New PC build

[Kempotent]

Gyazo

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im gonna be doing an AMD build, much cheaper than intel and they compare almost the exact same, any thoughts? Improvements?

Its around £700





SO ive made a few changes what do you think

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[Rayz]

Where are you getting a 3500X from? I thought they were unavailable

 

[Allen Kennedy]

get at least 3200 speed ram for ryzen

also, I'd get a bigger SSD, 256 won't last you long

 

[Rayz]

Stock Coolers that come with the Ryzen CPUs are usually good enough also and save you some money

 

[Rayz]

Also could go for 16gb too

 

[jay_]

i'd get a 1tb ssd

 

[jay_]

also enjoy getting corona from your pc

 

[Allen Kennedy]

alright, yeah, couple of things,
RAM speed matters on ryzen, I'd use at least 3200 speed
unless you're overclocking, the stock cooler will do.
256GB SSD is a bit bad tbh, I'd highly reccomend getting a 500GB one at least.
also, please don't use a 5400RPM HDD

 

[Allen Kennedy]

Yeah, that's true too, but if you're on a budget, the ram is always something that can be upgraded later on

 

[Sneaky]

-btfo the cooler, the stock ryzen coolers are just fine and you can invest the 44$ from the cooler into getting 16gb 3200mhz RAM. i really recommend not getting 8gb only.

- the 3500X is mostly an OEM CPU, get the 3600 instead

- Your motherboard supports an m.2 drive, so change the 250GB samsung evo SSD for a samsung 500GB M.2 for way better performance. trust me, 250gb fills up fast even with a seperate drive for games and the performance the m.2 drives push out is mad

- NEVER GET A 5400RPM DRIVE. PLEASE. JUST DONT
You can get a samsung 1TB QVO SSD for roughly 90 euro's which is a great SSD optimized more for large files storage than random IO, which doesn't really matter for games that much. you will run into horrible loading times with 5400rpm drives.

it might be slightly more expensive this way than you originally intended but you'll future proof yourself for another year or two at least.

 

[Kempotent]

im going for a 250gb ssd because im putting windows on that then the other 1TB IHD ill put games on

 

[Allen Kennedy]

See what you think of this configuration

I shudder at 5400rpm drives

 

[Kempotent]

im over clocking it

 

[Sneaky]

see my other post why neither of those are a good option

 

[Kempotent]

the 250 ssd is to put windows on then putting games and everythign else on 1tb

 

[Allen Kennedy]

I understand that, I did the same thing, However you will need more than 250gb if you want to put anything other than windows on there and not have to clean your desktop and recycle bin every other week. When your boot drive is almost full, performance will suffer greatly. I know this from exsperience.

 

[Sneaky]

i've got ~10 of them locked in a closet and they make scary noises at night. fuck 5400rpm drives.

 

[Allen Kennedy]

I have about three from old gutted laptops sitting in my drawer, I keep a knife handy in case they get too close.

 

[Kempotent]

Right so ill get rid of the 5400 RPM and SSD drive and upgrade to a TB SSD yeah?

 

[Allen Kennedy]

One other thing to note when you get a hard drive. 7200RPM, and if at all possible, avoid seagate. Nobody likes seagate.