Rate my build

Hi guys it sure if this is the correct place e to post this so apologies if it isnt Wondered if people could give me thoughts on my PC build I have done Case - Phanteks NV9 CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz Board - Asus TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI DDR5 ATX GPU - Asus GeForce RTX 5070...

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16GB VRAM for 1440p panels is recommended, I already told you I've seen it at 14gb vram usage 1440p and that's with some RT, FG & scaling features disabled

but hey do whatever you want

tamzzy · 2026-05-25T09:40:23+0100

Wrightyuk said:
Mine was more built around a balanced setup for long term use rather than just chasing benchmark numbers.

You don't have to justify your choices. Your money your problem.

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-25T10:23:56+0100

hornetstinger said:
Considering the 9070XT is equal to the 5070ti, why on earth consider the 5070???

Sorry but nvidia fanboyism is blinding you

Rate my build

Hi guys it sure if this is the correct place e to post this so apologies if it isnt Wondered if people could give me thoughts on my PC build I have done Case - Phanteks NV9 CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz Board - Asus TUF GAMING B850-PLUS WIFI DDR5 ATX GPU - Asus GeForce RTX 5070...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

16GB VRAM for 1440p panels is recommended, I already told you I've seen it at 14gb vram usage 1440p and that's with some RT, FG & scaling features disabled

but hey do whatever you want

Mainly cause I prefer Nvidia over and gpus it's just a personal preference like and vs Intel personal choice depending on what you want from your set up.
Yeah I get the VRAM argument tbf, I think people are mainly worried because modern games are starting to use more and more of it especially with ultra textures/ray tracing etc. But people act like 12GB suddenly makes a GPU useless when for 1440p gaming it’s still completely fine realistically.
And one notch down on textures is fine

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-25T10:24:37+0100

tamzzy said:
You don't have to justify your choices. Your money your problem.

More a discussion than a justification there is so many opinions on what works with what etc I can talk about PCs all dayb

Gray2233 · 2026-05-25T15:17:20+0100

Wrightyuk said:
Yeah tbf that build is probably more aimed at max fps per pound than overall system balance. If all someone cares about is squeezing the most gaming performance possible into a budget then fair enough the 9070 XT makes sense but I prefer Nvidia cards over and gpus
Mine was more built around a balanced setup for long term use rather than just chasing benchmark numbers. I’ve got better storage, better board, decent upgrade path and the 7800x3d is still one of the best gaming CPUs anyway especially for 1440p high refresh.
Not saying theirs is bad at all, it’s just a different way of spending the money really. More raw gpu focus where mine was more overall quality/future proofing.
And realistically the CPU difference is probably more like 5-15% depending on game/settings anyway, not some massive night and day jump. At 1440p with a 5070 the GPU is gonna become the limit in a lot of games before the CPU difference fully shows.
The 7800x3d is still top tier gaming wise, it’s not like I paired the 5070 with some budget CPU lol.

The "better storage" is debatable and dependent on use case, games wont care, likewise with the motherboard.

All white build with a 5080 for what you spent on a 7800X3D/5070:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Eight Core 5.60GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-06938) = £399.95
1 x Crucial Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - White (SKU: MEM-CRU-03115) = £319.99
1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - White (SKU: POW-PHK-02520) = £104.95
1 x Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 White ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03257) = £39.95
1 x PHANTEKS XT M3 Micro-ATX Case, includes 3x 120mm Fans - White (SKU: CAS-PHK-05736) = £56.90
1 x Sapphire Pure B850M WiFi (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05691) = £129.95
1 x KIOXIA EXCERIA BASIC 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-KIO-07150) = £199.99
1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid OC White 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04789) = £1,199.99
1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - 007 First Light (SKU: DIG-NVI-08114) = £0.00

Total: £2,463.66 (includes delivery: £11.98)

The above is superior to your build by every metric that matters, and it's still a lot of needless expenditure on aesthetics, as mentioned the white tax is real and you could easily shave a fair chunk of money off this and get identical performance.

You could also have easily fit in a 5070ti for a good £400 less not even including the other potential savings.

If you're happy with the build you've put together that's what matters, but it's really not the route I would recommend to anyone.

I think what's more baffling is that you didn't get an OLED monitor because you felt that the prices were ridiculous, but spent a huge amount of your budget on things that really do nothing to improve your actual gaming experience, you could easily have built a faster system and got an OLED monitor for around £1900-2400 all in.

tamzzy · 2026-05-25T15:29:52+0100

Gray2233 said:
1 x KIOXIA EXCERIA BASIC 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-KIO-07150) = £199.99

this is the only thing i'd change in that build.
300TBW for a 2TB SSD...basically ewaste :cry:

but yeah. OP's already bought and built that PC, no use crying over spilt milk.
we all think he's spent his money unwisely, but it's his money after all.

Gray2233 · 2026-05-25T15:31:38+0100

tamzzy said:
this is the only thing i'd change in that build.
300TBW for a 2TB SSD...basically ewaste

but yeah. OP's already bought and built that PC, no use crying over spilt milk.
we all think he's spent his money unwisely, but it's his money after all.

I was half asleep last night and didn't update my basket much this morning. :cry:

My bleary eyed ass thought it was the Gen 5 G3.

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-26T10:28:26+0100

Gray2233 said:
The "better storage" is debatable and dependent on use case, games wont care, likewise with the motherboard.

