1440p Gaming build

[iwant.luffy]

CASE: NZXT S340 ELITE

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200

MOTHERBOARD: ASRock AB350 Pro4

RAM: G.Skiils Trident Z 8GB 
GPU: GTX 1070 Hall of fame

PSU: EVGA 600 BQ

HDD: WD 1TB (Black or blue?)
SSD: HyperX Fury 120GB
MONITOR: Asus MG278Q

 

Does my CPU and GPU bottleneck?

[Simon771]

That CPU will be slight bottleneck.

But nothing too crazy.

[iwant.luffy]

3 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

That CPU will be slight bottleneck.

But nothing too crazy.

So its a good build? And i just noticed that the asrock b350 only supports 2666mhz ram so. Can you suggest b350 that supports 3200mhz?

[Reiidar]

2 minutes ago, iwant.luffy said:

So its a good build? And i just noticed that the asrock b350 only supports 2666mhz ram so. Can you suggest b350 that supports 3200mhz?

I watched it in an LTT video (don't remember which) but what I do remember is that after 2400mHz, ram reaches diminishing returns so I would advise to get a ryzen 5 instead of getting a more expensive board for 3200mHz support.

[Simon771]

2 minutes ago, iwant.luffy said:

So its a good build? And i just noticed that the asrock b350 only supports 2666mhz ram so. Can you suggest b350 that supports 3200mhz?

B350M mortar that I'm using, isn't that bad at all. And I'm using 8c/16t CPU, so there wouldn't be any problem with 4c CPU.

It does support 3200MHz, but sadly I only got 2933 max ... that could be CPU fault for all I know.

 

Build is decent, but if you can invest more money, try to get Ryzen 1400 to have SMT. Price difference isn't that huge as far as I know.

[AncientNerd]

8 minutes ago, iwant.luffy said:

CASE: NZXT S340 ELITE

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200

MOTHERBOARD: ASRock AB350 Pro4

RAM: G.Skiils Trident Z 8GB 
GPU: GTX 1070 Hall of fame

PSU: EVGA 600 BQ

HDD: WD 1TB (Black or blue?)
SSD: HyperX Fury 120GB
MONITOR: Asus MG278Q

 

Does my CPU and GPU bottleneck?

What is your budget? You have a 1440p 144Hz monitor here which is great for the 1070 but the R3 1200 is a bit light to handle this resolution/frame-rate.

 

If you budget can take it I would either bump it to the R5 1600 or the i5 8600/8600k, if your budget can't handle the bump look at the new Intel i3 Coffee lake chips they are getting fairly good reviews for highish frame-rate gaming (at least higher than the 1200).

[Bananasplit_00]

CPU would bottleneck

[iwant.luffy]

2 minutes ago, Reiidar said:

I watched it in an LTT video (don't remember which) but what I do remember is that after 2400mHz, ram reaches diminishing returns so I would advise to get a ryzen 5 instead of getting a more expensive board for 3200mHz support.

Oh okay. Instead of buying high end mobo i should upgrade my cpu. Thanks for that info

 

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

B350M mortar that I'm using, isn't that bad at all. And I'm using 8c/16t CPU, so there wouldn't be any problem with 4c CPU.

It does support 3200MHz, but sadly I only got 2933 max ... that could be CPU fault for all I know.

 

Build is decent, but if you can invest more money, try to get Ryzen 1400 to have SMT. Price difference isn't that huge as far as I know.

Why you only got 2933mhz max? Is there a problem? Okay gotcha i will save more to get ryzen 5 cpu

[iwant.luffy]

4 minutes ago, AncientNerd said:

What is your budget? You have a 1440p 144Hz monitor here which is great for the 1070 but the R3 1200 is a bit light to handle this resolution/frame-rate.

 

If you budget can take it I would either bump it to the R5 1600 or the i5 8600/8600k, if your budget can't handle the bump look at the new Intel i3 Coffee lake chips they are getting fairly good reviews for highish frame-rate gaming (at least higher than the 1200).

I think i will go for ryzen for future proofing. More cores and threads will help me a lot to save money.

[iwant.luffy]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

CPU would bottleneck

Ryzen 1600? Or Intel?

[Simon771]

4 minutes ago, AncientNerd said:

What is your budget? You have a 1440p 144Hz monitor here which is great for the 1070 but the R3 1200 is a bit light to handle this resolution/frame-rate.

 

If you budget can take it I would either bump it to the R5 1600 or the i5 8600/8600k, if your budget can't handle the bump look at the new Intel i3 Coffee lake chips they are getting fairly good reviews for highish frame-rate gaming (at least higher than the 1200).

