Help me to configure or improve possible 9800 and 7900 build.

Benass · 1 Feb 2025 at 11:57

Hello,

I'm configuring a new tower for myself as a birthday present.

I play games at 3440x1440 with a max of 100 FPS.

I have this setup in my cart but wonder if there are better options. My budget is flexible, but I’d prefer to stay around the £2,000 mark. I can stretch it by a few hundred if necessary, considering this system needs to last at least five years.
1 X Kolink Unity Peak ARGB Midi Tower Showcase - Black - £84.95

SKU: CA-07Z-KK

1 X Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black Dual Tower CPU Air Cooler - £44.99

SKU: COO-TLR-03280

1 X Seasonic VERTEX PX-850 ATX3.0 850W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply - £199.99

SKU: CA-08R-SS

1 X AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail - £479.99

SKU: PRO-AMD-03517

1 X Asrock X870 Pro RS (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £209.98

SKU: MOT-ASR-03309

1 X Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel - £179.99

SKU: MEM-CRS-02841

1 X Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Pulse 24GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £899.99

SKU: GX-3A5-SP

1 X Samsung 990 Evo 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 / 5.0 Hybrid NVMe Solid State Drive - £99.95

SKU: STO-SAM-01532

Grand Total: £2,207.82

Benass · 1 Feb 2025 at 11:59

I dont know how to post links. getting old.

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Im not sure if this will work.

Tetras · 1 Feb 2025 at 12:59

Benass said:
I have this setup in my cart but wonder if there are better options. My budget is flexible, but I’d prefer to stay around the £2,000 mark. I can stretch it by a few hundred if necessary, considering this system needs to last at least five years.

Ideally, I'd hang on until March for AMD to release their new cards rather than buying an XTX right now.

Benass said:
1 X Seasonic VERTEX PX-850 ATX3.0 850W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply - £199.99

Antec's version of the Vertex is cheaper, you could get their 1000 watt model for less.

Benass said:
1 X Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black Dual Tower CPU Air Cooler - £44.99

Seems pricey, can you get the phantom spirit for that?

Benass · 1 Feb 2025 at 14:18

Tetras said:
Ideally, I'd hang on until March for AMD to release their new cards rather than buying an XTX right now. I know, gpy situation sucks, and yes im on the fence about it. xtx in there as a guide for now.

Antec's version of the Vertex is cheaper, you could get their 1000 watt model for less. i take a look.

Seems pricey, can you get the phantom spirit for that? im under impresion this cooler is realy good.

Tetras · 1 Feb 2025 at 15:14

Phantom spirit is an improved version of the peerless assassin, peerless assassin is usually around £30

Benass · 1 Feb 2025 at 19:07

Tetras said:
Phantom spirit is an improved version of the peerless assassin, peerless assassin is usually around £30

thank you. ill take a look.

Benass · 1 Feb 2025 at 19:19

If some one spare a minute and coment on CPU+MOBO+RAM combo. it's the weak area of mine.
do i need x870 mobo. planing to run this pc in default config. Plug and play.

Tetras · 1 Feb 2025 at 19:39

Benass said:
If some one spare a minute and coment on CPU+MOBO+RAM combo. it's the weak area of mine.
do i need x870 mobo. planing to run this pc in default config. Plug and play.

RAM is suitable (6000 / C30 is generally recommended for price/perf on AM5), but you will need to enable EXPO which is not strictly default or "plug and play", since it is actually a form of overclocking.

Benass said:
do i need x870 mobo

X870's main features are PCI-E 5.0 graphics and USB4. If you don't care about either of those, you can use a cheaper board like B650 or B850.

The ASRock Pro RS performed well in HUB's roundup (thermally) and is one of the cheapest X870 boards you can get.

If you want to go really basic, A620 or B840 are also options and their VRM is usually sufficient for the 9800X3D. These boards may only have 1 or 2 M.2 slots, but do check.

This is more or less an accurate summary:

X870E, X670E
USB4 (for X870E)
PCI-E 5.0 graphics
1-3 PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slots
4-5 M.2 slots
2.5 Gb, 5 Gb or 10 Gb LAN

X870, X670, B650E
USB4 (for X870)
PCI-E 5.0 graphics (not required for X670)
1-2 PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slots
3-4 M.2 slots
2.5 Gb LAN

B650, B840, A620
PCI-E 4.0 graphics
0-1 PCI-E 5.0 M.2 slots
1-3 M.2 slots
1Gb or 2.5 Gb LAN

WARburton · 1 Feb 2025 at 23:00

B650 / B650e are solid Board with an X3D CPU.
i have an Asus Tub B650 wifi and its an amazing board good build quality and as everything we would ever need before it obsolete

WARburton · 1 Feb 2025 at 23:31

lol sorry random post...
<<< i got a new photo hahah i assume for 1000 postage @Tetras why dose your say man of honour.
i assume because your a trusted forum member in some way? do you work for ocuk?

