PC Sherdog PC Build/Buy Thread, v6: My Power Supply Burned Down My House

Madmick said:
I do love the handles for lugging around such a heavy PC if you're a LAN gamer, or just whatever reason, and I especially love that the nowhere on the top of the PC is a level surface meaning that no derpwizard at one of those parties tries to rest their beer on top of it. Bravo to that.
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It looks like you can remove those solid front plastic parts with the Eagle logo for aesthetics so there is better front panel airflow. Nice option. The tool-less design is always welcome. You'll be able to assess for yourself what the difference in temps are with some stress tests.

But even if MSRP's for that CPU/GPU aren't realistic on today's market it's still difficult to swallow what is essentially a +$2K premium over MSRP for a prebuilt on "sale".
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Agreed. I honestly don't know what the answer is. I have this awful feeling that the 5090 is never going to come down in price, it will just be high, and then the 6000 series will also be high, so on and so on. Maybe just bite the bullet so I can finally run Cyberpunk at 4k with everything maxed at 100 fps
 
WhiteMousse said:
Agreed. I honestly don't know what the answer is. I have this awful feeling that the 5090 is never going to come down in price, it will just be high, and then the 6000 series will also be high, so on and so on. Maybe just bite the bullet so I can finally run Cyberpunk at 4k with everything maxed at 100 fps
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Nvidia will do another super refresh this generation, so if tariffs are semi normal by next year you'll have a decent chance when prices get shuffled in 2026. Otherwise, I'd say take the deals you see right now (not saying this one, just generally speaking) because predicting tariffs is too much of a crapshoot.
 
Thinking about biting the bullet and getting this. My gf wants my old one.

This is about $1,000.00 cheaper than the Corsair I was looking at. It's all Gigabyte stuff, including the Aorus Master and their X870E.

Looking at the components, it is not much more expensive than getting all the parts for my own build. Smash or pass?


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WhiteMousse said:
Thinking about biting the bullet and getting this. My gf wants my old one.

This is about $1,000.00 cheaper than the Corsair I was looking at. It's all Gigabyte stuff, including the Aorus Master and their X870E.

Looking at the components, it is not much more expensive than getting all the parts for my own build. Smash or pass?


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My thoughts haven't changed in the past two weeks.
 
@Madmick What do you think of the components themselves? Other than the memory it seems everything is top notch. I have an unopened Samsung 2TB 990 ready to shove in
 
WhiteMousse said:
@Madmick What do you think of the components themselves? Other than the memory it seems everything is top notch. I have an unopened Samsung 2TB 990 ready to shove in
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  • CPU:R7-9800X3D
    • Best Gaming CPU there is
  • CPU Cooler: Gigabyte Waterforce 360mm
    • Believe this is the Waterforce I, not the II, but either way, a high-end CPU cooler
  • GPU: RTX 5090 Gigabyte Aorus Master 32G
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro motherboard (not sure which Rev)
    • As high end as motherboards get before they become a silly luxury
  • RAM: 64GB DDR5-5600MHz RAM
    • Be nice if they were 6000MHz+, but this is still fast RAM, and ample
  • SSD: Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 14000 2TB
    • This is a high-end NVMe. 14500/12700 R/W (MB/s) is about as good as you can ask.
  • PSU: Gigabyte Aorus ATX 3.1 P1000W Platinum [AP-PM series] (not sure which Rev)
    • Tier B PSU. Very good. Could be the gold, but looks like the Platinum to me. Tier B either way. Top end efficiency if platinum.
  • Case: Case design looks good.
 
Strychnine said:


Overkill?
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The dual resolution feature is awesome, I really like that feature, but the $2K price tag is way too much for me.
It's one of those features that I'll be waiting for to trickle down to products on the more budget oriented displays.

If I was in the position to buy this monitor, I don't know if I would. For $900 less, you can get the Corsair Flex 45" monitor. It's not as good of a monitor, but that's a big price gap. It's the same physical size, but it's only 240hz, and 3440x1440 vs 5120x2160. You're also not getting that 330hz 24" mode feature, but I don't feel the differences justify spending an extra $900.
 
Today, Intel is officially announcing its Arc Pro B60 & B50 "Battlemage" GPUs, offering superb VRAM capacities for AI & Professional users at a great value.

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At Computex 2025, Intel is offering a big graphics update for its Arc lineup. The update is that the Blue Team is expanding into new horizons with the Arc Battlemage family, with two brand-new products, the Arc Pro B60 and the Arc Pro B50.

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Strychnine said:
Overkill?
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For general gaming it is. With gaming simulators its a godsend.

Problem i always had with gaming simulators was the forced cockpit view. Always felt like a low field of view front bumper camera with interior cockpit overlay on standard monitors.

Prefer this style of simulator gaming over a VR headset. VR will become better once it has some sort of a AR overlay for your gaming setup/real world surroundings.
 
