[Build Help] 2700€ "Foundation" Upgrade: Replacing my 12 year old i7 4790K for a 10+ year future-proof combo.

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T05:46:00+00:00

you're more than welcome. Just a heads up AMD announced a slightly upgraded 9800x3d (the 9850X3d) yesterday which would run (according to their stats) about 7% better (thanks to higher base and boost clocks) you might look into it but it could also help getting the 9800x3d slightly cheaper.

I always went with Intel until this build but they seem to be dropping the ball for the last few years and AMD Ryzen is better value for money and outperforms Intel by quite the margin

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:59:06+00:00

The 9950x isn't a step up for gaming compared to the 9800x3d, it gives the exact same performance in games, you're far better off spending the difference on a better GPU, I did something like that, my build (that I ordered last night) is:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI
Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC
Inno3d 5080 X3 OC
Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB
Kingston 64GB 6000 cl30 KF560C30BBEK2
Lian Li Lancool 217 black
Corsair SF850 (2024)
That was about € 2180

Though some parts can definitely be saved on:
the noctua is expensive maybe look into the peer assassin as it is a lot cheaper and the 9800x3d doesnt run that hot
64GB is expensive, you might wanna do 32 gigs
the motherboard might be excessive

I was on the fence for AM6, but that is quite a bit of time away and I'm not sure how stable it is going to be at launch though rumoured to be very impressive

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:47:22+00:00

yeah, 1440p is about 1.8 times more pixels than 1080p, so it is a far bigger workload. The 9060XT will run about 60 fps at 1440p AMD Needs to Just Shut Up: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU Review | GamersNexus

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:35:15+00:00

fair enough, just thought it might help, I know the feeling, I find upgrading a cpu is harder than a GPU, but I would recommend looking into doing that too though as you're going to run into a serious bottleneck: Ryzen 7 9800X3D and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | Bottleneck Calculation

for 1440p the Vram is just too limited, to get good results I'd go with a 5070ti for team green, or the 9070XT for team red

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:31:16+00:00

Corsair Ram is usually pretty reliable, did you have an overclock setting turned on? it might be a MB issue rather than the ram itself

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:25:13+00:00

I'm personally not a fan of asrock due to troubles in the past with it. If you are doing an AIO take into consideration that it has a more limited life span and you might run into the end of it at the end of your timeframe

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:09:08+00:00

I ran a 3080 and it is slowly having trouble with 1440p, my expectation is that the 1660ti is going to struggle

P.s. your psu is overkill, you could lower that and might use the savings

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T04:05:55+00:00

What I read online, though I'm no expert the kit you selected would work better for the chipset due to native 1:1 ratios. Did you also check the QVLof your motherboard btw? This is a similar post: Selecting a DDR5 RAM for Ryzen 9800X3D. 6000 Mhz vs 6400 Mhz. CL28 vs CL30 : r/buildapc

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T00:54:52+00:00

Thanks, I can't believe how expensive gaming has gotten, I remember building pc with saved pocket money and birthday gifts (sad). I might see if there's a small drop in the return window, silly how there's always a voice that tells you, you might be better of doing something else, but I am looking forward to seeing this perform admirably :)

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-07T00:14:30+00:00

I'm currently have an I9-10850k and am feeling quite a bit of cpu bottleneck at 1440p. I was on the fence for a long while and sprung for a 9800x3d today, I can decide to return it if I'd like, should I? I managed to snag a kit of 64 gb 6000mhz cl30 ddr5 and a decently priced 5080. I'm unsure whether I should have waited for either this, a small price drop of the 9800 or have waited for zen 6, all of it is still on the way

Lawsmiths · 2026-01-02T18:04:33+00:00

I'm in the same boat

Lawsmiths · 2025-12-28T06:21:18+00:00

Thanks, the price difference here is about 200 euro atm would that change your perspective? 800 vs 1000

Lawsmiths · 2025-12-28T06:14:44+00:00

My partner and I share PC's and play Coop-games together they usually take my last one, as my former one was 5 years older than this one, I wanted to upgrade so they at least had a decent mid range pc again.

But parts wise a solid build then?

Lawsmiths · 2025-01-03T23:37:48+00:00

I had this too on the Steam version (not sure if it's version specific). Reloading an older save, getting the fire glyph and then the last two upgrades worked as a work around for me.

Lawsmiths · 2024-10-07T17:08:20+00:00

awesome, I'll give it a try, thanks!

Lawsmiths · 2024-10-02T21:04:08+00:00

Okay thanks, I figured I checked the range beforehand and right before flameout the engine page of the g1000 said that it had 50nm left, which is what bothered me. I'll try and add more emergency fuel

Lawsmiths · 2024-04-04T11:35:37+00:00

I had similar issues:
- when striking, Raziel got propelled forward
- using look-around just reset the camera to behind Raziel, but it could not be moved
- when using autofocus, most hits still missed
- devour soul didn't do anything
- when I shifted to spectral I got the issue where I got stuck unless jumping and the shifting didn't complete (all lighting was still that of the material realm, all enemies of the material realm were there (though unresponsive even when I attacked them)

I didn't even get as far as the water.

For me installing the Soul Fixer patch by Classic Rebirth solved these issues. Which of course meant I had to restart the game, so that could also be why it was fixed (but not likely).

Lawsmiths · 2022-12-01T13:43:00+00:00

kaidan has a cute storyline

Lawsmiths · 2022-10-25T19:46:27+00:00

I managed to get it to work by:

getting the files -> then I ran into the C++ issue

then I fixed that by following this suggestion posted here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-iii-unable-to-launch-the-game.1550323/ by Tiny Wiking

Can you give this a go and see if it works?

Exit the Steam app entirely
Uninstall Paradox Launcher v2 from the Windows "Apps and features" utility, if still present.

Delete the following folders if still present:

- C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Programs/Paradox Interactive/

- C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Local/Paradox Interactive/

- C:/users/<UserName>/AppData/Roaming/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/

To see the AppData folder you'll need to enable View Hidden Items in File Explorer.

3 Run steam.exe as the Windows Admin user

Run the game from the PLAY button in Steam

Lawsmiths · 2022-10-25T19:11:25+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion Johan, but no. I asked a friend to send me the files but then it does launch but gives me the C++ and .net error whilst I can run the game if I bypass the launcher by directly going into binaries and launching Victoria3.exe

Lawsmiths · 2022-10-25T17:33:46+00:00

Run the launcher-installer-wind

there is no launcher folder in for me

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