Ars Technica System Guide: Five sample PC builds, from $500 to $5,000
If you like something of a little more declaration, the Fractal Design North ($ 155) and Lian Li Lancool 217 ($ 120) include wood accents that some cases have recently pushed. The fractal design case is delivered with side panel options in glass and tempered glass, depending on how you are in RGB, while the Lancool case includes a huge fans of cases to keep your system cool.
The “Box of God”
What is good for: Everything and anything.
What he sucks: Be affordable.
Cost to date: $ 4,891 at $ 5,146
We avoid Xeon and Threadripper’s territory here – I have never even tried to make a construction centered on these chips and I would not trust to make recommendations – but this system is as fast as the basic material of consumption.
An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 guarantees the fastest GPU performance you can buy and continue the tendency to “pay as much for a GPU as you could for a fully functional PC”. And although we have specified this version with a single GPU, the motherboard we chose has a second PCIe 5.0 x16 location at full speed that you could use for a double GPU version.
A Ryzen chip 9950x3D requires you to high -level play performance and tons of processor hearts. We cool this powerful chip with an Arctic III liquid freezer cooler at 360 mm, which has generally obtained good criticism from Nexus gamers and other points of sale for its value, cooling performance and silent performance. A white option is also available if you opt for a color set in clear mode instead of our construction mainly in dark mode.
Other components have been inflated in a similar way. A 1,000 W power supply is the minimum for an RTX 5090, but to give us margin, why not use a 1,200 W model with lights on it? Is PCIE 5.0 strictly necessary for something? No! But let’s still take an SSD of 4 TB PCIe 5.0. And populate our four RAM locations with a 32 GB stick of DDR5 avoids unsightly empty spots inside our case.
We have selected a few wide cases to house our large versions, but as usual, there are tons of other options to adapt to all the sensitivities and tastes of design. Just make sure that if you select a large extended ATX motherboard such as the X870E Taichi, that your case will adapt to a slightly wider board than a regular ATX or micro Atx table (Taichi measures 267 mm wide, which should be well in one or the other selection of cases).
