PC Master Race

Your paying a big premium for plaid-speed gen 5 ssds, but from what I can the board only has one gen 5 nmve slot, the other 3 are capped at gen 4.

Max gen 4 speed is way below the throughput of those drives (7,880 vs 12,400), so that seems like kind of a waste. You could go with the equivalent gen 4 drives and save about $500.

Not much diff between 4080 and 4090? What on earth is your source on that? 4090 is such a monster it literally breaks the charts. It's the biggest single leap you can make between any two cards of this generation or any generation ever I do believe. It's 30% more fps in 4k and the only card capable of 120+ FPS on high settings in many titles (without DLSS). Sure if DLSS and/or low settings is fine then yeah the 4080 is good enough but if the goal really is 120 FPS in 4K there really is only one card that can deliver that and it's the 4090.

Someone already pointed out that a 4090 is a massive upgrade over a 4080, no clue what benchmarks you looked at.

So another suggestion: Why pick a 7900X3D? It's the worst of both worlds. It only has 6 3D cores for gaming, which might not be enough in the near future (Look up performance benchmarks between a 5600X vs a 5800X for example, there are already games that benefit from more than 6 cores).

If gaming is a focus: Pick a 7800X3D so you get a full 8 3D cores to work with. If productivity is a focus (with gaming on top) splurge for a 7950X3D. You're already spending an insane amount of money, you might as well get a decent CPU.

Besides that: You are wasting a ton of money on the SSDs. Grab a fast one like that for your Windows drive and for gaming, but for storage there's much cheaper options (that still deliver 3-6 GB/s, if you even need that). 128 GB of RAM is excessive too, except you have a very clear use-case for it.

Couple of things:

• You have a bunch of pcie 5x4 SSDs but you only have one pcie 5x4 slot. You should replace most of them with pcie 4x4 and bear in mind you may not have space for huge heat sinks on each

• the case has a top mount spot only for the 360mm radiator you chose. You need to buy some exhaust fans (120mm or 140mm) for general airflow.

• the problem with bigger and better PSUs is that.. Well, they're bigger. Double check the dimensions of the PSU will fit the slot your case has allotted before you splurge on it. I highly doubt you'd need 1kW with that spec so consider dropping the overall wattage a bit as needed.

• Your gpu is water-cooled it seems like. Make sure you have space for the second radiator, because you've already occupied the only 360mm slot.

Id personally ditch the 4 dimm memory setup seeing your mobo is only dual channel, and you risk stressing your IMC, which may hinder performance and possible lead to advertised clock speeds being not stable. Id go with dual sticks with a lower CL and latancy at roughly 6000mhz-6200mhz advertised speeds.

But likely wouldn't be too much of an issue with 4 dimms in duel channel at 5600mhz, seeing thats at the mid-lower end of the performance charts of DDR5.

Total: $4159.73

that sounds like a lot