End of Year PC Build

Typical Razer software.

It's the same with Logitech's G Hub, Asus' Armory Crate, and Corsair's iCue. These badly written software often cause a lot of problems.

It's one of the reasons why nowadays I don't even use Logitech G Hub. I just store all the settings on my mouse and keyboard's on-board memory instead of having G Hub running in the background.

^A new build with pictures! Will wonders never cease. Your post is most welcome; we don't get too many posts these days, and my procrastination seems to continue. My takes:

- I like the white a lot! After building two black gaming rigs, I really dig the white theme.
- NZXT H6 looks nice. I wasn't familiar with it, so had to look up where the PSU goes.
- I concur with your choices: I have the same CPU and a 4070 Ti Super. That's plenty bang for buck, and quite enough power for gaming. And I don't shun MSI.
- Don't sweat about the screws: Three is ample for holding a fan in place.

I don't use RGB in my rigs, but I did recently build a PC with RGB. Now to take pictures and post them here..

I had to think about the 4070 Ti Super, weird name, and the 4070 Super. The extra VRAM is nice but the price was too much for me. That GTX 780 was the last GPU I bought years ago and the prices now are wild. It's disappointing to see that Nvidia has so cornered the market. But maybe I should talk much, the last non Nvidia card I owned was an ATI 20 years back.

What 4070 Ti Super did you get?

I did make the jump up to 1440P with this build. Hope the 12GB on the 4070 Super will last at that resolution for some time.

The 7800 X3D though I can't say enough good about it. It absolutely flies through HOI4. Here I'm glad too see that AMD has gotten it's act together against Intel and is actually competitive.

Im interested in the new Z890 series Motherboards and new(ish)ly released Core Ultra series CPUs from Intel.

At $830 CAD it wouldn't be the most expensive CPU Ive ever purchased. (At 859.99 that crown still belongs to the Intel 6850K that I had on my previous X99 build). But at an equal price of 829.99 for the Z890 Aorus Master it would be the most expensive motherboard I have built.

For next Fall 2025 I am considering the following build:

CPU: Intel i9 Core Ultra 285 (24 Cores @ 5.7ghz per Core; 16 E-Cores, 8 P Cores)

Motherboard: Aorus Master Z890

GPU: Aorus Master Rtx 5080 Super- 18GB Model (if it is released by next Fall)

DDR5: G.Skill 64GB (2×32gb) Dual Channel DDR5 @ (WHATEVER speed best matches the Bus of the MB and CPU and will play nicely with both....estimated at about 6000Mhz)

M.2 Samsung 990 4TB (or a newer model at time of release)

Liquid Cooler: Corsair iCue H170i RGB Pro 420mm AIO

Case: CoolerMaster HAF 700 EVO

OS: WINDOWS 11 PRO (OR 12, 13 ETC) 64BIT

MONITOR (3 Current Choices, no particular preference)

* BenQ Mobiuz EX 3210U

** MSI QD OLED 321URX (OLED 32 INCH, 4K , 320hz Refresh Rate, .03ms RT, 10-bit Colour)

2 ASUS Monitors...just because Id be willing to try it. Nkt had good luck with ASUS products and their monitors at Staples are always very dark...but I have heard good things about them so I would be willing to try ASUS as a monitor brand.


I am choking on my credit and bank cards judging by today's prices for those parts....But that is why I intend to save as much as possible.

But can someone fill me in about matching the CPU and MB to the Memeory? Because times have changed. Not truly since DDR3 has there actually been a NEED to matxh the Front Side Bus of the Motherboard to the Bus of the CPU and then match both of those things to the memory's maximum speed that is supported in order for everything to work correctly and without errors.

So with DDR 4 and 5 now...that is no longer necessary. But still I am confused because they make RAM speeds far faster than CPUs can support. Mothernoards may handle RAM now up to 8000mhz, but even the best cpu has a maximum supported speed of 5400mhz.

So what gives? How does that all work?

Please share....

No prob.
Officially, DDR5 is rated for 2800MHz, meaning that in Double Data Rate you get 2x 2800MHz = 5600 MHz. Again, officially, everything above that is considered OC and may void your MoBo's warranty.

I've built two rigs this year, both running @6000mhz perfectly fine, no issues. I'm sure, that when you finally get to building your rig, 6000MHz is considered slow.

Energizer Bunny 211 you sure you need that expensive motherboard or there are yet no cheaper ones? I've always opted for the cheapest without any extras because those work the most hassle free in my experience So if you do not need all the bells & extras..

I thought the Ryzen 9000 CPUs were underwhelming but Intel's launch was even worse.

I guess this generation is just shit. Hopefully the upcoming 9800X3D is slightly better at least.

Late comment but I bought a PNY 4070Ti and it has been great.

I watched so many of his videos when I was shopping for parts. That uplift he got is pretty impressive from where that CPU was at.

Love the just wait for AMD early next month though. Even though I'm not going to upgrade it will be interesting to see how good they are, he seems to think will be. Might be the only bright spot for CPU's this cycle.

Seems there is no Studio Driver update yet, so I'll wait for that.