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Help upgrading to Small Form Factor build

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Budget (including currency): 500

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: i game a 1440p and 1080p used for gaming, media and photo editing.

Other details - Currently running a Ryzen 5 2600 on B450 ATX , 16GB vengance DDR4, RTX4060, 550w ATX PSU, NZXT h500 case. have a 240 AIO not opposed to changing cooler 

i want to upgrade my system to be smaller maybe a new CPU, i travel alot. 

Micro ATX cases are preferred as budget, but ITX is not ruled out 

have being looking at the Lian Li A3, NZXT h1, and cooler master NR200P

 

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1 hour ago, Cloggy987 said:

Budget (including currency): 500

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: i game a 1440p and 1080p used for gaming, media and photo editing.

Other details - Currently running a Ryzen 5 2600 on B450 ATX , 16GB vengance DDR4, RTX4060, 550w ATX PSU, NZXT h500 case. have a 240 AIO not opposed to changing cooler 

i want to upgrade my system to be smaller maybe a new CPU, i travel alot. 

Micro ATX cases are preferred as budget, but ITX is not ruled out 

have being looking at the Lian Li A3, NZXT h1, and cooler master NR200P

 

Which 4060?

Which ATX PSU?

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1) Buy the cheapest (well reviewed) motherboard that has the features you need. Paying more typically only gets you features you won’t use. 2) only get as much RAM as you need, getting more won’t (typically) make your PC faster. 3) While I recommend getting an NVMe drive, you don’t need to splurge for an expensive drive with DRam cache, DRamless drives are fine for gamers. 4) paying for looks is fine, just don’t break the bank. 5) Tower coolers are usually good enough, unless you go top tier Intel or plan on OCing. 6) OCing is a dead meme, you probably shouldn’t bother. 7) "Bottlenecks" rarely matter and "Future-proofing" is a myth. 8) AIOs don't noticeably improve performance past 240mm and don't improve at all past 360mm. 9) RTFM.

 

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Since you travel a lot you might wanna invest in some wifi (easier to use rather than searching for ethernet)

You can re-use these : PSU, ram, GPU, storage and cooler to save the most 
aka this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/PML4Qd (case is a lil more than the A3 but more convinient to travel with due to the suitcase build
or go a with smt a lil more modern and meaningful like this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RB8jkf  which would let you upgrade in  the future should you need to 
(PS your GPU is doodoo to use in 1440p so either throw in some extra cash to upgrade that or stay in 1080p is what I would suggest)

I edit my posts for so if you saw a typo.... no you didn't, you are just crazy
 

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2 hours ago, Cloggy987 said:

Budget (including currency): 500

Country: uk

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: i game a 1440p and 1080p used for gaming, media and photo editing.

Other details - Currently running a Ryzen 5 2600 on B450 ATX , 16GB vengance DDR4, RTX4060, 550w ATX PSU, NZXT h500 case. have a 240 AIO not opposed to changing cooler 

i want to upgrade my system to be smaller maybe a new CPU, i travel alot. 

Micro ATX cases are preferred as budget, but ITX is not ruled out 

have being looking at the Lian Li A3, NZXT h1, and cooler master NR200P

 

What 4060 do you have? Some are huge and some are compact and SFF ready.

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1 hour ago, Millios said:

Since you travel a lot you might wanna invest in some wifi (easier to use rather than searching for ethernet)

You can re-use these : PSU, ram, GPU, storage and cooler to save the most 
aka this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/PML4Qd (case is a lil more than the A3 but more convinient to travel with due to the suitcase build
or go a with smt a lil more modern and meaningful like this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RB8jkf  which would let you upgrade in  the future should you need to 
(PS your GPU is doodoo to use in 1440p so either throw in some extra cash to upgrade that or stay in 1080p is what I would suggest)

Thx, i know the 4060 is not made for 1440p but it runs the games i want to at 1440p so it does the job. 

I will be getting a WiFi board. 

i like the case, does b550 support ddr4 or 5 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Cloggy987 said:

Thx, i know the 4060 is not made for 1440p but it runs the games i want to at 1440p so it does the job. 

I will be getting a WiFi board. 

i like the case, does b550 support ddr4 or 5 

b550 supports ddr4 only

Also if you dont wanna upgrade the GPU its a whole other matter but its your choice at the end of the day so to each their own

I edit my posts for so if you saw a typo.... no you didn't, you are just crazy
 

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