Poll of the Day > I'm researching building a PC. Please help with what I've picked so far.

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Please tell me what I've done

Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor

Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (2 radiator)

MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory

Western Digital Black SN850 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB GAMING OC Video Card

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Antec P120 Crystal ATX Mid Tower Case

This is around $2,100.

Goddam $2100 for a build with a 6700 XT. Fuck the times we live in.

If you got the money then sure looks good. I don't think we'll ever go back to when something like that would be no more than $1500.

can't nitpick it much, that's a better computer in every way than I've ever used and for a relatively good price. don't let Ogurisama see it though, he paid well over double for something similar.

Wouldn't recommend building a pc right now. Certain key components like GPUs are marked up so heavily that you're not saving money compared to getting something already assembled. Better to buy a system with a powerful GPU + CPU and then install extras like more RAM or a bigger hard drive yourself.

I just don't think those costs are going to go down soon and if I have the budget I have the budget at this point

I'd like advice on what I've assembled so far instead of discussing the cost so much itself. If you have something that is like a different brand or I need a different kind of something, suggestions and explanations are definitely welcome

~$2k is on the high-end of normal and considering what you're getting I sure don't think that's too much. honestly that's the best value I've ever seen performance VS dollars. (but I haven't bought a new PC in almost 10 years now either...)

Jen0125 posted...

I'd like advice on what I've assembled so far instead of discussing the cost so much itself. If you have something that is like a different brand or I need a different kind of something, suggestions and explanations are definitely welcome

• basically everything is off-the-scale performance wise
• liquid cooling might be overkill
• you could get faster clocked RAM according to your motherboard specs (up to 5200)
• motherboard supports RAID but not sure how I'd plan that these days with SSDs
• expect SSD to eventually fail (but not sure on longevity). not sure of best approach but probably don't just use the one SSD for everything.
• (if I was building it I would look into SSD RAID 10 but not sure about it. it's possible mirroring SSDs makes no sense since the mirrors would likely fail at the exact same time (due to having limited # of writes))
• video card is mind blowing compared to anything I've ever had but not sure how it compares to other similar tier cards.

Ty for your input zang

And also my brother keeps telling me I need MORE cooling when everyone else is saying that's enough or overkill

Case is probably fine, but I love this case:

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-light-tempered-glass/black/

And I feel the need to shill it.

What are you using it for? What are you aiming for?

If solely for gaming, and in this instance here, you can make a better PC but putting less budget into the cpu/cpu cooler, and ssd and putting more into the gpu. If you want to stick with Intel, 12600k is more than suffice for gaming. SSD performance doesn't really matter unless you're moving big files every single day. Liquid coolers are a meme, and their value is in looking cool compared to air cooling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

There are some good value TLC SSDs at ~$80-100/tb.

I do want them to look cool so