Help needed for new PC

[Donglelife]

Budget (including currency): 1700SGD

Country: Singapore

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, schooling

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): Nil

 

Hello. I have save up some money and I want to upgrade from an old HP pre-build. Can anyone recommend what spec should I buy?

Thanks

 

[suedseefrucht]

16 minutes ago, Donglelife said:

1700SGD

For the europeans: That's 1084,70 €.

 

Graphics card:

For high settings 1080p gaming, a GTX 1660 super graphics card should be the sweet spot.

It costs 440 to 530 €, so about half the budget.

For good 1440p gaming, a RTX 3060 Ti would be better, but thats more like 75 % of your budget at the moment and you still need to get the other components.

 

CPU: A Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 would be good for gaming and schooling.

 

RAM: For office work, 8 GB should be fine, but for modern games, you should get 16 GB. If you dont go for a Mini ITX mainboard, you should have 4 ram slots, so you can get 2x 8GB to leave some space for an upgrade to 32 GB. You should at least get 2 RAM sticks to use both RAM channels for more speed.

 

PSU: A 450 W power supply would be enough. You could go higher to make upgrading your graphics card easier.

 

Mainboard: Pick the CPU first, so we can recommend some.

 

Also you will need a pc case and an SSD.

[KKLawrence]

1 hour ago, Donglelife said:

Budget (including currency): 1700SGD

Country: Singapore

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, schooling

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): Nil

 

Hello. I have save up some money and I want to upgrade from an old HP pre-build. Can anyone recommend what spec should I buy?

Thanks

 

https://sg.pcpartpicker.com/list/x2DN3Z

Did a quick scout on a few singaporean websites, I think this would be a solid build. You can get a cheaper SSD, check out the tier list for that. And maybe also cheaper Ram, just with similar specs.

Good luck!

[Donglelife]

Thanks for the help.

My friend have help my pick some PC parts. Do you think that it is worth this price?

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  =$408

MOBO: MSI B550M Pro-vdh wifi =$215

RAM: Crucial ballistix gaming 3200mhz CL16 16GB (2x8gb) =$105

CASE: Montech Air 100 Argb TG m-ATX Casing =$85

PSU: Seasonic S12III 650W =$92

GPU: Msi GTX1660 Super Ventus OC 6GB GDDR6 =$669

Storage: Lexar NM620 500GB =$98

Total:$1672

[KKLawrence]

32 minutes ago, Donglelife said:

Thanks for the help.

My friend have help my pick some PC parts. Do you think that it is worth this price?

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  =$408

MOBO: MSI B550M Pro-vdh wifi =$215

RAM: Crucial ballistix gaming 3200mhz CL16 16GB (2x8gb) =$105

CASE: Montech Air 100 Argb TG m-ATX Casing =$85

PSU: Seasonic S12III 650W =$92

GPU: Msi GTX1660 Super Ventus OC 6GB GDDR6 =$669

Storage: Lexar NM620 500GB =$98

Total:$1672

The SSD doesn't have a dedicated cache, maybe check out the list on the forum SSD TIER LIST - Storage Devices - Linus Tech Tips

Other then that, I think it's a good package. The GPU is a bit expensive, I think I saw a 1660 for less, I would rather opt for that. Or at 670$ a 2060 super. Maybe in the used market, as GPU performance doesn't really degrade.

Great build!

[Donglelife]

So if I change it to Samsung 980 is it balanced?

 

[KKLawrence]

31 minutes ago, Donglelife said:

So if I change it to Samsung 980 is it balanced?

 

I'd rather get a drive from, the B-tier. So a 970 Evo Pro or a another manufacturer. The samsung 980 is a c-tier drive, only the 980 pro is a a-tier drive. B-tier is enough tho

[Jonathan Lee]

I would go for a 1 TB drive. Games get pretty big now a days.

[Donglelife]

So recently AMD just release rx6600. Should I change to that gpu? Or should I change it to 1660 or even 1650 super?

 

[Donglelife]

Does the performance for GTX 1070 similar or same to 1660 super??
 

