Can you guys give me your thoughts on this build

Welcome!

I’m fairly new here myself but will give a go:

First a couple questions to understand your goals:

  1. What are your personal priorities for this build? e.g. gaming, budget, mixed use, windows/linux, etc
  2. Do you have a link to your pc parts picker instead of a phone screen capture?

My initial impressions are it seems like a viable build at first glance. A few thoughts:

  1. If your priority is gaming, possibly consider an X3D chip? I don’t have benchmarks in front of me, but the extra cache can help for some workloads.
  2. Consider a PCIe Gen4 nvme ssd, the one listed says its a Gen3. Confirm the mobo supports Gen4. I have a Gen5 in mine for bazing fast reads.
  3. Does the case come with all the fans you need for airflow?

I’m on a phone so didn’t check each parts manual, but you’re going in the right direction! Have fun mulling over the design and then making it happen!

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The Ryzen 7700 comes with a boxed cooler. You don’t need to buy another one. I don’t recommend to buy 7800x3D, unless your GPU is RTX 4080 and above. Putting budget towards GPU gives you more FPS in general.
Gen 3 SSD is fine. Get 2TB SSD if budget allows.
4060Ti 8GB, the VRAM is too small. If you plan to keep the GPU longer, get a RTX 4070 instead. Last gen RX 6800 XT is also good at that price range. AMD GPUs are generally fine for gaming. For production work, I recommend NVidia only.
The motherboard, this ASUS board is weak. AsRock B650M-HDV/m.2 is a much better board at that price.

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GPU is just bad value, either side grade to a $320 AMD Radeon 7600 XT or upgrade to an AMD Radeon 7800 XT for $470. Heck, a 12 GB 3060 is better. Any card with 8 GB VRAM go down to medium textures in latest AAA, guaranteed. Did you really want to pay $400 for a subpar experience?

Motherboard, unless you get it as part of Microcenter Bundle deal, get something with 3-4 m.2 slots for $150 and you can shave off a buck or two on final price.

CPU, $50 more gets you a 7900 with cooler for $339 or 7800X3D without. Nothing wrong with the 7700 though, just kind of… Why when it is such a low diff for 50% better multi core perf?

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