Oh I totally see how you CAN do it. I’ve done it. A lot. Just nowadays i don’t see why you would need to. Maybe a true 4k multi monitor setup but a 7800xt is cheap and great for 1440p and you can build a 1500 dollar rig (minus the monitor) and be pretty damn ok.
I tend to spend my money on homelab shit so my priorities have changed these pay few decades lol
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower.
I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
The 7900x3d isn’t that great of a gaming CPU, you’d be better off with the single CCD 7800x3d.
But if you’re going for high end why wouldn’t you go for the 9800x3d/9950x3d? The only reason I picked the 7000 series was the lack of availability with the 9000 series x3d at the moment. And if you’re getting 90000 series x870e offers a lot of features as standard over x670e.
I built a 9800x3d + 7900xt + 64gb ddr5 + 2tb nvme ssd + 12 tb hdd setup for about 2k usd.
Now they mentioned a 1200 GPU cost which is 500 more than what i paid, so I would have paid 2.5k with that gpu.
My RAM speed and motherboard could be upgraded. But I don’t see how those upgrades add up to 2.5k. You could go for more ssd memory for a purely gaming rig, but you could get a lot of that money from not buying a 12 tb hdd which is not a gaming rig thing to buy.
If it’s just for gaming, you really don’t need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can’t think of a game I’ve ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.
Unless you’re also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won’t gain much from spending more money.
CPU bottlenecks start happening long before task manager reads 100% CPU usage. Any time a pipeline flush happens and your CPU is sitting there waiting for data to make its way through you’re going to feel it.
Also if you’re spending 5000 why wouldn’t you get the best?
I was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Just to game though?
I don’t see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
Oh I totally see how you CAN do it. I’ve done it. A lot. Just nowadays i don’t see why you would need to. Maybe a true 4k multi monitor setup but a 7800xt is cheap and great for 1440p and you can build a 1500 dollar rig (minus the monitor) and be pretty damn ok.
I tend to spend my money on homelab shit so my priorities have changed these pay few decades lol
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
The 7900x3d isn’t that great of a gaming CPU, you’d be better off with the single CCD 7800x3d.
But if you’re going for high end why wouldn’t you go for the 9800x3d/9950x3d? The only reason I picked the 7000 series was the lack of availability with the 9000 series x3d at the moment. And if you’re getting 90000 series x870e offers a lot of features as standard over x670e.
I built a 9800x3d + 7900xt + 64gb ddr5 + 2tb nvme ssd + 12 tb hdd setup for about 2k usd.
Now they mentioned a 1200 GPU cost which is 500 more than what i paid, so I would have paid 2.5k with that gpu.
My RAM speed and motherboard could be upgraded. But I don’t see how those upgrades add up to 2.5k. You could go for more ssd memory for a purely gaming rig, but you could get a lot of that money from not buying a 12 tb hdd which is not a gaming rig thing to buy.
If it’s just for gaming, you really don’t need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can’t think of a game I’ve ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.
Unless you’re also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won’t gain much from spending more money.
CPU bottlenecks start happening long before task manager reads 100% CPU usage. Any time a pipeline flush happens and your CPU is sitting there waiting for data to make its way through you’re going to feel it.
Also if you’re spending 5000 why wouldn’t you get the best?
My desktop is literally only used for gaming (I have a separate PC for everything else) and I spent probably 3-4k on it.
Buy a lot of high end NVMe storage and I could easily see it costing 5k.