New PC, $1350 Budget (can be more expensive). | Linus Tech Tips | Page 1

royal tapir Mar 4, 2025, 10:38 PM

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New PC, $1350 Budget.

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New PC, $1350 Budget (can be more expensive).

untold owl Mar 13, 2025, 10:00 AM

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What's going on

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I can't be bothered to read all that
Okay. Desktop.

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Okay. Desktop.

If you got a good case, reuse it. If not, dont buy one of those mini-atx cases or whatever. It's stupid. It's a desktop, its not suppose to fit in your purse.
Buy something with space and good opportunitets for cooling

AMD 9800X3d or 7800X3D are probably the best CPU's out there for gaming, Intel is still on top for productivity. The 14th gens k-model intels were suicidal at release, tho that's been mostly fixed now. You should be safe. They run hot tho. But so does the top of the line amd's...

Nvidia got better gpu's generally but they are a lot more expensive than Amd. AMD 9070xt vs 5070ti, both are crazy expensive. Good luck finding one tho.
Raw performance is about the same, but Nvidia comes out on top thx to AI and ray tracing.

I'd rather go for high end cpu, cooler and MB with a lower end gpu, instead of the other way around. You can easily replace gpu and ram without any major work.

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Depends on what you're gonna do with your pc tbh

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the 9800x3d is probably the best gaming chip out there

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huh

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i feel it should be

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The other good thing witj AMD is that AM5 is still getting support and new cpus. Intel left their lga1700 behind, so if you were to get an i7 14700k, there's no way to put in a later gen cpu.

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Intel do have their "ultra core" chips, which are their latest. I dont know enough about those to be honest

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7800x3d?

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You might want to get a bigger cooler for one of those cpus as well

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But im sure the 7600 is gonna work great for that budget, you can always put in something more high-end down the line

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This seems like a solid build to me. Not sure what kinda chips ADATA XPG are, someone might be able to fill in.
Heard a lot of good things about the Thermal PA120se, good pick

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As long as you pick the latest cpu socket and chipset, you can always upgrade later

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the radeon 7900 maybe is a little overkill 😄

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My tip is spend your money on motherboard, cpu and PSU. You can easily replace and upgrade the rest.

If you need a good GPU, go for that, and upgrade your CPU later

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Asus makes good boards, and they got good software. ROG strix is their top "line" i think. Never used them myself

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This is from userbenchmark