AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
Can't go wrong there. This processor will go down as one of the best of all time.
Overall the build looks extremely solid. AMD on linux these days is 🤌 💋
Extremely solid build. Probably right in the sweet spot for cost-to-performance and being at least somewhat future proof. 16gb of vram is a bit on the shy side, but probably fine for a decade or so of gaming.
Thanks for the feedback.
Thinking of going with PopOS, as it seems like a good fit with decent dev support out of the box.
FWIW, I'm coming from a lot of experience with MacOS as my primary dev environment, and loads of sshing into various terminal environments.
Expensive but that's a good build
If you were looking to save costs, where's the first place you look?
I'm looking for something I can set and forget for a bit. Lots of RAM is about the only thing I won't budge on in the build here.
I'd like to be able to do some AAA gaming from time to time, but this is a big upgrade, so I don't expect I'll be sweating any frame rate drops. I spend most of my gaming time in simpler stuff anyway.
Compared to all those Amazon prices, I think everything would be a little bit cheaper if you are within reasonable driving distance of a Microcenter. Getting one of their bundle deal might save even more on top of that, and there's also the possibility of lucking out on an open-box item in-store.
Your 64GB DDR5-6000 CL30 RAM is apparently about $50 more than it needs to be, compared to the cheapest RAM of that spec on PCPartPicker.
From the description of how much and what kind of gaming you do, you'd probably be fine with a 9060 XT (16GB) ($350ish?) or maybe even an Intel Arc B580 (12GB) ($250ish?). Just don't get an 8GB card; they aren't future-proof enough.
Finally, if compactness isn't actually a need, you could probably save some money ditching the ITX motherboard and SFX PSU in favor of regular ATX ones, even if it causes you to have to spend a bit more for your case.
Speaking of the case, I was also considering a cheap Cooler Master case (a Q300L) for my recent build, and while it looked good on paper, it wasn't so great when I saw it in person. For that reason, I'm kinda skeptical about the NR200.
It's exactly the opposite of saving costs, but cases last a pretty long time. I'd consider splurging on something that's actually high-quality, like a Fractal Design Terra or Lian Li A4-H2O. (I ended up getting the latter myself, which I found as a discounted display model from Microcenter for ~$50!)
I'd probably get the 9070 XT over the 7080 XT, just for full performance FSR4 (there's some compatibility with it on Linux, but it's slower). Maybe even the non-XT model for the same reason.
I feel like you might be able to do better price wise on the RAM, although I'm not up to date on current prices for DDR5.
EDIT: I see you have an itx case, so maybe that limits your GPU options a bit.
I’d probably get the 9070 XT over the 7080 XT, just for full performance FSR4 (there’s some compatibility with it on Linux, but it’s slower). Maybe even the non-XT model for the same reason.
I concur. I would only get a 7000 series card if I wanted the 20 or 24 GB of RAM from a 7900 XT or XTX, since there isn't an equivalent high-end 9000 series card.
EDIT: I see you have an itx case, so maybe that limits your GPU options a bit.
It appears to support 3-slot cards, so it should be fine.
I don't know what space constraints you're working with or how confident you are at PC building but this will be a tight build. NVME as your only storage will help but I'd be legitimately concerned if that cooler, your video card, and all your memory will physically fit on the board and in your case. That ignores your ability to physically put everything together without breaking anything. Thirdly you're building a small space heater, that thing will run pretty hot under any decent load
Otherwise this is a pretty capable machine that should handle any reasonable tasks you throw at it
I'm doing the same as you and I've come up with such a similar list that I probably won't bother posting it since I can just use your build's feedback.