Dan Castellaneta and the Final Frontier | Ryzen 7 and RX 580 in an Unassuming Package

[PlayStation 2]

Two years. Three months. It all amounts to a surprisingly decent rig.

I guess I should start this with a little story: the time was late May of 2016. My brother just graduated and wanted to upgrade his rig. I already held onto a lot of his old parts. I basically got the rest of his old rig, which mainly consisted of me getting his old HD 7850, his old Corsair CX600M and a Thermaltake Commander MS-I case in mediocre shape. My first rig was made, with an FX-4100, 8GB of RAM, a PNY CS1111 240GB SSD and a hard drive somewhere in there. It got me through Team Fortress 2 just fine, but issues cropped up fast, and it ended up killing the SSD.

Fast forward to September 2017, I finally had enough of that bullshit. I decided to jump to AM4 with an AMD Athlon X4 950, which, as I've explained before, I got as I didn't want to jump to Ryzen just yet: I wanted to go all in with a Ryzen 7. The rig, except with the obvious exceptions of the motherboard and RAM, mostly stayed the same. I made a case swap at the same time as I wanted a newer, less garish case, which landed me with the Cooler Master N200 Micro-ATX tower case; very strictly-business oriented but could fit whatever I needed in it. This era of the rig remained until June 2018.

Early June, the fateful purchase was made: I bought a Ryzen 7 1700X and a Cryorig H7 cooler to go with that. This basically settled the route my rig was going: a nicely updated rig that could play modern games at decent settings just fine if that's what I genuinely wish to do. Fast forward a little more to August 31st, when I finally purchased some things that would really settle the fate of my rig: an MSI Radeon RX 580, an EVGA Supernova G3 550W PSU and a Kingston A400 240GB SSD.

 

Well, without further ado, here's my rig parted out:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  ($214.99) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.99) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($67.99) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($48.99) 
Storage: Hitachi - 750GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($0.00) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB Video Card  ($229.99) 
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($46.25) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99) 
Total: $773.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-07 22:28 EDT-0400

 

And I'm sure we're all here for pictures. Boo, or something like that.

The stuff that made this rig happen:

 

The GPU does come in a nice box, I'll tell ya what.



 

Shit, the RX 580 is shorter than the 7850 I had.



 

Thank you for two years of usage, 7850.



 

Radeon.



 

G3.



 

The rig mostly put together...



 

...and the final product. Sorry, my photography skills are literal shit.

 

Well there we go; the tale of an ancient rig updated for 2018. Whadaya think?

[handymanshandle]

Nice :^)

[Jurrunio]

hmm I saw that single fan RX 580 multiple times when I'm building part lists here (one of the cheapest, but never actually used it because I'm worried about cooling. Is it any good?

 

Also that's a very lonely stick of DDR4

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

hmm I saw that single fan RX 580 multiple times when I'm building part lists here (one of the cheapest, but never actually used it because I'm worried about cooling. Is it any good?

 

Also that's a very lonely stick of DDR4

So far it's been decent. This one, I think, is basically an AMD stock model, just made by MSI.

It is, and to be completely honest, I don't even know if this board I have supports dual channel RAM.

[Arika]

i would say to tidy up the cables, but no side window = doesn't matter

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

rrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee itz g3 itz gon to splood

 

nobody @ lienuslatetips

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

rrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee itz g3 itz gon to splood

 

nobody @ lienuslatetips

Trust me, it wasn't even my first option but it was the easiest option.

Fuck Amazon for cutting off the Seasonic Focus Plus units to Prime users only.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

Trust me, it wasn't even my first option but it was the easiest option.

Fuck Amazon for cutting off the Seasonic Focus Plus units to Prime users only.

N E W E G G

[PlayStation 2]

10 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said:

N E W E G G

Honestly didn’t wanna deal with ordering off of two sites as I was already buying shit off of one. 

[Lucem]

I'm still trying to raise Money for my rig. And my country's currency exchange to the USD isn't helping matters ?