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PC Upgrading help

TomFFA

So I've had my PC for a while (with the exception of my GPU as that was recently purchased) and im thinking of going down the ryzen 5 line of CPU's. its mainly used for gaming and more recently streaming. 

at the moment it plays most games such as Forza Motorsport 7,Forza horizon 3, Mad Max, Star wars BF2, on high 1080p settings between 50-80fps and a solid 60 on Battlefield 3,4 and hardline however for some reason only runs at 25-30fps on Battlefield 1.

Im currently using 2 60 herts monitors looking to upgrade my main monitor to 144hz at somepoint in the next few months.

im also from the UK and my budget is somewhere between £450-550 (all parts will be ordered from amazon)

 

Although my PC knowledge is is good (fixing and diagnosing problems) i still prefer second opinions for gaming related subjects as its not my area of expertise. Any help / advice would be appreciated.

(this is also my first post on the forums so sorry if i have missed anything out.)

 

Current PC Specs 

CPU: AMD FX 8350 8 Core cpu @4.2ghz  - Using the stock CPU Cooler.

Motherboard: gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p 

GPU: AMD R9 Fury Nitro 4gb Tri-x OC 
PSU: Corsair CX750m 
RAM: 16GB Hyper X (1333MHz im pretty sure) 
Storage: 120GB Kingston SSD and 1TB Seagate drive 

 

 

Specs im thinking of upgrading to

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (£140)

Cooler: Either AMD Wraith Spire cooler (the one that comes with the cpu) or the Corsair H60 liquid cooler. (£57)

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B350-F AM4 (£95)

GPU: AMD R9 Fury Nitro 4gb Tri-x OC ( Keeping from old Build)
PSU: Corsair CX750m (keeping from old build)
RAM:  Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4 3200MHz (£100) 
Storage: 120GB Kingston SSD and 1TB Seagate drive (keeping SSD however already have a 7200rpm 1tb drive for the new build)

Case: Corsair Carbide 270R with glass side panel, as well as 3 Corsair LL120mm Case fans. (Case £59 Fans £70)

Total - £521

both the Case and the Case fans are optional im not fully set on them.

 

Thank you

Tom.

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definitively stick with the stock cooler. no point in wasting money on a h60. also I would try and shoot for 16 gb of ram. 

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The 120/140 rad coolers aren't worth it.

Your build is really decent, but get different RAM - OC capabilities of LPX on Ryzen are pretty terrible, I had those myself.

Also, it would be worth it to eventually buy a large SSD too, the speed difference is huge.

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