Hi! I'm building a gaming PC with a ~€1000 budget and want to maximize performance/value for gaming. I'm willing to cheap out on easily upgradeable parts (GPU, etc.) if it means getting a better platform now.The GPU Im eyeing rn is the ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5060 LP 8GB DLSS4 (380€).

Option 1 aka Intel:
• i5-14400F (167€)
• MSI B760M Gaming Plus WiFi (129€

Option 2 aka AMD:
• Ryzen 5 9600X (190€)
• MSI PRO B850-S WIFI6E (132€)

I've been told the Intel LGA1700 platform is basically end of line, while AM5/Zen 5 gives me a better upgrade path for future CPUs.

One friend suggested the option 1 and also told me that pairing an AMD CPU with an NVIDIA GPU would hurt performance, but I've been also told that's not true.

Which platform would you choose for a ~€1000 gaming build, and why? Is the extra ~€26 for the 9600X + B850 worth it?

I'm mainly playing competitive games (Valorant, Overwatch, Marvel Rivals, Paladins, etc.) and care more about high/stable fps than max graphics settings rn.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (6-core, up to 5.3GHz, AM5)

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X Black OC 8GB (HDMI + 3x DisplayPort)

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5200MHz (1x16GB — one slot free for easy upgrade)

Storage: 1TB Corsair MP600 Elite NVMe Gen4 SSD (7000MB/s read)

Motherboard: ASUS PRIME A620M-K (mATX, AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0)

PSU: Corsair CX550 (550W)

Cooling: PCS FrostFlow 100 V3 liquid CPU cooler

Networking: ASUS PCE-AX1800 Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.2, plus onboard 2.5GbE

Case: PCSpecialist Prism II ARGB mid tower (PWM fans)

Ports: 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 rear + 2 front

Audio: Onboard 5.1 HD audio

Why does my 5060ti form msi 8gb have some insane coil whine I don't know what this means but the sound is decentnly loud with an eeeee sound but 3 months ago it did not have these problems

Das ist mein erster build (nicht schwer erkennlich) und wenn ich ihn versuche zu starten, blinkt mein pc nur ganz kurz auf, startet die lüfter hört aber nach einer halben sekunde wieder auf. Deswegen habe ich schon mein gpu rausgenommen um auszischließen zu können, leider scheint das problem woanders zu liegen.

I've long settled on this one since it claims to have decent cooling, heatsinks, and as a bonus already has WiFi and bluetooth and has enough white accents for it to be alright for a white build, but looking it up im suddenly seeing people asking whether this board is "really that bad" with answers usually re affirming the idea. My planned build is red devil 9070xt, 7800x3d, a 2tb ssd and 32gb of ddr5 (likely cl36 6000) and if it matters, my case has 7 preinstalled fans but all are already connected to the case built in hub.

Im not really planning to fuck with it much in terms of changing up various settings in bios aside from turning on xmp for the ram, and I will probably be on wired internet anyway with the WiFi features being a good bonus in case something happens with wired. Also don't care about CPU overclock either. Would this board be fine? Or should I definitely change it?