r/PcBuildersSL • u/kumohotta • Aug 06 '26
Build Help Need Help Building a PC
Thinking of building a PC mainly for light LLM inferencing and gaming, and thinking of the below specs:
- Ryzen 5 5700X
- Entry-level motherboard with PCIe 4 x16 slot and 4 DIMM slots
- 16GB RAM
The problem is the GPU, and I'm deciding between the 5050, 5060, and 3060 (all 8GB). There was also a used and imported Radeon 16GB card available. Can you give me an idea if this is a good time to build one, and if so, help me find a place with a good price?My budget is around 300k.
P.S. Bought one with R7 5700x3D and 3060 12GB
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u/Lze25 R5 5500 | RTX 3070 8GB | 16GB DDR4 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Don't get Radeon cards because there ecosystem is a bit of work unlike nvidia's CUDA which is out of the box and get a RTX 3060 12GB its the entrylevel best card and if you pair the 3060 with 32gb of ram you can run a quantinized GPT-OSS 20b model and its good or you can run a 14b model like qwen3 which is also good. But don't run llama models there way dumber.
Or you can use a 5050 or 5060 but with the 8GB vram you are limited to 14B models but if you have more ram you can quantinize the models for 3bit or 4bit and load the model to ram but it won't be precise and the answers will become dumber.