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Hope it's not too bad to uh, necro this, so to speak, but I have another build penned. Power limit is higher. Of course there's no money for it now, but Black Friday is in two months...


This is what it looks like: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CfHxyg


From what I can gather, the CPU has to be limited to around 78-80W, but through undervolting and that, you don't really lose any meaningful performance on it. It should still far outdo the 7600X3D I would think.


The 7900 GRE, honestly, just looks like a hell of a card. Shame it's not going to perform as well as NVIDIA's options for video-related GPGPU work like upscaling, but it's a hit I'd be willing to take---it's just really good for gaming, which is my first and foremost option. It's also worth noting the AMD cards are not unable to do video GPGPU work like that, they're just slower. Probably still trounces on my halftop's 2070 Super.


The GPU is 2mm under the case's limit for width and I believe a similar amount for height. Should be fine?


I've seen people say it can be limited to 220W and lose no real performance, which puts it at the same wattage as a 4070 Super where it does better than it and has more VRAM, which is nice.


The PSU I think is way overkill in wattage, but I guess it provides leeway? I'm hoping it's not consuming anywhere near that 540W anyway? I opted to add the Titanium one for maximum power efficiency---do recall I'm limited on power, every bit saved through efforts like that would be nice. I think I can free up quite a bit of extra power by switching to LED bulbs though.

There won't be any point the PSU takes 750W like how refrigerator or air conditioner compressors have their "flash points"/surges, right?


I know the RAM is excessive, but it'd be a [expletive] to ever access the RAM again. Besides, 64GB of RAM is nice!

EDIT: Changed out the RAM by suggestion of Gildio in the Discord.