Hello everyone. In this post I will be going over the recent build I just did in comparison to my old pre-built along with benchmarks.
Specs
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 XC33 Ultra
Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO
G Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MhZ 32gb (16×2)
Samsung M.2 980 Pro 500gb SSD
WD Blue WDS400T2B0A 4TB 2.5″ SATA Solid State Drive
Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
GAMEMAX RGB Power Supply 850W Fully Modular 80+ Gold Certified
iCUE 465X RGB Mid-Tower ATX Smart Case
You may be wondering why I selected some of these parts so let me explain.
CPU
I am aware that since I chose a Zen 3 CPU I will lose some space for upgrading in the future. This depends on whether AMD stays with the AM4 socket or not. Usually I wouldn’t want to buy a CPU that will probably be the last generation of its socket, but the fact is that with a system like this I won’t need an upgrade anytime soon, so I went with the 8 core Ryzen 7 5800X, which is what was available at the time of building.
GPU
It’s a 3090. And I just wanted one.
Now you might be wondering how I got a 3090 in this day and age of scalping. The answer is going to a local computer hardware store where it somehow wasn’t sold out, so yay for me I guess.
Motherboard and Memory
I went with a Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO because of the 12 + 2 phase VRM, as well as good VRM thermals allowing for a high overclocking potential. It also had good pricing, and an X570 motherboard felt unnecessary, because B550 gives me the capability to use two PCIe 4.0 devices anyway. (SSD + GPU)
For Memory I went with 32 GB (16×2) of Trident Z RGB 36000MhZ RAM with a CAS Latency of 18 ms. I went with it because it’s meant to be a more aesthetics focused build, so I wanted RGB. Since we have a Ryzen processor, the 3600Mhz speed will be fully taken advantage of.
Storage
For Storage I went with a 500 GB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro as my boot drive. The 980 Pro is on PCIe 4.0 and because of that it has an insane read and write of 6,900 MB/s and 5,000 MB/s respectively – however random read and writes which make up most of our day to day drive usage is much slower, like on any drive.
For my second drive, I went all out with a 4TB Western digital 2.5″ SATA SSD mainly because it was on sale and I can fit about 23 and a half copies of COD Warzone on it without it being formatted.
Cooling
I mainly went with this Corsair H100i 240mm AIO because of its RGB – again, this is an aesthetics focused build. I otherwise would have considered going with either an air cooler because of its lower maintenance and price tag, or just a cheaper AIO.
Power Supply
Never in a million years would I say to buy a power supply from a company named “GAMEMAX”. But it was Fully modular, and on sale so… I bought it. It is 80+ Gold so I don’t think it will explode.
P.S. It hasn’t. At least not yet.
Case
really personally love the look of this Corsair mid tower, and the fact it came with 3 of the 4 fans I wanted, which were Corsair LL120’s made it feel like an absolute steal of a case to get on discount.
Benchmarks
Now with that out of the way let’s look at the benchmarks.
(Benchmarks are all max settings per game and 1440p)
Right off the bat we see massive improvements in Apex Legends, as on the Lenovo pre-built we’d be lucky if we got 100+ FPS on 1440p max settings while with the Chad Gaming computer we can expect 200 FPS on average.
Titanfall 2 is a bit different, as the Lenovo Prebuilt already averaged 100 plus FPS, but we also had some major frame rate dips with the prebuilt that we did not with the Chad PC. At one point, the lowest FPS we had on the Chad gaming computer was the max for the pre-built. When it comes to Titanfall (or almost anything) these two aren’t in the same league at all
As we can see this build can do pretty much anything the old one can do, but so much better. However there is one question for this that has not yet been answered: Can it run Cyberpunk 2077? We’ll find out, in another future blog post. Thank you for reading!