Gaming computer build

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You're basically asking for a top of the line rig, so this 100% comes down to price. What's your total budget for the pc, monitor, any peripherals, etc?

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Yea I’m well aware what I’m trying to build with come with a cost . Not being in the market for tech hardware in some time , I’m a little lost as to where to start looking.

Price wise i dunno man like 2-3-maybe 4k on all the necessities , shop around for what best fits my intentional uses for the machine after that’s together.

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Yea I’m well aware what I’m trying to build with come with a cost . Not being in the market for tech hardware in some time , I’m a little lost as to where to start looking.

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I'm aware. That's why I asked your budget

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Price wise i dunno man like 2-3-maybe 4k on all the necessities , shop around for what best fits my intentional uses for the machine after that’s together.

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So you can put together a very high end rig for around $2k without any peripherals, in theory:

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Your problem is the gpu, as you'll notice that parts list doesn't even show a price for it. In theory, it's $700. In practice? That depends entirely on your level of patience and tenacity. If you don't have the patience or tenacity for it, you're better off just buying a prebuilt, because 3080+ is very difficult to get your hands on in the wild.

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A 3090 on Newegg will cost over $3k.

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Patience wouldn’t be an issue. It will be a steady build so I’m sure one will pop up between the time I decide on something and start the build to completion. Really appreciate the recommendations.

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Like Batman said, they aren't really going to pop up. You'll need to set up alerts, etc. High end cards never go in stock for longer than a few minutes at a time these days.

And as for the parts list, that was kind of a quick and dirty throw together. There's room on some components to cut corners from there, and there is room to punch up the budget as well, particularly with the case and the motherboard. But I wanted to see what I could churn out for around $2,000 these days.

I just remember the rig i built back then was on a budget and powerful enough to have fun but couldn’t run things to make the experience what i wish i could. Now it’s later in life and would like to treat myself to something with the power i wish i had then.

This was suggested to me as well. Thoughts?

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you don't have the slightest idea of what's going on right now. your best bet is to just buy a prebuilt, and call it good.

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This, 100%.

You can theoretically get really, really lucky and get a GPU for 2x the retail price but even that is not easy. OEMs are able to get some supply at least, and the little premium you pay for having someone else build it is way less than the extra you pay as an individual for a top GPU right now. Unfortunately nobody seems to think this will end very soon.

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I just remember the rig i built back then was on a budget

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As much fun as building from scratch is, I bought a dell a few months ago for less than I could buy the video card inside it by itself. Weird times.

I'm not in a position to do any searching right now, but I would lean away from builds with a 3090 and focus on those with a 3080. Sure, the 3090 is the best card you can buy now, but you're looking at twice the price (for the card) for about a 10% uplift in performance. The GPU apocalypse isn't going to last forever. Save that $1,000 and use it to upgrade your GPU a generation sooner than you might have, otherwise. Even with crazy price inflation, a hypothetical 4080 will likely cost less than $1k total, and it will likely crush a 3090 in performance.

ETA: Actually, as an addendum, if you are going to primarily/exclusively play Flight Sim, I might go 6800xt for the extra vram, but it wouldn't be my general choice, as I think DLSS is poised to vastly set Nvidia apart from AMD for the short to mid term.

Intel is currently the gaming performance king, but not by much, and by using a tremendous amount of wattage to do so. As long as you get a solid cpu from this gen, you're fine with either amd or intel.