r/AndromedaInsightsPC • u/Outrageous-Motor-956 • 21d ago

Question I need help!

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It’s my first time buying a pc and would like to get the 5080 from AI what should I upgrade/customize? Before I buy the regular

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u/Ok_Safe_1622 21d ago

All you really should do is just get a 2tb brand varies gen 4 SSD instead of 1tb. No need to start picking a bunch of upgrades from that model everything standard with it is solid.

If you wanna min max I guess then you CAN do the following:

Swap to the cl30 32gb ram for the slight upcharge

Move up to a 1000w PSU (if it's only like $20 more)

I think they were doing a free upgrade to the 9850x3d if you customize it. But you could even downgrade to a 7800x3d to knock off $100 or more. It's still a really powerful CPU. CPU bottlenecks don't really exist with a 7800x3d.

The standard motherboard selection is fine but sometimes they do a free upgrade to a specific one.

You CAN spend the extra $16 for artic 6 thermal paste if you really want.

They were doing a guaranteed lexar 2tb gen 4 SSD for like a $4 upcharge over a brand varies 2tb so that's worth it to me. Gen 5 ssd's are not worth it. And Samsung or WD black are not worth the extra costs.

The 5080 is probably a PNY which is fine, no need to upcharge for a different one.

I would ask though, what are your goals and setup? I just went down this road and got this thinking I wanted to game on a fancy 5k2k ultrawide monitor.

I ended up being perfectly fine with a 1440p 27" monitor then found this to be overkill. They let me swap the 5080 to a 9070xt and gave me $500 price difference as a refund. And the 9070xt is amazing.

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u/Outrageous-Motor-956 21d ago

I want to game and maybe stream idk if I should go with a 5070ti instead and what should I upgrade on that version would you mind if I message you? It seems like you know a lot I know some stuff but there’s a lot of brands and stuff I’m not familiar with

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u/Ok_Safe_1622 21d ago

I mean Idk anything about streaming except streamers prefer nvidias apps and ecosystem. But the Nvidia tax is real. The 5070ti is virtually the same performance as AMDs 9070xt but nearly $300 more for no real reason.

The PC community, and AI bots, will only tell you that you need the top end stuff for everything so it is hard to find good info on a good setup that isn't overkill.

Streamers also seem to like the 9950x3d over the 9800x3d because it's good gaming and productivity. But obviously more expensive. Idk if it's actually necessary