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Budget Ryzen Office/Productivity PCs: R5-1600 AF: $399 / R5-3600: $599 / R7-3700X: $899 + Delivery @ TechFast

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Budget Ryzen Office/Productivity PCs: R5-1600 AF: $399 / R5-3600: $599 / R7-3700X: $899 + Delivery @ TechFast
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Being Askhole on 03/03/2020 - 12:37 techfast.com.au (806 clicks)
1600AF-GT710-MAR3600-GT710-MAR3700X-GT710-MAR

Previous posts have had a few calls for the various processors with the lowest possible graphics card (TechFast can't do no GPU), so this is what rep Luke has come up with, the GT 710 1GB paired with the Ryzen 5 1600 AF, Ryzen 5 3600 and Ryzen 7 3700X. The first two are at a base spec for the lowest entry point, but the 3700X system would be a great entry level productivity machine for those seeking the processing power only. It's the lowest price on a complete 3700X system by miles.

Enjoy :)

$399 after Code 1600AF-GT710-MAR

Ryzen 5 1600 AF / GT 710 1GB PC

  • Ryzen 5 1600 AF (6 cores / 12 threads)

  • GT 710 1GB graphics card

  • Biostar A320 motherboard

  • 8GB 2666MHz RAM

  • 120GB SSD

  • 550W PSU

  • Leaper Case

$599 after Code 3600-GT710-MAR

Ryzen 5 3600 / GT 710 1GB PC

  • Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores / 12 threads)

  • GT 710 1GB graphics card

  • Biostar A320 motherboard

  • 8GB 2666MHz RAM

  • 120GB SSD

  • 550W PSU

  • Leaper Case

$899 after Code 3700X-GT710-MAR

Ryzen 7 3700X / GT 710 1GB Productivity PC

  • Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores / 16 threads)

  • GT 710 1GB graphics card

  • B450M motherboard

  • 16GB 2666MHz RAM

  • 240GB SSD

  • 750W PSU

  • Leaper Flair RGB or Mid Case

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  • miarn on 03/03/2020 - 12:39
    +4

    wIlL tHIs pLAy foRNtnIte???

  • Fergy1987 on 03/03/2020 - 12:41
    +7

    a GT 710 - Wow……Wouldnt a 2200G APU be better than that.

    EDIT: Oh just realised the intention is to put a garbage GPU in and upgrade it yourself basically making these barebones.

    • Aequitas on 03/03/2020 - 15:50
      +4

      No the intention is to get a powerful cpu such as the 3700x which doesn’t have integrated graphics and then get the minimum graphics card in order to display to a monitor.

  • LittleTicket on 03/03/2020 - 12:43

    I know these are new vs refurb, but how does it stack up to the Tiny PC
    Deal on HP the other day for $199?

    • bchliu on 03/03/2020 - 15:27
      +5

      Processing power is day and night. The $199 one is a seven year old 4th gen intel mid ranger (currently 10th gen). Even a top end mobile phone with the top Snapdragon or Exynos will flog that in processing power let alone a mid range current gen AMD.

      • elusive on 03/03/2020 - 17:22
        +8

        Processing power is day and night. The $199 one is a seven year old 4th gen intel mid ranger (currently 10th gen).

        Don't let the "4th gen vs 10th gen" numbers trick you: 5th, 7th and maybe 10th weren't really advances in perf, and 8th and 9th were mostly multi-thread by adding more cores, not single-thread advancements. 6th (Skylake) was the last major arch change. 10th (Comet Lake) is still just Skylake+++; 10th (Ice Lake/Sunny Cove) isn't available in desktop.

        Even a top end mobile phone with the top Snapdragon or Exynos will flog that in processing power

        Now that just isn't true.

        Just thermals alone will allow the desktop to provide far higher sustained throughput. Phones like very bursty workloads, and throttle quite quickly.

        But even ignoring that, let's look at some benchmarks. I don't think Geekbench is particularly accurate, but it's just about the only easily accessible one with samples from both desktop and mobile, so here we go: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/15276022?baseli… (not ethat Geekbench pauses to prevent throttling so it's more representative of peak, not sustained, performance).

        Really, compute, especially single-threaded compute, hasn't gone up all that much in the last half-decade. Here's another not-quite-accurate comparison: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-4570-vs-AMD-Ry…

        Probably the single biggest change is the number of cores has gone up significantly, increasing multi-thread perf. Efficiency has gone up a lot, so more performance per watt. Single-threaded perf … has gone up, for sure, but nowhere near as much as other metrics.

        Then it all comes down to what you're using it for. Web browsing? A mid-range Haswell will do the job just fine. Gaming? Video encoding? Modelling? You might want to step it up a bit.

        • Hank Scorpion on 03/03/2020 - 17:34
          +2

          4th Gen is way more powerful then mobile, 7-10th Gen are basically 6th gen with more cores.

