Hey guys,

here’s a build I’ve slapped together on PPP:

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/p8wjdb

What do you think? Any obvious blunders? Anything I could do better? I’ll run Mint on it and I want to do some gaming, AI work and general PC stuff.

  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
    4·
    8 days ago

    Other than the perhaps overkill liquid cooler, looks good (did not check radiator compatibility though). 9070xt might be a bit too much for the 7600x though

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    If it were me I’d ditch the dinky AIO watercooler. Water cooling really isn’t necessary for that chip and those don’t really provide much real-world benefit over a good air cooler whereas they inherently bring their own special array of problems and built in failure points to the party. All of which is pointless unless you’re only using your computer to show off.

    Before the peanut gallery starts arguing with me, and I know they will, I have a Ryzen 9 9900X in my rig and I use air cooling with it (and my GPU, a 7900 XTX) just fine, thank you. Even mildly overclocked. The 9900X has a 120 watt rated TDP and your 7600X is only 105.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      8 days ago

      The liquid cooler is mainly for looks, I’ll admit that. And no, I’m not the type for showing off. Few people will ever see this let alone appreciate it. I’m doing this because I like the look of it.

  • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    Your build looks pretty good overall, so the only suggestions I have are pretty minor ones. I’m only familiar with the Canadian market, so some of this may not apply to you, but:

    The sn7100 is a much faster drive that sometimes goes on sale for not much more than what pcpartpicker shows for your wd blue - especially for gaming and ai stuff I’d check out that or the Kingston nv3 for faster load times in case the prices are close.

    For memory, if you can find a CL30 kit in the same price range as your CL36 I’d make the upgrade - teamgroup has one that looks pretty similar to Corsair’s and is usually a decent amount cheaper (just make sure you get the CL30 variant and not the CL38). RAM prices have been fucked recently tho thanks to AI, so ymmv here.

    For motherboards, gigabyte’s B850 elite board might come close in price to what you’re looking at depending on sales and it has wifi 7, which isn’t super relevant if you plan to hardwire but could make a big difference if not (at least once you have a wifi7 router, which most people do not lol).

    These are all just small improvements that wouldn’t increase the cost much where I shop, so if any of them are gonna cost way more definitely ignore that suggestion cuz your build is totally fine as is.

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    8 days ago

    While ROCm is getting there you will find that a huge amount of AI playthings are built to play nice with nvidia cards and nothing else. Check what AI tools and software you wanna run and whether you run them on AMD before ordering.

    For gaming the balance between CPU and GPU also relies on what resolution you plan on gaming at.
    Not all games benefit from a huge L3 Cache on the CPU but those that do run much better with an X3D CPU.