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Friend want me to build him something for his kids birthday Tuesday....

 

Best Budget CPU at the 120-150 US range? trying to fight out that and a matx motherboard for 250 or so

 

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AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900X
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ULTRA Motherboard
Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600MHz CL16-16-16-36 1.35V 32GB (2x16GB)
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 TI GAMING X TRIO 
Lian Li PC-O11DW 011 Dynamic Tempered Glass on The Front Chassis Body SECC ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case White
SAMSUNG 970 Pro M.2 NVMe PCI-E 1TB Solid State Drive
XPG S40G 512GB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 Internal SSD
WD WDS500G2X0C 500GB High-Performance NVMe PCIe Gen3 8 GB/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive 
Corsair Vengeance 750M 750 W (750W) 80 Plus Silver Semi-Modular Power Supply 
Acer Predator XB273K UHD IPS NVIDIA G-SYNC Monitor, VESA Certified DisplayHDR 400, Quantum Dot, 144hz
BenQ 27 inch 4K PhotoVue Photographer Monitor (SW271)  - Secondary for Photo/Video Edition
EKWB EK-KIT S360 Compact Triple 120mm Water / Liquid Cooling Kit 360mm
Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Red LED, Cherry MX Blue
Corsair Nightsword RGB, Performance Tunable FPS/MOBA Gaming Mouse, Black, Backlit RGB LED, 18000 DPI, Optical
Sony HT-MT300/B Powerful Mini Sound bar with Wireless Subwoofer

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1 minute ago, ChefX said:

Best Budget CPU at the 120-150 US range

3300x or a 1600af. 

The 3300x is better in almost every scenario unless the workload is purely multi threaded. 

2 minutes ago, ChefX said:

trying to fight out that and a matx motherboard for 250 or so

Wait so 250 dollars for the board? Why is the budget for the board way more than the cpu's budget lol?

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

Build Log: 

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1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

3300x or a 1600af. 

The 3300x is better in almost every scenario unless the workload is purely multi threaded. 

Wait so 250 dollars for the board? Why is the budget for the board way more than the cpu's budget lol?

both for 250, 3300 is no where to be found in here atm so that is out of the equation

AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900X
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ULTRA Motherboard
Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600MHz CL16-16-16-36 1.35V 32GB (2x16GB)
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 TI GAMING X TRIO 
Lian Li PC-O11DW 011 Dynamic Tempered Glass on The Front Chassis Body SECC ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case White
SAMSUNG 970 Pro M.2 NVMe PCI-E 1TB Solid State Drive
XPG S40G 512GB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 Internal SSD
WD WDS500G2X0C 500GB High-Performance NVMe PCIe Gen3 8 GB/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive 
Corsair Vengeance 750M 750 W (750W) 80 Plus Silver Semi-Modular Power Supply 
Acer Predator XB273K UHD IPS NVIDIA G-SYNC Monitor, VESA Certified DisplayHDR 400, Quantum Dot, 144hz
BenQ 27 inch 4K PhotoVue Photographer Monitor (SW271)  - Secondary for Photo/Video Edition
EKWB EK-KIT S360 Compact Triple 120mm Water / Liquid Cooling Kit 360mm
Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Red LED, Cherry MX Blue
Corsair Nightsword RGB, Performance Tunable FPS/MOBA Gaming Mouse, Black, Backlit RGB LED, 18000 DPI, Optical
Sony HT-MT300/B Powerful Mini Sound bar with Wireless Subwoofer

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Just now, ChefX said:

both for 250

Ah, well either a 3100/3300x If the 3300x isn't available, the 3100 will do the job. And so will the 1600 af if you fine one.

As for the board. 

B450 pro 4m, mortar max should do the job. 

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

Build Log: 

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1 minute ago, ChefX said:

both for 250, 3300 is no where to be found in here atm so that is out of the equation

I just call the shop they have 3100 and 3200g and 3400g, I may just pick up a B450 board with that

AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900X
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ULTRA Motherboard
Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600MHz CL16-16-16-36 1.35V 32GB (2x16GB)
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 TI GAMING X TRIO 
Lian Li PC-O11DW 011 Dynamic Tempered Glass on The Front Chassis Body SECC ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case White
SAMSUNG 970 Pro M.2 NVMe PCI-E 1TB Solid State Drive
XPG S40G 512GB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 Internal SSD
WD WDS500G2X0C 500GB High-Performance NVMe PCIe Gen3 8 GB/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive 
Corsair Vengeance 750M 750 W (750W) 80 Plus Silver Semi-Modular Power Supply 
Acer Predator XB273K UHD IPS NVIDIA G-SYNC Monitor, VESA Certified DisplayHDR 400, Quantum Dot, 144hz
BenQ 27 inch 4K PhotoVue Photographer Monitor (SW271)  - Secondary for Photo/Video Edition
EKWB EK-KIT S360 Compact Triple 120mm Water / Liquid Cooling Kit 360mm
Corsair STRAFE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Red LED, Cherry MX Blue
Corsair Nightsword RGB, Performance Tunable FPS/MOBA Gaming Mouse, Black, Backlit RGB LED, 18000 DPI, Optical
Sony HT-MT300/B Powerful Mini Sound bar with Wireless Subwoofer

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $174.99 @ B&H
Motherboard ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $85.99 @ B&H
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $260.98
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-09 14:55 EDT-0400  

this combo should be solid, the 3600 should be around $160 but it is a bit expensive right now

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

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i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

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Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

Peripherals:

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Keyboard:

Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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