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Jessie12
By Jessie12
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So I bought an Hp prebuilt about 8 months ago, upgraded the power supply and graphics card, down below is my current build, I’m just looking for a recommendation on a new case as well as a new motherboard. Primary use is gaming, looking for either full or mid tower, I don’t care about aesthetics at all. Ideal budget less than $200

 

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core Processor


Memory: ADATA - 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400


Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive


Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 980 4 GB Video Card 


Power Supply: NZXT - HALE82 V2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply 


Monitor: MSI - Optix AG32CQ 31.5" 2560x1440 144 Hz


Keyboard: Redragon - K552


Mouse: Redragon - Centrophorus M601 Wired Optical Mouse

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There you go:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($114.46 @ Newegg)
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.98 @ B&H)
Total: $159.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT | RAM: GSkill Trident Z DDR4 3600Mhz | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W 80+ Gold | CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C MONITOR: LG 32UL500-W 4K 60Hz, Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz

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do you need a cpu cooler too? or you have a liquid one? or the air one work fine?

Rig 1: i7-9700k OC'd to 5.0ghz all core | EVGA XC RTX 2080Ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | ASUS PRIME Z370-P | Asetek 550LC 120mm | ADATA 480GB SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB | Cooler Master Masterbox MB500 | Win 10 Home | Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum, G502 Proteus Spectrum, G933 Artemis Spectrum Snow Wireless Limited Edition, Corsair MM300 Mouse Pad | 2 MSI Optix Curved 27" FHD Monitors 

 

(before i sold the WD drive and MSI gpu - https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11946219 171 gaming. felt good.)

 

Rig 2: i7-7700k Stock clocks | MSI Armor GTX 1070 | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8GB | MSI Z270 A-Pro | WD Green 240GB SSD & 2TB Seagate HDD | Thermaltake Core G21 Tempered Glass Edition | Win 10 Home | 2 HP Omen FHD 144hz 24.5" Monitors 

 

Rig 3: i7-6700 | GT 730 & GT 645 OEM | Some random DDR4 2133mhz 2x8gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | WD Black 2TB HDD & Toshiba 1TB HDD | Win 10 Home | 3 27" Dell FHD Monitors 

 

Rig 4: i7-4770 | EVGA SSC 1050ti | Some random DDR3 ram 2x2gb and 2x4gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | Stock Cooler | 1TB WD Black HDD | Win 7 Home 

 

RIP 

 

Rig 5 (dead and dismantled and sold) : i7-7820X OC'd to 4.8ghz all core | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | Gigabyte X299 UD4 PRO | Asetek 240mm AIO | WD Green 240gb SSD | Other various components that I can't remember

 

Rig 6 (same fate as rig 5) : i7-8700k stock clocks | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8gb | MSI Z370 A-Pro | Asetek 550LC 120mm | WD Green 240GB SSD & Toshiba 2TB HDD | Other various components that I can't Remember 

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Actually, noticed it was pretty far off from 200, so a little bit of an upgrade:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($139.99 @ B&H)
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.98 @ B&H)
Total: $184.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-13 12:43 EST-0500

 

If you do care about aesthetics a little bit more after looking at that case, let me know!

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT | RAM: GSkill Trident Z DDR4 3600Mhz | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W 80+ Gold | CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C MONITOR: LG 32UL500-W 4K 60Hz, Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
Motherboard Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard $133.88 @ OutletPC
Case NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case $64.99 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $218.87
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $198.87
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-13 12:45 EST-0500  

 this is what i'd go with, but you can very easily knock down the mobo to something cheaper. 

Rig 1: i7-9700k OC'd to 5.0ghz all core | EVGA XC RTX 2080Ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | ASUS PRIME Z370-P | Asetek 550LC 120mm | ADATA 480GB SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB | Cooler Master Masterbox MB500 | Win 10 Home | Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum, G502 Proteus Spectrum, G933 Artemis Spectrum Snow Wireless Limited Edition, Corsair MM300 Mouse Pad | 2 MSI Optix Curved 27" FHD Monitors 

 

(before i sold the WD drive and MSI gpu - https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11946219 171 gaming. felt good.)

 

Rig 2: i7-7700k Stock clocks | MSI Armor GTX 1070 | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8GB | MSI Z270 A-Pro | WD Green 240GB SSD & 2TB Seagate HDD | Thermaltake Core G21 Tempered Glass Edition | Win 10 Home | 2 HP Omen FHD 144hz 24.5" Monitors 

 

Rig 3: i7-6700 | GT 730 & GT 645 OEM | Some random DDR4 2133mhz 2x8gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | WD Black 2TB HDD & Toshiba 1TB HDD | Win 10 Home | 3 27" Dell FHD Monitors 

 

Rig 4: i7-4770 | EVGA SSC 1050ti | Some random DDR3 ram 2x2gb and 2x4gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | Stock Cooler | 1TB WD Black HDD | Win 7 Home 

 

RIP 

 

Rig 5 (dead and dismantled and sold) : i7-7820X OC'd to 4.8ghz all core | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | Gigabyte X299 UD4 PRO | Asetek 240mm AIO | WD Green 240gb SSD | Other various components that I can't remember

 

Rig 6 (same fate as rig 5) : i7-8700k stock clocks | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8gb | MSI Z370 A-Pro | Asetek 550LC 120mm | WD Green 240GB SSD & Toshiba 2TB HDD | Other various components that I can't Remember 

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1 minute ago, TH3R34P3R said:

do you need a cpu cooler too? or you have a liquid one? or the air one work fine?

Air cooler has been fine so far, I haven’t ran into any thermal throttling, but unable to do any overclocking due to the terrible hp motherboard so that might be a future upgrad

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Most AMD chips will overclock well, mine did really well. if you don't really need the extra power its not really worth it though, because the increased power draw is pretty inefficient compared to speed gained. 

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4 minutes ago, Krosis said:

Actually, noticed it was pretty far off from 200, so a little bit of an upgrade:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($139.99 @ B&H)
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.98 @ B&H)
Total: $184.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-13 12:43 EST-0500

 

If you do care about aesthetics a little bit more after looking at that case, let me know!

 

4 minutes ago, Krosis said:

Actually, noticed it was pretty far off from 200, so a little bit of an upgrade:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: MSI - B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($139.99 @ B&H)
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.98 @ B&H)
Total: $184.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-13 12:43 EST-0500

 

If you do care about aesthetics a little bit more after looking at that case, let me know!

Looking for something with a little bit of future proofing for the motherboard, or I guess upgrade path would be more correct

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Go for the second motherboard then. It's pretty future proof. I bought my motherboard to keep it until at least 2021, as well!

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT | RAM: GSkill Trident Z DDR4 3600Mhz | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W 80+ Gold | CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C MONITOR: LG 32UL500-W 4K 60Hz, Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz

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