RYZEN 3 Office PC+

[An angry badger]

I'm planning on building this PC for a family member as a home/ Office PC. I am a little concerned about the BIOS update that may be required. I was hoping I could get some advice on this and the build in general. PC Partpicker link is here. Already have a case sorted

Edited April 2, 2018 by An angry badger
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[Sauron]

The product page for that motherboard states it supports the 2200g so you shouldn't need a bios update.

 

Personally I wouldn't bother with an m.2 ssd for office use, either get a cheaper sata drive with the same capacity or spend a little more on a 250gb sata drive. Other than that it looks fine, but you'll need a case to build it in too.

[An angry badger]

5 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The product page for that motherboard states it supports the 2200g so you shouldn't need a bios update.

 

Personally I wouldn't bother with an m.2 ssd for office use, either get a cheaper sata drive with the same capacity or spend a little more on a 250gb sata drive. Other than that it looks fine, but you'll need a case to build it in too.

Awesome thanks

[Jurrunio]

If it doesnt support the 2200g, you will need to order AMD's bootkit to update the BIOS through USB. I'm not sure whether they ship with 2200g compatible BIOS yet, who knows when your mobo left the factory.

 

You will need a DP to HDMI adapter for 2 monitors since the monitor you chose only supports DVI and HDMI but the mobo only has 1 DP and 1 HDMI. A passive one is good enough

 

As @Sauron said, 2.5" SSDs are cheaper for the capacity. The advantage of NVME SSDs to a SATA SSD is its higher transfer rate, but their response time is similar. The latter is far more important than the former in an office system, that's why a SATA drive is better in this case.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/M3RzK8/adata-ultimate-su650-240gb-25-solid-state-drive-asu650ss-240gt-c

This one doesnt cost a little more for 240GB size, still relatively fast among cheaper SATA drives.

[Herman Mcpootis]

34 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The product page for that motherboard states it supports the 2200g so you shouldn't need a bios update.

 

Personally I wouldn't bother with an m.2 ssd for office use, either get a cheaper sata drive with the same capacity or spend a little more on a 250gb sata drive. Other than that it looks fine, but you'll need a case to build it in too.

there's gonna be older boards lying around in some stores that don't support raven ridge, so you can't garuntee they'll all support the 2200G out of the gate. though updating them is pretty easy oncr he gets thr bootkit off amd.