Tetras · 1 Feb 2025 at 23:38

WARburton said:
<<< i got a new photo

Congrats

WARburton said:
i assume because your a trusted forum member in some way? do you work for ocuk?

No. I don't work for OCUK.

They're chosen every year, see here for the latest:

The OCUK Men of Honour 2024

Once again it is that time of year where the last of the Christmas Turkey has been eaten, the mince pies are running low, Mariah is thankfully locked away again so our hangovers can start to recover and the forum moderators have finalised the list for the new Men of Honour. So without any...

forums.overclockers.co.uk

I can't find 2022.

WARburton · 1 Feb 2025 at 23:40

Tetras said:
No. I don't work for OCUK.
They're chosen every year, see here for the latest:

well your almost at 19 years.. i assume your a trusted member by now

Tetras · 1 Feb 2025 at 23:41

WARburton said:
well your almost at 19 years.. i assume your a trusted member by now

There's always time to regress, but I mostly stay out of general discussion threads

Benass · 18 Feb 2025 at 21:11

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £499.99
1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03309) = £209.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02841) = £179.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Pulse 24GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A5-SP) = £919.99
1 x Samsung 990 Evo 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 / 5.0 Hybrid NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-SAM-01532) = £99.95
1 x Phanteks Eclipse G400A Case Tempered Glass DRGB Satin Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-03104) = £84.95
1 x Antec HCG 1000 Pro Platinum 1000W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02746) = £189.94
1 x B Grade be quiet! Dark Rock Pro sTRX4 / TR4 CPU Cooler - 135mm (SKU: BG-11T-BQ) = £39.95

Total: £2,236.74 (includes delivery: £11.98)

Last minute changes, if any one has any suggestions or improvements i would appreciate it.

Tetras · 18 Feb 2025 at 21:17

Benass said:
1 x B Grade be quiet! Dark Rock Pro sTRX4 / TR4 CPU Cooler - 135mm (SKU: BG-11T-BQ) = £39.95

The cooler says designed for those sockets only, so I'd assume you can't use it on AM5?

990 Evo is a bit pricey for just 1TB, I'd look at Crucial's T500 2TB or Kingston's Fury Renegade 2TB (they're both higher-end TLC drives with DRAM).

Note that the wireless version of that board is £10 more. You could also consider the newer B850 boards, if you don't care about USB4.

WARburton · 18 Feb 2025 at 21:23

Tetras said:
The cooler says designed for those sockets only, so I'd assume you can't use it on AM5?

dose it have AM5 mounts? that cooler as been in B-Grade for a long time so i did assume not

EDIT:
CPU
CPU Socket TR4, sTRX4

Benass · 19 Feb 2025 at 06:15

Thanks. I'll take a second look.

Benass · 19 Feb 2025 at 19:23

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £499.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02841) = £179.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Pulse 24GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-3A5-SP) = £919.99
1 x Phanteks Eclipse G400A Case Tempered Glass DRGB Satin Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-03104) = £84.95
1 x Antec HCG 1000 Pro Platinum 1000W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02746) = £189.95
1 x be quiet Dark Rock Pro 5 CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-BEQ-01057) = £79.99
1 x Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03568) = £209.99
1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £109.99

Total: £2,286.83 (includes delivery: £11.98)

Changed few things.

CPU cooler= totaly for looks. Noctua 15 slightly to bulky.
No idea about system SSD, but this one sells a lot, so should be good.

Tetras · 19 Feb 2025 at 20:16

Benass said:
CPU cooler= totaly for looks. Noctua 15 slightly to bulky.

You'd save a lot of money with a peerless assassin, but eh.

Benass said:
1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £109.99

No idea about system SSD, but this one sells a lot, so should be good.

They're not bad drives (DRAMless), TLC, decent endurance and perform well, but Crucial's T500, Fury Renegade and WD SN850X are high-end drives with DRAM.

Benass said:
1 x Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03568) = £209.99

Not bothered about USB4, then?

WARburton · 19 Feb 2025 at 23:19

Benass said:
1 x be quiet Dark Rock Pro 5 CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-BEQ-01057) = £79.99

replace this with a PA120. that can be had for £30

Benass said:
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £499.99

what resolution are you playing at if its 4k or in many cases 1440p you spending way too much on a CPU that makes little to no differance
the X3D's are amazing at 1080p, and a little better at 1440p

you have maxed out your CPU but go mmmmm for GPU, im not saying the 7900xtx is bad its just not the maxed out choice