upgrade help

clivetup · 1 Aug 2017 at 12:05

i'am upgrading my old system which is an old fx6300 going to the new ryzen but i can not decide which one to go for. it will be for gaming only gta5, witcher 3 games like that. all i need is mb,ram and cpu but i dont know if to go for the new 1300x and 16gb of ram or the 1500x and 8gb of ram, my gpu is the rx 480 4gb. any help or advice would be a massive help. thanks

Hagar · 1 Aug 2017 at 13:08

For the difference in price 1500x or 1600, I would stretch the budget £20 and get the 1600. 8Gb of ram could be updated later to 16GB.

clivetup · 1 Aug 2017 at 13:33

I didn't think about the 1600 my budget is about £400 so the 1600 would fit into that, motherboard ive decided to go with the b350 strix or maybe the b350 msi gaming pro carbon then as you say I could get 8gb of ram now then more later. And coming from a fx6300 anything would be an improvement

mistersprinkles · 1 Aug 2017 at 13:54

Get the 1600 dood.

clivetup · 1 Aug 2017 at 14:11

thats it then you have both twisted my arm, 1600 it is then

mistersprinkles · 1 Aug 2017 at 14:29

Always happy to convince strangers to buy better PC hardware

And remember, I'm not just the president of the CPU club for men, I'm also a member.

TallPaul1878 · 1 Aug 2017 at 15:48

MSI motherboards have been a little disappointing compared to ASUS, Asrock and Gigabyte.

The ASUS Strix B350 is a stonkingly good board for the money, at a little over £100 it can't be beaten. But if you want to save money then some of the AsRock B350 boards are very good too.