A new year and a new build ready for the new expansion announcement soon!
Just got the last of the few new computer parts today and just finished putting together and upgrading my pc!
Only real changes compared to my last year’s build post is the jump from Ryzen 9 to Team Blue’s Intel 12th gen (it hasn’t been since 2017’s AMD Ryzen’s launch that I’ve used Intel, as I’ve been with Team Red since), DDR5 memory, and Nvidia’s latest gaming flagship, also LCD AIOs seem a bit more common these days and higher quality displays, so got my first one (got a spinning Minecraft fox as a stand in for a pump speed indicator)
I use it mainly to play World of Warcraft, occasionally dabble on some other games, but 99% is just WoW, even though overkill, it’s mainly so I can try to keep my screen’s framerate near max (120@4k) while keeping the quality settings at max, AA on, and raytracing enabled for peak immersion, and especially just simply for the fact that I love gaming computers so any excuse to build a new one is always fun! Also with DDR5 being new to the scene, I couldn’t wait to upgrade to it!
My Setup:
Intel 12900K CPU
Corsair iCue H150i Elite LCD AIO
EVGA FTW3 Ultra RTX 3090 Ti
Aorus Master Z690 Motherboard
32gb G.Skill Trident Z5 6400Mhz DDR5 Memory
1TB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe
512GB Samsung 980 Pro NVMe
2TB WD Red hard drive
Thermaltake iRGB Plus 1250W Titanium PSU
Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic Razer Edition case
48" LG C1 4K 120Hz OLED
Corsair K70 Mk.2 Keyboard (Cherry MX Blue)
Razer Naga Pro Wireless Mouse w/Chroma Dock
Razer Orbweaver Chroma Keypad
Blue Snowball USB Mic
Luxcoms RGB Extended Mouse Pad
Monsoon MM-702 Planar Magnetic Speakers
Audeze LCD-MX4 Headphones
Micca OriGen G2 DAC (for Speakers)
Monolith THX788 Balanced AMP/DAC (for Headphones)
DXRacer OH/RL1 Chair
Man that’s a beast, congrats! With that 12900k and 3090Ti expect your power bill to be higher though, those things suck a lot of juice.
Definitely check out some spec hungry titles like CP2077 maxed out.
Not a very good one with the insanity of the used car market right now… maybe a 1993 Toyota Camry with 400k miles with a transmission that’s barely hanging on lol
Congratulations on your new build and i hope it serves you well, I still have zero interest in intels 12th gen so moving to a new setup such as your 12900k+3090ti doesn’t offer me something my 5950X +6900XT can’t do at the moment so i’m sitting here either skipping another generation or seeing what Am5 brings.
Congrats on the nice new build, i stopped throwing nice PC hardware at WoW ages ago, no matter what i seem to do, they all seem to have trouble holding 60+ FPS while on ultra in raid settings. These days i just replace my GPU every 3ish years and PC every 6 ish years and play on medium/high @ 60fps.
100% true, car market is crazy atm. New cars selling way over MSRP, dealers taking advantage of the market and supply shortage by jacking up prices, to the point that even some used cars are selling for new car prices.
Yeah, i pretty much went the flagship route in my builds back when I got into 4k OLED screens back in 2020, so it’s mainly to push the fps on my 4k screen while being able to keep quality settings high in WoW, since 4k is quite demanding, especially if you tick raytracing on and quality set to 10. However if i still was using my 1440p monitor, this would definately be a pointless upgrade as i was doing fine back during that time when i had a 2080 ti
Can I come live at your house and use that PC? I bet that cost a crapload.
I bought myself a new computer chair this week for $450. Got a nice big comfy one that’s built for “heavy” people so I figured it should last me a while.
lol, oh you sweet summer child, you must be out of the loop for current gpus and 12th gen intel cpus The intel 12900K has a 150W TDP and spikes up to 250 watts, and a 3090 ti has a 450 watt TDP and spikes upwards of 650 watts, even Nvidia themselves have a 1000W PSU minimum requirement on the 3090 Ti, it also takes 3x 8-pin pci-e cables merged into the new 12-pin standard to power it
Anyways, I had this PSU for a while now, had it back when I use to run a SLI/NVLink setup a couple years ago, so that’s why i have a 1250w psu in the first place and also because I scored a deal on it back then (over 1/2 off). However I am glad I have it, as it allows me to pretty much run any components I want to in my system and also keeping it within it’s peak efficiency range, as PSUs run at peak efficiency around the 40-70% range, and not being pushed to the max rating, where they are less efficient and run hot, which also wears the components inside the PSU down faster (shorter lifespan).
been using nvme drives for years now (since the Ryzen 1st gen days), all I can say is that they are fast. First was a Samsung 960 evo, then 970 evo plus, now 980 pro. Never had any issues with any.
Anyways, normal hard drives and SSDs that connect through a Sata port are bottlenecked by the sata port which only support a max of ~600mb/s, so doesn’t matter if you have a solid state drive that has a theoretical top speed touted in the 4-6Gb/s range (usually how they are marketed) they are still restricted by the bottleneck of the actual sata port’s speed (600 mb/s max).
Meanwhile, NVMe drives virtually go at full speed as they go through pcie lanes, so as a result nvme drives can actually perform at full rated speeds. The Samsung 980 pro I use currently is rated up to 7Gb/s
P.S. near instant boot up to desktop is a nice thing too about nvme drives when paired with a fast/ultra boot motherboard feature (which virtually every motherboard should have these days), can get to windows desktop from a cold boot in about 5 seconds.
so any excuse to build a new one is always fun! Also with DDR5 being new to the scene, I couldn’t wait to upgrade to it!
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I bet that cost a crapload.
