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Budget (including currency): £1000

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Apex Legends or general FPS @1440p using 144Hz monitor, Blender, Photoshop, World Generator

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Acer XF270HUA monitor. I gave my PC away so I'm building from scratch again. I play a variety of games, and am a 3D hobbyist so use Blender and Photoshop extensively. Given the whole B450 disaster from AMD I'm inclined to buy the cheapest B450 motherboard for now, and then upgrade to B550 at a later point. My main question is will the motherboard I picked cause this build any issues? The other question is will the RAM speed make that much difference if I upgrade it to 3600?
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£152.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£58.40 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£74.97 @ Laptops Direct) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£59.64 @ BT Shop) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card  (£497.99 @ Technextday) 
Case: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£72.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA B3 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £975.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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3600 is the sweet spot for Ryzen, but 3200 is still good, and the 400mhz difference won't be super noticeable.

 

My only concern would be putting a microATX board in an ATX Case, but you said you're going cheap as possible to get B550, so that's all good.

 

I like it.

 

 

 

 

Gaming Build:

CPU: Ryzen 7 3800x   |  GPU: Asus ROG STRIX 2080 SUPER Advanced (2115Mhz Core | 9251Mhz Memory) |  Motherboard: Asus X570 TUF GAMING-PLUS  |  RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3600MHz 16GB  |  PSU: Corsair RM850x  |  Storage: 1TB ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro, 250GB Samsung 840 Evo, 500GB Samsung 840 Evo  |  Cooler: Corsair H115i Pro XT  |  Case: Lian Li PC-O11

 

Peripherals:

Monitor: LG 34GK950F  |  Sound: Sennheiser HD 598  |  Mic: Blue Yeti  |  Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB Platinum  |  Mouse: Logitech G502

 

Laptop:

Asus ROG Zephryus G15

Ryzen 7 4800HS, GTX1660Ti, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz, 512GB nVME, 144hz

 

NAS:

QNAP TS-451

6TB Ironwolf Pro

 

 

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makes mroe sense to get a x570 now. also please get a better psu, that evga b3 is not great at all.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £152.00 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard £160.40 @ Alza
Memory Patriot Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £70.84 @ CCL Computers
Storage Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £59.64 @ BT Shop
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card £497.99 @ Technextday
Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £46.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £75.99 @ AWD-IT
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1063.85
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-13 18:00 BST+0100  

 

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11 minutes ago, avector said:

Budget (including currency): £1000

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Apex Legends or general FPS @1440p using 144Hz monitor, Blender, Photoshop, World Generator

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Acer XF270HUA monitor. I gave my PC away so I'm building from scratch again. I play a variety of games, and am a 3D hobbyist so use Blender and Photoshop extensively. Given the whole B450 disaster from AMD I'm inclined to buy the cheapest B450 motherboard for now, and then upgrade to B550 at a later point. My main question is will the motherboard I picked cause this build any issues? The other question is will the RAM speed make that much difference if I upgrade it to 3600?
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£152.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£58.40 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£74.97 @ Laptops Direct) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£59.64 @ BT Shop) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card  (£497.99 @ Technextday) 
Case: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£72.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA B3 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £975.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-13 17:48 BST+0100

 

3200 is good but 3600 is best for ryzen it wont be a massive difference in games jsut in general stuff.

                                                     

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Home gaming and general work rig: CPU: 2700x with stock cooler Ram: Corsair vengeance pro RGB 16gb GPU: RX570 4GB (upgrading soon) Storage: 1x 500gb crucial SSD + 1tb HDD Mobo: B450-F gaming PSU: Corsair rmx550Case: Corsair 275R

 

F@H rig (In office and used for work too) CPU: 3600 Ram: Viper 16gb ram Mobo: B550-Tomahawk GPU's 1x 2080 super 1x 2060 super Storage: SN750 1tb Case: PC 011 Air PSU: Corsair RM850 Fans: 6x Noctua NF-12

 

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Always Reply with a question if you have one! 😃

 

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £152.00 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard ASRock X570 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard £168.07 @ More Computers
Memory Patriot Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £70.84 @ CCL Computers
Storage Western Digital Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £61.12 @ CCL Computers
Video Card Asus Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB TUF Gaming X3 OC Video Card £361.70 @ Amazon UK
Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case £89.89 @ More Computers
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £89.99 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £993.61
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Given the announcement from AMD to support 4000 series chips on B450 and X470 I upped by budget a bit and made this 😀

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£284.97 @ Laptops Direct) 
Motherboard: MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£104.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£135.99 @ Alza) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£58.66 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Gaming OC 3X Video Card  (£524.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£74.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx White (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£114.99 @ Corsair UK) 
Total: £1299.56
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-22 12:37 BST+0100

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