Building a new PC

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Originally Posted by Indian Chief

Due for a new build and I'm a little out of the loop, so looking for advice. I've been feeling lately that my current build is getting a little long in the tooth, so I checked my records to see when I put this together -- 2017. So yeah, it's time.

I've only ever done Intel builds, but have been kicking around the idea of an AMD build this time around. I'm aware of the Intel issues currently, which is driving some of that thought process. I'm not married to the idea, so I can be talked out of it. Seems like the clear consensus is the 7800X3D for the CPU, but I also see that it spiked in price over the past year, so was considering stepping down to the 7700X.

I have a PS5 for a good chunk of my gaming, so it doesn't have to be bleeding edge.

Wait for november 7th, the new AMD 9 series x3d processors come out, which will drive down the prices of other 'lower' processors. Might only be 20 or 40 bucks but they are due to drop

If your not gaming, dont buy the x3d, however, if you are going to game, the 7800x3d is the best gaming processor on the market until that nov 7th date.

For you, if you are going to get that 7800x3d or even 7700x and a decent GPU, you might as well sell your PS5 and recoup some cash, because that would be a very strong gaming PC either way.

So if you are going AMD and want to stay on the value side of things I would tell you to do a b650 board, run 16 or 32 gb of cheap ddr5, and look at that 7700x or 7800x3d. With that, you even have some room to upgrade at a later date depending on your needs since the 9 series processors are am5 socket, and if we get lucky, the next generation will be too.