    • Steptoe on 03/03/2020 - 15:49

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/521256

      What do you want it to be better at?

  • Mortgagetightass on 03/03/2020 - 12:53
    +14

    PC Case gear selling the 1600 AF for $149 now… > https://www.pccasegear.com/products/49533/amd-ryzen-5-1600-a…

    • zrmx on 03/03/2020 - 13:29

      That is super tempting!

  • Marketingluketechfast @ TechFast on 03/03/2020 - 13:00
    +5

    Thanks BA! Had plenty of PMs about the lowest price with a GT 710 where I said it would probably be $80 less than with RX 580 - happily we were able to push that down even further.

    If you're looking for these chips with an RX 580/GTX 1660, check here.

    Other deals with higher spec GPU ending soon:

    • HomeAlone on 03/03/2020 - 14:10

      Other deals with higher spec GPU ending soon:

      When is the Entry Level ESports PCs deal ending?

      • Marketingluketechfast @ TechFast on 03/03/2020 - 14:44
        +1

        Only just posted so that one will run for a while yet.

    • caitsith01 on 03/03/2020 - 14:34

      Hey Luke - been eying your systems for a while, but I'm an AMD guy (and have a Freesync monitor). Any chance you'll do a high end AMD CPU coupled with an AMD GPU some time? Maybe once new AMD cards drop this year?

      • Marketingluketechfast @ TechFast on 03/03/2020 - 15:32
        +2

        Once supply of Rx 5700 XT shores up a bit, we will re-look at it, yep.

        • caitsith01 on 03/03/2020 - 16:13

          Cool - hopefully some good pricing around once the 'big Navi' AMD cards are announced.

        • lu03566 on 27/03/2020 - 03:05

          Wanted one pc with rx 5700 xt as well!

  • Sutra on 03/03/2020 - 13:04

    Is it worthy to pay $100 more to get the same R7 build but with a RX580? From this deal
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/521011

    It would be for my wife, for photoshop, InDesign, etc and light gaming.

    I wonder if the R5-3600 would be enough..?

    • Fergy1987 on 03/03/2020 - 13:17
      +2

      I reckon 3600 would be enough for sure. Its a beast

    • stumbows on 03/03/2020 - 13:38
      +1

      I wonder if the R5-3600 would be enough..?

      I have the R7 1700X which benches about 15% less performance the 3600 and it's still super capable. I edit 4K video on it all the time and very heavy gaming. I would say the 3600 would be way more than a capable machine for the task.

  • keepingitkoolio on 03/03/2020 - 13:32

    Use to play CS:GO back in the day, looking for a desktop for gaming have been watching these deals from techfast. Too many for me to choose from can somebody help? Doesnt need to be over the top just need to be able to enjoy getting back into it and would like to spend all up $1500 or prefer less with monitor. TEchfast seems to have the deals just too many to choose from.

    • Marketingluketechfast @ TechFast on 03/03/2020 - 13:50

      My pick would be the Ryzen 5 3600 with GTX 1660 and power supply upgrades, plus as much storage as you need from this deal here. Will leave plenty in the budget for a good monitor.

  • stumbows on 03/03/2020 - 13:37
    +1

    Some crazy deals here. Very little margin from TechFast I imagine.

    • cycleri3 on 03/03/2020 - 13:49
      +1

      I watched some Youtube reviews of Techfast PCs, the case and PSU is mostly rubbish and they are buying stuff in volume.

      • Marketingluketechfast @ TechFast on 03/03/2020 - 13:56
        +5

        Both are upgradeable if desired!

      • stumbows on 03/03/2020 - 14:09
        +4

        Granted, they have to pay someone to assemble which most people won't think about. Anyway you slice it, the margins have to be tight.

      • mickeyjuiceman on 03/03/2020 - 14:46
        +5

        Not buying stuff in volume! Damn their business sense!

      • beeze on 03/03/2020 - 18:02

        I watched the same. Its an old one, there are truths, but they also have improved Techfast are selling at a budget, you can upgrade most items if your pockets desire. I recieved my 2070s and Ryzen 3600 build last week and have been happy. Too me weeks to decide and a large number of comms with Luke, esp around perf cases which they now sell and are worth the coin IMO.

  • Qbagger on 03/03/2020 - 14:09

    Can someone help me with an upgrade query:

    I have a PC running an i5-3470. I have just put a RX 570 in it and am getting back into CS:GO, Dota2 as well as CEMU emulation @ 1080p.

    Given there is no real worthwhile upgrade path for my i5/mono combo, is it worth me upgrading to the Ryzen 5-1600 AF? I would re-use case/PSU/SSDs and I suspect I would need more/newer RAM at a cost of ~$80-100.

    Goal of upgrade would be to emulate CEMU faster, be able to hit higher graphic quality settings in the above games and to plan for a meaningful CPU upgrade in ~3 years time using the same motherboard.

    Thanks for your help, I'm still living in the PC World of 2012!

