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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Benass · 20 Feb 2025 at 12:32

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

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.

Not bothered about USB4, then?

No idea about usb4 use case.
The reason for be quiet cooler, is it looks neat and performing well.
I know noctua is better I have it on my current 5600x CPU, but it's bulky and ugly.

Assassins is best option for the money, but 120mm fans and no square plate on the top is a turn off.

I don't understand benefits of Dram on SSD. If you willing to expand on this I would appreciate.

Benass · 20 Feb 2025 at 12:35

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

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

I'm 3440x1440 100fps cap.

CPU is the best in slot.
GPU is the best in slot. So not much else I can get for 1k £
Nvidia is not a good option. It's overpriced with no vram and out of stock.

But if you could offer something you have in mind I'm more that happy to listen.
Thanks.

Benass · 20 Feb 2025 at 18:23

WARburton said:
You could save £200 on the cpu at 1440/4k the x3d will have a little bit of an advantage over other but capped at 100fps most CPU’s would be fine.

If you was using DLSS the cpu again would have been a good choice as when you drop res then upscale the x3d cpu dose help a lot.

The gonna good but not best in class be a long way. If you plan of using ray tracing you really need an RTX GPU.

My plan is to keep 7900xtx for next 5-7 years. thus vram. and then see how market develops and what i can get afterwards. CPU hopefuly will last even longer. Ray tracing, dont even know what that is. its some kind of fancy reflections, i dont care about.
I tend to replace my pc every 7-10 years so hopefully CPU will serve me good long term.