Does this PC build make sense?

Soooo after a month of trying, I have given up trying to get my 7900xtx setup back from my ex.

I have been grinding at work using a ryzen 5500U handheld with a smashed display and a usb-c dock as my stopgap system.

This is what I have settled on as the replacement:

My primary usecase is g*ming, although my most played titles are HEAVILY cpu bound to the point that an Arc B580 would do in the counterfactual world where Intel did not operate factories on destroyed Palestinian villages.

The 9070xt is a gambit that ML hype keeps prices inflated through the launch of UDNA in 3 years.

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cpu bound as in stellaris turn time or as in fps? cause why 9950 instead of x3d
and why not get ultrawide?
- I did some further research on benchmarks for Dwarf Fortress and Football manager, and the delta was small enough that I decided to go all the way back down to 9600x and wait for the 6 core CCD zen 6.
  Thanks very much, no way I would have noticed that on my own.
  
  Imma be real, if it’s purely for games ram also seems excessive, 64 gigs is doing datasets with 500 chrome tabs territory, 32 gigs seems fine for games (?maybe only microsoft 9/11 simulator approaches those). And maybe air cooler, although yours seems cheap-ish enough. Or is df memory hungry?
  Or I’m doing something wrong, cause only last year i started having slight issues on 16, and that’s from lots of tabs and game opened
- I travel for work often enough that the portability of a single 40something ultrawide versus multiple 20something 16:9 is an issue.
Not really a fan of va panels or 1080p but that’s whatever. Clearances look fine, main thing I’d change is I’d get the asus prime oc gpu for 3 displayport instead of 2dp/2hdmi, seeing as you’re going triple monitor. The asus card also boosts a little higher and it’s the same price
- Is DP daisy chaining no longer a supported technology? I chose sapphire because I hear they are the least stonewall-y for warranty service.
  
  DisplayPort daisy chaining would require the monitor to support it, which as these only have one DisplayPort I’m pretty sure they do not. There would likely also be bandwidth restrictions. It also looks like they only support 240hz@1080p over HDMI vs the 250hz the DP supports, minor but could be an issue if you’re trying to do 5760x1080. Sapphire does have a good reputation though, I’d definitely use them if they did Nvidia (or AMD decided to make high end GPUs again).
  Edit: It looks like you could get a daisychain adapter but that’d be another thing to fail and more money to spend when you could just avoid the issue.
I’ll echo that you probably want to choose an x3d chip over anything else. The giant size cache lets non-benchmark tasks go much faster.
Is there a reason you chose a two stick ram kit rather than a four stick like your motherboard supports? I used to leave slots open “for when I want some more”, but nowadays when I want some more I’m finding the lower latency stuff is in my price range or I can get a higher speed with a cpu upgrade and end up swapping it all out at once.
If you can get away with a cheap b580 then it’s worthwhile for you to do so. Intel is losing money and fucking up as a business anyway so don’t let their evil actions prevent you from picking their bones clean. No ethical consumption etc.
Consider socking back $20 for some ptm and switching to an air cooler. They’re genuinely not loud, have fewer ways of catastrophically failing and dovetail nicely with the processors built in overheat handling because of their much larger thermal mass.
Consider putting a spinning hard drive in there as well. Not everyone is as versed in the new failure modes of ssds and how to deal with them and having somewhere else your data is stored locally is nice.
Also being able to shuffle something you’re not using off the ssd temporarily is a real luxury, like having a shed.
- Intel is losing money and fucking up as a business anyway so don’t let their evil actions prevent you from picking their bones clean. No ethical consumption etc.
  Crossing picket lines is good actually. Buying IOF bonds with the money OP budgeted for a PC would be even better.
  
  There is no picket line to cross. There is not significant organized opposition to intels equivalent to ibm selling to Nazi germany. Buying an iof bond would not put the ops limited funds to more efficient use in the form of pc parts but scooping up cheap parts from an ailing manufacturer would.
  Your consumptive decisions do not define you or exert control over the productive forces which put them in the market place.
  Buying a Mac doesn’t make you a free thinker and not buying a Mac doesn’t make you the real free thinker.

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