Building a budget PC (Ryzen 5 1600x) - What motherboard to buy?

[Marek Johnson]

Looking to upgrade my PC

Here is what i have right now:

Case: Cooler Master Elite 430 - Owned
Motherboard:  Asus Socket AM4 PRIME B350-PLUS - 90€
Processor: Ryzen 5 1600X - 235€
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - Owned
GPU: AMD RX 460 2 GP - Owned
Memory: Kingston DDR4 HyperX FURY 4GBx2 - 95€
Memory2: Seagate 1TB HDD - Owned
PSU: In Win 550W - Owned

 

Question 1: Is everything looking good now?

^"EDITED"^

 

PS: These prices are my local shop prices.

[seon123]

Don't get the 1300X. Get the 1400 or 1600 instead, as those seem to be reasonable for your use case. If you absolutely can't afford them, then the 1200, and overclock it. 

Ryzen doesn't support DDR3, you'll have to get a DDR4 kit.

4-cores can run on anything, just get whatever B350 board is the cheapest, and has the features you need. The Prime Plus is a decent budget option, but you can get a cheaper one.

[Marek Johnson]

3 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Don't get the 1300X. Get the 1400 or 1600 instead, as those seem to be reasonable for your use case. If you absolutely can't afford them, then the 1200, and overclock it. 

Ryzen doesn't support DDR3, you'll have to get a DDR4 kit.

4-cores can run on anything, just get whatever B350 board is the cheapest, and has the features you need. The Prime Plus is a decent budget option, but you can get a cheaper one.

Thank you,

Is the 100€ more for the Ryzen 5 1600/X worth it really as I'm not really looking for that much and won't my GPU bottle neck with it? (don't really understand the "bottle neck thing" tbh)

 

[Marek Johnson]

8 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Don't get the 1300X. Get the 1400 or 1600 instead, as those seem to be reasonable for your use case. If you absolutely can't afford them, then the 1200, and overclock it. 

Ryzen doesn't support DDR3, you'll have to get a DDR4 kit.

4-cores can run on anything, just get whatever B350 board is the cheapest, and has the features you need. The Prime Plus is a decent budget option, but you can get a cheaper one.

For the Motherboard you recommend this? : 1: Asus Socket AM4 Prime B350-PLUS - 90€

[seon123]

4 minutes ago, Marek Johnson said:

Thank you,

Is the 100€ more for the Ryzen 5 1600/X worth it really as I'm not really looking for that much and won't my GPU bottle neck with it? (don't really understand the "bottle neck thing" tbh)

 

For streaming, the extra cores and threads will help. You'll also be able to sue it for longer before upgrading the CPU.

Bottlenecking is a term generally used by people who know nothing about what they're talking about. It refers to that a component will limit the performance of another component. Which is exactly what happens in any build anyway.

[seon123]

2 minutes ago, Marek Johnson said:

For the Motherboard you recommend this? : 1: Asus Socket AM4 Prime B350-PLUS - 90€

Yes. But as I said, if you'll just get a quad core, just get whatever is the cheapest

[Marek Johnson]

4 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Yes. But as I said, if you'll just get a quad core, just get whatever is the cheapest

What would you prefer/reccomend? Intel I5-8400 -. 190€ or Ryzen 3 1600/1600X (200-230€)

[seon123]

1 minute ago, Marek Johnson said:

What would you prefer/reccomend? Intel I5-8400 -. 190€ or Ryzen 3 1600/1600X (200-230€)

Motherboards for Coffee cost quite a bit more than B350 motherboards. The 1600 will be cheaper, and better for streaming

[katoptrys]

If you wanna stream, then a Ryzen 5 would do wonders for it. My 1600 barely sees a difference in gameplay fluidity when I wanna stream. 

As far as motherboards go, I believe the Asus Prime B350 is one of the best choices.And for RAM, you'll need DDR4, if you can manage to get high speed memory then better. Just check the QVL to see that you can meet the speed of the memory.

[Marek Johnson]

Edited the build, added a new question, is everything good now?

 

Thank you for helping me @katoptrys @seon123

[johndms]

13 hours ago, Marek Johnson said:

Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo - Owned

You will probably have to order an AM4 Upgrade Kit as the stock mounting kit for the Hyper 212 Evo doesn't fit Ryzen boards.

http://www.cmstore-usa.com/ryzen-am4-x-bracket-for-hyper-212/

[Marek Johnson]

2 hours ago, johndms said:

You will probably have to order an AM4 Upgrade Kit as the stock mounting kit for the Hyper 212 Evo doesn't fit Ryzen boards.

http://www.cmstore-usa.com/ryzen-am4-x-bracket-for-hyper-212/

Oh thanks

 

[mbox]

I suggest to save 30€ by getting the 1600 non X and get faster (3000-3200) RAM or save for an SSD

 

Edit: if you want to stream maybe go for 2x8gb RAM

Edited November 10, 2017 by mbox