I'm building my first-ever PC and would appreciate a compatibility and value check before buying the parts. My planned build is a Ryzen 7 9700X with a Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 cooler, ASUS TUF Gaming B850-Plus WiFi motherboard, Gigabyte RTX 5070 Ti Windforce OC 16GB, 32GB of KLEVV FIT V DDR5-6400 CL30 memory, a 2TB WD Blue SN5100 NVMe SSD, be quiet! Power Zone 2 850W Platinum power supply, and a Fractal North XL case. I'm also considering an Alienware AW2725D 27-inch 1440p 280Hz QD-OLED monitor. The total comes to roughly $4,070 after converting prices from Hungary to USD.
I mainly play Victoria 3, Overwatch, Darktide, Cyberpunk, and Crimson Desert, and I'm planning to play future releases such as The Witcher 4 and GTA 6. I want high or ultra settings with stable, smooth performance rather than chasing extremely high frame rates. Ideally, I'd like the system to last around four or five years without major upgrades.
Does everything look compatible and sensibly balanced? Are any components unnecessarily expensive, and would you recommend changing the graphics card, memory speed, storage, or another part?
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Nothing immediately stands out as incompatible, and the 850W power supply is a comfortable choice for this hardware. The main thing I’d question is value rather than performance: the North XL is a very large case for these components, and the 280Hz monitor is mainly useful for competitive games such as Overwatch. For cinematic single-player games at 1440p, the OLED panel and image quality matter more than reaching 280 frames per second.
The graphics card choice is reasonable if you want stronger ray tracing and access to NVIDIA-specific features, but compare the actual Hungarian prices before deciding. Also check that the SSD is a good-value model locally, since a faster or better-supported 2TB drive may cost about the same.
The build looks compatible, but there are a few places where you may be able to save money. A Radeon RX 9070 XT is worth considering because it generally performs similarly in regular gaming while costing less in some markets. The RTX 5070 Ti still has advantages for ray tracing, path tracing, CUDA-based applications, and some creative software, so the better choice depends on how important those features are to you.
DDR5-6000 would also be perfectly adequate for this processor, although using 6400 makes sense if the price difference is only a few dollars. The Phantom Spirit is usually much cheaper than the amount listed, so check several local retailers. Since you’re buying in Hungary, compare prices using a local PC parts comparison tool and make sure the motherboard’s BIOS supports the processor out of the box.
I’m in Hungary, and the prices were converted to USD just to make them easier to compare. I was considering the RX 9070 XT, but I leaned toward the RTX 5070 Ti because of ray and path tracing in future games. I’ll look at both again. The 6000 and 6400 versions of the memory kit are only about $5–$10 apart here, so I thought the faster kit was reasonable.