SSD nvme advice

Dallies

Dallies

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Sorry if this sounds dumb, last time I built a pc was when the first gen i7 come out!

I'm looking to buy a Asus Rog strix B450F mobo but I'm unsure about the storage.

It says nvm express raid supported and I'm looking at a 1TB Western Digital WD Black SN750 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD with Heatsink M.2

Is this compatible with the board and can I use this as my primary drive for Windows please?
 
Dallies said:
Sorry if this sounds dumb, last time I built a pc was when the first gen i7 come out!

I'm looking to buy a Asus Rog strix B450F mobo but I'm unsure about the storage.

It says nvm express raid supported and I'm looking at a 1TB Western Digital WD Black SN750 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD with Heatsink M.2

Is this compatible with the board and can I use this as my primary drive for Windows please?
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Yes and yes! That drive will work fine in that board :)
 
Dallies said:
I'm looking to buy a Asus Rog strix B450F mobo but I'm unsure about the storage.
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Any particular reason for going with that board as it has quite a poor VRM?

Any of these boards would be a much better buy at around the same price point.

Also you would have guaranteed ryzen 4000 support as ASUS's support for older platforms is a little sketchy.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £376.07 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Joxeon said:
Any particular reason for going with that board as it has quite a poor VRM?

Any of these boards would be a much better buy at around the same price point.

Also you would have guaranteed ryzen 4000 support as ASUS's support for older platforms is a little sketchy.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £376.07 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Hi it was bundled with a ryzen 7 2700x for £270
 
Joxeon said:
While this is correct you will want to use the top slot M.2_1 as the 2nd slot will make the GPU run in X8 mode.
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AHH I see I've only just noticed the second slot! This is mind boggling.

So this is what I'm going to order in the morning

The Asus b450f gaming board

Ryzen 7 2700x

Corsair vengeance RGB pro black 16gb 3600

Corsair CV 650w PSU

I've just found a cheaper SSD Kingston 1tb a2000 M2 nvme

And a ATX case with 4 fans and bottom mounted PSU

This is all because I decided to get a Asus rtx 2060s oc edition 8gb graphics card that my current rig is bottlenecking the hell out of! I don't know how to use emojis but I'm slapping myself in the face right now.
 
Before you go ordering anything why not make a post stating that you want to build a new PC, listing your budget and see what suggestions you get back.
 
Dallies said:
Hi it was bundled with a ryzen 7 2700x for £270
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If purpose is gaming that outdated 2018's Zen+ architecture CPU get's beaten by Zen2 architecture Ryzen 3600.
Which actually isn't much slower than 2700X even in fully multithreaded workloads, because of the latters weaker cores.

That heavily multithreaded load would be only reason to pick 2700X over 3600.
But that board can't actually properly support that CPU.
Strix B450-F is brand scam board with CPU VRM good only for 65W TDP CPUs.
In The Stilt's testing stock 2700X doing X264 encoding overheated VRM in 12 minutes.
Even lowly Asrock B450 Pro4 has cooler running VRM.
Because of having three semi-OK phases instead of four cripples and cooling not sabotaged by plastic marketing brand excrements.

And MSI only board maker who's confirmed Zen3 (probably ~40% faster cores than in 2700X) support for B450/X470 boards with Asus being the most reluctant.
So even that CPU as place holder for later update doesn't work.
 
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