I'm building my first desktop because my laptop can no longer handle the games I want to play, and I'd also like enough performance for video editing. A parts compatibility website flagged the Ryzen 5 8400F and Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB as having a serious bottleneck, but the site doesn't list the RX 9060 XT and only offers the RX 9070 XT for comparison. Could that inaccurate GPU selection be causing the warning? Is the 8400F a suitable processor for this graphics card, or would another CPU be a better choice? I'd also appreciate general feedback on the rest of the build: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8400F; Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360L Core ARGB; Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI7 ICE ATX AM5; Memory: Kingston FURY Beast RGB 16GB; Storage: Silicon Power UD90 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD; Graphics card: Sapphire PURE Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB; Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic Mini V2; PSU: Gigabyte UD850GM PG5 V2 850W Gold; Monitor: Philips Evnia 23.8-inch 1920×1080.
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Yes, the 7500F is a better pairing and gives you a stronger upgrade path. Also double-check that your memory kit is 2×8GB or, preferably, 2×16GB rather than one 16GB stick. The 360mm liquid cooler is far more than a 7500F needs; a good affordable air cooler would be sufficient, leaving more money for 32GB of RAM or other upgrades.
The bottleneck checker probably isn’t giving you a useful result if it is comparing against the RX 9070 XT instead of the RX 9060 XT. That said, the Ryzen 5 8400F is still one of the weaker AM5 desktop processors. It’s essentially a laptop-oriented chip adapted for a desktop socket, so I’d avoid it for a new build if your budget allows. A Ryzen 5 7500F would be a much better minimum choice, or a Ryzen 5 7600 if you want integrated graphics and a boxed cooler.
Thanks! This isn’t a prebuilt—I’m choosing the parts myself. So the Ryzen 5 7500F would be a better option?
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