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Been a long time since I've been able to have a desktop. My career has kept me moving around a lot and I've been mostly limited to a laptop. Although it has served me well, I've now found a more permanent living situation and I'm excited to upgrade to a tower. My budget for this build is going to be around $1100-1300 Canadian (around $900-1100 US or 680-750 GBP).
This build will be used heavily for music production, streaming, graphic rendering, and other productivity applications, hence why I opted for a Ryzen 5 1600X instead of an i5-7600K. It will game every now and then, but for the most part it will function as my workstation.
My current laptop build:
Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.8
16GB DDR3
GTX 965M 4GB DDR5
Micron M600 128GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HD
What I'm looking to upgrade to:
ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 K4
Ryzen 5 1600X @ 3.6
16GB G.SKILL Ripjaw V 3000mhz CL14 (2x8GB)
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Rosewill Valens Series 600W PSU
Any ATX Mid Tower Case
Right now, it's looking like I'll be able to pick all of this up from newegg for about $1200 Canadian.
My main concerns for the build are the compatibility of the RAM, and also the lack of an SSD. I've been hearing a lot about latency of RAM, and that anything over CAS 14 Latency will have trouble with Ryzen. I also heard that Ryzen seems to favor Samsung based modules as well? Is this true and if so, what can I improve for the build?
I'd also like some recommendations on a good 128GB SSD, cheap but reliable is what I'm looking for. It will serve as a Windows boot drive and that's it.
And lastly, if there are any parts you think I can swap out to save some money, please let me know!
Cheers and have a great rest of the day,
N
This build will be used heavily for music production, streaming, graphic rendering, and other productivity applications, hence why I opted for a Ryzen 5 1600X instead of an i5-7600K. It will game every now and then, but for the most part it will function as my workstation.
My current laptop build:
Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.8
16GB DDR3
GTX 965M 4GB DDR5
Micron M600 128GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HD
What I'm looking to upgrade to:
ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 K4
Ryzen 5 1600X @ 3.6
16GB G.SKILL Ripjaw V 3000mhz CL14 (2x8GB)
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM
Rosewill Valens Series 600W PSU
Any ATX Mid Tower Case
Right now, it's looking like I'll be able to pick all of this up from newegg for about $1200 Canadian.
My main concerns for the build are the compatibility of the RAM, and also the lack of an SSD. I've been hearing a lot about latency of RAM, and that anything over CAS 14 Latency will have trouble with Ryzen. I also heard that Ryzen seems to favor Samsung based modules as well? Is this true and if so, what can I improve for the build?
I'd also like some recommendations on a good 128GB SSD, cheap but reliable is what I'm looking for. It will serve as a Windows boot drive and that's it.
And lastly, if there are any parts you think I can swap out to save some money, please let me know!
Cheers and have a great rest of the day,
N