AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D with Corsair’s iCUE Link Titan 360 RX LCD AIO liquid cooler, the Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme WiFi 7 AM5 motherboard, 96GB of 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 RAM, two Samsung Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSDs, Asus’ ROG Astral RTX 5080 16GB OC, and a Corsair HX1200i 1200w Platinum PSU… inside Corsair’s Air 5400 LX-R Link chassis, with an additional Corsair LX120 triple fan kit.
Featuring AMD’s Ryzen 9 9900X3D, with 64GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB of Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD storage, and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 16GB OC GPU.
This PC is also rocking a 360mm AIO liquid cooler to ensure the CPU stays chilled, and an ample 850w Gen5 equipped PSU.
We’ve been using the Vanta V01 chassis, which comes in both a Tempered Glass side panel & also a Mesh side panel version, heaps lately; and it’s clear that our customers (and technicians) have fallen in love with it – quickly climbing to the most popular case for November, December & January!
The case isn’t just good because it’s compact, unassuming, or cost-effective. It’s all of those things, but it’s also truly versatile and can accommodate some of the highest-end hardware on the market, while being extremely well ventilated.
This particular PC is rocking an MSI B850M motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a Vanta V400 Blackout tower air cooler, 48GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB 6000MHz DDR5 RAM, an Asus RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GDDR7 Prime OC GPU, 1TB of Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD storage, and an 850w Platinum PCIe 5.1 & ATX 3.1 compliant fully-modular PSU.
The chassis is a bit modular thanks to the pop-on & pop-off mesh panels. This means you can change the top to a bit of a taller profile to house more fans or a liquid cooler than the flatter one allows for.
What’s more is that you can also invert the thing!
The above is achieved just by swapping the top and bottom panels around, no rebuilding needed.
It can fit 240mm liquid coolers at the (traditional) top, or 3x 120mm fans, and at the bottom, if the GPU isn’t too beefy, it can fit another 2x 120mm fans – that’s in addition to the standard 120mm rear fan. The PSU is mounted at the front of the case, so there’s no room there for fans, but then that’s how this case is as compact as it is! Just keep in mind that the top and bottom fan mounting locations double as SATA (SSD/HDD) drive mounting locations, if you need to use any of them still.
They’ll also take GPUs up to 355mm in length (when paired with an SFX PSU) or 280-335mm with ATX PSUs, depending on PSU length, cable positioning, and motherboard’s PCIe lane positioning. This means we’ve already fit plenty of Nvidia’s RTX 5080 16GB GPUs in these, and even a few RTX 5090 32GB cards!
Thanks to a special request from a customer, we got to work with this striking Strawberry Milk (Pink) Hyte case!
Making me thirsty just looking at these pictures…
If your gaming PC doesn’t have a game that you can play on the case itself, can you even call it a gaming PC? Probably yes, but this is still cool.
It can be hard to tell at a glance, but these four PCs are worth around $70,000 AUD all up, and we were lucky enough to have them all ready for a quick photoshoot at the same time late one afternoon.
The liquid cooled systems are cooled by a special-order Threadripper-only liquid cooling block, making the most of the vast surface area that Threadripper CPUs have on their IHS, making for the best cooling performance.
The air cooled system is none other than Noctua, with again a special Threadripper-focused model.
All systems have varying amounts of DDR5 ECC RAM; up to 512GB in one system!
One system has dual Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB graphics cards with a 1650w PSU, and the others have a lower focus on the GPU performance, or plans to upgrade/add later on.
Another system has Nvidia’s Quadro RTX 5000 Ada 32GB professional server/workstation GPU which is quite an impressive unit!
Two of the systems are in rack-mountable chassis, and will be shipped to our customer with the appropriate chassis rails to go into their datacenter.
This is just a snapshot of the sort of work we do year-round, often after substantial back and forth with customers to ensure it’s optimal for each customer’s use-case, and meets their expected lead time as availability on Threadripper builds in Australia can be tricky!
With 2024 almost at a close, and after both AMD’s 9000 series & Intel’s Ultra 200 series CPU releases, we now have relatively high confidence that there will be no more hardware launches until 2025, we thought it is a good time to share what the best hardware selections are for a gaming PC.
We have taken the time to write what is intended to be an ever-updated guide to what to keep in mind, and what is best for gaming performance.
You are here because you like gaming, right? Check it out!
Best Gaming PC Hardware in 2025
Just one example of the few hundred Wraith Gaming PCs we’ve built over the last few months – our technicians and warehouse staff rarely leave enough time for photos to be taken!
We felt it was important to capture the “Project Zero” in what was a quite well matched combination of white hardware choices. Let the pictures speak for themselves…
This AMD Threadripper 7000 series build is built for serious workloads. Fresh from AMD’s manufacturing is this 7960X 24 core 48 thread CPU (360mm liquid cooled) on AMD’s new TRX50 motherboard, teamed with 256GB of ECC DDR5 RAM, and an equally professional Quadro T1000 8GB graphics card which is small but mighty! With the 1200w PSU to power it all, it’s got room for additions and upgrades.
It has been a long while since we’ve seen a case with a touch screen to manage fans & RGB, but we’re digging it.
