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$7,500 streaming PC, part by part

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with the GeForce RTX 5090, and the 6 parts around them that fit it: $7,535 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 5090 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
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$624Amazon US, Oct 25
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MotherboardASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi

X870E board for the AM5 socket, DDR5, 5 M.2 slots, Wi-Fi.

2 swaps that still fit
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$400Amazon US, Oct 25
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MemoryG.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6400 CL32

32 GB DDR5 at 6400 MT/s CL32; 32 GB or more is the floor for gaming & streaming.

4 swaps that still fit
85
$590Amazon US, Oct 25
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Graphics cardGeForce RTX 5090

32 GB of video memory, index 100 at 1440p; tuned for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

Buying it opens Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 5090 Xtreme WATERFORCE 32G, one of the boards built on this chip.

2 swaps that still fit
100
$4,830typical price
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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 supplyCorsair HX1500i (2023)

1500 W, 80 Plus platinum; this build draws about 1050 W at full tilt, native 12V-2x6 cable.

1 swap that still fit
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$320Amazon US, Oct 25
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CaseLian Li O11 Dynamic Evo RGB

7 fans in the box, 7 of them lit, 5 is the least 805 W of parts needs behind a closed front. Takes EATX/ATX/MATX/ITX boards and cards up to 422 mm.

4 swaps that still fit
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$295Amazon US, Oct 25
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StorageSamsung 9100 Pro 2TB

2 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe, 14,700 MB/s reads, with cache.

3 swaps that still fit
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$406Amazon US, Oct 25
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Total8 parts, 7 read on Amazon US and 1 typical$7,535

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