    • Melthar on 03/03/2020 - 14:24

      I did the upgrade from a i5-3570k/RX570 -> Ryzen 5 2600/RX570 and the difference has been quite noticeable for my use cases (Mostly WoW, but a bunch of other games as well, and also general system responsiveness) SSDs in both systems, 16GB memory in both (DDR3 vs DDR4 obviously)

      So I would say from that standpoint, it's worthwhile given the 1600AF is pretty close to the 2600, only thing I would look at is getting something better than the A320Mobo if you want to do the CPU upgrade later. Probably a B450.

    • imcold on 03/03/2020 - 15:15

      Unfortunately amd is going to have a board refresh soon. Maybe in 2 years time. So best get a decent CPU as further chips will not work in your board.

      I'm on a 3570k with a GTX 260, (7950 died, and have issues with one of my sli slots.)

      Path gonna to be 3700x with 580 then upgrade to gtx 3070 or 3060 ti at the end of the year. Use for 7 years

      Or 3700x with 2070s. Use for 7 years.

      Also I got a 3rd gen intel laptop, with 640m, which I need to upgrade at the end of the year.

      I've been pretty much restricted to 10year old games, or puzzle games.

      Now summer is nearly over I can finally upgrade. However there is coronavirus in the equation.

      • Melthar on 03/03/2020 - 17:26

        All the current info is that Zen 3 (Ryzen 4000 series) should work in current boards (provided the manufacturers don't slack on bios updates) Zen 4 is when the move will probably happen.

        • Qbagger on 03/03/2020 - 17:57

          Thank you all for your help.

          So if I did the upgrade myself and retained case/PSU/SSDs:

          Ryzen 1600AF ~$150
          B450 mono ~$100
          16GB DDR4 ~$100
          Total ~$350.

          Makes the $399 Techfast offer look pretty reasonable!

    • FastSnail on 03/03/2020 - 15:42

      Your current setup should run those games fine @1080p right? I wouldn't upgrade unless you were going to play other games down the line in which you would also upgrade the GPU.

      I used to run an i5-3470 with a GTX 1060 and played CS:GO @ around 200 fps but would dip occasionally to 100fps. I upgraded to a Ryzen 3500X and kept the same 1060 and now get around 300-400 FPS without any major dips

  • DaddysBelt on 03/03/2020 - 14:34

    Computer specifications may as well be in another language to me. Could someone please assist me?

    I need an office computer that will run a 27" 2K monitor. No gaming or video editing whatsoever. Running a web-app on Google chrome will be the most intensive work. It will be admin/spreadsheet/web based work only.

    Would one of these fit the bill?

    • Hinee on 03/03/2020 - 14:53
      +2

      Honestly without gaming or video editing, anything Techfast offer will be suitable.

    • ALFAru on 03/03/2020 - 14:57
      +1

      Like Hinee said, but I would recommend using laptop tho. At work just connect monitor, mouse and keyboard

    • alexcors12 on 03/03/2020 - 15:01
      +1

      Yep, even the cheapest option here will be more than good enough for your use case!

  • FrozenFred on 03/03/2020 - 14:37
    +1

    This build is basically for that one guy who requested budget system with gt710 lol. Surprised he could even source gt710 still

  • [Deactivated] on 03/03/2020 - 14:54

    Always cheap machines but everytime I look at once I end up increasing your base model to well over 2k
    Can you do a deal on;
    2080 super
    16-32gb ram
    M.2 for os
    SSD or hd for storage
    I7/i5/ in easu

  • baronseng on 03/03/2020 - 19:19

    Can we get an AMD GPU instead of the 710 for the same price?

  • m0usju1c3 on 03/03/2020 - 22:48

    Would I be able to run dual monitor on the 1600 build?

    • Chirpy on 04/03/2020 - 12:05

      Should be able to support a maximum of 3 monitors with the GT 710.

      Something I pulled from google.

      "All 710 GT cards with three outputs can support 3 monitors. … Note: Max digital resolution for a 710 gt is 3840x2160 aka 8,294,400 pixels. Max vga resolution is 2048x1536 aka 3,145,728 pixels."

      Depending on your resolution and connector types of course.

  • Chirpy on 04/03/2020 - 08:13

    Any information about the drive capacity of the case and the number of SATA ports on the motherboard?

  • Plug on 07/03/2020 - 18:56

    That 3700x paired with my GTX1070 is very tempting indeed

  • vid_ghost on 08/03/2020 - 12:38
    +1

    Thanks OP .. i ordered one
    :) upgraded the hard drive to 240gb ssd for $29 and will swap out the GPU to a GT1050ti as soon as it comes in.

  • vid_ghost on 17/03/2020 - 07:32

    SO its been well over a week now… How long is the ETA on these? Ordered on the 8th and its now the 16th. My PC hasnt shipped yet nor does it list any progress what so ever on the website. Apart from unforfilled.

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