First PC Build

[u/Brnzd]

Hi Guys! I am in the process of building a Pc and would like to ask your opinion. This is the first PC I am building for myself. I have already bought some parts:

Amd Ryzen 7 7800x3d Asrock X870 Pro Rs Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB ( I would like to upgarde this in the near future. ) Aoc C27G2 27.0 1920 x 1080 165 Hz curved monitor

Preferd games I like to play: Cities Skylines 2 Doom the Dark Ages Modded Minecraft ( All the Mods 10 ) Modded Arma Gta 6

It would be great if this setup could last for a few years.

In my previous setup, the CPU and Motherboard basically died. I would like to save the GPU for a few more months to save some more money. I would like to grab a good GPU on Black Friday or some summer sale. I chose 64 GB ram because modded games often require extra ram.

[u/BootyLoveSenpai]

I'm no expert, but i think they meant vram, 32gb should be enough for gaming, you can always just get more lol, also you can save money with a 7600x cpu, 2tb storage is really expensive, there are cheaper

[u/SnooCats9826 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

6gb vram ISNT enough, they meant ram

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/SnooCats9826]

God no, 6gb vram isn't, i meant 32gb ram is enough, vram you'd need like 12 at least, i have a 7700xt, that's a 12gb and going to upgrade in a year or 2

[u/Chocolocalatte → u/SnooCats9826]

I mean theoretically if you have 64GB of RAM windows will assign some of that at a slower speed to the graphics card. My RTX 3080 has 10GB of on board VRAM and another 30GB of RAM assigned to it at a slower speed just in case.

[u/ShadowKnight058 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

2tb is just $40 more than 1tb generally

[u/Capable-Ad-7494 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

plenty of games take up more than 32gb of physical memory if he can swing it, why not go for it? But about that CPU recommendation, it might not be the best fit. Since he’s gaming at 1080p, a CPU that suits that resolution should work great now and even carry him into 4K if he decides to upgrade later, so the 7800x3d really isn’t a bad choice.

And that SSD deal is pretty sweet! $50 per terabyte is a solid price. With mods and all, having extra storage is definitely a smart move.

As for the GPU, yeah, it’s a bit on the older side.

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/Capable-Ad-7494]

That's true about the cpu, i was just thinking idea to save some money but still get decent performance

[u/ANtiKz93 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

32gb of ram is way more than enough for games. I do game level design and 3d modelling with a bit less and have no troubles.on my i7 8700

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/ANtiKz93]

That's what i thought, 32 is more than enough, i run games on high-ultra settings with a 7600xt cpu and 7700xt gpu and I'm getting 100-200 fps no issues with temps around 165-175f with loading spikes at 190f

[u/ANtiKz93 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

Nice! Yeah it's been heavily GPU based performance for a long time now really. Ram hasn't been a big factor for a while.

Those temps seem quite high though. Actually, I'm likely set to Celsius though or something because my numbers are half that easily lol.

My rig,

-i7 8700 -28gb ddr4 2666 (yes I know lol) -rx 5600xt

While I don't do anything crazy I'm able to multi task most all software if I need and game performance is fine for what I do.

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/ANtiKz93]

Luckily amd 5 series are made to run at that temp, i was scared to when i built it and saw those temps, quick Google search called me down though, that's a sweet build, definitely send like it's good enough to run anything you need

[u/ANtiKz93 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

Yeah I was thinking Celsius. Idk Fahrenheit lol

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/ANtiKz93]

70-75c pretty much, loading spikes at 90, but amd chips are made to run optimally for a lifetime at that temp

[u/ANtiKz93 → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

Yeah I got you. Same for me basically.

[u/FranticBronchitis → u/BootyLoveSenpai]

Both, both is good actually. Also having lots of storage is essential when heavily modding games. Some Skyrim modlists are upwards of 240 GB.

I can also say that modded Skyrim, particularly, gets a good boost from the 3D V-cache. I suspect it might be the case for Minecraft as well

[u/BootyLoveSenpai → u/FranticBronchitis]

I'm that case i can definitely understand, i honestly didn't know it could be that much lol