New AMD PC

[itay296]

Hi everyone,

I am building a new PC for a friend. The main uses will be graphic design(she want to be Animator) and gaming.

It is a bought build, the build I give is the max price I can afford.

 

this is the build:

CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 1600x BOX

MB- Asus PRIME B350-A

PSU- Corsair VS550 550W 

RAM- 2*(Corsair DDR4 8G 240 CL16 Vengeance LPX RED)

GPU- Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GD (I have an ~80$ discount on this)

HDD- WD 1TB Blue

SSD- SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB

and some microATX generic case- the GPU can fit in, I already check that.

 

I want to hear reviews mainly related to CPU and motherboard since I am not a big AMD enthusiast.Is the part I chose will do the work?

thank you for the help.

[jond1122]

Your motherboard should work because it is a B350. How much is it though? I have a Ryzen 5 1500x and the motherboard I got was an amazing deal. About $75 with everything you would need. (and red led's).    

[kalnick]

4 minutes ago, itay296 said:

Hi everyone,

I am building a new PC for a friend. The main uses will be graphic design(she want to be Animator) and gaming.

It is a bought build, the build I give is the max price I can afford.

 

this is the build:

CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 1600x BOX

MB- Asus PRIME B350-A

PSU- Corsair VS550 550W 

RAM- 2*(Corsair DDR4 8G 240 CL16 Vengeance LPX RED)

GPU- Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GD (I have an ~80$ discount on this)

HDD- WD 1TB Blue

SSD- SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB

and some microATX generic case- the GPU can fit in, I already check that.

 

I want to hear reviews mainly related to CPU and motherboard since I am not a big AMD enthusiast.Is the part I chose will do the work?

thank you for the help.

CPU and Board are fine but you should be fine with 1600 and put the money you save on the 1600x and the after market cooler you need for it  into faster ram. You want at least 3000 mhz. 

[kalnick]

Just now, kalnick said:

CPU and Board are fine but you should be fine with 1600 and put the money you save on the 1600x and the after market cooler you need for it  into faster ram. You want at least 3000 mhz. 

Oh also put money into a WD black 1tb instead of the blue drive for faster drive speeds. Unless everything is being written to and processed on the SSD and just stored on the blue.

[itay296]

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

1. I would get a Ryzen 5 1600 instead and save money. Then overclock the CPU.

 

Other ways to save money is to buy your SSD and (if you are willing to do it) HDD used form ebay or craigslist. SSDs rarely die so you could save money there.

 

This MSI board costs a little less and checks all the feature boxes.

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813144048

 

Other than that okay.

Thank for the quick answer, I don't want to buy the part on the internet. SO this solution will not work

 

[itay296]

Just now, CUDA_Cores said:

you want to buy your parts locally? Why? Basically everyone buys some of their computer parts online these days. Do you live in a foreign country and shipping would kill and extra savings?

I live in Israel, the post mail here is suck for my opinion. 

and you need to pay TAX on some part and wait a long time for delivery. 

[itay296]

the only place I can find 2500K is in a second-hand store. and I don't want that.

[itay296]

11 minutes ago, kalnick said:

Oh also put money into a WD black 1tb instead of the blue drive for faster drive speeds. Unless everything is being written to and processed on the SSD and just stored on the blue.

thank for the reply, you were right about the drive, the WD is for storage.

I have 2 questions:

1. can I OC 1600?, I am not gonna do it now but I want to have the possibility.

2. how much RAM clock affect the PC performance?

[Not_Sean]

11 minutes ago, itay296 said:

thank for the reply, you were right about the drive, the WD is for storage.

I have 2 questions:

1. can I OC 1600?, I am not gonna do it now but I want to have the possibility.

2. how much RAM clock affect the PC performance?

1. Yes, both my 1600's are running at 3.8Ghz on stock cooling and the OC was in both cases done by the Asus AI Oc software, i never been into the bios and temps are perfect. 

 

2. I haven't bothered with Ram OC'ing even with me running TridenZ as the Ryzen bios's are still iffy on it, but honestly I haven't noticed any lack of performance running at 2400Mhz. 

[itay296]

So I notice that the 1600X doesn't come with cooler and discover that I can OC the 1600. so I will change my CPU to the 1600.

I will leave the RAM as is and save her some money for the monitor. I mostly want to verify that the MB and CPU will be OK.

 

Thank you all, you help me a lot.

[kalnick]

47 minutes ago, itay296 said:

So I notice that the 1600X doesn't come with cooler and discover that I can OC the 1600. so I will change my CPU to the 1600.

I will leave the RAM as is and save her some money for the monitor. I mostly want to verify that the MB and CPU will be OK.

 

Thank you all, you help me a lot.

Ram speed is very important since it controls how quickly the two cpu complexes comunicate over infinity fabric.

 

You want 3200mhz if you can afford it, that is the sweet spot. 2400mhz is slow for Ryzen. Its worth spending the money on it now.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=does+ram+speed+matter+for+ryzen

 

[Guest]

With the money you save by going with the r5 1600 use it for a better power supply. The Corsair VS is terrible. Something like the Corsair CXM (Grey label) is better if you want something that is fairly cheap.