 
Question for the PC gangsters in here. My pops is looking for a new machine and I'm hoping if I could give you some ideas of what for you could helps us build one.

So, my dad is a list broker and deals with close to 50 million records. He runs his whole business off of XP machines and still uses a program called FoxPro that runs in DOS. The program was developed in the 80's and is still used by some people and government agencies. He's really good at writing code for that program and uses it to index and query messy data.

I've started to show him SQL and database programs like Supabase and he wants to learn the language and finally get off of FoxPro. I believe he wants to hose this project locally.

What type of PC would be best for someone who deals with a lot of data. This data will be scrubbed, cleaned, index, parsed etc. Would it be different than a gaming machine?
 
SwamiLeoni said:
Question for the PC gangsters in here. My pops is looking for a new machine and I'm hoping if I could give you some ideas of what for you could helps us build one.

So, my dad is a list broker and deals with close to 50 million records. He runs his whole business off of XP machines and still uses a program called FoxPro that runs in DOS. The program was developed in the 80's and is still used by some people and government agencies. He's really good at writing code for that program and uses it to index and query messy data.

I've started to show him SQL and database programs like Supabase and he wants to learn the language and finally get off of FoxPro. I believe he wants to hose this project locally.

What type of PC would be best for someone who deals with a lot of data. This data will be scrubbed, cleaned, index, parsed etc. Would it be different than a gaming machine?
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He will certainly get hosed if he keeps using out of date OS's.
 
Andy Capp said:
He will certainly get hosed if he keeps using out of date OS's.
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Yea, I think he's finally realizing it. FoxPro is practically the only thing that can run on his PCs. The man still uses Tivo and just wont give it up for a smart TV.
 
SwamiLeoni said:
Question for the PC gangsters in here. My pops is looking for a new machine and I'm hoping if I could give you some ideas of what for you could helps us build one.

So, my dad is a list broker and deals with close to 50 million records. He runs his whole business off of XP machines and still uses a program called FoxPro that runs in DOS. The program was developed in the 80's and is still used by some people and government agencies. He's really good at writing code for that program and uses it to index and query messy data.

I've started to show him SQL and database programs like Supabase and he wants to learn the language and finally get off of FoxPro. I believe he wants to hose this project locally.

What type of PC would be best for someone who deals with a lot of data. This data will be scrubbed, cleaned, index, parsed etc. Would it be different than a gaming machine?
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The only meaningful differences in terms of the hardware you pursue is they tend to prize CPUs with the higher core counts, and often a higher volume of RAM. GPUs are rarely leveraged for this stuff, although maybe that's changing with the A.I. rush, you'd have to check to see if whatever new SQL stuff he is using leverages that.

These days this amounts to practically no difference. Because unlike years ago the 16-core CPUs now can achieve the same per-thread performance as the 8-core or lesser variants that gamers have historically prized. So while most gamers will opt for the 9800X3D, for example, they do so from a cost-benefit analysis; because the 9950X3D is much more expensive, but adds nothing, not because it is inferior for gaming. In years past, those 16-core CPUs would have been significantly worse in games (even when they had a mode to shut off half the cores).

It's possible he might even benefit from actual server CPUs. That is the Epyc line from AMD (Turin or Turin Dense are the current line), or the Xeon line from Intel (Xeon 6 is current). But those are very specialized, and usually if someone is compiling code, then they'll want the higher frequency CPUs from the more mainstream Zen 5 or Raptor Lake processors.

For RAM, you will want the fastest, but often they'll max out the motherboards if they work with large enough datasets it actually can fill up that many gigabytes.

If he can leverage A.I. cores in the latest GPUs then he'll almost undoubtedly want an NVIDIA GPU, and probably them being newer will matter more to him than even gamers.
 
SwamiLeoni said:
What type of PC would be best for someone who deals with a lot of data. This data will be scrubbed, cleaned, index, parsed etc. Would it be different than a gaming machine?
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Since he's still running off a XP machine that means the data and queries are low. Going to SQL under the same work flow will create additional overhead but wont require server grade solutions for modernized hardware will overcome that.

So its a generic 8+ core CPU that isnt X3D with around 32 gigs of ram running off SSD's.

Your father likely knows this. But if he intends on eventually hosting the database it might be in conflict with his current ISP contract. They dont take kindly to consumers using consumer packages for enterprise solutions.
 
WhiteMousse said:
Well evidently the 5090 is back in stock on newegg. Ostensibly I could build my own rig now.

Can I get thoughts on this Mobo/Memory?



Plan is to get the Ryzen 9800X3D, and an Aorus Master RTX 5090.
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I would suggest an Aorus Elite B650 instead but I guess you may as well get an X870E if you're getting a 9800X3D and 5090.
Are you dead set on the Aorus Master 5090? You could save $200 buying another 5090.
 
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