Can someone draft up a quick Ryzen 3600 /B450 Tomahawk build for me?

jaybee82 · 25 Mar 2020 at 11:38

Good morning all,

I've settled on this as the basis of my system, and I also do not need a graphics card (keeping my 1070 for now), monitor or accessories.

I'll need everything else though (case, ram, ssd, psu etc). Could I get some recommendations on supplementing the base of my build? Would really appreciate the help!

snips86x · 25 Mar 2020 at 11:55

How much do you want to spend?

Edit:

Self build:

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= £103.99
1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £84.95
1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £89.99
1 x Toshiba Kioxia RC500 Pro 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £79.99
1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Air Midi Tower DRGB Case - Black= £83.99
1 x Cryorig H7 Single Tower Heatsink with 120mm Fan= £34.99

Total: £672.59 (includes shipping: £14.70)

jaybee82 · 25 Mar 2020 at 12:01

snips86x said:
How much do you want to spend?

Hi Snips,

I'm willing to listen to what's worthwhile, haven't really set a budget as such. What do you think? This will be mainly for high-end gaming (Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk etc).

snips86x · 25 Mar 2020 at 12:11

jaybee82 said:
Hi Snips,

I'm willing to listen to what's worthwhile, haven't really set a budget as such. What do you think? This will be mainly for high-end gaming (Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk etc).

That gives a very board spectrum of choice. If it was me I'd go 3700x/b450/1tb ssd (sabarent rocket from popular forest site) and 16gb ddr 3600.

jaybee82 · 25 Mar 2020 at 12:30

snips86x said:
How much do you want to spend?

Edit:

Self build:

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= £103.99

1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £84.95

1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £89.99

1 x Toshiba Kioxia RC500 Pro 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £79.99

1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Air Midi Tower DRGB Case - Black= £83.99

1 x Cryorig H7 Single Tower Heatsink with 120mm Fan= £34.99

Total: £672.59 (includes shipping: £14.70)

Thanks for taking the time to do this mate, some good suggestions there!

snips86x said:
That gives a very board spectrum of choice. If it was me I'd go 3700x/b450/1tb ssd (sabarent rocket from popular forest site) and 16gb ddr 3600.

I think out of everything, I'm really not up-to speed on the ram. If the performance gains with more expensive ram are worthwhile, I don't mind spending more than what's been suggested in the above, or will this do the tick?

snips86x · 25 Mar 2020 at 13:40

jaybee82 said:
Thanks for taking the time to do this mate, some good suggestions there!

I think out of everything, I'm really not up-to speed on the ram. If the performance gains with more expensive ram are worthwhile, I don't mind spending more than what's been suggested in the above, or will this do the tick?

3600 is the sweet spot atm so that will be fine.

lee32uk · 25 Mar 2020 at 18:45

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £68.99
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= £103.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
1 x WD Blue SN550 500GB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0C)= £71.99
1 x Phanteks Eclipse P350X Glass Digital RGB Midi Tower Case - Black= £64.99
2 x Arctic Cooling F14 PWM PST Fan - 140mm= £6.95
1 x Arctic Freezer 34 CPU Cooler - 120mm= £20.99

Total: £628.03 (includes shipping: £13.20)

orbitalwalsh · 26 Mar 2020 at 11:17

Going from i5 4th Gen K chip, specially if overclocked to Ryzen 3600 (at 1080p?) id

push to 3700x , see more gains in the long run !
10 fps increase with 3600 but 15+ with 3700 over current AAA titles

jaybee82 · 27 Mar 2020 at 17:03

orbitalwalsh said:
Going from i5 4th Gen K chip, specially if overclocked to Ryzen 3600 (at 1080p?) id

push to 3700x , see more gains in the long run !
10 fps increase with 3600 but 15+ with 3700 over current AAA titles

Damn, wish I'd read this sooner lol.

All - I've brought many of the components suggested, but wondered whether I'd be OK with just the one 1TB SSD? I brought the Sabrent 1TB Rocket, but wondering whether to get another drive as well for OS? What do you all think?

System is currently spec as such

Ryzen 3600
B450 Tomahawk Max
GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
CORSAIR 16GB (2X 8GB) 3600MHZ DDR4 VENGEANCE
Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2
Corsair TX-M Series 650 Watt 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU

Joxeon · 27 Mar 2020 at 17:27

jaybee82 said:
Damn, wish I'd read this sooner lol.

All - I've brought many of the components suggested, but wondered whether I'd be OK with just the one 1TB SSD? I brought the Sabrent 1TB Rocket, but wondering whether to get another drive as well for OS? What do you all think?

System is currently spec as such

Ryzen 3600
B450 Tomahawk Max
GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
CORSAIR 16GB (2X 8GB) 3600MHZ DDR4 VENGEANCE
Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2
Corsair TX-M Series 650 Watt 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU

I would just get a 1tb Sata SSD if/when you fill the nvme.

Gray2233 · 27 Mar 2020 at 17:37

Joxeon said:
I would just get a 1tb Sata SSD if/when you fill the nvme.

This.

Adding more storage is very quick/easy to do for the most part.

jaybee82 said:
Damn, wish I'd read this sooner lol.

I wouldn't be overly concerned, if you feel the need for more cores down the line popping in a Ryzen 4000 8 + core chip will be easy enough.

orbitalwalsh · 27 Mar 2020 at 18:21

Rocket NVMe is a beast, specially when they were at £100 !