Germanium Z7 build/alt thoughts?

[Chris5626]

My current PC (from Overclockers of course) is starting to show it's age. Despite a few upgrades over the years it's reached the point where new games are wanting to apply *shudders* medium settings so I figured I should start looking at a replacement.

I'm seriously tempted by the Germanium Z7 and I've configured a build with:

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-41600C40 5200MHz Dual Channel Kit
Primary M.2 Solid State Drive: WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E)
Secondary M.2 Solid State Drive: WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E)
Primary 2.5" Solid State Drive: Samsung 4TB 870 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-77E4T0B/EU)
Primary 2.5" Solid State Drive: Samsung 4TB 870 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-77E4T0B/EU)

Comes out at £5,735.97 (incl. VAT). I can't really see much else delivering similar spec for the price but wanted to get people's thoughts on possible alternative systems or build tweaks.

 

[Joxeon]

Seems quite pricey for what it is, I've picked out the sum of the parts with a few upgrades including faster memory a slightly higher tier GPU and better NVME drives. the only thing I can't find is the 4tb samsung SSDs but those would be £900 according to the build sheet.

All comes to £3,865 + £900= 4,765 and im sure the build costs won't be £1000

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-13700KF (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6B7-IN) = £399.95
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-57600C34 7200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FF3D532G7200HC34ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B5-TG) = £329.99
• 2 x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2X0E) (SKU: HD-591-WD) = £179.98
• 1 x Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Modular ATX Power Supply (SKU: CA-03F-GI) = £189.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1FC-GI) = £1,829.99
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X73 RGB AIO CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: HS-01S-NX) = £209.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BK-GI) = £329.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital - Gunmetal Grey with Three SK140 DRGB PWM Fans (SKU: BU-02Q-PT) = £199.99

Total: £3,865.12 (includes delivery: £15.30)​

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[matt100]

Not for me to tell anyone how to spend their money but 12tb of ssd split over 4 drives seems like a lot!

 

[Blueball]

Seems quite pricey for what it is, I've picked out the sum of the parts with a few upgrades including faster memory a slightly higher tier GPU and better NVME drives. the only thing I can't find is the 4tb samsung SSDs but those would be £900 according to the build sheet.

All comes to £3,853 + £900= 4,753 and im sure the build costs won't be £1000

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BP-GI) = £319.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-13700KF (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6B7-IN) = £399.95
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-57600C34 7200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FF3D532G7200HC34ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B5-TG) = £329.99
• 2 x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2X0E) (SKU: HD-591-WD) = £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Modular ATX Power Supply (SKU: CA-03F-GI) = £189.94
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1FC-GI) = £1,829.99
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X73 RGB AIO CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: HS-01S-NX) = £209.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital - Gunmetal Grey with Three SK140 DRGB PWM Fans (SKU: BU-02Q-PT) = £199.99

Total: £3,853.92 (includes delivery: £14.10)​

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NB you've picked a DDR4 motherboard and DDR5 memory.

 

[Chris5626]

Not for me to tell anyone how to spend their money but 12tb of ssd split over 4 drives seems like a lot!

My current system has 8tb of SSD not including the boot drive. My internet isn't super fast so sometimes I don't uninstall larger games just in case I want to play them again. AKA I'm lazy

 

[Joxeon]

NB you've picked a DDR4 motherboard and DDR5 memory.

Thanks, edited the spec.

 

[matt100]

My current system has 8tb of SSD not including the boot drive. My internet isn't super fast so sometimes I don't uninstall larger games just in case I want to play them again. AKA I'm lazy

Well fair enough... Can't you pull the drives from your existing machine?

I dunno if you're happy paying nearly £6k then go for it, seems nuts to me but I'm quite sure some things I splurge on would seem nuts to you

 

[Chris5626]

Well fair enough... Can't you pull the drives from your existing machine?

I dunno if you're happy paying nearly £6k then go for it, seems nuts to me but I'm quite sure some things I splurge on would seem nuts to you

That's a fair point, I've got a colleague at work who doesn't have a PC that's interested in buying my old system but I'm sure he'll never need anywhere near that much storage so I could probably keep most of the SSDs from it.

 

[Chris5626]

Seems quite pricey for what it is, I've picked out the sum of the parts with a few upgrades including faster memory a slightly higher tier GPU and better NVME drives. the only thing I can't find is the 4tb samsung SSDs but those would be £900 according to the build sheet.

All comes to £3,865 + £900= 4,765 and im sure the build costs won't be £1000

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-13700KF (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6B7-IN) = £399.95
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-57600C34 7200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FF3D532G7200HC34ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B5-TG) = £329.99
• 2 x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2X0E) (SKU: HD-591-WD) = £179.98
• 1 x Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Modular ATX Power Supply (SKU: CA-03F-GI) = £189.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1FC-GI) = £1,829.99
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X73 RGB AIO CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: HS-01S-NX) = £209.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BK-GI) = £329.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital - Gunmetal Grey with Three SK140 DRGB PWM Fans (SKU: BU-02Q-PT) = £199.99

Total: £3,865.12 (includes delivery: £15.30)​

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Thanks for taking the time to go through all of that, very much appreciated and that does come to quite a bit cheaper!

 

[Joxeon]

Thanks for taking the time to go through all of that, very much appreciated and that does come to quite a bit cheaper!

You can always put together your own spec then ask OCUK to build it for you and see how much they come back to you with.

 

[Chris5626]

You can always put together your own spec then ask OCUK to build it for you and see how much they come back to you with.

That's a very good idea, thank you. I might well do that and see what quote I get.