Is my planned build as good as it can be for gaming?
Is my planned build as good as it can be for gaming?
CPU: Ryzen 9 7900X3D
Mainboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI
GPU: Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX Gaming OC 24GB
I had to switch from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D because there is a huge shortage where I live, and it got to the point where it was €100 more than the Ryzen 9. I know I will have a slight performance hit if the game uses the non-3D V-Cache, but I prefer that to spending almost €150 more than the MSRP.
Little side question: Will the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the motherboard work in Arch? From what I could gather, the drivers for it should be in the latest kernel, but I'm not 100% sure.
Id have the exact same build if you did get a 7800x3d. Absolutely love it.
You won't be disappointed even with 7900x3d.
as good as it can be
Well the 9800x3d exists and is better, but that's also probably out of stock wherever you are.
The 7900x3d has 6 cores with extra cache vs the 8 of the 7800x3d
You may need to patch your kernel to get wireless working. I just turned mine off in the bios and have an external usb BT adapter.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=286981
List of wireless drivers included in the kernel
https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers.html
You know what, you're right in a way. I would honestly rather spend the extra €100 and get guaranteed results, especially since I want to water-cool and get as much performance out of that bad boy. Someone else mentioned the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, but that one is almost always out of stock, and even when it isn't, it costs almost €700. Thank you for the links, though, in case I need them.
I have a 7900 non-x3d and it works great for me
If you’re focused on gaming there’s nothing better right now than AMDs 7/9800X3D
The 7950X3D or 9800X3D are both faster (besides the 7800X3D you mentioned).
GPU-wise this is obvious the best AMD has to offer, but an RTX 4090 is obviously faster still. With the typical caveats for NVIDIA on Linux.
normal ryzen 9 7900 costs less, delivers very similiar performance in gaming, and you can maybe use it for developnent too. x3d cards perform horribly in anything but gaming
Looks fine to me.
Little side question: Will the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the motherboard work in Arch? From what I could gather, the drivers for it should be in the latest kernel, but I'm not 100% sure.
If they don't for some reason and you can't get it working or need some sort of driver fix, can always worst case fall back to a USB dongle or similar until they do. Obviously, preferable not to do that, but shouldn't wind up stuck without them no matter what.
It is just a pain in the ass to find out what network module exactly is being used in the motherboard before buying it. ASUS only says the ethernet is Realtek, and that's about it. I just hope that those one or two online probes I saw of the board on Arch that said it worked OOTB were correct.
Motherboards almost always use a normal m.2 WiFi & Bluetooth module. You can swap it out if needed.