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I'd question whether you need the X3D model. Do you know it will make a significant improvement to performance in your actual use cases? For 1440p with a 5070 Ti, you will not be CPU limited in the vast majority of games, and the 9950X is a very capable CPU. But the other options are also on the...

Crucial are great and those drives are amazing. But they're not really useful for consumer use. I'd suggest the Corsair ones as the best value, though the Samsung ones are also fine. You can tell the generation by the speed, by the way: below 3500MB/s is Gen 3, above 7000MB/s is Gen 5...

This looks really good to me. My only question would be about storage. I doubt you need even one Gen 5 drive, let alone two. You could go down to Gen 4 and get a 1TB boot and a 4TB secondary for £3 more. (Or a 2TB secondary for significantly less.) In most scenarios, there is absolutely no...

What's the budget? What monitor will you be using?

Yes, you'll be able to transfer the 1070 directly over. I would also consider if you could transfer any storage over. Yes, a better case will be better. You can spend any amount! The 3000D for £15 more is worthwhile. Better motherboards (and I'd recommend a better one still if you can) mean...

I think this system is seriously out of balance. You're spending a hell of a lot of money on things that will make zero difference to your performance. I'm actually going to include the CPU in that, becuase you will literally never be CPU-limited in your system, so the 9800X3D is an absolute...

Yeah, the last few generations have gone from "meh" to "not great" to "wow, that's hot" to "wow, it was so hot the CPU literally deformed itself". If you really want that much storage, I'd suggest getting one of the higher quality drives like the IronWolf 8TB one: faster and more reliable. (And...

First things first, avoid Intel. There is no reason at all to use an Intel chip right now: AMD is better at essentially everything, while also being more reliable and promising longer-term upgradability. Second, why do you want an 8TB hard drive?! So the build I would make would look like...

I wouldn't suggest trying to clone a boot drive. It can be done, but it's way easier just to do a fresh install on the new drive. You will probably be able to tell which slot the existing M.2 drive is in through the BIOS. I'm not sure there's a reliable way to do it in Windows. Note that the...

Well, I envy you your budget! If you really want to spend that money on a gaming PC, here's about as good as it gets. Note that it uses AMD's 9800X3D CPU rather than Intel's awful 14900KS chip, which literally degrades and deforms at the high temperatures that it creates. AMD is both better...

I'm going to start by saying that I don't know your field. I don't know if your work will be 100% GPU-dependent (like, say, crypto-mining), or if CPU performance is in some way important to keep the GPU fed. If it's the former, you could do things more cheaply. But I'd be inclined to spend...

Get a mini PC and put it in a big box, then. It seems very foolish to me to spend money on buying outdated hardware, which will go out of support (nb not warranty) sooner, which performs worse, and which is smaller on your desk. I consider what you're doing fundamentally misconceived, so I'm...

This PC is not enough. If the only component that matters is the GPU, it'll probably work (probably), but ultimately it is lacking in several areas. The motherboard is very basic: I would urge a higher-tier one. The RAM is slow and, crucially, single-channel, which will restrict performance in...

I'd have posted the AMD one if it was in stock!

No point whatsoever in getting a discrete GPU for those tasks. But then there's no real point in getting a full size desktop PC either. As an example (and I wouldn't buy this system either, not least as it's an Intel CPU), you could get a compact PC like this one, which would perform just as...

Getting a custom PC for these purposes is very questionable. You end up with old or cheap hardware, which goes out of support sooner, and will not be of enormous benefit to you over, say, a laptop or a mini PC. If you really want this kind of system, it can be done (the key is to get a CPU with...

This system has a few obvious problems. The first is the RX 580: I presume that's what it's complaining about as that game seems to require raytracing. There are other areas I'd want to look at too: the CPU (though it might be OK), the memory (ditto), the storage (you need an NVMe drive for...

I totally agree. You'd do much better to buy a second-hand system. A gaming PC from around four years ago (maybe something with a 5700X CPU and a 3060 Ti graphics card or thereabouts) would be more than a decent entry point. But a new system for this budget? It can't really be done. Certainly I...

Oh, you're quite right, I misread the typo as 9700X. Going for that would be perfectly sensible. The 7900 would offer less of an advantage in everything except long video renders.

Actually, a little research suggests that the power difference is minimal, and may even be in the 9700X's favour. So if you're willing to spend the extra on the CPU upgrade, the cooler will still very likely be sufficient.