Linux Home PC

[Twilkie]

Budget (including currency):  800 euro

Country:  Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Linux Home PC, Plex streaming, development,  NO gaming, photo editing

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): 

Should be able to run a 34 inch widescreen 3440 by 1400 and a 27 inch 4K monitor.

 

Current planning:

 

ASUS Radeon RX 550 PH-RX550-2G-EVO       80,45

AMD Ryzen 5 3600                                             200
Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2                              111
be Quiet Pure 500 black                                     57,90
Crucial  P1 1TB                                                 103,74
Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 2x16GB 3200   124,90
Corsair RM550x                                                 97,90

Thoughts:

Can the RX 550 run the two displays mentioned?  Can it, maybe in the future, run 2 x 4K, as far is I understand it can.

The selected memory seems to have 16-18-18-36  timings, i watched Linus' video on the timings but I'm still not clear if these are good or not.
Does this matter all that much outside of gaming?

Is the Crucial P1 fine or should I go for the Samsung 970 EVO?

 

An other option is to drop the RX550 and Ryzen 3600 and replace it with a 4650G (249 euro) but since I'd have to buy a cooler it seems to be just a bit more expensive.  And I'm not clear which motherboards support the 4650G out-of-the-box.

 

Final question, should the PSU be suffice for my build?

 

 

 

 

[SnowyMus]

40 minutes ago, Twilkie said:

Can the RX 550 run the two displays mentioned?  Can it, maybe in the future, run 2 x 4K, as far is I understand it can.

The RX 550 shouldn't have any issues outputting video to the two displays.

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The selected memory seems to have 16-18-18-36  timings, i watched Linus' video on the timings but I'm still not clear if these are good or not.

Does this matter all that much outside of gaming?

16-18-18-36 is fine for 3200 MHz. The factory timings won't really help you that much, but you can tune them yourself if you want to get some additional performance.

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Is the Crucial P1 fine or should I go for the Samsung 970 EVO?

It's a pretty good SSD.

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An other option is to drop the RX550 and Ryzen 3600 and replace it with a 4650G (249 euro) but since I'd have to buy a cooler it seems to be just a bit more expensive.  And I'm not clear which motherboards support the 4650G out-of-the-box.

That might be cheaper! If you're okay with buying used, I'd buy a used R9 350, instead. It's complete trash for gaming, so you might be able to get it for pretty cheap on the used market, and it supports 4K output.

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Final question, should the PSU be suffice for my build?

Yes.

Edited November 17, 2020 by Kavawuvi
Added R9 350 suggestion

[Twilkie]

THX, Kavawuvi!!