Build review

[Dunnc]

Thoughts on this build

3600
Tomahawk Max or Gaming pro carbon
Crucial Ballistix 16gb-3200
Either crucial p1 or wd blue 1tb m.2
Corsair Rmx or rm 650 watt
Case was thinking of Phanteks 400a or Corsair 275 air or iCue 220
Win 10

Comes to about 710.

Keeping exiting gpu (970) and monitor (samsung 2443), both need to be updated but at another time.

• Motherboard wise it the pro carbon a better option due to the better on board sound?
• Or is it worth going for the max and getting a sound card?
• The asus b450 f/e are these worth considering or a x570 ie tuf x570
• Ram 3200 is best here or better to get a 3600mhz kit?
• With the psu is it better to go fully modular due to the tight spaces with the above 3 cases- will be using a existing hdd-
• Worth keeping a crucial mx100 250gb ssd going?

Sorry for all the questions, been playing with this build for a while.

 

[EsaT]

Phanteks AMP is in stock and at better price.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-amp-650w-80-plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-09q-pt.html
It's also among the most compact ATX PSUs and hence good fit for smaller cases.

WD Blue 3D is SATA drive regardless of form factor.
It's Blue SN550 which is NVMe drive.

No sense to put extra money into motherboard's sound card.
Even super expensive board is no guarantee for lack of EMI, or actually good output for headphones and for headphone gaming Realteks lack features.


Asus B450-F is brand scam.
Its CPU VRM is at level of market PC garbage and can't properly/reliably support all CPUs advertised to be supported.
Even Asrock B450 Pro4 has better VRM than it and MSI just curb stomps it.
Tomahawk's VRM would do decently well even with fully loaded 12/16 cores with some case cooling.
(B450-E has still worser components and way worser cooling)

X570 boards make sense only, if you know you'll be swapping in such CPU and intend to use PC long and with heavy use.
Though in X570 its MSI which is selling crap for money. (never buy for brand/reputation from previous products)

Actually Crucial Ballistix would very likely clock to better timings than most sold 3600MHz kits.
Though at default XMP settings good 3600MHz kit would be better.