Hint: futureproofing does not exist - always buy according to the needs of today, not tomorrow

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 4 2025, 08:16 PM

Parts look awfully overpriced though

Have you considered mATX? It's quite a bit cheaper than ITX (and not much smaller than ITX), especially when it comes to mainboard pricing

Your usage tends to favor good single threaded performance, so I'd go with AMD:

Ryzen 5 7500F (with cooler) - RM570
MSI B650M Gaming Plus WiFi - RM558
2x16GB DDR5 6000CL30 RAM (HyperX Fury Beast) - RM467
Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD - RM356
Inno3D RTX 3050 6GB Twin X2 - RM685
Jonsbo C6 case - RM129
1st Player SFX 650W PSU - RM373

Total: RM3138

Use NVENC for your video editing workloads

Tip: you might want to check with your local brick and mortar PC stores - there's a possibility that you may get better prices than online retailers

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 7 2025, 06:37 PM

Budget way too low, and if you are willing to go MacOS the M4 Mac Mini is actually quite a good deal (it's not much more than that budget)

The M4 is a much more efficient SoC than most x86 chips especially in terms of single threaded efficiency, and they are a good fit for content creation workloads

You do, however need to deal with expensive storage/memory upgrade prices

You didn't read my post correctly:


Self replaceable/upgradeable hardware means very little for most people on the Mac ecosystem especially when you consider that Apple Silicon will happily thrashes most x86 machines in terms of perf/watt
For them, it's a reasonable compromise (might not suit you, but most people are more than happy to trade that away)
Modern Intel/AMD chips aren't even on the same tier as the old M1, mind you
I know power efficiency isn't too much of an issue on desktops, but you get the idea

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 13 2025, 10:14 AM

Heads up, there's an ASUS RX9070 for RM2839 for sale on Shopee

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 13 2025, 04:52 PM

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This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 15 2025, 06:34 PM

Nice, that's a really good value card
Shame about the 12GB VRAM though, especially when you consider that the card is really perfect with 16GB VRAM (hopefully the upcoming 5070 Super can remedy this, assuming they get the price point right)

Fixed that for you

Even slightly older titles can eat up CPU cycles like no tomorrow - I just finished Wild Hearts and I was surprised how CPU demanding this game is despite the age

This build is... not great really, it feels like they just went cheap on every single component out there just to fit a 9070 XT

16GB RAM isn't really enough for modern games, and the SSD is a DRAMless model, which isn't exactly ideal for I/O intensive workloads. 500GB isn't really a lot for games these days unless you like the idea of swapping games ever so often, especially with so many big budget titles can easily go over the 100GB+ mark

PSU is rather mediocre for what this machine offers

The CPU is fine, but I'd recommend going something in the line of a 7500F/7700 instead; it's a faster CPU with much better path for upgrades (you can put something like a 9800X3D or a theoretical 10800X3D in the future with a BIOS update)

This is what I'd probably get for ~RM6K:

Ryzen 7500F - RM563
MSI B650M Gaming Plus Wifi - RM615*
Acer Predator Pallas II 2x16GB DDR5 6000CL30 - RM448
ASRock RX9070 Challenger - RM2662 (https://my.shp.ee/diTpGMw)
Kingston KC3000 2TB - RM650
FSP VITA GM 750W - RM431
Lian Li Lancool 207 - RM307
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE - RM134

Total: RM5810

*Optional: you can swap the board to the ASRock B650 Pro RS Wifi for RM769 if you want an ATX board

A 9070 isn't much slower than the 9070 XT, but it is a much more efficient card, and it's quite a bit cheaper too (about 10% performance deficit compared to the XT variant at 1440p)

Plenty of storage for your big games too

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 27 2025, 07:07 PM

As always, max/ultra settings are always intended for future hardware, so don't worry too much if you cannot max it out with current hardware

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 27 2025, 07:05 PM

Even better, there's an ASRock RX9070 for RM620 less from the same seller, and you lose just 10% performance over the XT model, according to TPU benchmarks

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Jul 27 2025, 07:14 PM

I do offer PC assembling services - PM me

Again, FPS numbers do not tell the whole story, especially things like missing/downgraded textures are not something you can quantify with benchmark numbers

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Aug 30 2025, 10:12 AM

Using GPU cost per frame metric from Hardware Unboxed and based on Shopee prices:

1. Sapphire RX9070 XT Pulse (https://my.shp.ee/BNi8BES) - RM3099, RM27.67/frame
2. Sapphire RX9070 Pulse (https://my.shp.ee/QvsdY4n) - RM2648, RM25.96/frame
3. Colorful RTX5070 Ti Battle Ax (https://my.shp.ee/QvsdY4n) - RM3559, RM30.42/frame

Relative to each other, the RX9070 offers around 17% better cost per frame over the 5070 Ti, and the XT model is about 10% better in terms of cost per frame

If you do go for the Radeon card you will have to deal with the lower ray tracing and video encoding performance (it's still far superior to what the RX7000 series offers though)
However, do note that there is a driver update that boosts the Radeon performance quite a bit so keep this in mind

On the other hand, the 5070 Ti do offers better ray tracing performance and upscaling, so whether those features do justify the extra spending is up to you

P.S. you might want to avoid the MSI Shadow model, if the review of the MSI 5050 Shadow model by Hardware Unboxed is of any indication

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 3 2025, 09:59 PM

Yes, but does it warrant the extra spending? RT is still not worth the large performance hit over its supposed visual improvements, and not everyone like FG either (aka fake frames)
Another point in favor of the 9070s is that most AIB models tend to use the good ol' 8 pin power connectors which tend to be a lot more reliable than the failure prone 12VHPWR/12V2x6 connector on the 5070s

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 5 2025, 06:55 PM

You might want to wait for Shopee/Lazada 9.9 Sales in a few days - the RX9070XT used to retail for RM2.7K back in the 8.8 deal

Depends, but I would say a good air cooler would be a better fit due to better longevity - some AIOs can be susceptible to pump failures

No idea, but the 5070 Super should be a good competitor to the 9070, if Nvidia didn't screw up the pricing (knowing current GPU market it's going to happen anyway)
There's also the purported RX9070 GRE 16GB which should fit quite well between the 9070 and the 9060 XT (probably as a replacement for the 7800XT)

If the rumors are indeed accurate they should be releasing in September/October this year

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 6 2025, 11:07 AM

Jarrod's Tech did a analysis on the mobile RTX5070, which is analogous to a power limited 5060 Ti 8GB and explained why 8GB VRAM is largely unviable for AAA gaming without severe concessions to visual quality (even on laptops):



This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 6 2025, 01:18 PM

If you are in Penang, I can help you with this - ask me via PM
Some shops do accept bring your own parts, but you will need to pay a build fee