Upgrading to Ryzen Build

[Canoeven]

Hey guys, I'm planning on upgrading my Gaming Desktop PC and I've done my research but I'm posting this here to see if you guys have any recommendations such as waiting for a new soon to release product or maybe different components.

 

My current build:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz 4x Core

MOBO: ASUS H97-PLUS ATX

RAM: 3x Kingston Hyper X Fury 4GB DDR3

PSU: Silverstone Strider Essentials 700W ST70F-ESB Bronze

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080

Drives: M.2 SSD and 3x SATA (One SSHD for main storage the others are 5400rpm drives for backups)

 

Wanting to upgrade to:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix B350-f

RAM: 2x Kingston Hyper X Fury 8GB DDR4

and I'm keeping the PSU, GPU and drives.

 

I'm located in Australia and the cheapest I found the parts is:

Ryzen 5 2600: $235AUD (174.23USD, 226.81CA)

ROG Strix B350-f: $147AUD (108.98USD, 141.88CA)

Hyper X Fury: $255AUD (189.05USD, 246.11CA)

(1AUD=0.97CA=0.75USD)

 

As I said above any suggestions are appreciated and my budget I'd prefer to keep under $700AUD/520USD/680CA.  I like to play Battlefield so specs for that are best and I use a 1080p, 144Hz screen.  And as the forum guide recommends, I'm upgrading because I do believe my specs are quite underpowered for the GTX 1080 and I'm bottlenecking from the CPU.  I also want a board with a S/PDIF port for my sound bar unless you guys know a good cheap sound card with one.

Edited August 1, 2018 by Canoeven

[Streetguru]

18 minutes ago, Canoeven said:

 

The ASrock Pro4 is probably the best budget board. Would suggest B450 or X470 but your prices on the part picker appear insane. The bios is probably updated by now

get the fastest memory you can for the lowest price
 

PCPartPicker part list: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/JDCmr6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/JDCmr6/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($234.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($88.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($239.00 @ Umart)
Total: $561.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-01 15:53 AEST+1000

[PokiDaSpitz]

12 minutes ago, Canoeven said:

Hey guys, I'm planning on upgrading my Gaming Desktop PC and I've done my research but I'm posting this here to see if you guys have any recommendations such as waiting for a new soon to release product or maybe different components.

 

My current build:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz 4x Core

MOBO: ASUS H97-PLUS ATX

RAM: 3x Kingston Hyper X Fury 4GB DDR3

PSU: Silverstone Strider Essentials 700W ST70F-ESB Bronze

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080

Drives: M.2 SSD and 3x SATA (One SSHD for main storage the others are 5400rpm drives for backups)

 

Wanting to upgrade to:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix B350-f

RAM: 2x Kingston Hyper X Fury 8GB DDR4

and I'm keeping the PSU, GPU and drives.

 

I'm located in Australia and the cheapest I found the parts is:

Ryzen 5 2600: $235AUD (174.23USD, 226.81CA)

ROG Strix B350-f: $147AUD (108.98USD, 141.88CA)

Hyper X Fury: $255AUD (189.05USD, 246.11CA)

(1AUD=0.97CA=0.75USD)

 

As I said above any suggestions are appreciated and my budget I'd prefer to keep under $700AUD/520USD/680CA.  I like to play Battlefield so specs for that are best and I use a 1080p, 144Hz screen.  And as the forum guide recommends, I'm upgrading because I do believe my specs are quite underpowered for the GTX 1080 and I'm bottlenecking from the CPU.

i am pretty sure B450 are out already (at least in singapore) you should get those instead of the B350

[Canoeven]

12 minutes ago, PokiDaSpitz said:

i am pretty sure B450 are out already (at least in singapore) you should get those instead of the B350

Yeah I saw that and was thinking about getting the B450-F version of the Strix but I can only seem to find the B450-I version here (Do note my new edit to the end of the post)

[Streetguru]

21 minutes ago, Canoeven said:

Yeah I saw that and was thinking about getting the B450-F version of the Strix but I can only seem to find the B450-I version here (Do note my new edit to the end of the post)

Would just stick to the ASrock B350/B450 boards