[Donglelife]

On 10/12/2021 at 7:30 PM, KKLawrence said:

On 10/12/2021 at 7:30 PM, KKLawrence said:

The SSD doesn't have a dedicated cache, maybe check out the list on the forum SSD TIER LIST - Storage Devices - Linus Tech Tips

Other then that, I think it's a good package. The GPU is a bit expensive, I think I saw a 1660 for less, I would rather opt for that. Or at 670$ a 2060 super. Maybe in the used market, as GPU performance doesn't really degrade.

Great build!

SO if i change it to a SN750 will it be better 

 

 

[Donglelife]

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  =$408

MOBO: MSI B550M Pro-vdh wifi =$215

RAM: Crucial ballistix gaming 3200mhz CL16 16GB (2x8gb) =$105

CASE: Montech Air 100 Argb TG m-ATX Casing =$85

PSU: Seasonic S12III 650W =$92

GPU: Msi GTX1660 Super Ventus OC 6GB GDDR6 =$669

Storage: Western Digital SN750 500GB =$119

Total:$1693

 

Is this better?

[KKLawrence]

51 minutes ago, Donglelife said:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  =$408

MOBO: MSI B550M Pro-vdh wifi =$215

RAM: Crucial ballistix gaming 3200mhz CL16 16GB (2x8gb) =$105

CASE: Montech Air 100 Argb TG m-ATX Casing =$85

PSU: Seasonic S12III 650W =$92

GPU: Msi GTX1660 Super Ventus OC 6GB GDDR6 =$669

Storage: Western Digital SN750 500GB =$119

Total:$1693

 

Is this better?

Yeah but I think you can get the SN750 cheaper. Watch out to get the normal one, there's one now with SN750 SE with Battlefield 2042 and Gen4 capabilites, but no increased write-/readspeeds. 

 

Anything from that list can be good, and most of them are cheaper then 120$

 

Tier B (High-end)

• ADATA - SX8200 Pro v1 (SMI SM2262EN), Gammix S11 Pro (SMI SM2262EN), SX8800 Pro (Realtek RTS5762), Spectrix S40G / RGB (Realtek RTS5762), SX8100 (Realtek RTS5762), Gammix S7 (Realtek RTS5762)
• Addlink - S70 (Phison E12), X70 (Phison E12)
• Asgard - AN3 (SMI SM2262EN), AN3+ (Starblaze STAR1000P)
• Asura - Genesis Xtreme (Phison E12)
• Corsair - MP510 (Phison E12)
• Digifast - Ace (Phison E12)
• Galax - HOF (Phison E12)
• Gigabyte - AUROS RGB AIC (Phison E12)
• Hikvision - C2000 (Phison E12)
• HP - EX950 (SMI SM2262EN)
• Inland - Premium (Phison E12)
• KingMax - PX3480 (Phison E12)
• Kingston - KC2000 (SMI SM2262EN), KC2500 (SMI SM2262EN)
• LiteOn - MU X1 (Phison E12)
• Mushkin - Pilot-E (SMI SM2262EN)
• MyDigitalSSD - BPX Pro (Phison E12)
• Patriot - Viper VPN100 (Phison E12), Viper VPR100 (Phison E12)
• Pioneer - APS-SE20G (Phison E12)
• Plextor - M9PeY/G/GN (Marvell 88SS1093)
• PNY - CS3030 (Phison E12)
• Toshiba / Kioxia - RD500 (Phison E12S), Exercia Plus (Phison E12S)
• Sabrent - Rocket (Phison E12)
• Samsung - 970 EVO Plus (Samsung Phoenix), 970 EVO (Samsung Phoenix), 960 EVO (Samsung Polaris), 960 Pro (Samsung Polaris)
• SanDisk - Extreme Pro NVMe (WD Proprietary)
• Seagate - BarraCuda 510 (Phison E12), FireCuda 510 (Phison E12)
• Silicon Power - P34A80 (Phison E12)
• SK Hynix - Gold P31 (SK Hynix Cepheus), Platinum P31 (SK Hynix Cepheus)
• Team Group - Cardea II (Phison E12), Cardea Liquid (Phison E12), MP34 (Phison E12), Z340 (SMI SM2262EN)
• Transcend - SSD 220S (SMI SM2262EN), SSD 240S (SMI SM2267)
• Western Digital - Black / SN750 (WD Proprietary)
• Zadak - Spark (Phison E12)

[Donglelife]

Should I get rx6600?