Need some advice!

[Stinkyjoe]

Hey everyone, this is my first post but I need some help. I’m looking at upgrading my pc, I’m currently running a ryzen 5 3600, 2060super, 2x 16gb 2600 ram, b450 motherboard and x2 1tb m.2 ssd. I mainly play fivem and assetto corsa but do play new games now and then. The guys who built my current pc in 2019 are still going and loves there custom service over the years and the owner is just a cool dude so would like to buy from them again. The pc I’m looking at is one of there pre built and spec and pic are attached the only thing I might add is a 2tb m.2 and then use 1 of the 1tb out of my current pc making the total $2194 AUD. I’m just curious if you guys think it’s a good buy. Thanks in advance 

[BiotechBen]

44 minutes ago, Stinkyjoe said:

Hey everyone, this is my first post but I need some help. I’m looking at upgrading my pc, I’m currently running a ryzen 5 3600, 2060super, 2x 16gb 2600 ram, b450 motherboard and x2 1tb m.2 ssd. I mainly play fivem and assetto corsa but do play new games now and then. The guys who built my current pc in 2019 are still going and loves there custom service over the years and the owner is just a cool dude so would like to buy from them again. The pc I’m looking at is one of there pre built and spec and pic are attached the only thing I might add is a 2tb m.2 and then use 1 of the 1tb out of my current pc making the total $2194 AUD. I’m just curious if you guys think it’s a good buy. Thanks in advance 

$2k dollar bucks (sorry, Bluey and Star wars are my top recents in Disney+ right now) is not a terrible price for the system, it's a bit budget-shifted towards aesthetic vs performance, but you could definitely have a worse system. 

7500f 360mm liquid cooling is overkill, 

I'd much rather see budget with a good air cooler and a 7600x, but I'm also not an aesthetics computer person: mine is literally in a Dell Business Tower from 1997 (first computer I played games on as a kid)

 

 

[dreamcast4599]

1 hour ago, Stinkyjoe said:

Hey everyone, this is my first post but I need some help. I’m looking at upgrading my pc, I’m currently running a ryzen 5 3600, 2060super, 2x 16gb 2600 ram, b450 motherboard and x2 1tb m.2 ssd. I mainly play fivem and assetto corsa but do play new games now and then. The guys who built my current pc in 2019 are still going and loves there custom service over the years and the owner is just a cool dude so would like to buy from them again. The pc I’m looking at is one of there pre built and spec and pic are attached the only thing I might add is a 2tb m.2 and then use 1 of the 1tb out of my current pc making the total $2194 AUD. I’m just curious if you guys think it’s a good buy. Thanks in advance 

with a bios update you could toss in a 5000 series X3D cpu some faster ram and call it a day for a much cheaper price

[dark_globe]

maybe they are "nice guys"
but you are paying them around $400-500 premium over what this system should cost - which is too much IMO .

here is the comparison (not focusing on the aesthetics , although this system is by no means "ugly" either - and i even threw in a 2tb m.2 drive as a bonus)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  ($154.63 @ MemoryC) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($439.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1454.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:08 EDT-0400


and for 2K you can have much better (faster) machine for gaming -
this is 30-35% extra gaming performance for the same price :
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($189.00 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($719.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2017.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:13 EDT-0400

[Stinkyjoe]

I’ll look in to all this thank you for everyone advice 

[Stinkyjoe]

37 minutes ago, dark_globe said:

maybe they are "nice guys"
but you are paying them around $400-500 premium over what this system should cost - which is too much IMO .

here is the comparison (not focusing on the aesthetics , although this system is by no means "ugly" either - and i even threw in a 2tb m.2 drive as a bonus)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  ($154.63 @ MemoryC) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($439.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1454.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:08 EDT-0400


and for 2K you can have much better (faster) machine for gaming -
this is 30-35% extra gaming performance for the same price :
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($189.00 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($719.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2017.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:13 EDT-0400

 

37 minutes ago, dark_globe said:

maybe they are "nice guys"
but you are paying them around $400-500 premium over what this system should cost - which is too much IMO .

here is the comparison (not focusing on the aesthetics , although this system is by no means "ugly" either - and i even threw in a 2tb m.2 drive as a bonus)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  ($154.63 @ MemoryC) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Challenger OC Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($439.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1454.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:08 EDT-0400


and for 2K you can have much better (faster) machine for gaming -
this is 30-35% extra gaming performance for the same price :
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($189.00 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($369.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus W/Heatsink 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($194.70 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($719.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  ($65.00 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: ASRock Phantom Gaming PG-750G 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2017.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-04-04 06:13 EDT-0400

I think prices in Australia must not be as good cause the 7800x3d and that motherboard is like $1000 aud alone. Just under $650 for ram, but it’s definitely opened my eyes and I’ll do some looking around to see if I can get a deal. I did a price list on pc case gear (very popular pc parts shop in Australia and building the same pc as I posted about using my psu, case and m.2 was still $2000 aud. We must just not have the available like you guys I guess