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Spec me a Ryzen 2700 + MB + Mem

kirkster

kirkster

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Rig is for multithreaded apps, VMs, Video, office and a bit of gaming

I've decided to go for a Ryzen 2700X. I want a 470 board and 16G ram for now (extendable to 32G in a month or two as funds allow). Stock cooler is OK.

Need a M.2 Boot drive as well.

That's it. I have SSD, HD, GFX etc.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £948.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Price these parts separately and build yourself. You're paying a premium for the overclock on this.

2700 can be overclocked very close to the 2700x manually so no need really to buy the 2700x itself. Unless you aren't going to overclock it.

The memory can be set to 3000 and will work after a BIOS update, even though it's rated 2666
 
subbytna said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £948.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
​


Price these parts separately and build yourself. You're paying a premium for the overclock on this.

2700 can be overclocked very close to the 2700x manually so no need really to buy the 2700x itself. Unless you aren't going to overclock it.

The memory can be set to 3000 and will work after a BIOS update, even though it's rated 2666
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To be honest dont bother with the Taichi, i hate to say it, its a lovely board but i believe Asrock bios is an utter mess at the moment, lots of bugs and issues and some of the settings do not even work.

I have an Asus CH6, buying new i would buy the 2700X and CH7, leave it on stock and let PBO do its thing. Buy a decent 240mm AIO, job done.
 
Stock cooler OK for me.
Budget dunno.... £700 ??? Less if possible but thereabouts. Could go a bit higher if there was definite benefit in doing so.
 
aoaaron said:
Damn that’s still quite expensive.. dunno why I was expecting cheaper for an and build

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I mean, you don't have to buy a Crosshair and RGB RAM. You could easily save close to £100 on the motherboard and however much on less fancy RAM. I was running my 2700X on an MSI X370 Gaming Pro for the first couple of months that I had it, which was MSI's second-lowest end X370 board. Had zero issues, albeit just running at stock. Most X470 boards have upgraded VRMs, so should be even better. I only replaced it with a C6H because I managed to snag a brand new one for £100 (and sold the old board for £75).
 
kirkster said:
Rig is for multithreaded apps, VMs, Video, office and a bit of gaming

I've decided to go for a Ryzen 2700X. I want a 470 board and 16G ram for now (extendable to 32G in a month or two as funds allow). Stock cooler is OK.

Need a M.2 Boot drive as well.

That's it. I have SSD, HD, GFX etc.
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Personally MSI X470 M7 & 2700 will set you back £450-470. After that you need a good 3200C14 ram, and the Samsung M.2
 
PC gaming doesn't have to be expensive (relatively speaking) if you don't buy the absolute top end of everything.

My wife's 2700x/GTX1060 6GB based machine for example was £1100 (inc full system warranty). Yes the RAM could be a little faster (OC for the win) and I would have preferred a 512GB rather than 256GB NVME SSD, but for the money I can't really complain (in fact I was pleasantly surprised coming from my 8700k/1080ti system).
 
kirkster said:
I want a 470 board and 16G ram for now (extendable to 32G in a month or two as funds allow). Stock cooler is OK.
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So... the stock cooler is OK but you want an X470 board, do you know the difference between the X470 chipset and the B450 - pretty much nothing. Get a good B450 board like the MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC WiFi (£110-120) which is fully featured and has a great VRM easily supporting the needs of the 2700X using PBO with the stock cooler. For the RAM go with the 3000MHz Team Group kit that OCUK have on offer, most of the stuff seems to be single rank Samsung B-die and its cheap (~£128), stick the voltage to 1.4v and you'll probably get 3200C14 out of it, but spending 50% more (£64) will only give you a couple of percentage points of improvement, the real gains are in the timings once you pass 3000-3200MHz. Finally stick with the 2700X for the better chance of a good IMC, and better clocks from PBO, it's worth the £20-30 or so over the 2700 IMO.

You can easily do the, board, CPU and RAM (16GB) for ~£550 no need to ***** a load of cash on board features you will not use. You ask for an M.2 drive, did you want an NVMe based solution or just using M.2 SATA to keep it compact and tidy? If you are looking at NVMe, best value is the ADATA SX8200 480GB, can be found for about £105, and is almost as fast as the Samsung 970 EVO and in 4K it sometimes beats it which is what you'll want for you VM's even though the IOPS are slightly lower for the writes. :)

EDIT: Here's a basket for you to look at.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £549.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)


Total is £538.97 for the components, if you spend 30% more (£700) would you get 30% more performance, nope, no chance, zero, zip, zlitch.​
 
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