Opinions on this build?

Kel1981

Kel1981

Kel1981

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Dragon Gaming Case - Black/Red


CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1800X (8 x 3.6 GHZ - Turbo 8 x 4.0 GHZ)


CPU Cooling AMD Heatsink & Fan


Memory 8GB 2133MHz (1x8GB) - Lifetime Warranty (DDR4)


Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti - 4 GB - (PCI-E) - DVI/DP/HDMI - HD/4K - Supports 3 Monitors


Motherboard Asus PRIME A320M-K (AMD B320) - 4xUSB3/2xUSB2


Sound Card Motherboard Integrated HD Sound


Wired Networking Motherboard Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet Lan (Broadband Ready)


Power Supply Corsair 450W PSU - Low Noise


Wireless Networking Wireless Network Card 300Mbps (PCI-E)


Hard Drive #1 1 TB Seagate (1000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB Cache


Hard Drive #2 120GB SSD SATA-III, Read 540MB/s, Write 430MB/s - Silent
 
If you can afford it, drop the HDD entirely and just have a large SSD.

And the GTX 1050 Ti is rather underpowered for gaming. Look at the 1060 or 1070 instead.
 
Kel1981 said:
Why is it odd? 800 quid
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A320 is budget budget that lacks good Ram speed support , low phase count power draw when chip is running at its fastest. b350 chipsets are the norm, ability to overclock and handle 3000/3200 ram kits just fine .
Unless your streaming or playing latest titles like AC Origins that take advantage of a lot of cores, Ryzen 1600 would be plenty with funds diverted to the GPU .

You looking to buy Made for you or able to build yourself ?
 
@Kel1981 : Hi and cheers!

This is for you:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £843.17 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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orbitalwalsh said:
A320 is budget budget that lacks good Ram speed support , low phase count power draw when chip is running at its fastest. b350 chipsets are the norm, ability to overclock and handle 3000/3200 ram kits just fine .
Unless your streaming or playing latest titles like AC Origins that take advantage of a lot of cores, Ryzen 1600 would be plenty with funds diverted to the GPU .

You looking to buy Made for you or able to build yourself ?
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I'm not sure yet, if I can get a decent deal I'd probably just buy one already built. It's just a pain trying to find out what works with what the best and how future proof it will be.
 
if you're in a better mood, then several questions to point us in the right direction:
are you buying prebuilt, or are you wanting/willing to DIY?
need windows? or other peripherals like monitor/kb/mouse/speakers?
what is the computer for? web-browsing/gaming (i note the games you mentioned previously)/developer work?
budget £800 right?
 
with respect to the build you posted above, as others have mentioned.
pairing the ryzen 1800 with an a320 board isn't the best idea
also having 1 stick of ram means that it won't work in dual channel mode - gimping performance
 
4K8KW10 said:
@Kel1981 : Hi and cheers!

This is for you:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £843.17 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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So what could I expect performance wise? Just to give me an idea
 
tamzzy said:
if you're in a better mood, then several questions to point us in the right direction:
are you buying prebuilt, or are you wanting/willing to DIY?
need windows? or other peripherals like monitor/kb/mouse/speakers?
what is the computer for? web-browsing/gaming (i note the games you mentioned previously)/developer work?
budget £800 right?
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Just a new tower at the moment tamzzy. I want one for gaming and web use, I don't really use my current one for anything else. To be honest I can't be arsed to build one.
 
@Kel1981 this would be a better all-round build for gaming as it has a much more powerful gpu.
you wouldnt need an 8core ryzen 1800 for gaming. the 1600 is more than sufficient.
with the savings, also have added a 275gb ssd. 120gb is far to small for a mid-high end system in 2018.
the 1060 6gb is practically 150-200% the performance of the 1050ti and will last a good deal longer.

to answer your question, you'd be able to run GTAV and Hitman at max settings @ 1080p with this build

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £838.18 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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4K8KW10 said:
@Kel1981 : Hi and cheers!

