I got this system nearly four years ago from a friend that bought it new. It still performs fairly well and I have had litte issues with it. The AIO cooler's liquid ran out and I replaced it with a Corsair H60. One of the DIMM slots was defective so I replaced the Intel Board with this ASRock one. I also added 12TB of Storage and slapped it in a Corsair Air 540 case. Yes I really like Corsair products and wish to use them wherever possible. All that being said I feel it is time to build my next 5-7 year system (this system base is 7-ish years old) and I want to do it based on a Ryzen CPU. Go ahead laugh at my Computersaurus Rex, I do often, then I cry.
I am on a very limited income so all components will have to be puchased over time. My goal is to build a PC no worse that what I have now and RGB the crap out of it for the least amount of money and be able to update it when I can relatively cheap. Below is my proposed build and reasons:
Case---------------Corsair Air 540-------------------------------------------------Already have, and it is a Sexy Beast
Motherboard----Asus - ROG Crosshair VII Hero (Wi-Fi)------------------Seems to have a lot of upgradeability and features that I want.
CPU 1------------Ryzen 3 1300x--------------------------------------------------AMD, cheap, and no worse than what I currently have.
CPU Cooler-----Corsair H115i Pro----------------------------------------------Corsair and RGB...nuff said.
RAM 1--------------2x16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3600-----Corsair, RGB, and can buy more later to max board at 64 GB.
RAM 2--------------2x16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3600-----Matches previous and max that motherboard can support
CPU 2------------Ryzen 7 2700x-------------------------------------------------Compatible with motherboard, way better than what I currently have, and can be purchased later.
HDD 1 -----------1TB WD Black -------------------------------------------------Already have, OS installed.
HDD 2------------4 TB HGST Deskstar-----------------------------------------Already have, Games Library installed.
HDD 3------------8 TB seagate Barracuda------------------------------------Already have, Media storage drive
SSD 1------------1 TB Samsung Evo m.2-------------------------------------Plan to clone OS HDD to it and use it for primary drive
GPU--------------EVGA 1050ti---------------------------------------------------Getting from a friend super cheap and better than my GTX 570's. Frakk you cryptocurrency miners!
PSU-------------- EVGA 750 watt-----------------------------------------------Already have want to update to a Corsair Hx1200i or atleast a fullu modular Corsair
Optical-----------LG Bluray burner---------------------------------------------Already Have will eventually put in HTPC that my current machine will build.
So to wrap it all up I figure MOBO $300, Ryzen 3 1300x $110, H115i Pro $140, and 32 Gb RGB RAM $440. So for $990 or less I should be able to build a good starter system with room to upgrade as I can afford.
The only thing I cannot seem to understand is which speed of the Corsair RGB RAM should I get and that is compatible with both the 1300x and the 2700x.
Any thoughts (no prayers please, they don't work), suggestions, or comments would be much appreciated. Keep in mind I want Maximum Corsair RGB.