RYZEN Workstation Build

[AkiTech]

Hey LTT, I'm looking to build my first RYZEN workstaion build on a budget.. can someone please assist me in parts picking.. Im on a $900 budget 

 

My current components of choice are: 

Ryzen 5 1600 

Gigabyte GA A320M - HD2 

GTX 1050 Ti / Gigabyte RX 550 OC 

Help me out guys :3 
 

 

[rattacko123]

get 1050 ti as it is better supported for workstation use
get the cheapest 16GB of ram you can find

any cheap case will do

get a 550w gold psu or something, don't skimp out on your power supply quality 
Maybe get a slightly more expensive motherboard? You may get more ports and stuff if you spend like $10-20 extra for a b350 board

[Aereldor]

Requests for parts lists are normally posted in 'New Builds and Planning'. I've asked a mod to move it there so you get more views. I'll post a build shortly.

What programs are you going to be using? How much of a focus is on gaming?

[AkiTech]

1 minute ago, rattacko123 said:

get 1050 ti as it is better supported for workstation use
get the cheapest 16GB of ram you can find

any cheap case will do

get a 550w gold psu or something, don't skimp out on your power supply quality 
Maybe get a slightly more expensive motherboard? You may get more ports and stuff if you spend like $10-20 extra for a b350 board

noted.. I'll get the MSi Mortar B350 instead 

 

[genexis_x]

Get B350 mobo

Get high speed RAM

Get a decent PSU like Corsair CX-M grey, Seasonic S12II/M12II-EVO or EVGA B3

[AkiTech]

1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

Requests for parts lists are normally posted in 'New Builds and Planning'. I've asked a mod to move it there so you get more views. I'll post a build shortly.

What programs are you going to be using? How much of a focus is on gaming?

this builds sole purpose is for content creation.. :3 

[Aereldor]

Also, you don't live in the US, so US parts and prices are meaningless unless you have a way to transport them frmo the U.S. to the Philippines.

[AkiTech]

Im just looking to get tips from you guys.. I know store here in the PH that sell those parts :3 

[genexis_x]

2 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

get 1050 ti as it is better supported for workstation use
get the cheapest 16GB of ram you can find

any cheap case will do

get a 550w gold psu or something, don't skimp out on your power supply quality 
Maybe get a slightly more expensive motherboard? You may get more ports and stuff if you spend like $10-20 extra for a b350 board

Poor explanations.

 

1. 1050TI is more powerful

2. Cheapest means low speed RAM, Ryzen loves high speed RAM

3. Some cheap cases have bad cable management room

4. Efficiency usually means nothing when choosing a PSU, for instance, EVGA NEX has gold certified efficiency but has poor electrical performance

5. B350 allows overclocking most importantly

[domandric034]

7 minutes ago, AkiTech said:

Hey LTT, I'm looking to build my first RYZEN workstaion build on a budget.. can someone please assist me in parts picking.. Im on a $900 budget 

 

My current components of choice are: 

Ryzen 5 1600 

Gigabyte GA A320M - HD2 

GTX 1050 Ti / Gigabyte RX 550 OC 

Help me out guys :3 
 

 

1. RX 550 is equliavent GT 1030.

2. Get R5 1600 with RX 580 or GTX 1060 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($195.69 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($77.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($135.88 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.98 @ Directron) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.44 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - Radeon RX 580 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card  ($280.98 @ Directron) 
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($54.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($64.23 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $914.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-17 05:47 EDT-0400

[rattacko123]

20 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Poor explanations.

 

1. 1050TI is more powerful

2. Cheapest means low speed RAM, Ryzen loves high speed RAM

3. Some cheap cases have bad cable management room

4. Efficiency usually means nothing when choosing a PSU, for instance, EVGA NEX has gold certified efficiency but has poor electrical performance

5. B350 allows overclocking most importantly

1. This is a workstation build, what matters is support for the graphics card, and cuda generally has better support, power doesn't matter as much in this case. heck even a really cheap RX card may be better for certain cases.

2. good point, I thought high speed ram was too expensive for some reason, turns out it's actually pretty cheap for the 16GB kits
3. I should have said cheap cases from a reputable brand
4. good point, probably should refer to this guide 

5. barely anyone overclocks (too risky for someone with no money anyways, of course if you have disposable income you should overclock), and this is a budget build we are talking about, overclocking requires a better cooler (65W cooler on 1600 probably doesn't have enough headroom I think).

edit: for a workstation build, having more usb ports, sata ports is more helpful than just overclocking support.
 

