I'd look at getting better than a c tier low end PSU.
i oversized it slightly for this build. and another chinesium power supply i own has been running flawlessly for 10 years. the power surge protection thing doesn't really concern me. the network in my country is extremely stable.
I'd buy a cheaper case and get a 5600 instead. I wouldn't go lower than that in this day and age, except for an absolute budget build. And I'd consider Radeon 6700XT which scores better than the 3060 in a lot of benchmarks and can often be had for less.
my brother runs a 3600 in his PC with a similar card, and he gets phenomenal performance for what he spent on it. plus i explained in another thread that the price increase from the newer one isn't really worth it to us and that we can always upgrade, since it's AM4.
from my research, the 6700xt a 50€ price increase for minimal performance increase in some specific cases. since she's likely going to play raytracing enabled games in the future, i'm just gonna stick with the 3060ti.
At this point in time it doesn't make any sense to upgrade inside of AM4. Either get the better CPU now, or jump to AM5 or something newer.
Unless you can find a used 5800x3d for sub $100 in a year or so I wouldn't bother. You're going to end up spending more money to baby step than if you'd just bought something better from the get go.
i will keep that in mind. although i imagine am5 equipment requiring ddr5 and overall being more expensive.
DDR5 prices have tanked recently. AM5 prices will hopefully drop soon, but I think the days of a really good $100 motherboard are over.
If you can afford it, the 5800x3d is a huge upgrade over both the 3600 and the 3900x. I had also thought that the lack of load during gaming meant I didn't need to upgrade my 3900x, but it turns out you get a lot of lag in unoptimized games when the CPU runs out of L3 cache and has to talk to the RAM. And this is more common than a lot of us realized. I noticed 25 fps increases in Hell Let Loose just with that upgrade, for example.
yeah, we looked at getting a 5600 for this build, but it's like 50 bucks more for like 5-10 FPS. plus my brother runs a 3600 in his rig and says there's no problems. getting last gen hardware is always a bit sketchy, but she's always able to just buy any AM4 socket cpu a few years into the future. thanks for the recommendation though.
Try to find a used 3600 or 5600. Tons of people have upgraded their CPUs once the 5800x3d came out. I've got my old 5600x just sitting unused in a box because I haven't bothered with coming up with a project for it yet.
depending on who is buying it for holidays, it might be too late already. but that's a great idea, i bought all of my graphics cards used, why not the CPU?
For the M2 drive, PCIE 4.0 is wasted money over 3.0. I've actually "downgraded". In my system over my last re-install, intending on moving all my games over to the pcie4 drive after getting the old system wiped off it. For the time being I'm running everything on the pcie3. Well, now I'm just committed to it. That was 6 months ago. I honestly can't tell the difference between a game on the pcie3 and pcie4 drive.
The Crucial P3 2tb is less than 100 USD, ~85 GBP, and looks like it's about 108 EUR on Amazon FR and DE. It's a fantastic drive.
For the CPU cooler... why not just go with the stock AMD fan?
Also, I see in another comment you've said you went with Nvidia for raytracing. No one is going to be doing raytracing on 1440p 144hz with a 3060ti at over 60fps. For the budget you have here, forget about Ray tracing, and just pick a GPU that has the best raw rasterization performance. That maybe AMD or Nvidia depending on your local market prices, but if you can squeeze a rx6800 into the budget that would be a massive boost in performance.
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