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You might also consider a lower tier machine that could be upgraded sooner. And don't skimp on the power supply, either. Be sure you get something reputable so it doesn't fry the whole system.

I see your PC part picker has a 9060xt instead of the 6800xt mentioned in your post, I was just gonna suggest that. Raw compute the 6800xt is only like 10% faster but it draws basically double the power. The only real downside is VRAM bandwidth, the 9060xt is around 320GB/s while 6800xt is 512GB/s, but this only matters if you're doing LLM's or something else predicated on memory.
To be honest if you're going that big on the CPU I'd probably pair it with something stronger than the 9060 (like 9070xt) but the GPU is the easiest thing to resell and upgrade later if you prefer.

Only other note I have is check out the PSU tier list, doesn't matter what you get as long as it's a good one: https://psutierlist.org/tiering-criteria

I built a new PC last year and I decided on the Fractal North XL (mesh) and I absolutely love this case. It looks awesome, the airflow is great, although it did take a little bit of tweaking as my first instinct was to put fans in every place possible, but I realized that some fans were fighting against eachother and the already good temps dropped a bit more after I reworked the fan arrangement.

The other thing that is great about this case is how much space there is inside so it's easy to get your hands in there when hooking everything up or when making changes after the initial install. The cable management system is pretty good too.

They aren't exactly cheap but Noctua 120mm fans are worth it in my opinion, I barely hear the fans in the case and I've never once had my CPU or GPU thermal throttle even when running a continuous benchmark and my PC is purely air cooled.

One potential downside is that with the mesh version of the case you get a side mounted fan mount that you can pick between putting it above the CPU or GPU. I chose to put over my GPU, but there was barely enough clearance above the GPU's power connector. Certain power cables might not fit without putting pressure/stress on the power connector which is generally not a good idea as it could cause issues with the power connector like shorting or melting it if the connection isn't perfectly secure. Not a huge issue for me, but something to be aware of and if anything you can just not put the fan mount above the GPU.

Ok, so unconventional and not recommended unless you know a lot about PCs, but have you tried looking on your local Craigslist/marketplace equivalent? I'm still seeing a decent amount of options for used PCs (US, so your experience might vary given the economic uncertainty of your local {it ain't great in the US right now}), so it might be worth it give a look around, and see if you can save on a basic pc and upgrade the GPU or the like.

Another option is to look at amd minisforum boards that have a laptop CPU soldered on, they take laptop ram and I've been quite pleased with mine (was ~$300 for the board and CPU for my desktop about a years ago).

Also, AMD is pretty smooth with linux, generally would recommend if using Linux, though Nvidia isn't the absolute worst so long as you aren't trying to run on mobile (like a laptop, done that, never again).

Looks good! My only advice is that 16G RAM isn't future proof and DDR 5 does weird things when you have too many sticks

That sounds okay for what you're aiming for, maybe a bit overpowered on the CPU front but it does sound like you want this build to last a while. If you need to save some money on the build you could maybe step down on the CPU side of things but I totally get it if you want to stick to something higher end.. in 5+ years you'll probably be happy you went with the better CPU, IMO.

DDR5 RAM is going to be the pain point in terms of cost right now but 16 GB is okay starting out.

If the system case you get can handle an AIO liquid cooler then I'd go with that for sure. CPU fans are okay but they tend to be a tad bit noisier than a liquid cooler in my own experience.

Not sure if you care about fan noise but I've been using the quieter Noctua fans for my own builds, they're great and well worth it if you're doing a build and care about that sort of thing.

You don't need a 1kW PSU for this build at all. 850W is perfectly fine.

I think I mostly agree with the things everyone else is saying here. The only thing I'd change from your PCPartPicker list is to bump the CPU down to a 9800x3d and upgrade the GPU to a 9070xt

I see you have some questions about PSU. Here's the PSU tier list. For the level of machine you're aiming for I would only recommend A tier. For wattage, take the expected wattage from PCPartPicker and add a couple hundred. With the changes I suggested that's a minimum of 750w for you, but I think I wouldn't go lower than 850w

I think this about a year and and loved my modular power supply. I’d highly recommend shelling out the extra few dollars for a brand name and modular power supply. Makes cable routing so much easier.

Why are you looking at a >8 core CPU but only 16 gigs of ram? Unless you're doing heavy productivity work get the 9800x3d/9850x3d over any of those CPUs. The experience is better on single CCD CPUs. Use the money saved to get 32 gigs of dual channel ram and you'll see significantly better performance.

Unless you're doing serious productivity work with at minimum 64 gigs of ram any of those CPUs would be at best a waste of performance, or at worst worse performance than a "normal" CPU.

I’m kinda confused, 7950x3d is am4, doesn’t that mean DDR4? But I digress….

I have a similar setup already, 7950x3d, 6900xt, 16gb ddr4, modular power supply, probably an 850w but I forget.

It’s pretty nice! I’m running Linux and unless I’m compiling a ton of stuff, haven’t had issues with 16gb of ram, the CPU is great. I don’t play graphically intensive games much, so it’s everything I need and more at the moment.

Water cooling is neat, I did hard lines and showy for a bit, now I have a rack mount case and soft tubes. The soft is much more pleasant to build with, I suppose. Overall I dunno if I would recommend it. More expensive, for sure, and more fiddly if you want to change modify upgrade whatever.

I have a very different philosophy: spend everything on the CPU/GPU/RAM, and go SFF, to make it easy to move and mimimize power.

Hence I got everything is stuffed into a Node 202: no case fans, fits in carry on, but (even with a 420W GPU) it’s whisper quiet and cool since the CPU and GPU are ducted with a few bucks worth of weather sealing foam, and suck in ambient air:

Hence, I think you should:

• Go with a nice, but cheap micro ATX motherboard

• Go with a “box” MicroATX case that will let you duct the CPU/GPU.

• Big tower heatsink, whatever orientation lets you duct it.

• No case fans.

• Go 750W for the PSU.

• Use the money you save to get 24GB or 32GB of RAM.

I think the last point is essential, unfortunately… I know it’s painful, but 16GB is going to slow down a 16C CPU. I watch 16GB cripple work laptops with much lesser specs, every day, and the need for RAM rises in workstation-type loads when you start spawning more threads.

AMD 6000/7000 are good buys though. They’re aging well.

What are the good MB and GPU card makers? I used to get Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, but that was years ago.