Christmas is coming, and I'm thinking a family PC is on the cards from santa.
It would need to run minecraft and Lego city undercover and that sort of thing.
I already have a spare TUF 750W bronze rated power supply (that I bought one time I was troubleshooting).
I will also probably upgrade my RX5700XT graphics card so put that in this build (suggestions welcome for a good bang for buck replacement that's good for a server running Mint and ollama (needs high VRAM) as well as used for gaming).
Everything else would be new. Suggestions for monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers too please!
Let's aim for a ballpark of $1000USD (I'll be purchasing in New Zealand).
Thanks in advance!
I assume the $1000 budget doesn't include the new GPU you want to replace the 5700XT with. I believe the most VRAM for the buck is still the 7900XTX and it seems prices on those have been coming down in the last month or so, which helps.
Since you mentioned the 7800X3D I used that as the basis for the build. Even that would be overkill for the 5700XT but it gives you options for the near future. The peripherals I just went for low cost basic-ish options.
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The 7900XTX doesn't seem to be in stock locally at the moment. What about something like the RX9070? It's only 16GB but a lot cheaper too. Or something else with good back for buck at or around that VRAM level?
9070XT would probably be your next best bet. There's also the 7900XT (not XTX) that I believe has 20GB VRAM but it might be difficult to find, similar to the XTX
Yeah I can't find that 7900XT either, I haven't found anything about 16GB VRAM.
Do you think the 9070XT is worth it over the XT? I found mixed reviews online, many people don't think the extra cost is worth a minimal improvement.
At current pricing you might be better off with the regular (non-XT) 9070, it's skewing much closer to MSRP right now, whereas the 9070XT is still marked up such that the price increase outpaces the performance increase. Something else to consider is the 9070XT has a 304W TDP compared to the 9070's 220W, so the regular 9070 is also more power efficient, which may be something you need to consider for the power supply being used with it or your local electricity rates.
Yeah, I see many are listed as needing a 800 or 850W power supply, where as the 9070 are often 700 or 750W. My current PSU is 650W and the spare one is 750W, so probably better to go with the 9070 rather than have to get a new PSU as well.