My best buddy's build. Ryzen 3600/RX 6600.

[diegoaccord]

So this PC was originally my kid's powered by a 9100F and a 1660 Super, 8GB 2166. 

 

 

Last year, after the kid received a new PC, I gave this to my buddy who had/has a PS4 in this config. I told him this is a lot better than a PS4, but not PS5 as it is. I told him that I would either get him a PS5, or he can have this PC, and then I will buy the parts that are necessary to around PS5 level. After considering that a lot of the games he played already would be better on PC, for various reasons, he chose the PC. At the time I gave it to him, I bought 16GB of 3200 RAM, and a few more case fans. Even with the 9100F/1660S, he did immediately buy Gotham Knights, a game he couldn't have had on PS4. That said, IDK how it played on that system.

 

I bought the mobo/CPU deal at Microcenter for the 3600/B450 last year, and we were just sitting on it until I had time to run him through putting it in. (This guy had previously put the HDMI into the mobo, and thought the PC was broken) When Street Fighter 6 came out recently, the PC was showing some struggle. I walked him through the mobo/CPU install, and that made it better, but not perfect. There were frame drops on ultra. It was fine after it was changed to normal. The install was easy because I'd done the cables when I originally built it, and we already did extra fans when I gave it to him. We did find that while the old Asus B360M-A had 2 NVME's, the new Gigabyte B450 only had one. The extra storage he purchased had to be set aside.

 

Today/Yesterday, I got the final parts needed, a PCIE >NVME card, and an RX 6600. I walk him through installing his NVME to the card, and install it, and the GPU. You can see him screwing in the GPU in one of the photos.

 

DDU'd the Invidia stuff, installed Adrenalin and AMD chipset drivers, and booted up SF6. Set it to ultra, and buttery smooth. No drops.

 

From this point, any upgrades are on him. In a few years a 5800X3D or the rumored 5600X3D, an AIO and whatever low/mid-level GPU makes sense at the time.

 

Also I now have all the original parts, and a black case. The same case as this one; Lian Li 205. Would need a PSU and storage. 

[SorryBella]

Love me some frugal build in white. Your upgrade path makes really good sense, just make sure itll fit in the PSU wattage for the GPU side.

[PcBeExpensive]

18 minutes ago, diegoaccord said:

So this PC was originally my kid's powered by a 9100F and a 1660 Super, 8GB 2166. 

 

 

Last year, after the kid received a new PC, I gave this to my buddy who had/has a PS4 in this config. I told him this is a lot better than a PS4, but not PS5 as it is. I told him that I would either get him a PS5, or he can have this PC, and then I will buy the parts that are necessary to around PS5 level. After considering that a lot of the games he played already would be better on PC, for various reasons, he chose the PC. At the time I gave it to him, I bought 16GB of 3200 RAM, and a few more case fans. Even with the 9100F/1660S, he did immediately buy Gotham Knights, a game he couldn't have had on PS4. That said, IDK how it played on that system.

 

I bought the mobo/CPU deal at Microcenter for the 3600/B450 last year, and we were just sitting on it until I had time to run him through putting it in. (This guy had previously put the HDMI into the mobo, and thought the PC was broken) When Street Fighter 6 came out recently, the PC was showing some struggle. I walked him through the mobo/CPU install, and that made it better, but not perfect. There were frame drops on ultra. It was fine after it was changed to normal. The install was easy because I'd done the cables when I originally built it, and we already did extra fans when I gave it to him. We did find that while the old Asus B360M-A had 2 NVME's, the new Gigabyte B450 only had one. The extra storage he purchased had to be set aside.

 

Today/Yesterday, I got the final parts needed, a PCIE >NVME card, and an RX 6600. I walk him through installing his NVME to the card, and install it, and the GPU. You can see him screwing in the GPU in one of the photos.

 

DDU'd the Invidia stuff, installed Adrenalin and AMD chipset drivers, and booted up SF6. Set it to ultra, and buttery smooth. No drops.

 

From this point, any upgrades are on him. In a few years a 5800X3D or the rumored 5600X3D, an AIO and whatever low/mid-level GPU makes sense at the time.

 

Also I now have all the original parts, and a black case. The same case as this one; Lian Li 205. Would need a PSU and storage. 

Nice, looks quite nice too.