Upgrade with old psu

coopsjc21

coopsjc21

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Hi
Planning on an upgrade to an old E8400 system. Just want to check spec and also ask if my existing PSU will suffice...

Total: £766.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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Currently have and will be keeping..
Super Flower 80 plus Bronze 550w PSU
DVD drive
1tb SSD
4tb HDD
320gb HDD
19" screen, mouse, keyboard

Also, is the stock Ryzen cooler ok? I don't plan on overclocking any time soon.

Thank you!
 
Is this just for gaming ? If so then an R5 3600/X saves a bit of cash.

I would go with the B450 Tomahawk MAX over that Gaming Edge. The entry X570 MSI boards are pretty terrible.

Patriot 3200MHz Ram is £59.99. You can easily overclock it with Ryzen dram calculator.

Avoid the Armor cards as I believe the cooler is subpar on them. If you go with the above parts you could easily get a better gpu anyway, although for 1080p an RX 580/590 is ok. Any plans to go with a 1440p monitor anytime soon ?
 
Thanks for the replies, very helpful as always.

Yes, it's a gaming pc. No plans for 1440p gaming.

I'll look at swapping the MSI Armor card for the Powercolor one, and the MoBo too, thank you.

If I get shot of the 590 altogether and consider something better for the same price range (£200ish) would be the recommendation? I don't upgrade often, so would consider spending a few extra quid for a bit more future proofing.
 
You could do something like this.

The Tomahawk board has gone up in price. The B450-A Pro is more or less the same but costs £18 less. It will be fine for a 3700X.

The Vega 56 is a step up from the RX 590. You also have the RX 5700 but that would go over your current spend. On the Nvidia side you have the 1660Ti which is around the same performance as the Vega 56 depending on the game. Or cheaper still the 1660 Super.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £699.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Cheers. Going to go for one of the B450 boards which allows extra for the GPU, so yes will look at going for the Vega 56 cards.

The Patriot ram is nearly half the price of the 8Pack, so I'll go for that but get 32gb instead of 16gb. Is there much difference in speed between 3200 and 3600mhz?
 
coopsjc21 said:
Cheers. Going to go for one of the B450 boards which allows extra for the GPU, so yes will look at going for the Vega 56 cards.

The Patriot ram is nearly half the price of the 8Pack, so I'll go for that but get 32gb instead of 16gb. Is there much difference in speed between 3200 and 3600mhz?
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Not a massive difference. A 3200MHz kit is perfectly fine for Ryzen. You can always overclock the ram though as it is easy to do with the Dram calculator software.

This video shows you the process.


 
lee32uk said:
I personally wouldn't go with a reference AMD card unless you don't mind the extra heat/noise levels.
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5700's aren't bad, XT's are a bit worse. As for the heat, most of it ends up outside of the case so nothing to worry about and you can always set a custom profile in Wattman to deal with that, which costs ZERO. :)
 
Journey said:
5700's aren't bad, XT's are a bit worse. As for the heat, most of it ends up outside of the case so nothing to worry about and you can always set a custom profile in Wattman to deal with that, which costs ZERO. :)
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Yeah the 5700 does run a bit cooler but I have never been a fan (No pun intended) of the single fan cards. On the plus side though it is more fps than the Vega 56.

The Hardware Unboxed video below suggests it runs about 75c at stock which isn't terrible.

 
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