Friends £465 Gaming PC (with a very rare CPU)

[Johnatron 101]

Hi, thought you guys might be interested in the pc I built for my friend recently for £450 which features a very rare Ryzen 7 1700x which was branded as a Ryzen 5 1600 from the factory. These processors were apparently only in production for the 36th week of 2017 which makes this CPU very rare and my friend very lucky as I nor the seller knew about this until I checked hardware monitor which showed 8 cores and 16 threads but with the CPU still showing as a 1600. I later ran a cinebench r20 run with all 8 cores @3.7Ghz (Temps peaked at 75c ish after an hour) which I've attached a picture of showing the CPU actually outperforming the r7 1700x (helped by the oc probs).

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 1700X (branded as an r5 1600) £103.85

Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max (allows nearly any CPU upgrade so long as the PSU is up to the task) £45

Ram - 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LED 3000Mhz CL15 £44.20

Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V (peaks at about 69c after an hour of furmark) £185

Case - Neutron Labs Fuzion WO7 ARGB (expansion slot missing to install friends current wifi card) £38.47

Power Supply - Corsair CX 450 (wattage is a bit low but came bundled with a 240gb ssd for £34)

Hard Drive - 1Tb WD Green £15

 

Also, yes I know it isn't ideal to use 2nd hand storage but both drives are relatively new and they have also passed their health checks totally fine.

 

Hope someone finds this build interesting, and I'd also be interested to see what others have built for a similar budget.

 

Thanks for reading!

[adarw]

nice! did you put an ssd in there? a hdd is pretty slow.

[Johnatron 101]

Just now, adarw said:

nice! did you put an ssd in there? a hdd is pretty slow.

Yeah, didn't really mention it but there's a crucial bx500 240gb which was bundled with the psu

[coca-cola-is-good]

29 minutes ago, Johnatron 101 said:

Hi, thought you guys might be interested in the pc I built for my friend recently for £450 which features a very rare Ryzen 7 1700x which was branded as a Ryzen 5 1600 from the factory. These processors were apparently only in production for the 36th week of 2017 which makes this CPU very rare and my friend very lucky as I nor the seller knew about this until I checked hardware monitor which showed 8 cores and 16 threads but with the CPU still showing as a 1600. I later ran a cinebench r20 run with all 8 cores @3.7Ghz (Temps peaked at 75c ish after an hour) which I've attached a picture of showing the CPU actually outperforming the r7 1700x (helped by the oc probs).

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 1700X (branded as an r5 1600) £103.85

Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max (allows nearly any CPU upgrade so long as the PSU is up to the task) £45

Ram - 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LED 3000Mhz CL15 £44.20

Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V (peaks at about 69c after an hour of furmark) £185

Case - Neutron Labs Fuzion WO7 ARGB (expansion slot missing to install friends current wifi card) £38.47

Power Supply - Corsair CX 450 (wattage is a bit low but came bundled with a 240gb ssd for £34)

Hard Drive - 1Tb WD Green £15

 

Also, yes I know it isn't ideal to use 2nd hand storage but both drives are relatively new and they have also passed their health checks totally fine.

 

Hope someone finds this build interesting, and I'd also be interested to see what others have built for a similar budget.

 

Thanks for reading!

thats sick bro! never seen a 1700x in person.

[adarw]

34 minutes ago, Johnatron 101 said:

Yeah, didn't really mention it but there's a crucial bx500 240gb which was bundled with the psu

thats good to hear, honestly, i would sell that 1700x as a colectable and get something better, but maybe not, idk.

[ThatsNotSus]

1 hour ago, Johnatron 101 said:

Hi, thought you guys might be interested in the pc I built for my friend recently for £450 which features a very rare Ryzen 7 1700x which was branded as a Ryzen 5 1600 from the factory. These processors were apparently only in production for the 36th week of 2017 which makes this CPU very rare and my friend very lucky as I nor the seller knew about this until I checked hardware monitor which showed 8 cores and 16 threads but with the CPU still showing as a 1600. I later ran a cinebench r20 run with all 8 cores @3.7Ghz (Temps peaked at 75c ish after an hour) which I've attached a picture of showing the CPU actually outperforming the r7 1700x (helped by the oc probs).

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 1700X (branded as an r5 1600) £103.85

Motherboard - MSI B450 Tomahawk Max (allows nearly any CPU upgrade so long as the PSU is up to the task) £45

Ram - 16Gb Corsair Vengeance LED 3000Mhz CL15 £44.20

Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V (peaks at about 69c after an hour of furmark) £185

Case - Neutron Labs Fuzion WO7 ARGB (expansion slot missing to install friends current wifi card) £38.47

Power Supply - Corsair CX 450 (wattage is a bit low but came bundled with a 240gb ssd for £34)

Hard Drive - 1Tb WD Green £15

 

Also, yes I know it isn't ideal to use 2nd hand storage but both drives are relatively new and they have also passed their health checks totally fine.

 

Hope someone finds this build interesting, and I'd also be interested to see what others have built for a similar budget.

 

Thanks for reading!

Holy dang that r7 1700x is one thousand times better than my 6 core xeon hehe. Sick setup tho