Check my basket please!

satanicguardian · 6 Nov 2019 at 15:25

Build for a friend, case/PSU are being reused! - Budget £600!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 2700 4.10GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
1 x ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £119.99
1 x AMD Wraith Prism AM4 CPU Cooler= £19.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 16GB 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit= £98.99
1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £29.99
1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 590 Red Dragon 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £169.99

Total: £609.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)

Gray2233 · 6 Nov 2019 at 15:31

What is the build for?

Just gaming or does he do other things?

satanicguardian · 6 Nov 2019 at 15:35

Gray2233 said:
What is the build for?

Just gaming or does he do other things?

Just gaming, I forgot to mention we've got a 1TB hdd for "general storage" too

Gray2233 · 6 Nov 2019 at 15:37

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2*8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit= £79.99
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER StormX 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £199.99
1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £49.99

Total: £609.91 (includes shipping: £0.00)

This would be a better bet.

The SSD is a placeholder, look up "Sabrent Rocket NvME" on the rainforest website.

1660S is about as fast as the 1660TI for the price of a 1660 vanilla.

3600 will be faster in games than the 2700, the HSF it comes bundled with should be sufficient, but it's easily swapped out down the line if need be.

It's worth noting that the new mid range AMD cards are supposed to be out soon.

satanicguardian · 6 Nov 2019 at 15:53

Gray2233 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99

1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95

1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2*8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit= £79.99

1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER StormX 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £199.99

1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £49.99

Total: £609.91 (includes shipping: £0.00)

This would be a better bet.

The SSD is a placeholder, look up "Sabrent Rocket NvME" on the rainforest website.

1660S is about as fast as the 1660TI for the price of a 1660 vanilla.

3600 will be faster in games than the 2700, the HSF it comes bundled with should be sufficient, but it's easily swapped out down the line if need be.

It's worth noting that the new mid range AMD cards are supposed to be out soon.

Hmm I've always kept AMD builds with AMD gpu's, in this day and age is there any benefit to doing this? I had this as a full "team red" build

Gray2233 · 6 Nov 2019 at 16:03

No real benefit, either vendor will work fine.

I'd normally recommend an AMD GPU myself for the budget you have, but the 1660S has just launched and it's excellent performance at its price point. That and as I mentioned, the new mid range AMD GPU's are launching soon, so putting in an old Polaris chip seems a bit off to me.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1935-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-super/

I'd say it was worth the extra £30 over the 590.

satanicguardian · 6 Nov 2019 at 17:42

Hmm okay cool!

Would the 3600 be compatible with - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-6cc-as.html

He likes the RGB haha

Gray2233 · 6 Nov 2019 at 17:52

It would but you'd need to flash it to the most modern bios, which means you'd need to have an older Ryzen CPU to do it with.

satanicguardian · 6 Nov 2019 at 17:58

Gray2233 said:
It would but you'd need to flash it to the most modern bios, which means you'd need to have an older Ryzen CPU to do it with.

I've got a ryzen 5 2600x in my build, that would work I guess.. but I means dismantling my build to do so

Gray2233 · 6 Nov 2019 at 18:01

Yeah, bit of a faff when the MSI Max boards work out of the box.

There are some Asus boards which allow you to flash the bios without a chip in, but the one you've listed doesn't seem to be one of them. The MSI boards do have some RGB on them I think, that mystic light stuff.

GilesGuthrie · 8 Nov 2019 at 10:51

satanicguardian said:
Build for a friend, case/PSU are being reused! - Budget £600!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 2700 4.10GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99

1 x ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £119.99

1 x AMD Wraith Prism AM4 CPU Cooler= £19.99

1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 16GB 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit= £98.99

1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £29.99

1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 590 Red Dragon 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £169.99

Total: £609.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)

Double-check that the Ryzen you're buying doesn't include a Wraith cooler in the box - you've specced a cooler in your basket, but you don't need one in this case, so there's £20 you could put somewhere else in your system