Thoughts on my £500 build

yes the 270x will be good enough still, its beyond a 1050 i believe as i know its behind a 660, but it will save you some money if you can use it.

as for the 2400g it will only hamper performance because it being an APU you cant upgrade it so you are stuck with the 2400(technically the 1400 with graphics), all you can do is up the ram and add a dedicated graphics card, an APU is only best suited if you need a cheap solution with next to no gaming involved.

mean you could get the 1400/1500x and have the same 4c8t performance of that APU with the added bonus of upgrading, but obviously how cheap the 6 cores are in comparison, you will have better longer performance with that and as for your gpu, if for whatever reason it does fail, then you will still have the budget to buy even a decent used card if you exclude the gpu from these system specs.

silverstone usually make good stuff and its not a bad price, would depend if its atx or sfx? if its atx then a 450w focus 80 gold will be better, think the 550w not much more, that silverstone be only advisable depending on your chosen setup. just a little heads up, i have a 300w silverstone sfx that included an atx bracket, i had it fitted in the coolermaster elite 110 case which is similar size to that case i suggested and it was a godsend, okay that system was low end APU, but when you havent got a separate psu chamber it makes it more spacious for cables.

Awesome - I can stretch to the 2600 and hope my 270 x can hang on 6 months or so - which then gives me time to save for a newer GPU.

The slizverstone 450 is sfx, which I need for the case I bought - I assume if I go for a 1060 6gb GPU at some stage the wattage will be fine? - An 8gb would push the wattage up to circa 300+w, would the 450 be plenty to cope safely?
 
Awesome - I can stretch to the 2600 and hope my 270 x can hang on 6 months or so - which then gives me time to save for a newer GPU.

The slizverstone 450 is sfx, which I need for the case I bought - I assume if I go for a 1060 6gb GPU at some stage the wattage will be fine? - An 8gb would push the wattage up to circa 300+w, would the 450 be plenty to cope safely?

what case is it?

450w would be plenty for the 2600 + 1060, the cpu is like 65w, the 1060 i think is something around the 120w mark and as for 8gb, i assume you mean vram oon a gpu? it would depend on what you went for, my 570 8gb nitro has a tdp rating of like 195w and my 1200 is 65w also, i do have 4 drives and 3 light up fans and my 550w psu is more than enough, so id say your still fine.

just to put it in prospective a little, i have been using msi afterburner to monitor and record my gaming and while i dont know how accurate the power draw monitoring is, my card never seems to use 150w or much over, hell ive been playing WoW and its rare to touch 100w on a regular and i havnt overclocked anything.
 
what case is it?

450w would be plenty for the 2600 + 1060, the cpu is like 65w, the 1060 i think is something around the 120w mark and as for 8gb, i assume you mean vram oon a gpu? it would depend on what you went for, my 570 8gb nitro has a tdp rating of like 195w and my 1200 is 65w also, i do have 4 drives and 3 light up fans and my 550w psu is more than enough, so id say your still fine.

just to put it in prospective a little, i have been using msi afterburner to monitor and record my gaming and while i dont know how accurate the power draw monitoring is, my card never seems to use 150w or much over, hell ive been playing WoW and its rare to touch 100w on a regular and i havnt overclocked anything.

I went for the Sharkoon C10, like the look of it and it's small.

I'll keep my eye on Black Friday deals and if a PSU at 550+ comes up I'll look at it, if not the 450 sounds fine.

Thanks a lot
 
I went for the Sharkoon C10, like the look of it and it's small.

I'll keep my eye on Black Friday deals and if a PSU at 550+ comes up I'll look at it, if not the 450 sounds fine.

Thanks a lot

ah yeah i looked at those cases during the time i purchased the coolermaster, its got a good design because the power supply fits at the front rather than above, so you not so limited on upgrades.

unless you overclock and go high with it or go for a power hungry graphics card then the 450w would be fine and if its full modular it will certainly help
 
Will monitor black Friday for any deals before pulling the trigger (and I have some vouchers on the way) but one last question...

Given the price between these 2 is negligible, which one would you go for (both mini-itx)

Gigabyte B450 AORUS PRO Wifi
ASROCK Fatal1ty B450

Cheers
 
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Last question (and a bump for the one above).

I was checking out the memory support on the Gigabyte board and it completely leaves out support for 3000 DDR4 memory. I'd found some Crucial Elite (16gb) for £113 that looked like a good deal, but I'm worried / confused as to why this wouldn't be supported?

Gigabyte go straight from 2933 to 3200 with no mention of anything else. Is this a problem?

Thanks for the help as always.
 
2933Mhz is basically AMD's divider for 3000Mhz memory. AFAIK there isn't actually any 2933Mhz specific SKU for RAM.
 
Last question (and a bump for the one above).

I was checking out the memory support on the Gigabyte board and it completely leaves out support for 3000 DDR4 memory. I'd found some Crucial Elite (16gb) for £113 that looked like a good deal, but I'm worried / confused as to why this wouldn't be supported?

Gigabyte go straight from 2933 to 3200 with no mention of anything else. Is this a problem?

Thanks for the help as always.

Aorus, actually has the best VRM for B450 boards - was designed around Gigabyte Z390 ITX , with fewer phases

being 2 dim slot , with B-Die and a very good CPU should be able to hit high ram speeds , but to be honest, 3000hz kit and your done

ocuk using it for their Ryzen + Nvidia ITX systems

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-gaming-pc-amd-ryzen-quad-core-fs-122-og.html
 
Aorus, actually has the best VRM for B450 boards - was designed around Gigabyte Z390 ITX , with fewer phases

being 2 dim slot , with B-Die and a very good CPU should be able to hit high ram speeds , but to be honest, 3000hz kit and your done

ocuk using it for their Ryzen + Nvidia ITX systems

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-gaming-pc-amd-ryzen-quad-core-fs-122-og.html

Magic thanks, the last piece in the puzzle looks to be the PSU, think I'm going for this one - any thoughts?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £90.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)​

That'll give me a decent set-up with room for upgrade - slightly over budget in the end, but not the end of the world.
 
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