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I am building a new computer soon. This computer will be for games also 3D work and unreal 5 work. Here are the parts. I will not be doing a custom water cooling loop this time around but both the CPU and GPU will be water cooled with AOIs. I will be posting updates as I build the computer soon. The RTX 5090 should ship first of the next month I hope.

AMD 9800X3D
Red CPU AMD mounting frame
Asus ROG STRIX X870E E GAMING WIFI
Corsair 96GB 7000MHz DDR5 ram
Crucial T705 2TB Gen5 M.2
Corsair iCue H170i Elite 420mm CPU cooling
Gigabyte RTX 5090 Xtreme Water Force
Be Quiet 1500W PSU
11 Corsair 140mm case fans
Haven 420 case
Samsung Neo G9 57 inch Mini LED
 
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For gaming and 3D work, and especially UE5:
1. It will be better with a 16 core CPU, like 7950x3d or 9950x3d.

2. You shouldn't buy memory faster than 6400MHz, especially for 2R kits - even if it boots (unlikely), it will run in Gear2 mode, which is detrimental to latency. In Gear2 mode, you need at least 8000 to get the proper latency. So the best option is to take 6000MHz and overclock it a bit to 6400, or lower the timings depending on the quality of your IMC, they do it all easily. Recommend Kingston fury renegade non rgb.

3. Recommend 7900xtx, especially for UE5-based games, but Water Force is a good choice, I had this Giga 4090 WF without any problems.

4. And you'll be fine with a 1000W PSU (I use Dark power 13 1000W for this setup)

5. 420mm aio is overkill for this setup. No changes from 360
 
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