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$3,000 streaming PC, part by part

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, and the 6 parts around them that fit it: $3,320 all in.

1440p gameplay with a live encode running beside it. Every part here was checked against every other for fit, and picked for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat. A price marked Amazon US is ScoutPrices' reading of the listing its button opens, dated; the rest are typical prices. Not a checkout total: no operating system, shipping, tax, screen, keyboard or mouse.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti are well matched at 1440p.

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PartScore for the jobPriceBuy
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Highest gaming & streaming score the budget allows next to this card: 16 cores, boosts to 5.7 GHz.

2 swaps that still fit
96
$624Amazon US, Oct 25
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MotherboardASUS ROG Strix B850-A Gaming WiFi

B850 board for the AM5 socket, DDR5, 4 M.2 slots, Wi-Fi.

4 swaps that still fit
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$228Amazon US, Oct 25
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MemoryTeamGroup T-Force Delta RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 CL30

32 GB DDR5 at 6000 MT/s CL30; 32 GB or more is the floor for gaming & streaming.

1 swap that still fit
80
$495Amazon US, Oct 25
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Graphics cardGeForce RTX 5070 Ti

16 GB of video memory, index 70 at 1440p; tuned for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

Buying it opens GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming OC 16G, one of the boards built on this chip.

2 swaps that still fit
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$1,460Amazon US, Oct 25
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CPU coolerArctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

Rated 330 W for a chip that turbos to 230 W.

4 swaps that still fit
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$70Amazon US, Oct 25
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Power supplybe quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W

750 W, 80 Plus gold; this build draws about 750 W at full tilt, native 12V-2x6 cable.

3 swaps that still fit
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$80Amazon US, Oct 25
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CaseNZXT H7 Flow (2024) White

3 fans in the box, 3 is the least 530 W of parts needs behind a mesh front. Takes EATX/ATX/MATX/ITX boards and cards up to 410 mm.

4 swaps that still fit
86
$83Amazon US, Oct 25
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StorageCrucial T705 1TB

1 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe, 13,600 MB/s reads, with cache.

4 swaps that still fit
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$280Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
Total8 parts, every price read on Amazon US$3,320

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