My eight-year-old PC struggles with Monster Hunter Wilds and occasionally crashes without producing crash dumps. I'm planning to replace nearly everything except the case and existing SSD. I mainly play at 1080p and aim for 60 FPS, but I'd like the new system to remain usable for six to eight years, even if I have to lower settings toward the end of its life. Does this parts list look reasonable? I know two 16 GB memory modules would perform better than a single 32 GB module, but choosing that option would cost about €300 more. The current storage drive is an NVMe SSD rather than a SATA drive, though I'm also considering replacing it with another 1 TB PCIe 3.0 NVMe model.
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For only about €30 more, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D would be a stronger gaming choice than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Its extra 3D cache can help in CPU-heavy games such as Monster Hunter Wilds, and it may lessen the performance penalty from running a single memory module. Aside from that, the proposed build looks solid.
If the computer resets without creating a crash dump, the failure may be happening below the operating system. Power delivery or a storage device briefly dropping out could cause that kind of behavior. Since you’re already replacing the power supply, I’d also be cautious about carrying an old drive into a system you want to keep for many years. Even though it’s NVMe rather than SATA, replacing it with a reliable, current SSD would still be reasonable.
It is an NVMe drive, not SATA. I’ll look into replacing it with a newer 1 TB NVMe SSD instead.
That makes sense. I’ll go with the 7800X3D—thanks for the recommendation.