Why the 7900XT and not a 9070 or 9070XT? Stock issue? Both are overkill for 1080p gaming but if you're trying to future proof, wouldn't the newer card with FSR4 be the better option?

What do you plan to do on that graphics card? Is that 20GB VRAM? That sounds nice, but not being a NVIDIA it lacks at least the CUDA cores which are necessary for many AI use cases which I have.

Hardware is very similar to my own build from last fall, except I went with a 7800XT. it's been running CachyOS since then and works superbly.

Anecdotal, but I have owned a total of 3 sapphire amd cards in my lifetime, and all 3 failed much sooner than a GPU should.

It has been about a decade since my last one, so maybe they have stopped using low quality parts, but just wanted to give that input.

That monitor will hold it back. 1080p wouldn't be bad if modern games run without TAA blur, but most games require it. Even a cheap 144hz IPS 1440p will give you a better experience.

You're gonna want to upgrade that cooler to the Peerless Assassin 120 or the Phantom Spirit 120 SE. The Assassin X won't be able to handle the 105W CPU.

I have a 5700X3D, which is also a 105W CPU, and smaller coolers just weren't enough, even with undervolting. I was always pushing max temps doing prime95, and upgrading the cooler to the Phantom Spirit fixed that.

I have a similar build, but everything is a generation behind. I really like Garuda Linux. Arch keeps the latest drivers comin' and It's a nice easy install. Btrfs+snappertools come setup by default, and it's saved my bacon a few times. Really nice to be able to have grub boot to a snapshot and just work. And the snapshots are auto created everytime pacman is run.

How did you list your hardware like that? Where it shows the key specifications for each part as bullet points, not the bullet points though, if that makes sense. I know how to make bullets, I mean the data.

Was is generated with a script or did you copy and paste individual part stats from their website specs or some other way?

I have a few ways to generate info, like with inxi or searching pcpartpicker, but there often there is not enough info, important info that is missing, far too much info about stuff I don't care about or I have to spend a lot of time searching for specific data and have to copy and paste each feature for each part individually which can be too time consuming.

What you have shows pretty much exactly what I would like, so I could easily share when needed.

Everyone else already mentioned the monitor so I’ll do something else.

With newer motherboards, some WiFi/bluetooth chipsets have poor support. I had trouble with the Realtek chipset that came in my brand new motherboard. The solution for me was to buy a pcie WiFi/bluetooth combo card for about $30. Throwing it out there in case you run into the same problem.

Why did you decide to change the motherboard? Is it because of Intel's issues with their chips? Wouldn't that problem be fixed with their microcode patch if you buy now?

this looks pretty cool but i think i'd probably get a 1440p or even a 4k monitor but yeah..