How to reduce cost without making performance decrease?

[Yashiees]

Saw this from another persons title and decided it's a good one to ask also.

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£274.99 @ Scan.co.uk
CPU Cooler	ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler	£37.73 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	£114.99 @ Box Limited
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	£83.98 @ Ebuyer
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£72.34 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£45.36 @ CCL Computers
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400A ATX Mid Tower Case	£64.99 @ Currys PC World
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£96.11 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£790.49
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-09 22:40 BST+0100

 

 

 

streaming and competitive gaming,(rtx 3070 future)

 

[Lurick]

Reduce by how much?

Do you have a GPU you can use now because the 5600X doesn't have any integrated graphics

[TheBean]

you could get a cheaper ssd.. that doesnt make any difference and will save you a at least 20euros. a case with better airflow will also help. 3600mhz ram is not that nessesary either. could go with 3200 and still be fine. 

[Egg-Roll]

You could go to a Evo 250GB. If you are ok with wait times for loading the SSD can be only for windows which only need about 150GB tops.

I hope you have a GPU already because that CPU has no internal graphics. (Lurick beat me )

[Fasauceome]

Drop PSU wattage, remove air cooler, less expensive SSD and case, as well as motherboard and ram

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£274.99 @ Scan.co.uk
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£99.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	£80.39 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£41.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£45.36 @ CCL Computers
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£30.46 @ Scan.co.uk
Power Supply	SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£79.98 @ CCL Computers
Case Fan	ARCTIC P14 72.8 CFM 140 mm Fan	£7.49 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£660.65
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-09 22:48 BST+0100

 

 

[Yashiees]

1 hour ago, The_Vaccine said:

you could get a cheaper ssd.. that doesnt make any difference and will save you a at least 20euros. a case with better airflow will also help. 3600mhz ram is not that nessesary either. could go with 3200 and still be fine. 

people kept telling me to for a 3600

 

1 hour ago, Egg-Roll said:

You could go to a Evo 250GB. If you are ok with wait times for loading the SSD can be only for windows which only need about 150GB tops.

I hope you have a GPU already because that CPU has no internal graphics. (Lurick beat me )

hmm, i could see about that. 

[curiousmind34]

10 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

You could go to a Evo 250GB. If you are ok with wait times for loading the SSD can be only for windows which only need about 150GB tops.

 

I would just get an sn550 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/zFK2FT/western-digital-blue-sn550-500-gb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds500g2b0c

[Egg-Roll]

Just now, curiousmind34 said:

I would just get an sn550 https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/zFK2FT/western-digital-blue-sn550-500-gb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds500g2b0c

I've never used their blue ssds so I don't know how good they work (and why I keep forgetting they exist), but I doubt they designed them to fail fast like the blue hdds. At least I hope so.

Did own a ADATA once, sure was fast but died fast too, which has made me weary of cheap ssds.

[Yashiees]

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

Drop PSU wattage, remove air cooler, less expensive SSD and case, as well as motherboard and ram

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£274.99 @ Scan.co.uk
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£99.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	£80.39 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£41.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£45.36 @ CCL Computers
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£30.46 @ Scan.co.uk
Power Supply	SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£79.98 @ CCL Computers
Case Fan	ARCTIC P14 72.8 CFM 140 mm Fan	£7.49 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£660.65
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-09 22:48 BST+0100

 

 

 

would a 5800x be enough for the power supply?

 

i can get a 5800x for £317 rn

[Yashiees]

58 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

I've never used their blue ssds so I don't know how good they work (and why I keep forgetting they exist), but I doubt they designed them to fail fast like the blue hdds. At least I hope so.

Did own a ADATA once, sure was fast but died fast too, which has made me weary of cheap ssds.

i found the ssd through this https://linustechtips.com/topic/1092033-ssd-tier-list/

[Egg-Roll]

1 minute ago, Yashiees said:

i found the ssd through this https://linustechtips.com/topic/1092033-ssd-tier-list/

Those lists are based off of specs more than reviews, and the 970 Evos are great I own the 1TB version  I've just never used the blue before and to the reference with blue hdds I made in case you are wondering: Outside of the "joking" about a poor implementation of a feature on their drives the WD Blue SSD should be good for a OS drive at least, esp if you're trying to cut on costs.

Spoiler

 

 

5 minutes ago, Yashiees said:

would a 5800x be enough for the power supply?

 

Yes, since most psu's come with a 8 pin cpu cable. I might be a little worried about wanting to put in a 3070 with it, but it should be ok for non-overclocking use.

[Fasauceome]

34 minutes ago, Yashiees said:

would a 5800x be enough for the power supply?

 

i can get a 5800x for £317 rn

yes

[Helpful Tech Witch]

25 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Yes, since most psu's come with a 8 pin cpu cable. I might be a little worried about wanting to put in a 3070 with it, but it should be ok for non-overclocking use.

A rm750 is more than enough for a 3079 and a 5800x (with pbo ofc)