other than saving on the monitor with a cheaper/smaller(if need be) model, i dont think theres much to improve on with Lee's build,
Though if he does choose to save on the monitor, then a 1700 CPU would be even better for recording/streaming, as Lee mentioned. Without changing too much of his spec:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
- 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £84.95
- 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TDGED416G300= £119.99
- 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox 5 Midi Tower Case - Black= £59.99
- 1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £85.99
- 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010)= £40.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700X 3.80GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £289.99
- 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm= £42.95
- 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Mini 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10700G-10M)= £379.99
- 1 x LG 24MP59G 24” 1920x1080 IPS 1ms 75Hz Freesync Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £149.99
Only £10 difference right now between 1700 and 1700X so might as well (not so much for the extra 100MHz although every little helps but rather for the possibility it will OC even better being a binned chip, although this is not guaranteed). Cooler does now need adding (not so with the 1700) however.
If you take Lee's advice to flash the BIOS on the Vega 56 to take it to Vega 64 level, then you'll get GTX 1070 level performance in GTA with it. If not (does this void warranty?) I'd go with the GTX 1070 for an extra 15-20 frames on average (GTA). For most other games, a Vega 64 (or Vega 56 with modded BIOS) would be better in general. Then again, if you fancy the Freesync feature, you may want to get Vega regardless. Personally I would go for the GPU that would provide the most frames as they can be hard to come by in GTA with everything looking "good" in-game (MSAA X4 @ 1080p + Tessellation Very High), even with very powerful cards (with Grass on Ultra not even 1080Tis can avoid huge drops @1080p).
3200MHz RAM would be nice but would take you over budget.
Monitor - you do lose some resolution with a cheaper 1080p screen. Pros are that IPS looks nicer and you get 75Hz instead of 60Hz with that particular LG. At that range, I do notice the difference (between 60Hz and 70Hz).
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