I didn't see that he is using 144Hz monitor ... Yeah R3 1200 wouldn't be good enough for that refresh rate.

Coffe Lake i3 would be 180€ to get K version ... locked version isn't worth it.

R3 1200 is 110€, and R5 1400 is 150€.

If he can get i3 8350k in his budget, that would be great since you can OC it to 5GHz without any problems and this would bring great gaming performance.

But then again he would need to get Z370 motherboard that is more expensive than AM4.

 

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, iwant.luffy said:

Ryzen 1600? Or Intel?

1400 would probably be enough for it to not be too much of a problem, but id look into getting an I5 8400 or 8600K or any of the 8th gen I3s but i havent seen enough testing really, coffee lake benches seem thinner then i expected to be honest

[AncientNerd]

3 minutes ago, iwant.luffy said:

I think i will go for ryzen for future proofing. More cores and threads will help me a lot to save money.

That's kind of my personal preference also, but I do a mixed workload with a fair amount of software development, content creation, multi-threaded background tasks. So having more threads/cores is higher priority to me than pure gaming performance. If all you are doing is gaming the Intel is slightly better.

[iwant.luffy]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

I didn't see that he is using 144Hz monitor ... Yeah R3 1200 wouldn't be good enough for that refresh rate.

Coffe Lake i3 would be 180€ to get K version ... locked version isn't worth it.

R3 1200 is 110€, and R5 1400 is 150€.

If he can get i3 8350k in his budget, that would be great since you can OC it to 5GHz without any problems and this would bring great gaming performance.

But then again he would need to get Z370 motherboard that is more expensive than AM4.

 

I think i will stick to ryzen. AM4 mobo will support me through the years haha. 

 

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

1400 would probably be enough for it to not be too much of a problem, but id look into getting an I5 8400 or 8600K or any of the 8th gen I3s but i havent seen enough testing really, coffee lake benches seem thinner then i expected to be honest

Not interested in intel right now. Coz my name is rhyzen and im going to stick with ryzen HAHAHAHA. Plus Z370 mobo is pricey

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, iwant.luffy said:

I think i will stick to ryzen. AM4 mobo will support me through the years haha. 

 

Not interested in intel right now. Coz my name is rhyzen and im going to stick with ryzen HAHAHAHA. Plus Z370 mobo is pricey

a z370 motherboard can be justified if you feel like you will want an I7 8700K later , but if you are sticking to Ryzen id go for either a 1400 or 1600

[iwant.luffy]

1 minute ago, AncientNerd said:

That's kind of my personal preference also, but I do a mixed workload with a fair amount of software development, content creation, multi-threaded background tasks. So having more threads/cores is higher priority to me than pure gaming performance. If all you are doing is gaming the Intel is slightly better.

I'm planning to do streaming and sometimes im editing and programming also. 

[AncientNerd]

1 minute ago, iwant.luffy said:

I'm planning to do streaming and sometimes im editing and programming also. 

Okay then that seems to be your answer - stick with the Ryzen but try to find the budget for an R5 if you can.

[asus killer]

it's easy to get your combination cpu+gpu+1440p on youtube. ryzen 3 will bottleneck, a ryzen 1600 will not

 

 

[iwant.luffy]

4 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

a z370 motherboard can be justified if you feel like you will want an I7 8700K later , but if you are sticking to Ryzen id go for either a 1400 or 1600

Thanks for the info sir

2 minutes ago, AncientNerd said:

Okay then that seems to be your answer - stick with the Ryzen but try to find the budget for an R5 if you can.

Yeah! Cheers

[DocSwag]

At 1080p CPU would bottleneck but 1440p not that much.

43 minutes ago, iwant.luffy said:

I'm planning to do streaming and sometimes im editing and programming also. 

If you're streaming a 1200 might not be the best idea. If you have the cash you may want to consider investing in a 1600

[Simon771]

1 hour ago, iwant.luffy said:

I think i will stick to ryzen. AM4 mobo will support me through the years haha. 

In that case either get Ryzen 1400 4c/8t CPU or Ryzen 1600 6c/12t CPU.

If you are also streaming, 1600 is more like a must for you.

And like I said before ... price difference isn't that huge. And when you look at how much will you spend for entire build, another 50-100$ shouldn't be such a big problem.

 

You can also just buy 1400 now, and if you will notice that you need more power, save money for some more time, sell your 1400 and buy 1600. Simple as that