All white build with a 5080 for what you spent on a 7800X3D/5070:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Eight Core 5.60GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-06938) = £399.95

1 x Crucial Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - White (SKU: MEM-CRU-03115) = £319.99

1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - White (SKU: POW-PHK-02520) = £104.95

1 x Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 White ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03257) = £39.95

1 x PHANTEKS XT M3 Micro-ATX Case, includes 3x 120mm Fans - White (SKU: CAS-PHK-05736) = £56.90

1 x Sapphire Pure B850M WiFi (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05691) = £129.95

1 x KIOXIA EXCERIA BASIC 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-KIO-07150) = £199.99

1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid OC White 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04789) = £1,199.99

1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - 007 First Light (SKU: DIG-NVI-08114) = £0.00

Total: £2,463.66 (includes delivery: £11.98)

The above is superior to your build by every metric that matters, and it's still a lot of needless expenditure on aesthetics, as mentioned the white tax is real and you could easily shave a fair chunk of money off this and get identical performance.

You could also have easily fit in a 5070ti for a good £400 less not even including the other potential savings.

If you're happy with the build you've put together that's what matters, but it's really not the route I would recommend to anyone.

I think what's more baffling is that you didn't get an OLED monitor because you felt that the prices were ridiculous, but spent a huge amount of your budget on things that really do nothing to improve your actual gaming experience, you could easily have built a faster system and got an OLED monitor for around £1900-2400 all in.

I get your point and if I was purely chasing max fps possible for the money then yeah obviously more of the budget would’ve gone into the GPU. I’m not denying a 5080 build is stronger in raw gaming performance.
But my build wasn’t made around chasing benchmark numbers or “best fps per pound”, it was built more around overall system quality, balance and long term use. Better board, separate windows/game drives, better SSD setup, better overall parts quality etc. Stuff that maybe doesn’t show in benchmark charts but still matters to me day to day.
And honestly once you’re already at high refresh 1440p the difference between “really fast” and “even faster” starts becoming diminishing returns anyway. Same reason I didn’t rush into OLED. I’d rather have a setup I’m fully happy with overall than just dump every penny possible into the GPU and cut corners elsewhere.
End of the day it’s just different build philosophies really, yours is more max performance per £ whereas mine was more balanced enthusiast build.

tamzzy · 2026-05-26T12:24:07+0100

Wrightyuk said:
cut corners elsewhere.

i can assure you there were no corners cut (except for that SSD which was mistakenly specced as i pointed out earlier)

Wrightyuk said:
Better board

so tell me what can your asus board do that the sapphire pulse can't?

Wrightyuk said:
separate windows/game drives, better SSD setup

a bit pointless nowadays

Wrightyuk said:
better overall parts quality etc

errr, no

Wrightyuk said:
but still matters to me day to day.

tamzzy said:
Ok just enjoy it then

^
no need to seek validation from us then, you haven't/won't find any as we all think you've not spent the money wisely

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-26T12:42:49+0100

And when I said “cut corners” I didn’t mean you cheaped out with bad parts, I meant the build was more aggressively optimised around GPU performance/value whereas mine was more balanced overall. There’s a difference between cutting costs in certain areas to maximise fps and literally using poor quality parts.
At the end of the day we’ve just prioritised different things with the budget which is fine.

I never said the Sapphire board was bad, just that I personally preferred the ASUS TUF because it’s a bit more established/premium feeling and has a better reputation long term for BIOS/support etc. Doesn’t mean the Sapphire suddenly can’t do the job.

And separate drives might not massively change gaming performance nowadays but I still prefer having Windows isolated from games/storage personally. Makes things cleaner for reinstalls, organisation and long term management. Not everything is about gaining extra fps

When I said overall parts quality I more meant things like the overall setup choice, storage setup, motherboard choice, cooling setup etc rather than saying your individual parts are low quality because they obviously aren’t. You’ve clearly prioritised max performance per £ more whereas I leaned a bit more into overall build balance/preferences.

I wasn’t really looking for validation tbf, more just interested seeing different opinions/build approaches. I already said a few times I’m happy with the system, I know there’s builds out there that push more raw fps for the money.

tamzzy · 2026-05-26T12:51:48+0100

Wrightyuk said:
You’ve clearly prioritised max performance per £ more whereas I leaned a bit more into overall build balance/preferences.

please educate me as to why a 9850x3d/5080 build is less balanced than a 7800x3d/5070 build because i struggle to see how this is exactly the case :confused:

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-26T12:54:39+0100

didn’t say your hardware itself was less balanced overall, I said your budget allocation was more heavily focused towards max gaming performance whereas mine was spread more across the whole system/setup. There’s a difference.
Obviously a 9850x3d + 5080 is the stronger gaming combo on paper, nobody’s arguing against that lol. I just personally didn’t want to throw the biggest possible chunk of the budget at the GPU and base the whole build around benchmark numbers/fps charts.

tamzzy · 2026-05-26T12:57:47+0100

so basically you spent the largest chunk of the budget on things that don't matter, bar the "feels"?

Wrightyuk · 2026-05-26T13:13:09+0100

Not really, because once you’re already spending this much on a PC a lot of it comes down to preference and where diminishing returns start. By that logic anything beyond a mid range setup is “wasted” because the fps per £ drops off hard the higher you go.

I just chose to spread the budget differently. You put more of it into raw GPU power, I put more of it into the overall system/setup I personally wanted to own and use long term. Neither approach is objectively wrong, they’re just aimed at different priorities.

There seems to be a clash of you think your way is the right way and no other way matters where as I can see both sides of why each of the building ways can be explained if your stuck in that way I can't help that

tamzzy · 2026-05-26T13:18:56+0100

a higher specced pc will objectively provide better performance for the longer term

Wrightyuk said:
if your stuck in that way I can't help that

^

as always:

tamzzy said:
Your money your problem.