Advice on what I actually need not what I want !

[themoid]

Hey all,

I'd be grateful if someone could give me some guidance and common sense. I'm after a new PC, will be for general office stuff, photo editing and some gaming. Nothing flash, so examples would be Farm and Truck simulator, Skyrim, Football Manager Diablo IV....

My instinct is to get something like a 7800X3D processor, RTX 4070 Super GPU, for the reason of 'just in case'....I know this will be massive overkill but there's always the what if kind of thought.....

I could spend £1800 or so but it's a lot of dosh if I don't need to spend that much.

For what I want can someone point me to a processor / GPU combo that would be what i should buy, not what my aspirational brain wants to buy !

Thank you.

 

[RT123]

Hi,

What is the resolution/refresh rate of your monitor? Or do you need a new one?

 

[themoid]

Resolution is 5120 x 1440
Refresh rate 144hz

It's a Philips Evnia 49M2C8900L monitor.

 

[sx_turbo]

For the price I'd recommend a 7700x. Your not playing hugely demanding games, I know the x3d chips can make the average 1% lows higher meaning smoother frame rates but the 7700x is no slouch in itself and costs considerably less.

There is a lot of hype regarding x3d chips and it is warranted, but the 7700x performs better in workloads, and is roughly on par close to the 5800x3d in games.

The 4070 super is a good choice, an AMD 7900xt would probably be an alternative to this

 

[d_brennen]

For the price I'd recommend a 7700x. Your not playing hugely demanding games, I know the x3d chips can make the average 1% lows higher meaning smoother frame rates but the 7700x is no slouch in itself and costs considerably less.

There is a lot of hype regarding x3d chips and it is warranted, but the 7700x performs better in workloads, and is roughly on par close to the 5800x3d in games.

The 4070 super is a good choice, an AMD 7900xt would probably be an alternative to this

At that resolution I'd agree with this. Would be able to drop in a cheap upgrade years down the line, which is what I did on AM4

 

[dfour]

AMD build idea.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Montech AIR 903 Base Midi-Tower Tempered Glass - Black (SKU: CAS-MON-01227) = £49.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B650-E WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASU-02136) = £160.00
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02786) = £89.99
• 1 x MSI MAG A850GL 850W 80 Plus Gold ATX 3.0 PCIE5Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-012-MS) = £99.94
• 1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £104.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A7-SP) = £629.99
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02665) = £29.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £179.99

Total: £1,344.88 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

You could change to a rtx 4070 super if you use any software for photo editing that use CUDA.
Overkill cooler for a 7600 but it will scale with any upgrades.
Items that are pre-order can be had cheaper from other stores.
NO rgb as its an office machine.