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If he already has a b450 motherboard, ram and a gpu, all he needs now is a r5 3600

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Hey guys! So my brother has finally decided to upgrade his rig and I need some suggestions since the new Ryzen chips came out. 

His budget isn't the hugest, maybe being at $400 to upgrade

 

 I gave him an ASUS STRIX B450-F mobo. He currently has a 1060 for his gpu and will upgrade to a 2070 come December. 

 

So with the new Ryzen chips out, which one would be paired pretty well with the eventual 2070? I believe the RAM he will be getting is from the Trident series at 3000Mhz. So that's a hundred from the budget. Which leaves us with $300 for the CPU. He likes to play tons of games such as Battlefield, Rocket League, MK, and a ton of indie games. 

 

Any help would be seriously appreciated! He's hoping to upgrade sometime within the next month. 

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If he already has a b450 motherboard, ram and a gpu, all he needs now is a r5 3600

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7 minutes ago, Medicate said:

If he already has a b450 motherboard, ram and a gpu, all he needs now is a r5 3600

I agree, the Ryzen 5 3600 is a great CPU for this price range, and then you can use the remaining $100 for other things like possibly a better GPU or faster memory if he is not into memory overclocking.

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I agree, pop a 3600 for $199 on it and off he goes.  

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Thanks guys! Seems like a pretty open and shut case. I was thinking exactly that, the 3600. I just didn't want to add any bias but it seems that it's the obvious choice here! Thanks fellas!

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31 minutes ago, DVA said:

Thanks guys! Seems like a pretty open and shut case. I was thinking exactly that, the 3600. I just didn't want to add any bias but it seems that it's the obvious choice here! Thanks fellas!

No problem.

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