did i totaly go wrong

[hellochicken]

yesterday i built a pc consisting of a used prebuilt dell pc with a i5 4590 a 500gb hdd and a dell motherboard the system also had 4gb of ram with 2 nice ips dell monitors. In total the used system cost me 300 bucks I then went and bought another 8gb of ddr3 ram for 40 bucks a 500 watt power supply for 50 and a 8gb rx 470 for 190 bucks rising the total to about 600 bucks is 600 bucks worth it for these specs with the prebuilt pc parts bieng used I want to know this as I had the option to go with ryzen or something else

 

[aSpoink]

2 minutes ago, hellochicken said:

yesterday i built a pc consisting of a used prebuilt dell pc with a i5 4590 a 500gb hdd and a dell motherboard the system also had 4gb of ram with 2 nice ips dell monitors. In total the used system cost me 300 bucks I then went and bought another 8gb of ddr3 ram for 40 bucks a 500 watt power supply for 50 and a 8gb rx 470 for 190 bucks rising the total to about 600 bucks is 600 bucks worth it for these specs with the prebuilt pc parts bieng used I want to know this as I had the option to go with ryzen or something else

 

I think you did pretty nice for $600 including 2 monitors, did the used PC have a copy of windows on it?

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

Not a terrible build, but you could definitely do better.

[hellochicken]

how could i have gone better and it did come with windows 7 pro 

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 minute ago, hellochicken said:

how could i have gone better and it did come with windows 7 pro 

@hellochicken Make sure to quote people so they see.

 

As for your question, the used market is pretty volatile, meaning you could have gotten an absolute steal on [INSERT PART NAME HERE]. Of course, you didn't but the prices look perfectly reasonable.

[hellochicken]

@bob51zhang   Yeah I think i should have gone with a weaker gpu like a rx 460 with a ryzen cpu I dont know but next pc i build I will do much more reaserch though do you think I should sell the parts and try to start over or is it ok or good

[DragonTamer1]

The prices are not the best that I've ever seen for these parts but it is still very good. For just $600 you have a very capable machine.

 

No, waiting for Ryzen with your setup would not have been time well spent. Ryzen will almost certainly cost more than what you paid or at the very least will cost the same for similar performance.

 

The only thing I would have done differently is gotten a 4GB 470 instead of an 8GB. Even my 480 struggles if it's using more than 6GB of VRAM.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, hellochicken said:

@bob51zhang   Yeah I think i should have gone with a weaker gpu like a rx 460 with a ryzen cpu I dont know but next pc i build I will do much more reaserch though do you think I should sell the parts and try to start over or is it ok or good

I think it's good. If you go with a Ryzen of Kaby-Lake platform, you'll need to buy Windows 10 on top of everything else. Just test it out and see if it fits your needs since you already have the system. If you're happy with the performance, that's all it matters.

[hellochicken]

@DragonTamer1

oh really by the ammount of hype there is I thought ryzen would be "groundbreaking" though now people are doubting that but im glad to hear I didnt go too wrong 

thanks for the response

[hellochicken]

@BlueChinchillaEatingDorito

Thanks for all the responses im glad to hear i didnt go wrong 

 

[DragonTamer1]

1 minute ago, hellochicken said:

@DragonTamer1

oh really by the ammount of hype there is I thought ryzen would be "groundbreaking" though now people are doubting that but im glad to hear I didnt go too wrong 

thanks for the response

They are going to be very competitive at the high end, but the way the CPUs are layed out, the low end chips, the budget oriented ones if you will, are most likely going to be more expensive than the intel counterparts. The boards are expected to be cheaper so you would have ended up with roughly the same performance per dollar.

 

This Scotsman with the sexy voice sums it up better than I could.

 

 

[Bleedingyamato]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I think it's good. If you go with a Ryzen of Kaby-Lake platform, you'll need to buy Windows 10 on top of everything else. Just test it out and see if it fits your needs since you already have the system. If you're happy with the performance, that's all it matters.

Is W10 required for Ryzen or Kaby Lake?    If so, why is that?

[hellochicken]

@DragonTamer1 thanks for the response I am watching the video and I am surprised that amd is losing their edge in the budget market and the overpriced intel line is equal in price to performance

[Biggerboot]

You did ok.  I think your 4590 will be in the same league as Ryzen 3 so waiting would've yielded almost the same result when you factor in the monitors.

[hellochicken]

@Biggerboot thanks I just wanted to know wheather I should keep or sell and go to ryzen though by the way everyone is putting it it is fine

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Is W10 required for Ryzen or Kaby Lake?    If so, why is that?

Because both AMD and Intel are not rolling out drivers for their upcoming chips for Windows 7. You can still in theory install and run Windows 7 on those platforms. But since it's not officially supported, you might run into some instability issues and perhaps random bugs here and there.

[hellochicken]

 

there is a video on jayztwocents  called - What happens when you install Windows 8 on a Kaby Lake system?? -- this is windows 8 but it has a similar principle

[Bleedingyamato]

11 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Because both AMD and Intel are not rolling out drivers for their upcoming chips for Windows 7. You can still in theory install and run Windows 7 on those platforms. But since it's not officially supported, you might run into some instability issues and perhaps random bugs here and there.

Any idea why they're not supporting 7?    Tons of people still use it.  

[hellochicken]

probably becuase if you were to upgrade your pc to zen or kaby lake you would likely just add windows 10 since you would need a new motherboard anyways

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

11 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Any idea why they're not supporting 7?    Tons of people still use it.  

The most likely reason is its age. Windows 7 has already lost mainstream support from Microsoft two years ago. Not to mention the sale of Windows 7 licenses (even OEM ones) has officially stopped. So right now, whatever keys are left out in the market is going to be it.

[Bleedingyamato]

26 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

The most likely reason is its age. Windows 7 has already lost mainstream support from Microsoft two years ago. Not to mention the sale of Windows 7 licenses (even OEM ones) has officially stopped. So right now, whatever keys are left out in the market is going to be it.

Rip old friend...  ?

 

I really liked 7.  It's still on my old laptop at least.  ?