This is for you:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £843.17 (includes shipping: £12.30)
​
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the irony you would still suggest a crappy psu and further more suggest a 1050ti, a gpu you have had hatred for in other posts
 
heres my take, can add an ssd 120gb for £30, sticking with the apparent full size theme rather than usual itx for this AMD. i realised ive quote 2400mhz ram lol, but the better more suitable 3000mhz only like a tenner more.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £790.13 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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intel build for comparison, again the atx form, so same case and psu, but a 6 core i5, the proper 3000mhz ram, drop to a 1050ti and went with a single SSD for faster speeds then add storage later or for the same price if you need the storage straight away then theres a seagate firacuda 1tb sshd for same £60 price, so has the storage from the get go and a hint of ssd like.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £787.23 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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for £3.?? over your £800 budget you could get the faster 1050ti(asus cerberus AE)

others have quoted over budget, so i did my best to make a good balance within budget.



oh and modular power supplies are great, but if you dont care for that then you can save money and go for similar powered fixed cabled units.
 
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Kel1981 said:
Hmmm, this is why I get confused. So many conflicting opinions lol.
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konlink are know as budget units, some of the high end versions live up to their bronze/silver/gold rating etc, dont mean they great long term, their cases meant to be decent, as for the 1050ti, its been know to be a great all rounder for these budgets or less and hold up well enough if you dont push it beyond its limits like any part obviously, just this user has been known to be an AMD fan boy and make out how crap the 1050ti is despite its been proven as a good card.
 
Kel1981 said:
So what could I expect performance wise? Just to give me an idea
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A lot, it has an octo-core processor, the graphics card that you wanted initially, excellent SSD, very decent PSU recommended by OcUK.
I don't know what more you could want.

The other members give you very expensive PSU but slower configurations in all departments, without even a simple SSD. That's silly.
 
No, what is silly is skimping on the psu and suggesting very poor quality units. The psu is not a place to compromise. Just because you are happy to run cheap rubbish doesn't mean that people suggesting quality units are in the wrong. People come here to have builds specced and at the end of the day it is their money that we are spending so it is only right to spec quality components in a balanced build. With a tight budget there are always going to be compromises and sacrifices to be made to get a good balance in performance for the money and the guys have gone for quality psu's at the lower end of the price band in this thread.

4K8KW10 said:
very decent PSU recommended by OcUK.
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If you truly believe all this marketing bull then you are more gullible than I thought. Of course they are going to say they are good because their parent company is behind them. This means nothing as past OCUK "quality" psu's have shown. First were the OCUK Huntkey psu's that were prone to blowing up and/or catching fire. Then there were the OCUK Ace line which included several models which turned out to be very poor quality Powercool units and now we have the Kolink units. None apart from the expensive Continuum has been reviewed but a forum member took the cover off of one only to see the cheapest components inside. They have weak 12v rails and that so called 600w unit that you have recommended only has 450w on the 12v rail and even has on the label "Max recommended 24/7 power 500w" which is 100w below it's supposed 600w so not even Kolink have any faith in their products which is shown by the pathetic 2 year warranty. Any decent quality psu should have all or near enough all of it's power on the 12v rail and be able to sustain it's total power over long periods.

As for marketing rubbish all you need to do is read the description of Q-Tec, CiT, Ace and other cheap and nasty brands and you would think that they are the absolute best that you can buy yet the very opposite is true. They are unreliable, innefficient due to being based on ancient designs, built down to a price using the cheapest components they can find and by cutting corners with essentials such as protection. Quality psu's are highly unlikely to kill any other components if they fail but these cheap ones are highly likely to kill other components when they fail.

I know we have had this arguement before and you wouldn't see sense then but at the end of the day this is other peoples money that we are spending and we have a duty to provide them with quality suggestions and the very best that we can get them for their money. Sometimes this results in compromises in one area to get a better quality in another and the psu is one of those areas that should always have a better quality.
 
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