Advice for Desktop Build

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  MilkDrinker on 16/02/2020 - 15:28

  The mobo seems a little bare/lowend for a 3700x. I believe it is recommended to go up to a X570 or X470?

  Ssd seems expensive, unless you are into video editing a normal samsung 850 evo should do at around ~$180 and you can probably get a windows 10 home key for $30 from reddit.

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    q28 on 16/02/2020 - 18:21

    I do need wifi for the mobo, are there any you would recommend for an upgrade?

    Yeah I'll probably shop around for the best prices, I just copied over approximate values from staticice for a bit of an idea.

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      MilkDrinker on 16/02/2020 - 20:21

      Following gamersnexus gave me one

      ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus at $305 plus shipping, though the wifi requirement narrows the cheaper range.

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  ONEMariachi on 16/02/2020 - 15:34

  +2

  Windows you can get for $20-30 off of ebay or G2A. So no point in paying that much for it. save yourseld $150 there. The Adata has been on sale as low as $200, although that isn't extremely common. But worth knowing. I'd personally upgrade the PSU to a Corsair RM, for the extra $40. That moterhboard won't be able to utilise the full 3600mhz range either. I'd change that.

  That 2070 Super is regularly below $700 too, so keep an eye on here for sales (For reference I bought the Gaming OC 2080 Super for $1000. Whether to Upgrade to that or not entirely Depends on your Monitor. General rule of thumb; 1660s/ti, 5700 are your 1080P cards. 2060s is like a top end 1080p to medium range 1440p. 5700xt or 2070s for 1440p. 2080s/Ti for 1440p Ultrawide or 4K.

  The other thing to think about is how long do you want the build to last for. 2 years before upgrading again, or are you in for the long haul of 4+ years.

  Other than that, build is good.

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    q28 on 16/02/2020 - 18:27

    Thanks for the info!

    For the Corsair RM, is this the one you mean? Corsair 650W 80 + Gold Modular Power Supply (RM650)

    Is there a mobo you would recommend which has wifi?

    I'm planning on getting a low-mid end 1440p so that does seem to work out.

    Preferably 4+ years, would you say it looks alright (once I've switched out the mobo)?

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      ONEMariachi on 16/02/2020 - 20:28

      It's a good motherboard, you're just going to have to do some tweaking in the bios to get 3600mhz to work with it. If that's not something you want to do, either change the board or change the ram.
      Personally. If you want wifi, I'd keep the motherboard and just get differnt ram. For your use case, you wouldn't notice the difference, and it'd be $40-60 cheaper to get some 3200mhz ram. Something like the Corsair 3200mhz are regularly $100-110 on sale.

      Yeah, that's the right one for the PSU, there are 2 variants, 2018 or 2019 models, both are just as good as each other. I just purchased the 2018 one myself. Works perfectly.

      Yeah if your use case is low to mid 1440. 2070super will kill it, and then some. You'll be able to easily get stable(60-100fps) 1440p on ultra settings with it on most games. Which will last you quite a few years.

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  dcep on 16/02/2020 - 16:03

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  careful when taking advice from bargain forum, don't take it blindly, do your own research

  b450 is plenty fine for 3700x if you don't need the features from x470/570 chipset
  you can run 3600mhz ram speed or even higher on that motherboard no problem by manual setting instead of limited to preset a-xmp profiles
  you can run whatever ram speed as long as your cpu IMC can handle it, nothing to do with motherboard (unless bios locked)
  pro carbon ac , new stock, should supports ryzen 3000 series out of the box, but with lite bios due to MSI non-MAX series with smaller bios chip size but you're just missing fancy bios UI, nothing more

  that psu is fine as it's a rebrand of reputable Seasonic focus gold

  the only thing i'd change is the win10 retail , but that depends on your principle

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    q28 on 16/02/2020 - 18:34

    Appreciate the heads up, I've done some research (admittedly not enough, I've consistently confused myself) and consulted another forum as well so hopefully I don't screw up too badly lol.

    Thanks for the detailed exp, I'll keep it all in mind when finalizing.

    Yeah in terms of the pricing I basically just copied over approximate values from staticice for a bit of an idea, but I'll definitely shop around for the best prices (gotta live up to Ozbargainer rep).

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  Skramit on 16/02/2020 - 16:52

  Where are those prices from? Seem a tad expensive.

  Can definitely get cheaper 16GB 3600 RAM

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    q28 on 16/02/2020 - 18:21

    I'll probably shop around for the best prices, I just copied over approximate values from staticice for a bit of an idea.

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  Cave Fire on 16/02/2020 - 18:41

  ok, i started building on the first ryzen relase. Also thought I needed windows, but if you find a computer with windows, you can just create install media. This video has more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvONuPGOuGY

  b450 will be all good unless you have a lot of sata disks. there's a few more little differences but they main benefit for x470 etc is more pci e lanes. pcpartpicker will help alot, they have recent prices. logicalincrements is another site, but this more has already completed builds for each budget level.

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    q28 on 16/02/2020 - 19:31

    Thank you for the info+sources! The vid looks very promising, will definitely give it a shot.