£500 RAM, CPU and Mobo

fastwunz

fastwunz

fastwunz

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whats the best? Assume AMD

Dont need anything else at the moment but its sadly time to say goodbye to my old 2700k, 1600MHZ DDR3 system :(

thanks
 
Hi guys - just resurecting this as im going to go for it.

Could you please just confirm the current best mobo, ram and cpu in terms of value and performace? im pretty sure ill go for the 3600X and will be gaming at 1080p 144mhz.

thanks
 
Gray2233 said:
AMD 3600
MSI B450 "MAX"
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3 (Shop around for it, you can find it for £70-80)

The RAM should easily OC to 3600-3800 mhz and the B450 "MAX" motherboards don't need to be flashed to support Zen 2. Definitely don't go for that stupidly expensive 8pack crap someone linked above, you could bump up to a 3700X CPU almost for the price difference between the Crucial and 8pack memory, and the Crucial stuff will be just as fast.
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Brilliant thank you
 
Have ordered:

The MSI B450 Max tomahawk
AMD 3600X - will just use the stock cooler
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Ram (found it for £72! not bad) 16GB

This all matched with a Vega 56 so shouldnt be too shabby!

Will all arrive on Friday and then............. ill probably break it all.

thanks for everyones help
 
EssexBoy said:
Can't disagree with that at all :D
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To be fair I’m 37 with two kids - 4 years and another at 5 months.

This will likely be the the final swan song for me - the wife already moans should I have the audacity to play 30mins to an hour perhaps two or three nights a week once the little ones are tucked up safe.

She would rather I was sat on the sofa watching thrilling television such as bake off or some drivel related to wedding dresses or similar.

By the time I’m 40 i suspect she will probably get her way. That terrifies me and this last little upgrade is my two fingered salute to the future that she has planned for me.
 
matt1 said:
Haha love it. After an identical life changing event I can sympathise, difficult to find the time but it’s a nice little escape. Long gone are the days when you could spend all evening gaming.

Very similar upgrade to me, hope you also enjoy it. Make sure you flash to the latest bios, there have been a few over the last couple of weeks.
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thats good advice - just do it via the msi website and load from a formatted memory stick?
 
Gray2233 said:
Awesome.

Considering the process you've went through to figure it out, I'd contact the people you bought it from and detail your process, maybe even link this thread. They might send some new stuff out as a gesture of good will while you're still sending your current back.

Glad you figured it out mate, trust me I know that panic when you've spent some cash on a thing you really want and it doesn't work the way you expect. Worse again when money is a little tight due to little ones or wife-strings! =p
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So much this - I now have some rather fancy Corsair RGB ram in my system - it defaults to 3000mhz so I’ll overclock it and see how far i get

How far can I push the 3600x on average?
 
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