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I'm building my first pc and needed to get it done soon.I have to buy everything off of Amazon.Since I saw AMDS new Ryzen 3 cpu, and realized on Newegg that it will be released on the 31st, I was wondering if I should either wait for ryzen 3 to be available on Amazon or buy the motherboard now.Also note that I have about $120 on my account and if I were to buy the motherboard now I would have to wait to get more money for the cpu.

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What you have already, total budget, use case (what games, if any), peripherals?

Gaming PC NAS Laptop Workstation

CPU: i5 12600KF 6P+4E Ryzen 7 3700X M4 SoC 4P+6E Xeon X5690 6c12t

Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S Wraith Stealth w/NF-A9 Passive Apple CPU Cooler

Motherboard: ASRock Z690 ITX/ax ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM Apple J713AP Mac-F221BEC8 (Mac Pro 5,1)

RAM: 2x16GB 3600Mhz DDR4 2x16GB 2400MHz DDR4 24GB Micron LPDDR5 4x8GB 1333MHz ECC DDR3

GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon 9060 XT 16GB Radeon WX2100 M4 SoC 10C Radeon RX 5700

Storage: 1TB MP34 + 2TB P41 500GB SSD + 2x4TB IronWolf Pro in ZFS Mirror Apple AP0512Z 1TB Crucial MX500

ODD: LG WH14NS40 None LG GP65NB60 USB DVD Writer Don't know

PSU: EVGA 850W GM Silverstone SST-TX300 53.8Wh LiPo Battery Delta DPS-980BB

Case: Silverstone Sugo 14 Dell Inspiron 530S Mac16,12 chassis (13" MBA) 2009-2012 Mac Pro "Cheese Grater"

OS: Gentoo Linux TrueNAS Scale macOS 26 Tahoe Fedora Linux

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 14" M5P MacBook Pro (work) - iPhone 17 Pro - Apple Watch S11

 

Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, iFlash Solo w/128GB SD Card, Rockbox), Nintendo Switch

 

Vehicles: 2002 Ford F150, 2003 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200, 2022 Kawasaki KLR650, 1994 DR350SE

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39 minutes ago, CastleCrusher said:

I'm building my first pc and needed to get it done soon.I have to buy everything off of Amazon.Since I saw AMDS new Ryzen 3 cpu, and realized on Newegg that it will be released on the 31st, I was wondering if I should either wait for ryzen 3 to be available on Amazon or buy the motherboard now.Also note that I have about $120 on my account and if I were to buy the motherboard now I would have to wait to get more money for the cpu.

All I need is the cpu, motherboard, and I'll just get an old graphics card for cheap for now and I'll get a gtx 1050 sometime down the road.

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Do you have a budget or an ideal price you want to spend?

Parts:

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200

Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) 3000MHz

Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD

Storage: WD Blue 1TB 7200 RPM HDD

Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Red)

Power Supply: Corsair CX550

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9 minutes ago, CastleCrusher said:

All I need is the cpu, motherboard, and I'll just get an old graphics card for cheap for now and I'll get a gtx 1050 sometime down the road.

Don't you need DDR4 RAM as well?

 

I would advise to buy all the stuff at once if you can. You may get a better deal if you buy it later, and in the very least you'll only pay for shipping once.

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