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I'm doing some research for my fiancee. he has $300 to spend and wants a 8 core CPU and wants to run win7. so I figure a AM3+ Socket would fit the bill best. he wants to stay a major brand like Asus MSI Gigabyte etc... he docent plan to overclock but wants the cores for bit mining with gaming on the side. dose anyone have some recommendations???

 

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$300 for the whole PC or CPU only? Please state clearly.
Avoid AM3+ Socket nowadays.

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bit mining does not make sense on consumer hardware, the electricity it takes to run the computer would cost much more than he would ever make, no one has mined on cpus for years

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A Ryzen 5 1600 (6 core) with a B350 motherboard. AMD FX is crap

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Well I would suggest a used Xeon, but the server motherboards that support Xeons don't have a lot of the features found in consumer motherboards and aren't manufactured by the aforementioned brands, so yeah AM3+ with an FX cpu is probably the cheapest you can get. I would strongly recommend against it in most cases since the performance on FX cpu's is pitiful and the architecture is outdated, but on this tight of a budget, it seems like your only option. 

 

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1 minute ago, 21rkosta said:

bit mining does not make sense on consumer hardware, the electricity it takes to run the computer would cost much more than he would ever make, no one has mined on cpus for years

Exactly, OP can just go with a R5 1500 (or an R3), and use the rest to buy 4x (insert graphics card here {RX580 etc., should be a high price per performance card.} ).

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sorry my bad, he want to run windows 7 and u can't do that on am4 to my knowledge. as for the $300 thats the budget for cpu and motherboard

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3 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

A Ryzen 5 1600 (6 core) with a B350 motherboard. AMD FX is crap

agreed, FX sucks, especially the mobos, you need a 990fx mobo to run them properly and those are way too outdated and expensive for what you're getting

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running windows 7 doesnt make sense, a lot of the newest games dont even work on it (i know from experience)

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Why the 8 core necessity? Also, it's not worth it to mine on consumer hardware anymore, there are dedicated systems for that. And lastly, why does he need W7?

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I tried telling him risen is better but the windows 10 experience he just hates

 but what is a good ryzen build option I can tell him but he will need ddr4 then too all for 300 total.

 

its the 300 thats limiting his options. I found a cheap Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

 

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he owns 7 already and just prefers it. as for mining he just like it as a thing to do. some game he mines. just his thing

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13 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

$300 for the whole PC or CPU only? Please state clearly.
Avoid AM3+ Socket nowadays.

title is for cpu and mobo only

2 minutes ago, AliceSML79 said:

I tried telling him risen is better but the windows 10 experience he just hates

 but what is a good ryzen build option I can tell him but he will need ddr4 then too all for 300 total.

 

its the 300 thats limiting his options. I found a cheap Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

 

r5 1600 would go over his small $300 budget and it's only a 6 core

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5 minutes ago, AliceSML79 said:

he owns 7 already and just prefers it. as for mining he just like it as a thing to do. some game he mines. just his thing

Still possible.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11182/how-to-get-ryzen-working-on-windows-7-x64

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have you tried the used market? seems to me that a lot of people would be upgrading from old intel/AMD systems with ryzen out. 

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he prefer new he said. I asked a lot questions of him before posting so if he wanted some specific features. like having extra ddr3 laying around and a old and gpu he's going to put in this rig.

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with everyone help I'm recommending this to him. not sure why he's not open to ryzen.

 

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