EXCERIA Plus G4

Pretty good. The battery life when completely idle on a fresh Win 11 installation was out of this world (like >30 hours). However, for a realistic office workload, things look quite different. I've tried doing a regular work day on battery, which consists of typical project management work with lots

This is right at the top of your budget, but I think you’ll like these choices. Note that the 9850X3D is brand new. Consequently, it’s important that you update the bios before installing the CPU. Your mb has the latest WiFi 7 and Bluetooth built-in. There’s no need for an add-on dongle. MOTHERBOARD

I would not use the 9100 in any mobile application or any application lacking a direct-contact heatsink: it would be constantly thermal throttling making it an inefficient AND slow option as its performance would be nerfed. The Hynix P41 is still a competitive Gen4 drive but I've never felt it was "

The Exceria Basic uses QLC flash, which has low durability and becomes noticeably slower after a few years. Get a better drive with TLC flash like the TeamGroup MP33, Patriot P400 Lite/VP4300 Lite, or Kioxia Exceria Plus G4.

There's a balance and price matters. Overall this build is just unbalanced. For example you get a PCIe 5 NVMe SSD, and then you get a motherboard that will run it at PCIe 4 speeds. I mostly hate it. Instead Of PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 4.7 GHz 12-Core Processor $31

The psu provided was antec. And your "Top tier psu" continuously melts Kioxia Gen 5 drives, such as the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4, deliver faster sequential speeds (around 10,000 MB/s read, 7,900 MB/s write) compared to the Samsung 990 Pro (~7,450 MB/s read, 6,900 MB/s write).