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Buying an RX 580

Aaralli
By Aaralli
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I'm about to buy an XFX RX 580 8GB Black Edition. It will be used in a computer for my father, with a Ryzen 5 3400g, B450 board, 16gb 300mhz RAM, and 650 Watt power supply. He doesn't play the newest games until they go on sale a few years after they come out, so even if he bought a new game right now, it should still be playable on this card, right? Alright so my question is, Is there any reason I should reconsider buying this exact card?

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the main problem is BIOS update for the motherboard, in rest it's ok

  • CPU - AMD 2600 OC @ 4.0GHZ w 1.3v Stable : Cinebench R20 MultiCore : 3050 Single Core: 413 : Blender Rendering 75C Full Load
  • CPU Paste - Arctic Silver Ceramique 2
  • Motherboard - MSI B450M GAMING PLUS
  • RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8gb 3000mhz CL15
  • GPU - XFX RX 580 GTS XXX
  • Case - DELUX CASE MT375 - Stripped to the frame for a better cooling
  • Storage - Samsung EVO 850 250gb
  • PSU - Segotep GTR 550
  • Display(s) - BenQ GL2250H
  • Cooling - Deepcool GAMMAXX 200T
  • Keyboard - A4Tech KD-126
  • Mouse - A4Tech N-400-2
  • Sound - AMD HD / RealTek ALC887
  • Operating System - Windows 10 Home
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24 minutes ago, CGT said:

the main problem is BIOS update for the motherboard, in rest it's ok

Can you elaborate on this?

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31 minutes ago, Aaralli said:

Can you elaborate on this?

if you want to use a ryzen 3000 you need to update the bios with an ryzen 2000 processor or have a motherboard with bios flash button, that make the bios update without memory / cpu... msi tomahawk it's a good one

  • CPU - AMD 2600 OC @ 4.0GHZ w 1.3v Stable : Cinebench R20 MultiCore : 3050 Single Core: 413 : Blender Rendering 75C Full Load
  • CPU Paste - Arctic Silver Ceramique 2
  • Motherboard - MSI B450M GAMING PLUS
  • RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8gb 3000mhz CL15
  • GPU - XFX RX 580 GTS XXX
  • Case - DELUX CASE MT375 - Stripped to the frame for a better cooling
  • Storage - Samsung EVO 850 250gb
  • PSU - Segotep GTR 550
  • Display(s) - BenQ GL2250H
  • Cooling - Deepcool GAMMAXX 200T
  • Keyboard - A4Tech KD-126
  • Mouse - A4Tech N-400-2
  • Sound - AMD HD / RealTek ALC887
  • Operating System - Windows 10 Home
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Just now, CGT said:

if you want to use a ryzen 3000 you need to update the bios with an ryzen 2000 processor or have a motherboard with bios flash button, that make the bios update without memory / cpu... msi tomahawk it's a good one

Or request a boot kit from AMD support to borrow a CPU

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 10 and Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

How many watts do I need? ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 spec, PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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14 minutes ago, CGT said:

if you want to use a ryzen 3000 you need to update the bios with an ryzen 2000 processor or have a motherboard with bios flash button, that make the bios update without memory / cpu... msi tomahawk it's a good one

OH Yeah I knew that already... I thought he was talking about updating the BIOS specifically because of the graphics card.

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