PC Build Parts and Compatibility

[Richard0666]

I am planning on building a PC. I have never done this before and am wondering if the parts that I am planning on buying are good and if they're all compatible.

Parts:

* Ryzen 5 2600x
* Asus GTX 1060 Dual OC 6GB DDR5
* MSI B350 or B450
* HyperX FURY (2x8GB) 16GB DDR4 2666MHz
* WD 4TB HDD
* 550 Power supply

[jiyeon]

3 minutes ago, Richard0666 said:

550 Power supply

I assume you haven't chosen a power supply yet.

 

I recommend:
• Corsair RM550X

• Corsair CX550M

[Clemens]

I recommend the Seasonic Focus Plus Gold...is cheaper then the RM550X (at least where I live) but quasi as good.

Parts look fine, but please do yourself a favour and chose a SSD as boot drive.

[Richard0666]

43 minutes ago, Clemens said:

I recommend the Seasonic Focus Plus Gold...is cheaper then the RM550X (at least where I live) but quasi as good.

Parts look fine, but please do yourself a favour and chose a SSD as boot drive.

Thanks for the suggestion. Also, I am planning on dual booting with Windows 10 and Ubuntu, do you know how I could configure the drives so that I have both OS on the SSD and then other files on the HDD?

[Clemens]

Depends how much data you need for both OS.

You could do 2 partitions on the SSD and two on the HDD, and separate them how you like  (e.g. for a 500gb SSD 400GB + 100 GB).

Or you could buy two different SDDs and use one for WIndows and one for Linux...you are completely free in that.

But I would install both OS on an SSD (one with two partitions or two, as you like it)

Partitioning you can do during installation of WIndows or Linux.

Installing Windows first is probably easier, GRUB will detect this and give you a nice bootmenu, otherwise you need to reconfigure GRUB after installing Windows.