Agreed. The choice is really between B450 and TRX40.
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Agreed. The choice is really between B450 and TRX40.
Thats probably why they held back B550 as that would mean even less reason to go X570.
For closure, this is the build I went with. Ordered late on Thursday and expecting the delivery on Saturday... Will finally get to play RDR2, Battlefield, and Call of Duty: Warzone. Got some free games (Monster Hunter & Resident Evil 3) and 6 months of Xbox Game pass for PC bundled in with it all. Not sure I chose the best monitor but I'm not overly fussy about that so went with something fairly bog standard. Also went for the lower end B450 MSI board as I am not planning on doing any overclocking.
Little bit disappointed I missed out on PCIE4 which both the CPU and graphics support, but I don't think they would be utilising that bandwidth and it won't make any material difference to performance.
This should be generations ahead of my Phenom II X4, Geforce GTX 950, and 1680 x 1050 monitor with 7-8 dead thunderflies stuck in it from summers past!!
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Little bit disappointed I missed out on PCIE4 which both the CPU and graphics support, but I don't think they would be utilising that bandwidth and it won't make any material difference to performance.
This should be generations ahead of my Phenom II X4, Geforce GTX 950, and 1680 x 1050 monitor with 7-8 dead thunderflies stuck in it from summers past!!
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x MSI B450-A PRO MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £82.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
- 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £289.99
- 1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Gray Micron E-Die 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 UDIMM= £82.99
- 1 x Iiyama G-Master Black Hawk G2530HSU-B1 24.5" 1920x1080 75Hz TN 1ms FreeSync Widescreen Gaming Monito= £124.99
Total: £739.95 (includes shipping: £0.00)
