Ryzen PC Build

[UnspeC5d]

I have been planning this for almost a month now and I'm going to get this PC a week past from now. A dealer near my home has offered me this build for a price of about : $400

 

I'm a student and I'd be using this PC for mainly programming purposes and some gaming (not any powerful ones, just some of the old timers like : Outlast, GTA 4 etc), though I won't play many games it's always good to have graphics, just in case

 

This is the following build :

 

 

1. Ryzen 2200G
2. Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2666Mhz RAM
3. Gigabyte AB350M Gaming 3 Motherboard
4. WD Green 120GB SSD
5. Cooler Master K380 Case
6. Cooler Master MWE 450W Bronze + rated PSU

 

Total cost : $400

 

Do you guys think its worth it? Or are the parts not good enough?

 

I already have the monitor which is  Benq GW2270 FHD

 

Thank You

[Jurrunio]

The price is about right, but WD Green SSDs are slow and 120GB is on the edge of being usable. Also, what's the model name of the PSU?

[UnspeC5d]

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

The price is about right, but WD Green SSDs are slow and 120GB is on the edge of being usable. Also, what's the model name of the PSU?

I've got a 500GB and a 300GB hard drive lying around, I could use some of that I suppose. And the name of the PSU is Cooler Master MWE 450W PSU, I'll edit the post ASAP.

 

[DemiGod]

I still would shell out a little more for 2400g way better performance

[Daniel644]

is the ram a single 8GB stick or 2 4GB sticks, you REALLY REALLY want it to be 2 4GB sticks, it makes a HUGE difference on the APU's.

[UnspeC5d]

1 minute ago, DemiGod said:

I still would shell out a little more for 2400g way better performance

As per this website : http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-2400G-vs-AMD-Ryzen-3-2200G/m433194vsm441832

The 2400G is not that powerful over 2200G, I could save some cost there and get some accessories like : Deskpad (large mousepad), BIAS lighting, extra fans for the case etc. right?

 

Thanks for the reply

[UnspeC5d]

1 minute ago, Daniel644 said:

is the ram a single 8GB stick or 2 4GB sticks, you REALLY REALLY want it to be 2 4GB sticks, it makes a HUGE difference on the APU's.

I'm thinking about expanding it to 16GB and 32GB eventually, so I wanna save the RAM slots for those

Also I'll upgrade the PC to 16GB by the end of the year maybe along with another monitor for displaying output for my codes...

 

Thanks for the reply

[Jurrunio]

19 minutes ago, UnspeC5d said:

And the name of the PSU is Cooler Master MWE 450W PSU, I'll edit the post ASAP.

Better get units with 5 year warranty and 50C max operating ambient temperature. With only 3 years and 40C, clearly not even Cooler Master is all that confident in this PSU's durability

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, UnspeC5d said:

I'm thinking about expanding it to 16GB and 32GB eventually, so I wanna save the RAM slots for those

Also I'll upgrade the PC to 16GB by the end of the year maybe along with another monitor for displaying output for my codes...

 

Thanks for the reply

honestly, 32GB would be a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE waste of money on something like a 2200G (that literally would cost more then the entire system at current prices), if you have a use case for 32GB of ram you have a use case for a much more powerful CPU, it's going to be atleast a year before ram prices return to a level where you should even consider upgrading to 16GB and even then, that would be like putting a GTX 1080 in the system, just a pointless waste of money unless you are someone like me that likes to keep 200+ tabs loaded in Firefox, because otherwise you won't use that much ram.

 

also if your end goal is 16+GB of RAM you should be getting no less then a Ryzen 5 1600 and a dedicated GPU anything less then that and you are simply spending far to much money on RAM, trust me I made that mistake a few times kitting a computer out with a full 32GB of RAM only to never exceed like 12GB of usage, also it's ideal with Ryzen to go for a 2 slot memory usage instead of populating all 4 slots, not sure if it's changed with the newer stuff but I know in the earlier days of Ryzen you had better odds of reaching higher clock speeds on the RAM with only 2 sticks vs 4 sticks, so I would suggest targeting  to stick with 2 sticks, maybe spring the extra 80-100 bucks to get 16GB now instead of down the road.

[GoldenLag]

27 minutes ago, DemiGod said:

I still would shell out a little more for 2400g way better performance

only if you are considering to add a GPU on short notice as the GPU part of the 2200G is pretty much identical. it isnt worth the cost. it will allways be the GPU being the bottleneck. therefore there isnt any good reason to add a better cpu with a slightly better gpu when the cost/performanc just usnt there

[VEXICUS]

54 minutes ago, UnspeC5d said:

I have been planning this for almost a month now and I'm going to get this PC a week past from now. A dealer near my home has offered me this build for a price of about : $400

 

I'm a student and I'd be using this PC for mainly programming purposes and some gaming (not any powerful ones, just some of the old timers like : Outlast, GTA 4 etc), though I won't play many games it's always good to have graphics, just in case

 

This is the following build :

 

 

1. Ryzen 2200G
2. Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2666Mhz RAM
3. Gigabyte AB350M Gaming 3 Motherboard
4. WD Green 120GB SSD
5. Cooler Master K380 Case
6. Cooler Master MWE 450W Bronze + rated PSU

 

Total cost : $400

 

Do you guys think its worth it? Or are the parts not good enough?

 

I already have the monitor which is  Benq GW2270 FHD

 

Thank You

Build something like this...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($94.59 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($61.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($84.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Team - L5 LITE 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($29.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($43.90 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master - MasterWatt 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($31.65 @ Newegg) 
Total: $384.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-15 05:49 EDT-0400

 

Try to get an ASROCK b350 pro4m if u can find it fr cheap......

I HV even added in an SSD and a HDD