BitMaster

What a waste of time and resources. The PCB's have the lowest quality of components soldered to them and who would put a high priced 4090 die on such an inferior carrier PCB ? But hey, if you like playing it hot, here's a perfect game.

Your Bios would accept a 5950X but I am not so sure if the VRM of that board would like it too. Looking at the board says alot. No VRM cooling, few Phases, likely other money-saving culprits. In short, not a good idea to put such a power hungry CPU on a budget/office board. A 5800X3D/5700X3D was max that I would put on it and feel somehow save.

I may throw in my old 1080ti, it mined over a year, it gamed, for many years...and is now happily working in my former IT-trainee's PC and it doesnt seem it's about to die anytime soon. As long as that cursed power adapter is playing nice I dont see why your 4090 shouldnt last many years, given proper cooling etc..

there are reports that the 7800X3D has some stuttering issues with DCS and the 9800X3D does not, so there is that. Either way, I would not get the 7800x3d for other reasons as well, pay the extra 78$ and be safe.

Know what kind of drives you want/need and lookup the Block Diagram of the mainboard you choose AND understand it. Without knowledge, the Diagram tells you nothing. It's not the CPU or the chipset that defines how PCIe lanes are switched and routed, it's the board and it's Bios, and many differences are among boards with the same chipset. For example, I can run 4 NVMe at 4x without sacrificing GPU bandwidth, THEREFOR I had to give up 2 of 6 Sata and a PCIe slot. I knew I wont need another card but I want multiple I/O drives. Others may favor even more drives and are willing to sacrifice GPU as they use iGPU, so there are another 16 lanes and Bifurcation options.... you just need to know first what you want and THEN look for the board that has THAT layout that doesnt close doors but keeps them open. edit: regarding CPU ...and why would you choose the 9900X ? For gaming it doesnt make any sense, just for productivity if you need all those cores for certain work. I would aim for 9800X3D or less money for 9800X or 9700X even 9600X. Given the 5070ti, all those will max out the GPU with ease. With AM5, you can upgrade to another CPU in 2-3 years, not so with Intel sockets. * just building 9 PC's....didnt even think of considering Intel for 1 second. All Ryzen 9600X based Office rigs

^^This with DDR5 as picky, as it is, doing so would likely end with grey hair. Doing an Epyc Server right now, and I was about to call that thing dead before it finally beeped, RAM, and having lots of it, can be tricky with DDR5. Even if you buy 2 packs of 64GB kit ( 2x32 ) it is not given that they will run as a 4x32 128GB combo, they very well may not. The warnings are everywhere about this, it ain't a secret.

Nobody buys Intel these days.

I can only second LucShep's perspective, I basically had to make the same decision couple months ago, 27" was my goal. My only difference is that I already see 32" as 4k territory, ppi wise, but it is still acceptable, similar/better to a FHD @ 24" . I ended up with an Asus XC27ACG 1440p and really like it. I have an older 27" 1440p Asus Gsync that my son uses now and HDR makes a big difference, as that is were mine differ. I don't strive for max FPS, rather a solid base fps that rarely fluctuates, regardless what game I play.

^This....foremost the low 1% get's fixed. Seeing this on X3D's that I have built and service.

As usual, the less power your game rig has the more it makes sense to OFFLOAD work to another machine, granted you have Gbit LAN wired. This is true for all computing in general. It just wont run properly on an outdated machine, you have to have the right 2nd PC to get the benefits.

Here they come... https://www.guru3d.com/story/highcapacity-ddr5-memory-new-256gb-and-128gb-kits-available-ddr56000-cl32-256gb/

Yes, it's one of the stand-out features, free flying wheeeeeeeel When I come to my desk and any of my kids clicked my G502 into non-free-wheel I get GRHHHHHHHH ! honestly, I hate mice with locked/rastered wheels, using Logitech with free-wheel for over a decade, no way back....that or a Mac mouse, that is equally easy to scroll.

Reminds me of better times.... R.I.P. cichlidfan

If I had to pick one that is free I would likely pick opnsense or pfsense. I have played around with it in VMware a while ago and it's pretty straight forward for standard setups. If you've build a cloud setup, then it will be not much different. I have no first hand info on what's popular in the US. I use Lancom over here if I can choose, but often I have to deal with the Router that there is, that's part of my job. Looking back through the years, I know which companies I don't prefer, mildly speaking. SInce I have used my own DIY Linux Routers back in ISDN years, 1998, I don't have to accept, I had and have options. But to be fair, I use a Provider owned Fritz!Box! Cable edition for years, 1Gbit, static IP etc., it's all I need. I have just sold an enterprise UTM Firewall Appliance, Linux based, on eBay for good money as the last thing I want and need in my Home/SoHo is a firewall that needs constant attention. So there is a gap between what one needs at home and what`sreally available on the market. Reliable, secure, LONG term support, OpenSOurce, Expandable, Asus, Netgear, etc. all have nice boxes but miserable support, lousy software, things AVM does 10x better with the Fritz Eco System. So to fill the gap, use a DIY Linux opnsense/pfsense on a mini-PC. For the kicks, You can install & configure it in VMware in such a way, that you dont have WAN until you fire up your virtual router, aka, test it on your rig before you deploy it. VMware is free meanwhile btw.

get 96GB for such a new system, it already stands on the horizon that 96GB is the new standard soon ( 1-2 years ) accepted by most builders. I would personally even do 128GB if that was available with good timings tbh