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This is the Holy Grail of gaming CPUs, combined with AMD's top graphics card, a 4K gaming combination that would cost you over $1,200 to buy the two parts separately if you were putting this build together yourself.
This CyberPowerPC rig is ready for gaming at 1440p and 4K. It includes the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD with Gen 4 speeds.
As mentioned, the beating heart of this build is the excellent 9800X3D CPU. This 8-core, 16-thread beast is not quite the fastest gaming CPU on the market (it was recently dethroned by the 9850X3D), but thanks to its much more modest power draw, it remains our top pick for the best CPU for gaming on the market. As you can see, it shines in our benchmark testing as one of the fastest chips on the market, perfect for any 4K title you can think of.
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The standout feature of the 9800X3D is the 3D V-cache, the 96MB of which reduces how often your CPU has to fall back on your system's RAM, drastically improving frame rates.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is AMD's flagship GPU, featuring 64 RDNA 4 compute units and a generous 16GB of VRAM, specs akin to Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, with performance to match. As you can see in our 4K testing suite, the RX 9070 XT performs significantly better than the RX 9070 and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070, lagging behind the 5070 Ti and the 4080. While you won't get access to Nvidia's popular DLSS technologies, this is still a very capable and popular graphics card, currently worth $800 in the current market.
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The supporting cast of this build is also quite generous in the circumstances. You get 32GB of DDR5 RAM worth at least $400-$450, and a 2TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD worth $250. To keep everything running, there's a 1000W power supply and ARGB liquid cooling to keep your processor nice and cool. The motherboard is a mid-range B850 model.
For your troubles, you'll also get a free copy of Onimusha to play on your new rig, a freebie with a list price value of $69.99 at Newegg.
There's no denying this PC would have been cheaper even just a few months ago, but this is a very respectable build in the current market.
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logainofhades If you shop around and find the right combo deals, you could still manage to build it cheaper. Friends don't let friends buy Cyberpower. Reply
PEnns logainofhades said: If you shop around and find the right combo deals, you could still manage to build it cheaper. Friends don't let friends buy Cyberpower. Amen brother! Reply
helper800 Also, a 9070 XT is hardly a 4k card in the newest games unless you like looking at lots of fake frames. Reply
logainofhades It can be a 4k card with upscaling, which runs the game natively in 1440p. Reply
helper800 logainofhades said: It can be a 4k card with upscaling, which runs the game natively in 1440p. Upscaling is a form of generating information that is not true to the native resolution target. I would claim that is a partially fake frame. 1440p is 3,686,400 pixels per frame, while 4k is 8,294,400 pixels per frame. This means that ~65.6% of every frame is being constructed based on the native 1440p image creating a partially fake frame. Personally, I really like the benefits of upscaling, but that does not take from the fact that upscaling injects pixels that are a guesstimate of what it would look like at a native 4k resolution based on the 1440p native image. Reply
logainofhades Frame generation is what I call fake frames. Reply
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