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Tibalteh

Tibalteh

Tibalteh

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Hi !

Many thanks for coming around this post willing to help, much appreciated :)

I will scrap my 6 years old 1070 Ti / i5-8400H rig very shortly, which was the first and last PC I ordered parts for and assembled myself (I don't have much experience you might say !)

I mean to assemble a PC that will almost exclusively be used for gaming, 1080p 144hz to start with, but within a few months the monitor will be upgraded to 1440p 144+hz.

I have been going back and forth between every combination of: AMD R5 7600X / i5-13500 & RX 7900 XT / 4070 Ti Super. I've never owned an AMD GPU myself, and although the price/performance ratio of the RX 7900 XT is enticing, one can read many horror stories about AMD stuttering, frame drops, slow to poor drivers release, etc...

For now, I seem to lean toward this:


CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III A-RGB 48.82 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B650-A GAMING WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: Zotac GAMING Trinity OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card
Case: Montech KING 95 PRO ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - USB 64-bit
Total: £1828.74


I would have a couple questions about all this !

  1. Is this build fine for the purpose I have in mind ?
  2. Would I need to order anything else at all to start assembling, installing, and gaming ? (I have seen many similar builds use extras such as "Corrective Anti-Bending Fixing Frame", or kryosheets... is any of that necessary or that valuable ?). Any cables that don't come with ? Or can I just order this and fully assemble ?
  3. Anything plain wrong at all with this build ? Compatibility issues, with the case or anything else maybe ?
  4. Would you go for a different GPU/CPU/Mobo combination around the same price tag, and if so, please, why ?
  5. Anything else that comes to your mind, throw it at me :)
Many thanks for your time and help,

Looking forward to hearing your educated advice !
 
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Tibalteh said:
Is this build fine for the purpose I have in mind ?
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Yes

Tibalteh said:
Would I need to order anything else at all to start assembling, installing, and gaming ? (I have seen many similar builds use extras such as "Corrective Anti-Bending Fixing Frame", or kryosheets... is any of that necessary or that valuable ?). Any cables that don't come with ? Or can I just order this and fully assemble ?
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No.

Tibalteh said:
Anything plain wrong at all with this build ? Compatibility issues, with the case or anything else maybe ?
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AIO isn't necessary for that CPU, freezer 36 would do.

Tibalteh said:
Would you go for a different GPU/CPU/Mobo combination around the same price tag, and if so, please, why ?
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X3D would be nice, but the considerations are not simple. This video explains some of that:
 
Many thanks for your time and help :)

AIO: very fair point I'm sure ! Though I just like the idea of having one. I have only ever used air only coolers. Liquid cooling seems... cool.
X3D: would be nice indeed. I had actually considered some X3Ds. I will play some games that will be CPU bound especially for the first few months as I'll be on 1080p, but then again they are games that are notoriously bad at making any proper use of more than one core anyway such as old engine MMOs.

Could you speak at all to my conundrum of RX 7900 XT vs 4070 Ti Super ?

Thanks again, much appreciated !:D
 
Tibalteh said:
Could you speak at all to my conundrum of RX 7900 XT vs 4070 Ti Super ?
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For raw FPS (raster), they're very similar, but the 4070 Ti Super has ray tracing that is a tier above the 7900 XT and from what I'm aware DLSS is still a superior upscaling technology to FSR in the consistency of visual quality.

The multimonitor and video playback power consumption of the 7900 XT were a lot worse on release (like they were using 80+ watts :o ), but AMD have made improvements since then, so the gap is a lot smaller.

My take would be: same price or £50-£100 more, take the 4070 Ti Super, but I don't know the value you place on those features. A £200 difference would be a definite no for me, I'd get the 7900 XT.

Tibalteh said:
but then again they are games that are notoriously bad at making any proper use of more than one core anyway such as old engine MMOs.
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Those kind of games can really like the X3D CPUs.
 
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Tetras said:
For raw FPS (raster), they're very similar, but the 4070 Ti Super has ray tracing that is a tier above the 7900 XT and from what I'm aware DLSS is still a superior upscaling technology to FSR in the consistency of visual quality.

The multimonitor and video playback power consumption of the 7900 XT were a lot worse on release (like they were using 80+ watts :o ), but AMD have made improvements since then, so the gap is a lot smaller.

My take would be: same price or £50-£100 more, take the 4070 Ti Super, but I don't know the value you place on those features. A £200 difference would be a definite no for me, I'd get the 7900 XT.


Those kind of games can really like the X3D CPUs.
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Many thanks for all of your input, much appreciated, you helped me see clearer through what I really need and want ! Cheers :)
 
mickyflinn said:
You can't close the thread it's there for others to post and for yourself to give updates or further questions .

Besides that could you list your final parts you've decided on please.
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Ah right.

I ended up going with the very list I initially posted.
Both X3Ds and cooler gave me second thoughts (I couldn't find a cheap enough X3D I fancied, and I hear that particular AIO is a pain to fit on AM5 sockets), but I stuck to my intial build in the end. I'm sure I'll be more than happy with it. Once the cooler is locked and loaded.
 
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