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dsf
Jul 1, 2004
Hi ive been out of the pc building scene for 10 years and im looking to put together a good high-end gaming PC and was looking at something like this:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor ($369.00 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler ($33.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard ($279.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory ($213.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Corsair MP600 CORE XT 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($258.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: *PNY VERTO OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card ($789.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT H9 Flow ATX Mid Tower Case ($159.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: *Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 - V2 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $2195.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-03-22 16:09 EDT-0400

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dsf
Jul 1, 2004

Butterfly Valley posted:

For gaming purposes you absolutely don't need more than 32GB of RAM. Barely any games required over 16GB until recently so 32 will be fine for a good while yet. DDR5-6000/CL30 is a sweet spot for AMD, much faster is actually detrimental iirc. You can also probably save $100 on your motherboard and go for a B650 chipset which will still have plenty of I/O and everything else you'd need.

The storage also seems expensive, although that's because like 6 months ago it was insanely cheap due to a surfeit of production.

I hope you have a nice monitor to go with those parts! Anything below a 1440p high refresh rate screen would be bottlenecking your build, so if you're still at 1080p you could take the savings from above and put them towards a new monitor.

thanks I thought the RAM might be overkill but wanted to make sure. looks like I can go with a half cost motherboard too. that is interesting about the monitor, right now I have a 165 hz 1ms refresh monitor I got cheap around xmas but it is only 1080p. I think ill be ok with that for now but will definitely look into getting a nice 1440p one in the near future.

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