Gaming PC advice?

[Spectric]

if the Mobo, PSU and cooling

Something I should have mentioned is to look at modular PSU's , with these the cables plug into the PSU and so you can use just the ones you need without having to have that big bundle to tuck away somewhere.

 

[Ollie78]

Something I should have mentioned is to look at modular PSU's , with these the cables plug into the PSU and so you can use just the ones you need without having to have that big bundle to tuck away somewhere.

You can never go back to the mad spaghetti. So much easier to plug them into the psu at the end.

 

[Agent_zed]

The ryzen 97950x does not have built in graphics so saying onboard graphics makes no sense. There are similar chips that do have graphics built in.
Running 3 sticks of ram is not good they work in pairs.
For a motherboard these days you can get some with up to 3 m.2 slots which is nice because they are fast and cheap so you can just pop one in when you need more.
That power supply is only an 80 plus bronze so not super efficient and pretty low powered. Sometimes a bigger power supply can be cheaper or the same price, it will only use what it needs so shop around, Seasonic are known to be excellent and have a 12 year warranty.

I thought the processors with an X didn't have in built graphics (my Ryzen 5 3600x doesn't) but https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/7000-series/amd-ryzen-9-7950x.html seems to suggest it does.

 

[gmgmgm]

Hi all, as luck would have it my 'puter died at the weekend. Since I use it for work (and don't want to be stuck on my laptop) I contacted PCSpecialist who suggested the following setup (I do high end software development and wanted plenty of cores/threads). I have 32G of crucial memory from the machine that died (and 1T m.2, 2T ssd).
No windows as I will install Linux anyway.....


Motherboard ASUS® PRIME B650-PLUS (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0)
Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 5200MHz CL40 (1 x 16GB)
Graphics Card INTEGRATED GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR (GPU)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (3500 MB/R, 3200 MB/W)

At first I was thinking it was a bizarre combination of high-end CPU and only 16GB of RAM (if you're doing dev, with VS and several containers/VMs etc then the more the merrier), but you say you have 32GB from the old machine. Are you sure it will fit - this new motherboard is DDR5, older machines will be DDR4.

If you wanted to save money then I expect many things can be re-used from your dead PC e.g. the case and the PSU.

 

[Spectric]

Are you sure it will fit - this new motherboard is DDR5

DDR5 sticks will not fit a DDR4 slot if I remember correctly, they are keyed differently. So something to bear in mind when doing an upgrade, forget using old memory.