Building a gaming pc

[DotA]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Lian Li Vector V100 Mid Tower Case - Black (SKU: CAS-LIA-05153) = £69.98
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid Core 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04544) = £950.00
• 1 x NVIDIA - Borderlands 4 Standard Edition & the Gilded Glory Pack DLC (SKU: DIG-NVI-06102) = £0.00
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £160.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-01124) = £109.99
• 1 x MSI B850 GAMING PLUS WIFI (AMD AM5) B850 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03994) = £190.00
• 1 x Corsair Force MP600 ELITE 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRS-01681) = £76.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 1000W 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02521) = £128.99
• 1 x UK Mains Plug with 13A Fuse to IEC C13 Socket Lead 10A 2m (SKU: ACC-OCS-01709) = £0.00
• 1 x Lian Li HydroShift LCD 360S Black All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-LIA-02329) = £149.98

Total: £1,836.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Depending on your games, at 1440p there isint much of a differnce from a 6 core cpu to a the 8 core x3d chips. Depending on the game the its better putting money into the GPU.

 

[roadrunner08]

So this was the final choice of parts, I now have all parts in my possession.
Mobo and ram I ordered elsewhere as was a bit cheaper
One concern I’ve found since placing the order
The ram isn’t on the QVL list for the mobo, is this gonna be a issue?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Lian Li Vector V100 Mid Tower Case - Black (SKU: CAS-LIA-05153) = £69.98
• 1 x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2X0E) (SKU: HD-591-WD) = £144.95
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 850W ATX 3.1 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: POW-BEQ-05637) = £109.99
• 1 x Thermalright Frozen Notte 360 Black ARGB V2 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03260) = £69.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £399.95
• 2 x Lian Li UNI FAN CL 120 WIRELESS Black RGB Fan - 120mm (SKU: COO-LIA-05073) = £14.99
• 1 x Gainward GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Phoenix V1 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-GNW-04853) = £719.99
• 1 x NVIDIA - Borderlands 4 Standard Edition & the Gilded Glory Pack DLC (SKU: DIG-NVI-06102) = £0.00
• 1 x MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (AMD AM5) B850 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03993) = £229.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO RGB 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRS-03749) = £209.99

Total: £1,984.76 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[mickyflinn]

Save yourself £35 with this m2 drive.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-aorus-7300-2tb-ssd-m.2-2280-nvme-pci-e-gen4-solid-state-drive-sto-gig-05732.html

 

[roadrunner08]

Save yourself £35 with this m2 drive.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-aorus-7300-2tb-ssd-m.2-2280-nvme-pci-e-gen4-solid-state-drive-sto-gig-05732.html

I already have all the parts with me now

 

[mickyflinn]

I already have all the parts with me now

Ok was a good offer enjoy your build.

First boot on AM5 can take up to 15mins for anything to show on screen and may reboot a few times this is because the motherboard is training the memory so be patient.

 

[hornetstinger]

Another option would have buy a cheaper CPU use it for a couple of years then get latest gen AM5

ie I have 7700 Ryzen 7. That cost about £160. Use that for a while, then get a 10600 16 core X3D later on

 

[roadrunner08]

Ok was a good offer enjoy your build.

First boot on AM5 can take up to 15mins for anything to show on screen and may reboot a few times this is because the motherboard is training the memory so be patient.

So it shouldn’t be a problem with the ram not being on the QVL list for the mobo?

Also should I flash latest bios before the buid

 

[Craig_d1]

So it shouldn’t be a problem with the ram not being on the QVL list for the mobo?

Also should I flash latest bios before the buid

it's a b850 board so will run a 9800x3d anyway...you can prob just do build and then flash bios after it's all up and running...you never know you may have an up to date bios in it already.
i wouldn't worry about the ram...testing every stick on every board just get a bit much. did a build with the 32gb version on a tomahawk board a couple months back and all fine (if just general gaming 32gb is enough, I wouldn't spend exctra for more capacity unless you specifically nkow the game you want uses more, andf there's only a couple)

 

[mickyflinn]

So it shouldn’t be a problem with the ram not being on the QVL list for the mobo?

Also should I flash latest bios before the buid

Most ram work regardless and they never test every memory model.

It's best to update the bios before installing windows, I usually wait untill first boot to make sure it does boot and then do it from the bios .

 

[hornetstinger]

I wouldn't do any BIO flashing until you determine if it's stable.

If for whatever reason it just locks up randomly even in BIOS or during POST, or MS-DOS, then last last you want to do is flashing BIOS.

 

[DotA]

I would do the build first to make sur its all worknig before flashing the BIOs

I had to change the RAM on my build to one on the list of my motherboard. it would boot at stock but crashed in windows when i enabled xmp/expo.

 

[roadrunner08]

Thought i would come back and show the final built product.

So glad I bought the team whe I did as prices are silly now!

Paired it with a MPG 341CQPX QD-OLED monitor

I did buy all parts back in september, built it and packed away as it was a xmas oresent for my son. Hes absolutely over the moon with it.
And im happy it all went smooth.

I have the bios all set up with a bit of help from chatGPT curve @ -25 and running fine, tempted to try -30 but not sure if I should?

I did want to alter the gpu clocks etc but the instructions for that from ChatGPT I don’t really understand properly.

 

[freddie64]

Very nice, you did a good job on the build.

What was in the white box on top of the case box?

 

[roadrunner08]

Very nice, you did a good job on the build.

What was in the white box on top of the case box?

That was just a cheap mouse and keyboard set I used for the setting up when building, as didn’t want to open the razer ones we got him