New build from scratch

[newman1453]

Afternoon all,

Looking for some advice on a new build for gaming. Budget is around 2k, can be pushed up if there's good value to be had. Whilst my current PC has lasted me well since 2018 it's getting on a bit now and it wasn't very flashy back then.

Current shopping list;

1 X Lian Li Lancool III Full Tower PC Case - Black - £125.99
SKU: CA-7AW-LL

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1 X Asus Radeon RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £749.99
SKU: GRA-ASU-04154

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1 X AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail - £449.98
SKU: PRO-AMD-03517

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1 X Crucial P310 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive with Heatsink - £81.95
SKU: STO-CRU-03051

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1 X Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £160.00
SKU: MB-6K0-AS

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1 X Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel - £179.99
SKU: MEM-CRS-02841

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1 X Samsung 2TB 870 QVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-77Q2T0BW) - £179.98
SKU: HD-244-SA

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1 X Cooler Master MWE Gold 850w V2 ATX3.1 80 Plus Gold Power Supply - £129.95
SKU: POW-CLM-04382

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1 X Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with Dual 140m Fans - £109.99
SKU: HS-03M-NC

Got a few questions though as I'm not the most knowledgeable on certain aspects;

• Thoughts on most recent gen NVDIA vs AMD cards? Hearing a lot about driver issues with the 50 series and not impressed by the VRAM available on the 40s. Does anyone have any experience/anecdotes?
• Storage - is it worth getting a standalone 2.5" SATA SSD vs just another NVME on the mobo? Heard that NVME may be the way to go now but not very familiar. Still got an old 1tb HDD at the moment so a bit out of the loop!
• RAM - ram prices seem to have come down a lot since I last did a proper build. What sort of RAM speed should I be looking for for this processor, and is 64gb overkill? My gut tells me 32 will be sound but for the sake of a few extra quid...
• Cooling - notice a lot of the prebuilts on OC include water cooling, not entirely trusting of it. Could someone recommend a high quality and as quiet as possible air cooler?
• PSU - always afraid of buying a cheapo PSU that conks out. Does this one look decent or OTT?

Build is a little on the expensive side for what it'll be used for but hoping to 'future proof' as much as possible so it'll last for another 7/8 years. If anyone can see any glaring issues with that please let me know.

Thanks again

 

[mickyflinn]

Hi .

The 5070ti would be my choice at the same price point with dlss 4 gives it the edge imo but check out 9070xt v 5070ti .

Get an m2 instead of an SSD cheaper and would personally get a b850 motherboard to give you pcie5.

Thermalright peerless assassin or Phantom spirit is all you need to cool the CPU at a £30 to £40 which then can be spent on a better motherboard.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/crucial-t500-1tb-nvme-pcie-4.0-m.2-solid-state-drive-sto-cru-01089.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/crucial-t500-2tb-nvme-pcie-4.0-m.2-solid-state-drive-sto-cru-01090.html

PSU I'd get a 1000w if you ever snag a 5090.

 

[Tetras]

Thoughts on most recent gen NVDIA vs AMD cards? Hearing a lot about driver issues with the 50 series and not impressed by the VRAM available on the 40s. Does anyone have any experience/anecdotes?

5070 Ti and 9070 XT are both fine, but £750 is way over what they're supposed to be (launch price was £570 for base models). I just wouldn't pay it, no matter how good the TUF is.

Storage - is it worth getting a standalone 2.5" SATA SSD vs just another NVME on the mobo? Heard that NVME may be the way to go now but not very familiar. Still got an old 1tb HDD at the moment so a bit out of the loop!

No, I wouldn't bother with SATA SSDs anymore. They don't support DirectStorage and are throttled by the interface.

RAM - ram prices seem to have come down a lot since I last did a proper build. What sort of RAM speed should I be looking for for this processor, and is 64gb overkill? My gut tells me 32 will be sound but for the sake of a few extra quid...

32GB is enough for the majority of games (assuming you don't have a million browser tabs open), but personally I'd just get 64GB now and save the bother in future, especially as DDR5 systems aren't keen on running 4 sticks.

Speed: you already chose a good one.

PSU - always afraid of buying a cheapo PSU that conks out. Does this one look decent or OTT?

They're alright, could be worse, could be better.

Example changes, I make it about £100 cheaper than your spec:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x (unchanged) AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £449.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03859) = £159.99
• 1 x (unchanged) Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02841) = £179.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Solid Core 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04471) = £728.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 4TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-02889) = £239.99
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £85.99
• 1 x Antec HCG 850 Pro Platinum 850W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02745) = £159.95
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE Black Dual Tower CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03285) = £34.99

Total: £2,051.87 (includes delivery: £11.98)​