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Processor | Ryzen 9 5900X |
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Motherboard | Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro |
Cooling | AiO 240mm |
Memory | 2x 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 3600MHz CL18 |
Video Card(s) | Radeon RX 6900XT Reference (amd.com) |
Storage | O.S.: 256GB SATA | 2x 1TB SanDisk SSD SATA Data | Games: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo |
Display(s) | LG 34" UWQHD |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi XtremeMusic + Gigaworks SB750 7.1 THX |
Power Supply | XFX 850W |
Mouse | Logitech G502 Wireless |
VR HMD | Lenovo Explorer |
Software | Windows 10 64bit |
OK first off this is this guys first build. He needs a good medium sized PSU for when he upgrades. He's going to upgrade I assure you of that. We all did on our first build. Its like a drug and you know it. If he doesn't right away he can in the future without an issue. I wish I had done the same.
I agree that the option to upgrade is nice (hence I gave the option of the OCZ 600W), but I also know that it's not important for most people -> we don't know to which group evilwillie belongs to.
Nonetheless, it doesn't sound like he's going to need more than a 600W PSU in the next few years. Right now he's aiming for a medium range system.
If he ever goes into a system that requires a high-end (i.e. I'm using a 650W BeQuiet for an unlocked and overclocked Phenom II 720BE), it'll mean his financial situation/preferences changed a lot. Which means, if he gets enough money for dual HD5870s and Phenom II X6 etc, he'll also have money to upgrade the PSU.
Also everyone is suggesting a better CPU because of a few things.
A. The CPU he picked is good for this generation of games. Not the next. Hes screwed in a few months.
B. You replace your CPU FAR less than the GPU. A 720BE will last him years instead of months. The second he upgrades the GPU guess what. The CPU will be the bottleneck. However not with the 720BE
I disagree. I know that the CPU is having less and less importance as time goes. As soon as compute shaders get standardized, pretty much any low-to-mid-range CPU will do for almost everything, assuming you have a decent and up-to-date graphics card.
nVidia knows this because it's what's keeping them alive.
AMD knows this because the first Fusion launched in 2011 will have a simple quad-core like the Athlon II X4 coupled with 480SPs.
Intel knows this because it's making its own GPU targeted at paralel computing rather than standard graphics.
You have a mid-tower, so go with an ATX board.
The Gigabyte GA-MA-770T-UD3P or the ASUS M4A77TD are some good examples.
You are using a dedicated graphics card so the 780G/785G/790GX aren't doing any good.
May I ask what model is that 9800GT?
It might be worth going SLI 9800GT for some decent performance. But in that case you will need to get a board with nVidia Chipset.
The biggest problem with the 770 chipset is that it's very difficult to find one with an updated southbridge like SB710 or SB750. And when you do find one, they're generally as expensive as a 790GX, which usually gets better results.
In the case of 780G, 785G and 790GX, you can also just turn off the IGP in the BIOS and you'll actually get less power consumption that with the 770 chipset. The IGP chipsets are made in 55nm, whereas the non-IGP ones are made in 65nm.
Furthermore, having an IGP nowadays can become a real life saver if something happens to your graphics card. My desktop has an IGP and so does my HTPC, although both of them have discreet graphics cards - they're just turned off.
And since they're DX10/DX10.1 IGPs, they can also be used for additional computing tasks in the future, it's like a free processor that could become usefull.
first of all thx for your expert advice guys.. My 9800gt is a gift from my frend a year ago but if you guys saying that i should focus on gpu to get a better gaming expirience then i dont mind spending 100$ on a new gpu. So how do you think about this?
Phenom IIx2 550
Asus m4785-m evo
4gb ddr3 1333mhz
Sapphire radeon hd 5770
500gb 7200rpm wd hd
Coolermaster nv960 mid tower
Coolermaster 500watts dual rail
I my opinion, that's a balanced system as long as you overclock that Phenom II to over 3.8GHz.
However, I'd change it to an Athlon II X4 620, which can easily overclocked to +3GHz with no effort at all.
I have an Asrock 780G in my HTPC, the cheapest 780G+SB710 I could find, and I overclocked the X4 620 to 3.2GHz without even touching the voltages and using the default cooling.