Recommendations - Pre-built ~5k budget

Wataman

Wataman

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Hi all,

Current PC has turned a decade old, still running relatively ok with a GPU swap out a few years ago (2x980ti to 3070ti) but struggling feeling bottlenecked/slow on newer games with high settings. Wanting to play Crimson Desert/Death Stranding 2 and a few others but struggling, so thought I'd look at options.
Don't have the time to put something together myself anymore, but I do have a ASUS Xonar Essence STX II sound card I use with Edifier S530D 2.1 Speakers I'd like to move over to the new PC ideally - so think it'd need a 'spare' Pci-e (or a soundcard to replace this one.)

I've been looking at 5090's and 9950x3d but I've not kept up with PC speccing over the 10 years since I last looked for one, so help hugely appreciated!

Additionally the case would have to fit into a Secretlabs PC mount for my desk (https://secretlab.co.uk/products/premium-pc-mount). Would like a black/red theme in line with current!

Here's my current one:

Corsair Graphite 760T V2 Windowed Full Tower Case - Black
Gigabyte X99 SOC Champion Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 EATX Motherboard
Intel i7-5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor
Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black
Blu-ray reader
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070Ti
Super Flower Leadex GOLD 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
Seagate 4TB 5900RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM
Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD
PciE SSD 2TB
Corsair Hydro H110i GT 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler


Oh, I should add I have 2 ROG Strix XG32UQ, intending to game at 4k.

Cheers :)
 
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Is gaming the only thing you use the system for, or do you use it for work related tasks also? If so, which exactly?

If purely for gaming:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £4,411.98 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

I tried to spec a parts list, OCUK will actually do custom builds if you tell them what you want for a fee. Even going for the some of the cheapest (quality) options, it was still coming to £4200-4300, after the build fee it'd end up more expensive than the above and probably take longer to arrive.

The case it uses is the Phanteks Eclipse G400A, so measure that up against your mount, if it wont fit give OCUK a ring as they might be able to swap the case to something that would.
 
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Gray2233 said:
Is gaming the only thing you use the system for, or do you use it for work related tasks also? If so, which exactly?

If purely for gaming:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £4,411.98 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

I tried to spec a parts list, OCUK will actually do custom builds if you tell them what you want for a fee. Even going for the some of the cheapest (quality) options, it was still coming to £4200-4300, after the build fee it'd end up more expensive than the above and probably take longer to arrive.

The case it uses is the Phanteks Eclipse G400A, so measure that up against your mount, if it wont fit give OCUK a ring as they might be able to swap the case to something that would.
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Thank you - I did end up doing a custom build too but having both 5090 and the 9950X3D only seemed available in a custom rig starting at 7k :/
Do you know if there's much of a difference between the 9800X3D and 9950X3D? I have tried to do a "one and done" approach for rigs, in that aiming to futureproof them so usually just look at spending a big "one off" which hopefully can last me another 10 years.

Yes, solely for gaming really - I have some free time from work currently and may try to do some streaming but can't imagine that would need anything "heavy" adding on to do so.

Appreciate your help!
 
Wataman said:
Thank you - I did end up doing a custom build too but having both 5090 and the 9950X3D only seemed available in a custom rig starting at 7k :/
Do you know if there's much of a difference between the 9800X3D and 9950X3D? I have tried to do a "one and done" approach for rigs, in that aiming to futureproof them so usually just look at spending a big "one off" which hopefully can last me another 10 years.

Yes, solely for gaming really - I have some free time from work currently and may try to do some streaming but can't imagine that would need anything "heavy" adding on to do so.

Appreciate your help!
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For gaming there's absolutely no difference between the two, the number of games that can utilise a higher core count than the 9800X3D are probably less than 1% and extremely niche.

In fact, there's a chance the 9950X3D might make things worse, it's a dual CCD chip, meaning you have 2x8 cores split over two modules. Only half of those on one module have the extra L3 cache which is what makes the X3D CPU's so competent with games, while rare it can lead to problems with a game running on the correct cores.

By the time games might more heavily utilise more cores (if they ever do) you're probably looking at the CPU being out of date anyway, the 9800X3D is an 8c16t processor and it's not like in the 2010's where X99 made more sense due to Intel being glued to nothing but quad cores for consumer platforms.

You also need to consider that at 4K resolution, the GPU is more often than not the deciding factor for performance and the overall bottleneck, your processor gets used a lot less outside of a handful of CPU heavy games (Strategy/city builders, MMO's and a few more fall into this category).
 
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