Finally time for a replacement for my old PC

Axil · Saturday at 15:33

I've been using a X58 system for the last 14 years but it's finally time to retire it to server duties

I'm looking at an AMD system to cater for probably the next 5-7 years but would like some advice as I'm pretty much out of touch . This PC will be mainly Gaming with some office work / and interfacing with a sound studio ( I alreday have that kit)
I put together a basket (I've put the 7900XT as a placeholder as I couldn't put in a 9070xt)

Budget is around £1600-1700 for components

What do OcUK tend to charge these days to build ( Unfortunately I'm not in the situation to build these days due to physical disability)

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £220.00
1 x Antec HCG 850 Pro Platinum 850W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02745) = £159.94
1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-KNG-03705) = £99.95
1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £99.95
1 x Lian Li Lancool II Mesh C performance Midi-Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-79R-LL) = £84.95
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A7-SP) = £629.99
1 x AMD Radeon - Monster Hunter Wilds Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-04649) = £0.00
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core 5.50GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02676) = £314.98
1 x AMD Ryzen - Monster Hunter Wilds Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-04648) = £0.00

Total: £1,621.75 (includes delivery: £11.98)

Tetras · Saturday at 15:38

Axil said:
I'm looking at an AMD system to cater for probably the next 5-7 years but would like some advice as I'm pretty much out of touch.

Looks fine, it might be worth paying the extra for a X3D model if you play the kind of games that love the cache, otherwise no worry for the 9700X.

You could step down to B850 if you don't care about USB4, or even B650 if you don't care about USB4 or PCI-E 5.0.

I'd consider Lian Li's non-RGB 216 instead of the II Mesh-C.

Axil said:
What do OcUK tend to charge these days to build ( Unfortunately I'm not in the situation to build these days due to physical disability)

Last I read on here, I think it was £150 + (4% of spec price), but I might be behind the times!

Craig_d1 · Saturday at 15:47

Axil said:
I've been using a X58 system for the last 14 years but it's finally time to retire it to server duties

I'm looking at an AMD system to cater for probably the next 5-7 years but would like some advice as I'm pretty much out of touch . This PC will be mainly Gaming with some office work / and interfacing with a sound studio ( I alreday have that kit)
I put together a basket (I've put the 7900XT as a placeholder as I couldn't put in a 9070xt)

Budget is around £1600-1700 for components

What do OcUK tend to charge these days to build ( Unfortunately I'm not in the situation to build these days due to physical disability)

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £220.00

1 x Antec HCG 850 Pro Platinum 850W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02745) = £159.94

1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-KNG-03705) = £99.95

1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £99.95

1 x Lian Li Lancool II Mesh C performance Midi-Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-79R-LL) = £84.95

1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A7-SP) = £629.99

1 x AMD Radeon - Monster Hunter Wilds Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-04649) = £0.00

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core 5.50GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02676) = £314.98

1 x AMD Ryzen - Monster Hunter Wilds Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-04648) = £0.00

Total: £1,621.75 (includes delivery: £11.98)

go for a 9070XT rather than a 7900XT. 9070XT just been released and is newer gen. It's faster than a 7900XT, and way better at ray tracing..up to 4070ti standard now for comparison. Main advantage though is upscaling which if you're going to keep it for 6 years, you'll want to use. The newer cards use ai sampling model a bit like dlss and FSR4 is far superior to FSR3.1. FSR4 is not backward compatible because of the physical architecture in the gpu, so you can't run it on the 7900XT

mickyflinn · Saturday at 15:50

Would swap to a 1000w PSU the Antec are very good PSU but the phanteks is good value for a 1000w .

Phanteks AMP GH 1000W 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Modular - Black

Order Phanteks AMP GH 1000W 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Modular - Black now online and benefit from fast delivery.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Overclockers use to charge £150 + 5% of parts total but worth checking.

No CPU cooler in build.

Axil · Saturday at 16:48

Did some playing around based on suggestions above (added in cooler and changed the CPU to 9800X3d) Not sure on thge motherboard as have heard ASRock have a few issues with the X3D
My basket at OcUK:

1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £220.00
1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-KNG-03705) = £99.94
1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £99.95
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A7-SP) = £629.99
1 x AMD Radeon - Monster Hunter Wilds Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-04649) = £0.00
1 x Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 Dual Tower CPU Cooler -120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02719) = £38.99
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 Lancool 216 RGB Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7B8-LL) = £89.98
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £479.99

Total: £1,795.82 (includes delivery: £7.99)