I’m watching all this for 1450 bucks (e: after taxes):

  • AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
  • AMD Radeon RX 7700XT 12GB
  • MSI B650 motherboard
  • Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000MHz
  • Corsair RMe 850W
  • 2TB NVMe
  • 360mm 320W liquid cooling

Is this a coherent build?

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    One drive dual boot works very meh for me, especially with encryption (or I haven’t figured nice way to move/cross use files, cause i dump them by habit in user folders or separate drive, would be happy to be corrected for next time i’m reinstalling). Also, be sure it’s not qlc for system drive

    Also there are some times that 12/16 cores are priced lower (especially 12, cause it’s triggering lots of people) - but i think next year zen6 will be 12 core anyway, so that’s why if upgrading is an option it makes some sense to cheap out on cpu on am5, unless needed.

    Ah, also if as comrade mentioned you want liquid cooler for dust, lately even cheaper cases come with dust filters, you just slide out to wash, so maybe check out if your case have it. It works fine, maybe once in 3 years the inside gets dusty enough to be vacuumed

    • kalabaza [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      I finally settled on 7700x and 9060xt and taking into account your (plural) advice I’m sitting at 1200 after taxes. Kinda tempted to go for 9060xt 8gb because it’s 80 bucks less but I’m not sure what that would get me. Also not sure if I should cheap out more and go to 7700 with the stock cooler for a 100 less.

      • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        i think 7700 is like 5% worse, it’s slightly downclocked or running eco mode constantly, something like that, it’s actually reasonable get, but you should recheck reviews, cause i don’t remember very well what was the deal with them and if they can be clocked back to full, or nah. Depending how much work you do, could be annoying enough to skip it or fine.

        yeah, dunno, 8gb kinda dodgy for modern games, but if you do like decade old stuff might work (+it will definitely get worse for newer titles over time, the consoles target like 12 gb internally)

        • kalabaza [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          I see. The savings on the 7700 as it is in my case is pretty good for what I miss. I’ll get the better memory on the gpu