Gaming at 3440x1440 with £1200, is this good enough?

Wiald

Wiald

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Putting together an new build from scratch and wanted some advice about motherboard, GPU, PSU and overall balance. I mean to do single player RPG gaming like the Witcher III on a 21:9 35" monitor at 3440x1440, which I am also yet to purchase.

Specs as follows:
CPU
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X AM4
or
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Processor
Leaning towards 3300X bc cheaper and similar performance
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-3-3300x/16.html

MOBO
ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus
or
Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE

RAM
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series F4-3600C16D-16GVK 16 GB (8 GB x 2) DDR4 3600 MHz C16 1.35

Storage
Sabrent 1TB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD (is PCIe 4.0 worth the extra money?)
or
Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB Gen3x4


GPU
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (which one?)

PSU
SilverStone Essential 650W 80 Plus Gold
or
Cooler Master MWE 650 Bronze V2, 80+ Bronze 650W
or
Corsair CV650
or
Seasonic M12II-620 EVO 620W '80 Plus Bronze

Case
Cooler Master Masterbox NR600

All input welcome.

Thanks
 
Hi welcome

I would take the R5 3600 just because it has more cores so should last longer than the 4 core 3300X. The gaming performance is pretty similar but the extra 2 cores should help in the long run.

As for the board I would wait for B550 on the 16th if you can. Otherwise a B450 board like a Tomahawk MAX would save some cash.

A 3200MHz CL16 kit might be cheaper. Not a huge difference in fps between 3200 and 3600 ram.

If you are just gaming then a Gen 4 SSD is not worth it. The Gen 3 Sabrent Rocket is good enough, or the Silicon Power assuming it is the A80. Other alternatives are the WD Blue SN550, Team MP34, Corsair MP510, Adata SX8200 Pro, Patriot Viper VPN100, Toshiba RD500 and HP EX920/950. Some are not sold on here though.

A 5700XT would save you some more money over a 2070 Super if you are not married to Nvidia.

Not a fan of most of those power supplies. I would look at a Seasonic Focus GX 550W if buying from here. Lots of units out of stock at the minute though. Cheapest 650W on here would be the SuperFlower Leadex III ARGB 650W at £114.99. You might be able to find alternatives elsewhere. There is a psu tier list over on linus tech tips forum which can be useful.

The case is fine.
 
Thank you for the welcome and for your insightful feedback!

My understanding is that B450 boards like the Tomahawk MAX are compatible with R3/R5 out of the box and do not require any BIOS update, am I correct?

Will the B550 mobo be available to purchase on the 16th, or is it that a release date and then the mobo will be available in 2/3 weeks?

Thanks!
 
Wiald said:
Thank you for the welcome and for your insightful feedback!

My understanding is that B450 boards like the Tomahawk MAX are compatible with R3/R5 out of the box and do not require any BIOS update, am I correct?

Will the B550 mobo be available to purchase on the 16th, or is it that a release date and then the mobo will be available in 2/3 weeks?

Thanks!
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Glad to help.

Yes the MSI MAX boards all support current Ryzen 3000 cpu's out of the box. They will also support Ryzen 4000 as well when they launch later this year. You would just need to update the bios.

https://hexus.net/tech/news/mainboard/142990-msi-confirms-amd-400-series-motherboards-support-zen-3/


The B550 boards will hopefully be available to buy on the 16th. I think it is important for AMD that they are, as they have already been delayed for far too long as it is.
 
Wait for B550 see what their prices are like. But for you gaming at 1440p having PCIe 4 might be useful as you can upgrade GPU so that your system can be kept for longer.

if you can stretch it to a 3700x then do that 8C will be the norm soon. That URE5 looks really good.

and get 3200 ram as others said and you can mostly likely boost those to 3600 which is a sweet spot for zen 2. Read up in memory section on various overclockable RAMs

if you don’t mind a bit of cutting into a steel chassis case there is a zalman case that’s similar to the NR600. But it doesn’t support Rads at the front however it looks like it can be easily adapted. So that saving of 50-60 quid can go into something much more valuable like a GPU/CPU/RAM
 
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