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catmeister

I am thinking of purchasing a gaming setup for both educational and gaming purposes, and my budget is between £1500 and £2000, which includes parts like a monitor, mouse, etc. Considering that I enjoy playing competitive games the most, I am primarily inclined to purchase a 7800x3D processor. With that, however, I have to limit my GPU budget because the overall cost of the setup would be prohibitively expensive otherwise.

7800x3d - 4070
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
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1920x1080p 240hz

This is the setup I intend to purchase. I am, nevertheless, open to fresh suggestions and ideas that might be of assistance.

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Qwerttyy

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not reading allat 🍆

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nihso

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this is why c9 is worse than mibr

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catmeister

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this guy is never serious

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respect MIBR

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bronzil_enjoyer

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that's why you're always 0/16

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kanyefan4238173

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yeah u got it

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arin2016

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Don't buy any GPU right now. Wait for the 50 series announcement. What if the 5070 is a gigabanger GPU and you miss out immensely after buying a 4070?

Also 2000 europoor dollars is an insane budget. You should be able to fit a 4080/4090 in there even if you buy a 7950x3d

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nobody___100

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if he buys a 4090 in that budget then he's gonna have to make his own case motherboard ssd and cpu you don't know ball

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arin2016

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Even if he gets a 4090 he still has budget for casing, SSD and ram. Pull up PCpartpicker and check for yourself.

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catmeister

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It's almost impossible to fit a 7950x3D with 4080 within this budget in the UK. Also, going for 7950x3D instead of 7800x3D wouldn't make any sense since 7800x3D is an absolute monster CPU for gaming. I'm almost certain that I will go for 7800x3D as CPU but am quite indecisive about what to choose for GPU.

I am also aware that the 50 series will be released soon, but I am unsure of the prices, so I feel like waiting is pointless.

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arin2016

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Keyword here is "in UK" I guess.

Whatever you do, I don't think waiting is pointless. You can't really tell whether the 50 series is going to be better choice or not until it comes out. Also, you have to consider the price to performance ratio. I think nobody actually buys a GPU this close to a new series being announced, unless you are 100% certain that you won't be changing your GPU for many many years.

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1TB SSD is a little overkill I would say get a 512 nvme ssd for your OS and a few important games and get a 1TB HDD just because of reliability.

I would say wait till EOY Lenovo sale they have some really good monitors or if your are looking for a budget monitor that does great performance wise go AOC

Steelseries QcKedge is always a shout it's a great mouspad that is budget friendly too

I would splash a little on the keyboard and mouse and the 4070 for sure is a shout I think u are looking along the right lines and u may be closer to the 2000 quid mark

Also a final remark go air cooling in the pc it's just very reliable and will definitely do the job and be budget friendly too

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arin2016

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1TB SSD is definitely not an overkill. I have 1TB SSD and I barely have any games installed. It still fills up. And if you use your PC for anything other than gaming, then even 1TB is very little space.

Why are you telling OP to get a 1TB HDD instead lol. That's a horrible decision.

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SnorlaxEnjoyer

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Granted my pc is a few years old at this point with an 11th gen i7, a 3060ti, and a 512GB ssd and a 2TB HDD with 16 giga of DDR4 (2667 MHz) it still runs pretty well, I run GTA V on max at 60FPS and games like val on 300-350 FPS which is more than enough. I still have an unholy amount of space with the majority of the files in my HDD amounting to about 500 gigs and only having used about 200 gb out of my SSD and it has never crashed on me

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SnorlaxEnjoyer

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Also the only reason I suggested the 512gb for the SSD is because say he runs 3/4 games and his OS out of his SSD ( with the OS being the most important thing that should be run off the SSD) he should still have a fair bit of play with storage and just use a HDD whether in pc or external for any school/work files ygm it's purely just a preference of mine

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arin2016

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HDD is not reliable at all. And he also said he will be using the PC for educational purposes. I also have 3-4 games in my PC, and only one of them is a AAA and 2 competitives. Games like Valorant are only going to increase in size. 1TB is not enough, not at all.

I barely have any space to store school work so I keep it all in Google Drive. But it's not worth it. Getting a bigger SSD would have saved me so much more time.

HDD are more prone to failure, hence costing lower. And when it comes to data, you should not cheap out IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
This is why people get Samsung's overpriced EVO SSD and not randomcompanyname1234 2TB SSD for 10 dollars.

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SnorlaxEnjoyer

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Look man this guy isn't gonna be cloud computing it's alright to use a good mixture of the both and honestly in normal use cases the differences between both failing is rather minuscule with the average lifespan of both the HDD and the SSD is similar as well about a 2% difference in failure of both the HDDs and the SSDs after 5 years and you should be backing up data consistently no matter what to a cloud or to external drives. The only reason I like using a mix of both is one it gives u different storage options. Where you can regulate the way your data is stored as well as the placement of that data. Secondly in data centers nowadays the SSDs were actually replaced/ fixed more often than the HDDs themselves proving that HDDs still carry their worth. i am just making an informed opinion which can be rejected it's fine. But there is no need to come off a s condescending

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arin2016

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I'm not being condescending. SSD and PSU are like the most important parts of your computer that you can't risk failing.

The average person doesn't back everything up once in a while, and they shouldn't have to. It's a massive inconvenience.

HDDs have been proven to be prone to failure. You must not be in the computer spaces that much because people complain about HDD failing on them and have been doing that for years. Everyone who owns an HDD can tell you how slow and scary it gets sometimes.

From a technological standpoint, SSD is like far superior. Faster data access, boot times, and file transfers. In a pure cost to performance ratio SSD is just plain better.

You're telling OP to willingly handicap himself and put himself at a risk of data loss (extremely common, if you didn't face it YET you got lucky) and inconvenience himself by constantly backing up data. It's just a bad advice, I'm not being condescending. And I say this to you as someone who lost literally all the data and ended up with nothing on project submission date, you should never store anything important in HDD. It is absolutely not worth it.

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jawn

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just a buy a used 3070 or something and you will be fine for a while