System building plan

Rustyhawk

Rustyhawk

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Hey anyone have ideas on this build, or if there is some mess up on part choices

Case: Fractal Design Define 7 XL Black - Solid
PSU: Seasonic 1300W PRIME PX-1300 Platinum, modular ATX (overkill on purpose)
Mobo: Gigabyte X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, AM5, 4.7 GHz, 12-Core
cooler: Be quiet Dark Rock 5
RAM: Kingston 128GB (4 x 32GB) FURY Beast, DDR5 5600MHz, CL40, 1.25V
SSD: Solidigm 2TB P44 Pro SSD, PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe, M.2 2280 X2
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB

OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 or something. Haven't fully decided what DE to use.

Rough estimation of 3,400€
 
it looks like a very high end machine. Looks good to me! And yes the PSU is very overkill haha!
 
I would sacrifice RAM capacity for a little more speed to try and get 6000MHz because 128 is a little overkill unless you have a specific need for 128gb. I would also go for a Ryzen 7 7800X3D instead of the 7900X as its a little cheaper and still better than the 7900X
 
Is the graphics card choice solid? If you have Nvidia alternatives, there's a Fedora derivative called Nobara out now that greatly simplifies using their cards - no more direct need for AMD.
 
There are parts that can be swapped to something else just like choosing which linux variant its going to be. Haven't tested Nobara much yet. Only on old system which didn't run it properly.
Besides RTX 30 alone has been so massive disappointment, meanwhile 40x series took samsung galaxy note 7 direction. I don't see reason using nvidia over amd on linux.
 
7900x3d instead. I tried to use 6400 mhz ddr5 but got occasional bsods, reduced to 6200 and it works great.
 
Whole thing is still open to changes. OS is likely going to be Kubuntu LTS. Nobara sounds great on quick look with games, but its update cycle is too rapid with that Fedora large update after every 6 months. Don't want to be fixing audio problems that often.

On ram side I'm aiming mimum of 128GB and very best 192GB 5200Mhz seems to largest as 4x48 available here.
 
Solid build I would recommend going for a 3D cache CPU, and maybe downgrading the PSU since 1300 W is a bit overkill. If you care about Ray Tracing the new gen AMD GPUs might interest you or maybe previous gen Nvidia. For OS I would recommend you check out Cachy OS, its a noob friendly Arch based listro but with special packages that give you a tiny bit better performance based on your CPU
 
Well this took longer than expected but system is shipping after full year with following parts

Fractal Design Define 7 XL
Asus pro ws 1600w platinum psu 80 plus platinum psu (total overkill on purpose when expecting ~750W usage at times)
Asus Rog Strix X870-F
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
be quiet Dark Rock 5
Samsung 990 PRO 2TB
Samsung 990 PRO 4TB
Asrock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 64GB 5600MHz (speed pobably drops to ddr5 base if it cannot perform proper on testing)

arock gpu was only option with importer here due idiocy of local market only supporting what ever is newest leading is situation if its not widely popular you cant get it.

Last its left deciding which OS system gets. Fedora 43 or ChachyOS while lacking know how use either.
Updates are concern on cachyos its rolling way of things going straigh to trash if they come out more often than every two weeks or once in month.

So far I have been using ubuntu 20.04 - 22.04 on Dell Latitude 5310 laptop from 2021.
I also tried Linux Mint on current system 2025 Feb-March 5 but somehow system bugged itself after one month. Including nvidia 3090 being total ass.
 
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