First PC build

[Pavu]

Hi all,

 

So I'm trying to take full advantage of Prime day deals and have decided to finally build my first custom PC. Here are the parts that I'm planning on (some of them which I've already purchased):

 

Ryzen 3 1300X (snagged this for $75 from MemoryC)

Gigabyte B450 Aorus M

8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666 (already purchased)

500GB WD Blue SSD (already purchased)

Gigabyte RX 590 8GB

Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500W

Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L

 

How hard is the system going to be bottlenecked by the CPU? I don't plan on overclocking, but if the 1300X is gonna bottleneck me by a lot I will consider investing in an aftermarket cooler. I plan on using PC to drive a dual-1080p monitor setup and play games like Overwatch, RuneScape 3, PlanetSide 2, and some less demanding games like Hearthstone and Teamfight Tactics. FPS is really important to me so I was wondering if these specs are enough to run those games at high-max settings at a min FPS of ~55? 

 

Also, how important is RAM speed? I've heard that AMD processors really like fast RAM, so I decided to go for a 2666 kit. I'm unsure if I should try overclocking, though.

 

Lastly, how "future-proof" is the 590 (and further, the system as a whole)? I'm aware that it's just a higher binned 580 (and as a result has a higher factory clock), but I don't plan on upgrading this for a long time. From what I've heard it should outperform a GTX 1060, but not much beyond that? When I do get that bread, as far as the other parts go, which ones should I consider upgrading first? I am currently thinking of saving up for a 3700X and maybe a PCIE SSD.

 

 

 

[Jurrunio]

5 minutes ago, Pavu said:

How hard is the system going to be bottlenecked by the CPU?

Depends on the game, in your listed games it could bottleneck occassionally.

 

5 minutes ago, Pavu said:

I don't plan on overclocking, but if the 1300X is gonna bottleneck me by a lot I will consider investing in an aftermarket cooler.

Just overclock on the stock cooler, it's good enough.

 

5 minutes ago, Pavu said:

Also, how important is RAM speed? I've heard that AMD processors really like fast RAM, so I decided to go for a 2666 kit. I'm unsure if I should try overclocking, though.

Dual channel is more important than memory frequency. You can just look up benchmarks with difference frequency, those are everywhere.

 

5 minutes ago, Pavu said:

Lastly, how "future-proof" is the 590 (and further, the system as a whole)?

I hope you got the 590 for cheap because it's just an overclocked 580, itself an overclocked 480. Overclocking didn't make the 590 worth competing to say, Nvidia's 1660. The trio are fine 1080p60 cards, but not much more than that. Gigabyte model also uses the cooler from the 480 and 580 directly, in other words a cooler meant for cooling 120W of GPU is now forced to do 185w of GPU. I dont know if it's gonna toast but I'm not looking forward to seeing positive results.

 

At least it's better than all 1060s, that's as much as I can say good about it.

 

As for the system overall, I doubt the PSU is any good. The board will struggle to hold big CPU upgrades (up to a 6 core) though you're not getting that as far as I can tell.

[Pavu]

The RX 590 is currently $210 on Amazon, which is what caught my eye at first. With the RX 580 at ~$30 cheaper and GTX 1660 ~$20 more, which would you say is the best value?

[trevb0t]

3 hours ago, Pavu said:

The RX 590 is currently $210 on Amazon, which is what caught my eye at first. With the RX 580 at ~$30 cheaper and GTX 1660 ~$20 more, which would you say is the best value?

If you can step up a bit, the 1660Ti is arguably the best price to performance value of the mid range bunch.

[Pavu]

2 hours ago, trevb0t said:

If you can step up a bit, the 1660Ti is arguably the best price to performance value of the mid range bunch.

Hmm... is this due to having GDDR6? It would stretch the budget quite a bit, being $280 for me, so I'd want at least a directly proportional performance increase from the 1660.

[trevb0t]

5 hours ago, Pavu said:

Hmm... is this due to having GDDR6? It would stretch the budget quite a bit, being $280 for me, so I'd want at least a directly proportional performance increase from the 1660.

It's about a %15-20 performance increase.