Hello! I hope you have a nice sunday morning!
But if you can spare a few seconds, could you please make a short check about the compatability? Or if I am missing something? I write under the parts why I chose them if neccessary.
Usecase: Gaming, rarely modern games, mostly 5 years or older titles. Also video consumption, and a little bit of work like excel or word. NO streaming or video editing and stuff like that. I have a 32" 4k 144 hz monitor, but I have no problem with running games for example at 1080p, they still look nice.
The prices are definitly ok for my country, so I’m just asking if anyone can spot an incompatability or has a suggestion where I do something extremely stupid.
It has been 9 years since my last built so I must admit I’m a bit nervous. Also I don’t really have a budget, but energy efficiency is my main goal for some of the parts.
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (409 Euro)
(longevity, using a i7 4770 for almost 9 years now, maybe I can repeat that)
Mainboard: ASRock B650 PG Lightning (204 Euro)
(many USB ports that I definetly will use)
RAM: G.Skill DIMM 32 GB DDR5-6000 (2x16 GB) 30-38-38-96 (113 Euro)
(low profile because big air cooler)
Air cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 (89 Euro)
(Silent Assassin is not available here, this was the next best thing)
Tower: be quiet! Dark Base 900
(already have it)
PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 12M 850W, 80+Gold (135 Euro)
(read good reviews)
Storage: WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 2TB (120 Euro)
(read good reviews)
GPU: Gainward GeForce RTX 4070 Ghost OC (599 Euro)
(very energy efficient, would have liked to go the AMD route, but they are too power hungry)
Soundcard: Soundblaster X-FI Titanium
(already have it, love the features and connectivity)
Total: Around 1650 Euro
Looks good! I can’t see any height or compatibility issues.
I would suggest updating the BIOS of your motherboard to at least version 1.21, there is an issue with Over Current Protection on AM5 motherboards when EXPO is enabled that can cause the CPU (especially X3D) to die.
GamersNexus has a few videos on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTngvvD5dI&t=0
Invidious alternative yewtu.be/watch?v=kiTngvvD5dI&t=0
From their website for version 1.21 “Recommend for upgrade BIOS if 7000X3D processor is installed.”
Happy building!
Thank you, I will!!
I would suggest inputting all the parts into pcpartpicker.com, it should tell you if there’s any problems.
I will the moment before I buy. I wanted to check out opinions first, compatibility is one thing, a stupid decision of mine another :)
This looks great honestly.
Thank god!! I’m nervous as hell!!
The CPU is pretty powerful and I see it compliment your GPU upgrade down the line as well
Have fun!
Looks great! I recently put together a similar build with the same mobo/CPU, and it works very well. Just note that I had to do some fiddling in bios options to get it to shutdown/sleep properly, but all is good now
It would not be a PC I built if it didn’t give me trouble down the line :)
Thanks for the heads up!!
