Looking forward to hearing your experiences and opinions on the performance, man.
I spent some time this morning sourcing out a new computer. It was mostly a mental exercise, and because if I jump back into space engineers: all I'm going to be doing is sitting there listening to the refinery grind and I wasn't in the mood.
Anywho: this is what I slapped together; assuming a reasonable lifespan of 5 years, and some of the features and specs I absolutely wanted (like dual NVME slots, ddr5 ram at 128 gig, dual HDMI on the GPU, ect ect ect.). Along with their full retail prices. Going by the websites; if I bought TODAY, I would wind up saving about 20%, but I am not buying today, I am exercising today.
-gigabyte b650 aorus elite ax lga 1700 (319.99)
-corsair 4000D (139.99)
-corsair hx1000I 1000 watt psu (349.99)
-AMD ryzen 9 7900 5.4ghz (589.00)
-TUF-RTX3060-O12G-V2-GAMING (559.99)
-corsair vengeance 64gb 5200 (289.99)
A new case, mid tower (which I am originally against after I bought my full tower... almost a decade ago.) because the size and features have improved. What used to be only found in high end full towers are now common in mids. The mobo has a whopping THREE nvme slots, which will allow me to have a primary drive, a dedicated gaming drive and FINALLY be able to remove and retire my oldest drive which is a 5400rpm mechanical I use for deep storage. 1000 watt power supply by the same manufacturer as the case (and not just because I trust corsair, but because I know it will fit.) a ryzen 9 processor which has four more cores and 2 ghz on my current CPU, and corsair ram because it hit all the specs and was bundled. I would need two of them to max out the board, but just one would still double up on what I currently have. I could have gone with the 7900X cpu, but it's an extra 200 bucks, has a higher energy requirement (not that that's a problem.) and only adds .2 ghz per core. Since I'm only gaming and not a heavy content creator: it's unnecessary.
I want the new case because (despite loving it.) I'm getting tired of the giant ******* white box taking up 25% of the space under my desk. Also: with notably less accessories in the case (because two out of three drives would be on the board proper, and I no longer have a DVD rom to plug in.) wiring will be easier and require less space anyway. I'm upgrading the video card for my dual monitor setup simply because while my current card HAS gddr5 memory, it's first gen memory and the card itself has seen long use at more than 5 years.
I'm missing the hard drives proper, but there's plenty of available selection so I'm probably going to go with a pair of 1tb samsung or western digital. By default they would have better read/write speeds than my current one which is limited by the old mobo which has a first gen nvme port. I'm also short a CPU cooler, but those aren't hard or expensive to get and a cut of windows 11. I'm utterly shocked at how much a copy of windows 11 home costs for them to slap it on a USB and am glad I pulled the DVD rom cause it's like an extra 100 bucks for the DVD cut.
The total price (sans hard drives, cooler and windows, and only 64gb ram.) is $2,248.95 less taxes and shipping. And most of this stuff I can get at canada computer and electronics, there's a brick and mortar just down the road from me: I could probably skip the shipping costs entirely if I tried.
And frankly... that's not too bad. Before I started pricing things, I was expecting my next rig to cost somewhere closer to 4K, leaning even towards 5K. I'll get away with less than 3 even with the stuff I haven't decided on yet. I'm probably closer to building a new computer than I think... despite everything actually working still. It might be nice to build a PC without the panic of something being broken...
