Emergency upgrade

ventrue · October 5, 2019

Hi!

I've taken the liberty to augment the thread recommendations a bit.

0.1 What I currently have in mind

Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 (depends mainly on price; the 3600 is a bit expensive, but would probably suffice until the end of the AM4 socket)
ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming
16GB DDR4-3600 kit (not set on a specific one, but the Patriot CL17-19-19-39 PVB416G360C7K seem to offer good value for money)
Everything else is already here; RM850 PSU, RX580 GPU, bunch of drives, lots of peripherals

0.2 What I want to know about it

Any more specific recommendations for the RAM? Specifically, to reach the advertised "DDR4 3466 (O.C.)" speed with the selected board.
Any alternatives for the board? I picked this only because of the audio.

1. Budget & Location

No fixed budget. Want to spend as little as possible.
I'm in Europe, paying in Euros.

2. Aim

Office work.
Gaming, including high-end titles. Also some CPU-intensive games.
Music consumption.

2.1 Other requirements

AMD fanboy (has to be an AMD platform)
ASUS fanboy (ASUS board would be nice, it's not a must though)
Low noise (so aside from the relatively high price, the X570's fans also make it hugely unattractive to me)
Solid cooling (as passively as possible during idle, not convinced that covering the whole board in colourful plastic is helping much in that regard)
No larger than ATX
Need either (any, but preferably good quality) onboard sound that can drive 250 ohm headphones directly or, alternatively, a PCI slot
One PCIe M.2 socket for an SSD would be nice (not a must though)
No need for more than two PCIe slots, more than one USB3 port, eSATA, more than six SATA ports
No interest in manual overclocking, but will use automatic overclocking features if present

3. Monitors

3x 1680x1050. Only single-display gaming. No changes planned.

4. Peripherals

Got it all, including graphics.

5. Why are you upgrading?

I'm looking for a solution for my booting problem, as described here (this also includes full specs for all the hardware I will keep):

Spoiler

Since this is the third or fourth forum I'm troubling with the issue, I'll just assume at this point that it can't be solved and since board, CPU and/or RAM are the most likely causes in my opinion, I want to replace those. Conveniently, they have to be replaced together anyway.