Workstations with ryzen

[ninjaMorant]

Hi guys, I'm new on the forum and I wanted to ask you if you could help he creating a workstation for light editing video/photo.

I surfed the net a bit and found out (as I expected) that probably the best value is the ryzen 5 2400g but because of my very strict budget, around 450€ I won't be able to get a gpu unless it is a gt730 that is actually an openGL card.

Have you any kind of advice? More importantly is the bios to be updated, to do that I need a first gen ryzen? Are there any mobos that have the bios already updated?

Thank in advance to anybody who answers.

[GoldenLag]

Where are you located?

I can work of Euro but being country secific helps a lot

[AskTJ]

The 2400G's own graphics would beat the GT730. Look for used Xeon workstations, ones with X5650's and 16GB ram.

[ninjaMorant]

Italy

[ninjaMorant]

1 minute ago, AskTJ said:

The 2400G's own graphics would beat the GT730. Look for used Xeon workstations, ones with X5650's and 16GB ram.

I'm working for someone who uses only amazon, I'll take a look if there is something there (keep in mind that we actually need 12 of them)

[GoldenLag]

PCPartPicker part list: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/BD7cMZ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/BD7cMZ/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€142.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€73.70 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€96.41 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Western Digital - Green  120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€32.98 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€38.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: Antec - NSK3100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€22.66 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€48.49 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €454.24
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-14 12:37 CEST+0200

 

Add a pair of Ramsticks down the line for 16GB of Ram

 

For 30€ extra you can get a bigger and better SSD to store ongoing projects on

[ninjaMorant]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

PCPartPicker part list: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/BD7cMZ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/BD7cMZ/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€142.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€73.70 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€96.41 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Western Digital - Green  120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€32.98 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€38.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: Antec - NSK3100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€22.66 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€48.49 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €454.24
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-14 12:37 CEST+0200

 

Add a pair of Ramsticks down the line for 16GB of Ram

you're amazing!!

Just one more question, the mobo needs the upgrade or it is already upgraded to latest bios?

[GoldenLag]

46 minutes ago, Nzxtmk1 said:

you're amazing!!

Just one more question, the mobo needs the upgrade or it is already upgraded to latest bios?

Should be upgraded to latest BIOS according to the info ive recieved. Worst case scenario you order a bootkit or ask a local tech store to update it

[ninjaMorant]

19 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Should be upgraded to latest BIOS according to the info ive recieved. Worst case scenario you order a bootkit or ask a local tech store to update it

ok thank you very much for your help I'll consider my questions answered