Mobo Suggestion

[Schiwata]

I'm planning on buying a new rig really soon since my athlon II x4 is limping when playing modern games now. Only buying a new compatible vcard looks stupid too.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Asus Prime B350M-A
Palit GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB
Adata XPG Z1 8GB single

 

Settled on above. But It's still a bit expensive for me.

Reason for Getting Prime B350 it's the only one i can find with 6 SATA slots.

Reason for Single 8GB is for future upgrade.

 

Is there an A320 that have 6 SATA slots?

Also how far can the mobo take me in gaming if I postpone vcard? My old LED monitor doesn't like HDMI output (it's own postprocessing), so I need to get a new one too.

I usually play ported JRPG by the way. Heaviest game played is Dues Ex: Mankind Divided and Blue Reflection.

 

Sorry for the dumb-ish question. I haven't checked any hardware for the last 8years+ so I need to relearn everything from scratch.

PS: I don't mind stretching my budget a bit if it means the computer is more upgradeable to what I need and/or longer lifespan/usage.

Edited November 27, 2017 by Schiwata
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[Princess Luna]

12 minutes ago, Schiwata said:

 

Is there an A320 that have 6 SATA slots?

A320 chipset motherboards are all cancer and should be avoided at all cost, stick to the Asus Prime one you'll much better served in reliability.

 

Consider a GTX 1060 it is quite surprising jump from the 1050 and your CPU of choice screams nicer GPU to keep things balanced.

[Schiwata]

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[Schiwata]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

A320 chipset motherboards are all cancer and should be avoided at all cost, stick to the Asus Prime one you'll much better served in reliability.

 

Consider a GTX 1060 it is quite surprising jump from the 1050 and your CPU of choice screams nicer GPU to keep things balanced.

That's because it's more quiet and consumes less power.

Are A320s really that bad? I neither overclock nor plan use sli/crossfire nor raid.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Schiwata said:

Are A320s really that bad? I neither overclock nor plan use sli/crossfire nor raid.

Then you are getting the wrong processor, AMD Ryzen at stock suffers from weaker IPC, weaker core clocks and Infinity Fabric is of huge performance capping without memory overclock to at least 2933mhz.

 

If you want a powerful processor that will perform great without any hassle of overclocking what so ever you should go knock on Intel's door instead, an i7 7700 on a h110 board would outperform the Ryzen 5 1600 while you'd not have to move a finger overclocking wise.

[Schiwata]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Then you are getting the wrong processor, AMD Ryzen at stock suffers from weaker IPC, weaker core clocks and Infinity Fabric is of huge performance capping without memory overclock to at least 2933mhz.

 

If you want a powerful processor that will perform great without any hassle of overclocking what so ever you should go knock on Intel's door instead, an i7 7700 on a h110 board would outperform the Ryzen 5 1600 while you'd not have to move a finger overclocking wise.

Due to certain reasons, a lot of it personal.

I try to avoid Intel as much as possible. And any Apple products an automatic no.

 

So going back if I really need to get a B350 instead. How far can it's onboard GPU take me? (it has a VGA fortunately)

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Schiwata said:

So going back if I really need to get a B350 instead. How far can it's onboard GPU take me? (it has a VGA fortunately)

Literally no where, AMD Ryzen does not feature integrated Graphics, you need a dedicated graphics card for it.

[Schiwata]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Literally no where, AMD Ryzen does not feature integrated Graphics, you need a dedicated graphics card for it.

Well that's a bummer. Worse comes to worse, I'll temporarily use an active converter.

Thanks Princess Cadence.