AdviceNew PC build with some exceptions
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Looking to buy a new PC, with a few extras. Mostly I want to have a case that can fit many HDD/SSDs 3-5 at a minimum. Room for growth in other areas are a + also. Can never have too many USB/USBC slots.
What is your budget and currency? USD and looking for 2,500ish Under is amazing but can go a little over if needed. What will you use the PC for? Gaming and small business needs (nothing huge, microsoft products mostly and web apps) Do you need a monitor? If not, what monitor(s) will you be using? I have multiple monitors now, 32inch curved 1ms/144hz for gaming, 2 28in 1080p monitors for info/during work. Do you need a keyboard, mouse, or other peripherals? Not at the moment, so none included in build Do you need an operating system? I have multiple Win10 accounts already so no Will you overclock? I'd like to not have a reason to overclock with my gaming. Anything else we should know? My single player gaming is pretty mundane, lotsa old RPGs and some very old MMOs, no issues there. Multiplayer games however I play with family and they like the newest FPSs and survival games, some of which look beautiful if you have a PC that can do it. For a quick rundown; My current PC I built a few years ago is a AMD Ryzen 7 2700x with a 2080 GPU and 32GBs of 4000 RAM. This one has run great for me, but my sons PC just died and I figured I'd upgrade and hand him this one. I'm not married to intel or AMD, whatever is the best bang for the buck (within budget) is good with me. My big thing is to have a full tower or larger, I like to mess around and add things over time and the smaller builds are a huge pain. Plus as I mentioned earlier I'd like to have the ability to have at least 3-5 drives in at once. with one or two of them being old school HDDs. Any advice/builds are greatly appreciated! |
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Without spending the full $2.5k;
PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor ($380.98 @ Newegg) CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler ($49.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z790-H GAMING WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($299.99 @ Amazon) Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory ($121.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Kingston Fury Renegade 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($156.60 @ Amazon) Video Card: XFX Speedster MERC 310 Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card ($774.08 @ Amazon) Case: Fractal Design Pop XL Air ATX Full Tower Case ($122.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 - V2 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.99 @ B&H) Total: $2026.51 Not sure what resolution your 144Hz monitor is, but if it's 1080p then an i7-13700KF and RX 7900XT will definitely be adequate. Even 1440p 144Hz won't be much trouble. If you want NVidia, then I'd just spend the rest of that budget and step up to an RTX 4080. $800 for a 12GB 4070Ti is hard to justify against the 7900XT IMO. 7900XTX is also a good option, and still cheaper than a 4080. Although, I will say, if that is a 32" 1080p monitor, I would definitely be looking to buy an upgrade from that. 13700KF is a better buy than Ryzen 7 7800X3D at current pricing IMO. 7800X3D is a perfectly reasonable alternative though. If you want something higher end, then I'd probably just grab an i9-13900K(F). If you want to save some money, R5 7600 and a B650 motherboard isn't a bad option. Plenty of I/O on this motherboard, you could definitely save a bit of money here if you wanted to though. You've only got 4 x SATA ports though, so if you need to add any more than that you will need an expansion card. Although, you do also have 4 x m.2 slots which is pretty good lol. SATA drives are pretty useless at this point anyway IMO, unless you're just re-using old storage. Pop XL Air has 2 x USB Type-A ports, and the ability to add a USB-C port on the front(top) I/O. Space for 6 x 2.5 inch drives or 4 x 2.5 inch + 2 x 3.5 inch. There are 2 x 5.25 inch bays as well so if you're not using those, I suppose you could get an extra couple of 2.5 or 3.5 inch adapters. 32GB RAM is a must these days IMO. 16GB is bare minimum. You can get cheaper DDR5 but the ultra cheap stuff is just not worth buying IMO. The cheapest 32GB DDR5 kits worth buying are like $95. The kit I've included is a bit faster than those though, and RGB. You could go for faster RAM, but you'll start to see diminishing returns after 6400MHz @ CL32. NVMe SSD's, even good PCIe 4.0 ones are silly cheap these days so I've included a high end 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. You could easily save some money here. Good PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD's can be had for like $100 easily. 1TB drives are silly cheap too, so if you're re-using a bunch of old storage you could probably drop to a 1TB drive. Or you could just buy 4 x 2TB NVMe drives and never have to deal with the pain of slow SATA drives ever again lol. If you don't like the CPU cooler I included, there are plenty of decent alternatives, whether you want air or liquid. Can give you some more recommendations if wanted. |
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