Please help me in building a new PC (Budget up to 2500) should I go for AM4/AM5?

[PeteSouthgate]

Sorry this is a bit of a repost (posted in August planning to do a build by end of year) as I'm now at the stage where I have the funds to do it. The main usage will be for gaming (75-80%) and the remaining usage could be for running poker programs/future work-related tasks.

Most of my gaming is done on 1440p with Overwatch and then some Age of Empires here and there. I'm looking forward to games like Diablo 4 that'll hopefully get released at some point next year...so want a system that will run future games well.

Does anyone have any comments on the build below and if I could do any better with picking alternatives? I've picked out parts that I'd be very happy with, I want to build an AMD system. I'm not opposed to going for an Intel system but have been advised I may require a bigger budget and may not really need it for my use case.

CPU

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor​

CPU Cooler

Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black 60.09 CFM CPU Cooler​

Motherboard

MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard​

Memory

G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory​

Storage

Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive​

Video Card

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB NITRO+ SE Video Card​

PSU

be quiet! Dark Power 12 1000 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply​

I don't plan to be overclocking as I've never done it before and my previous PCs have worked well without doing that. My preference has always been for an Air Cooled system with a minimal amount of RGB, I've already gone ahead and bought a Fractal Torrent Compact case and Noctua NH-U12A Black CPU cooler.

Does it make sense to build now with AM4? I definitely could stretch my budget to build an AM5 system, but I don't know if I'd really see the benefits of my regular usage and not playing 4k games (but I may get into them in the future?).

Any suggestions are welcomed

 

[Haz123]

If you have waited since August then I suggest you wait till mid December for the RDNA3 release. Some great deals on 6900xt at moment and it is a great card for rasterisation but is always good to have the newest gen.

AM4 vs AM5 vs Intel - All depends on price, they are all great so it just depends on total platform cost. If you do go AM5 with a 7600x you can potentially swap in a new cpu 3-4 years down the road and double performance. Nothing wrong with your choice and is a variety of choices at the moment.

 

[Tetras]

I'd go with the ASRock 6900 XT because OCUK has a deal on right now, £650 with a code (check the graphics card forum). The MSI Gaming X is also available for £700.

You don't need a Titanium PSU to get decent efficiency under load, but I guess with electricity prices as they are, perhaps the calculations have changed.

You don't need a £300 board to run a 5800X3D either, pretty much any half-decent X570/B550 board can handle it, £150 would do.

Does it make sense to build now with AM4? I definitely could stretch my budget to build an AM5 system, but I don't know if I'd really see the benefits of my regular usage and not playing 4k games (but I may get into them in the future?).

The 5800X3D is competitive with everything, AM5 & 13th gen included, but once the AM5 X3D CPUs come out, it'll start to fall behind in the benches. I'd suggest that's one reason why I wouldn't spend a lot on the board, because you're not going to be keeping it for 2-3 CPU generations like you might with AM5. Still, it'll take at least one GPU upgrade.