Final pre-build check.

Davi

Davi

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About to order the components for by build and just want to make sure I haven’t missed anything or made any mistakes as it’s about 10 years since I last built a PC.

I already have a lian li Lancool 2 case.

MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk
AMD 5700g
Patriot Viper Blackout DDR4 (4x8GB)
Corsair RM750 80+ Gold
Corsair H100x AIO
Kingston 2TB NVI M.2 2280 NvME

PNY Quadro P400v2 2GB

I’m not a big gamer so the quadro card is to add on the extra ports that I need for my screens. In 6-12 months when I do add a ‘proper’ discrete graphics card it will go into the unraid server I plan to build and be used for Plex.

Will be running 3 x 27” 1080p 75Hz screens. Mainly for productivity, getting back into IT (lots of learning) and light gaming.
 
Need more specific information about memory.
Fancy name doesn't help if it's some slow model.

Alpenfohn Brocken 3 would be more than enough for that CPU.
Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm= £42.95
In fact sub £30 coolers would be perfectly good for such TDP CPU.

Also that Kingston drive is really low end model.
WD Blue SN550 would be better.
 
As far as I’m aware, the quadro is a pretty low end card for normal usage. It can do more transcoding than a normal card so will be useful in future but wouldn’t the 5700g be a better ‘GPU’ ?
 
Davi said:
As far as I’m aware, the quadro is a pretty low end card for normal usage. It can do more transcoding than a normal card so will be useful in future but wouldn’t the 5700g be a better ‘GPU’ ?
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It would but your still only looking at up to 30fps or so with low settings in most games at 1080p.
 
So it may not be a huge improvement but the 5700g will be better than the quadro?

I also believe the 5700g is a fairly good CPU so in 6-12 months (probably closer to 12) when I upgrade the graphics card to something like a 2080 it shouldn’t bottleneck it?

finally am I right in thinking that I plug the main screen into the mother board and the other screens into the quadro. I can then select in settings, which ‘GPU’ the system will use?
 
That's expensive price for 92mm fan HSF.
Would recommend staying with 120mm fan heatsinks.
That makes big difference to needed fan speed and also there's lot more surface area to dissipate heat into air.
They don't even cost realyl any more.
Arctic Freezer 34 is £25.
 
The 5700g is a very odd product and should not have been released imho. It has just 16mb of cache which is mostly why the performance is so poor for 8 core cpu and even worse no PCIe 4.0. You would be better off with a 5600x and second hand 970,1060 or 1050ti imo.

The 5700g has worse cpu performance than the 5600x by a considerable margin in many tasks so when you do finally upgrade the gpu you would have a worse overall system. The 5600g is released soon for £100 less and has almost the same performance, lot better value.

If your quadro card can run the 3 screens you need then use that with a 5600x/5800x and get a sensibly priced gpu when you can. That would in the end give you an excellent pc and not one held back by the 5700g cpu performance.

You really should look at some reviews for the 5700g before you buy it.
 
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I would defo go with the 5600x or even 5800x for better productivity if you wanna get a decent graphics card in the future, no question about that and then the AIO cooler would actually make sense too.
 
Thanks for all the input. I've taken on board whats been said here and other places and order my components. Looking forward to them being delivered so I can build my system and start getting back into IT a bit.
 
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