were me, I would probably get the 9060 XT 16GB if you're going to go the more "budget" route, but I would strongly consider the 5070 ti if I were going the more expensive route. The reason for this actually has to do with the next-gen consoles. Basically, I think that the next-gen consoles coming out here in a few years will have a big jump in ray tracing performance, and I think that most likely only cards at the 5070 ti tier of ray tracing and above will really be able to keep up with the next-gen consoles.

 

Because of that, presuming my guess is true, it makes sense to spend a little more to get the 5070 ti if you're already in the market for a 9070 XT-class GPU. It'll benefit you in the long run after the next-gen consoles launch.

 

But if you're looking for something closer to the 9060 XT/5060 ti class of GPU, you're probably not going to be able to match the RT of the next-gen consoles with either card, so you might as well just get the cheaper one. I hope that makes sense!

 

5 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

Side note: Isn't Forza Horizon (maybe 6... when it lauchs) considered a demanding game? I though it was because the graphics are incredible

 

The graphics do look great but by modern standards it's not that demanding. For example, here's a video showing that the 9060 XT 16GB can hit over 100 fps at 4K and ultra settings:

 

 

There are a lot of games that run way worse than this on this class of hardware (and sometimes even look worse too, lmao)

 

[zemiguel6000]

27 minutes ago, Ha-Satan said:

I hope that makes sense!

It does make a lot of sense. I think I prefer future proofing this pc so a 5070 ti looks better to me.
But one question: Whats stopping me from the middle ground, use the budget build except GPU + PSU and go with the 5070 ti + 850W PSU? 

[zemiguel6000]

@Ha-Satan @Why_Me
I've picked a bit of everything you send me and made this list 
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/sY7rzP

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€148.90 @ Império Multimédia) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X SE 32.77 CFM CPU Cooler  (€20.20 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro RS WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€190.91 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€479.90 @ Globaldata) 
Storage: *Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive  (€106.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€100.88 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€104.89 @ Globaldata) 
Total: €1952.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-12 11:09 WET+0000

I might be wrong but with this I think I have a nice computer, don't spent too much and leave some room for improving in the future in terms of CPU, storage and RAM (if this prices ever go down...)
What do you think? 

[Why_Me]

5 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

@Ha-Satan @Why_Me
I've picked a bit of everything you send me and made this list 
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/sY7rzP

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€148.90 @ Império Multimédia) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X SE 32.77 CFM CPU Cooler  (€20.20 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro RS WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€190.91 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€479.90 @ Globaldata) 
Storage: *Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive  (€106.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€100.88 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€104.89 @ Globaldata) 
Total: €1952.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-12 11:09 WET+0000

I might be wrong but with this I think I have a nice computer, don't spent too much and leave some room for improving in the future in terms of CPU, storage and RAM (if this prices ever go down...)
What do you think? 

Nice build ^^

[Ha-Satan]

5 hours ago, zemiguel6000 said:

@Ha-Satan @Why_Me
I've picked a bit of everything you send me and made this list 
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/sY7rzP

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€148.90 @ Império Multimédia) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X SE 32.77 CFM CPU Cooler  (€20.20 @ PCDIGA) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B850 Pro RS WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€190.91 @ PC Componentes) 
Memory: *G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€479.90 @ Globaldata) 
Storage: *Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive  (€106.90 @ Globaldata) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC SFF GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (€799.90 @ PCDIGA) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€100.88 @ PC Componentes) 
Power Supply: *SeaSonic CORE GX ATX 3 (2024) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€104.89 @ Globaldata) 
Total: €1952.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-12 11:09 WET+0000

I might be wrong but with this I think I have a nice computer, don't spent too much and leave some room for improving in the future in terms of CPU, storage and RAM (if this prices ever go down...)
What do you think? 

Yeah, this looks good. At 1440p (which is the resolution I would recommend for this build) you should be getting the most of your 5070 ti in demanding games.