help with planning an upgrade

[Origami Cactus]

Budget (including currency):  600€

Country:  Europe

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Putting together an upgrade for my brother, haven't kept in touch for a while with technology, so any thoughts about this:

 

So my general idea is to get a ryzen processor, 32-64gb of ram, and a b550 motherboard. My brother is leaning for the 5750G option, because of the upgrade in graphics power.

 

Idea nr 1:

375€ for a ryzen pro 5750g,  (the APU in it surely has to be a lot better than a r5 230 he is using right now?)

125€ for 32g (2x16 ddr 3200 CL16,)

100-150€ for some b550 motherboard with lots of ports.

 

Idea nr 2:

275€ for 3700x

125€ x2 (32GB Kingston Fury stick, with 3200mhz CL16), for a total of 64gb, maybe with a possibility of a future update to 128GB?

100-150€ for some b550 motherboard with lots of ports.

 

I have no idea about a good motherboard, so that could be a good place to help. I didn't find any cheap old 2000 series threadrippers sadly, that would have been really cool.

 

[Dr0idGh0sT]

Good motherboard for this price would be MSI B550A-Pro, Not expensive and it does everything it should. 

 

For RAM, Get a 3600 CL 16, Because APU is heavily dependant on RAM speed, So it matters a lot. 5750G is better than 3700X as a CPU and have better integrated graphics than R35 230, So it's definitely worth it. P.S. It only supports max 64 GB RAM.

[Origami Cactus]

7 hours ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

P.S. It only supports max 64 GB RAM.

Does it really?

Where does it say that?

I didn't see that anywhere on the AMD site?

[Dr0idGh0sT]

1 hour ago, Origami Cactus said:

Does it really?

Where does it say that?

I didn't see that anywhere on the AMD site?

Some sites have listed this info

 

[Origami Cactus]

Just now, Dr0idGh0sT said:

Some sites have listed this info

 

oh okay, what sites, i didn't find any? Maybe the laptop variant can only support 64gb?

[Dr0idGh0sT]

55 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

oh okay, what sites, i didn't find any? Maybe the laptop variant can only support 64gb?