[Guest]

Just now, domandric034 said:

1. RX 550 is equliavent GT 1030.

2. Get R5 1600 with RX 580 or GTX 1060 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($195.69 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($77.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($135.88 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.98 @ Directron) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.44 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - Radeon RX 580 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card  ($280.98 @ Directron) 
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($54.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($64.23 @ NCIX US) 
Total: $914.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-17 05:47 EDT-0400

RX?

[rattacko123]

31 minutes ago, AkiTech said:

this builds sole purpose is for content creation.. :3 

 

25 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

1. RX 550 is equliavent GT 1030.

2. Get R5 1600 with RX 580 or GTX 1060 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.98 @ Directron) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.44 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - Radeon RX 580 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card  ($280.98 @ Directron) 
 

Good choices, but for a content creation build more storage is a must. 
Getting an RX 570/470 and using the savings to get 240GB SSD and 2TB HDD would be much better choices IMO. upgrading 120GB>240GB and 1TB>2TB doesn't cost much extra. 

EDIT: for content creation, a 1060 3GB may be better with CUDA and NVENC, although I would rather get a 1050 ti 4GB.
I guess it depends on the type of content creation, is it gaming content creation, video editing, etc?
 

[domandric034]

2 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

 

Good choices, but for a content creation build more storage is a must. 
Getting an RX 570/470 and using the savings to get 240GB SSD and 2TB HDD would be much better choices IMO. upgrading 120GB>240GB and 1TB>2TB doesn't cost much extra.
 

No. just no. I wouldn't downgrade GPU. 120 GB SSD is enough with 1 TB HDD. He can later save and just slap in HDD. That is a huge mistake.

[rattacko123]

1 minute ago, domandric034 said:

No. just no. I wouldn't downgrade GPU. 120 GB SSD is enough with 1 TB HDD. He can later save and just slap in HDD. That is a huge mistake.

120GB SSD isn't enough to store the adobe applications if video editing is what he is doing.
OK I guess he will be fine with 1TB HDD, but 2TB isn't too much more.
I suppose for futureproofing getting an 8GB card may make sense, but 4GB RX470 makes much more sense in the short term (1-2 years) considering his budget.

[Droidbot]

How do you edit? Different apps use different GPUs. 

[domandric034]

3 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

120GB SSD isn't enough to store the adobe applications if video editing is what he is doing.
OK I guess he will be fine with 1TB HDD, but 2TB isn't too much more.
I suppose for futureproofing getting an 8GB card may make sense, but 4GB RX470 makes much more sense in the short term (1-2 years) considering his budget.

Maybe he will use Sony Vegas Pro which uses better AMD GPU's and RX 580 is golden spot.

[domandric034]

2 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

Maybe he will use Sony Vegas Pro which uses better AMD GPU's and RX 580 is golden spot.

This is source

Thread from sony vegas users.

[domandric034]

35 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

RX?

He said he is video editing. If he will use Sony Vegas Pro then RX is way to go. If Adobe Premiere Pro then GTX 1060.

[rattacko123]

13 minutes ago, domandric034 said:

This is source

Thread from sony vegas users.

nothing about RX 580 in there, does extra 4GB in the RX 580 really make that much of a difference? The 570 and 580 are very similar otherwise.

GPU support in vegas is rather old and outdated anyways. Performance seems good enough on my gtx 970
 

[domandric034]

1 minute ago, rattacko123 said:

nothing about RX 580 in there, does extra 4GB in the RX 580 really make that much of a difference? The 570 and 580 are very similar otherwise.

GPU support in vegas is rather old and outdated anyways. Performance seems good enough on my gtx 970
 

Still it's AMD so they keep OpenCL and OpenGL. It makes difference. And Vegas Pro 14 is out so boii take a look at that program.

[Guest]

Just now, domandric034 said:

He said he is video editing. If he will use Sony Vegas Pro then RX is way to go. If Adobe Premiere Pro then GTX 1060.

Are they avaialble/in stock in Philipnes? 

[domandric034]

16 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Are they avaialble/in stock in Philipnes? 

That will OP check

[TheRandomness]

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