Wasn’t there a maybe issue regarding that SSD? Also, I think the adlink s70 is cheaper and faster.
Personal taste, but I would never ever go with a reference model XD
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I’ve got one, and it works perfectly fine. I think I’m up to 35TBW on it so far?
The extra $50 to $100 for an AIB is almost never worth it.
Especially when considering performance on these newer coolers.
No stock cooler on 5600x anymore?
There is, but I’ve got a stock cooler on a 3700x on my brothers rig and it gets mighty warm.
I’m not convinced the stock coolers are actually that good.
Runs fine on my 3900x proxmox box
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Yeah, still different opinion but you are right that they’ve made significant improvements, both AMD and nVidia in fact.
Considering the cooler: I’m currently using the Arctic Liquid Freezer II and it’s really cool (pun intended). However, please be aware that picking a CLC over a tower cooler is more a matter of personal taste since tower coolers, especially Noctua ones, perform really well. (CLC do perform better and are able to soak bursts better than tower coolers. Price/performance is on the tower cooler’s side though.
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Bait and switch reports.
@OP I’d basically take @SgtAwesomesauce’s build and swap out the SSD. Crucial makes some in a similar price range as the Adata I believe, as do a plethora of others.
You could probably save the $30 on an aftermarket heatsink as well since you are not overclocking. Although an aftermarket heatsink would never hurt.
As for case, I built a computer in a Define Mini C not too long ago and it was fine. Quality was pretty normal compared to other cases I’ve built in.
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Something like a sabrent rocket non-q gen 3 if you can find one on sale.
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Funny I had literally the exact opposite I found the 3700x stock cooler was incredible at its job only swapped it because I had a D14 anyway. Now it is cooling my brothers 1600x and it is even better there, took over them that stock cooler which was also doing just fine.
With stock cooler I was holding 4GHz auto OC that it did itself over the 3.7 basd, occasional 4.1 for a few seconds and with the D14 it holds 4.2. My room gets pretty warm too which never bothered it. In a not particularly airflowey case (NZXT H440)
I have a Rocket 4.0 and it is crazy fast, I only really game, and it is no faster than a 970 EVO I got a few years back for a NUC in actual recognisable use or feel. The NUC even boots faster than the 3700x with the Rocket. So I don’t really put much stock in the super fastest of the fast M.2s, better off save your money and get any reputable NVMe M.2 that suits your drive size needs.
If you are doing something that will take advantage of that speed then by all means, but for a gaming PC, not worth it. Particularly an AMD one as they don’t seem to get the boot time benefits of faster drives.
Thanks for this!
Looking at the board it does not have wifi or bluetooth is that something you would recommend as an add-on card or built into the board?
Do you use either? I have the MSi MPG Gaming Edge WiFi that has both and I just have them both turned off as I don’t use them other than the convenience moments of moving the PC to another room for maintenance.
Otherwise all wired. Even my mouse which is wireless works better using its dongle than over Bluetooth, again just a convenience feature when I am stuck.
Just thinking more as a convivence… but you might be right… probably won’t use it much.
[ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ] is onsale for $99.00 is this as good as the MSI mentioned here… looking at the specs i don’t really see the difference.
- edit… upon further inspection… it looks like the MSI one has more covering or heatsinks on the board… looks more sturdy.
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You can always add a WiFi/BT card later anyway if you find you want them. They are not particularly expensive.
Sorry I am no help for the motherboard.
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650w psu should be more than good enough for system with 5600x and RX6800.
Pretty sure 500W psu is enough. Should be cheaper than 750’s
not expecting this sytem to see any hardcore oc.
I would recommend swapping to a board that has those features if you need it.
Personally, I don’t use both, and you didn’t mention that need, so I thought I’d save you $30 on those features.
I have the itx variant of that asrock b550.
It’s a good board.
If it is the os drive ? You always want the fastest up front 
I am fan of Nvme storage. Reduces clutter and noise. You do not really need to have the fastest for basic simple use. Man the file transfer speeds can be nice.
If I to tweak things to a point…A fast 256 gig nvme boot drive and a cheaper slower nvme 1 or 2 tb drive. 120 for a boot drive is about fall off map.
Oh the the Rocket 4.0 is the boot and OS drive. It is fast but just Ryzen in general does not seem to get those unreal fast boot times, it is by no means slow but the NUC with a 6th gen mobile i7 with a 970 EVO and mixed 2000~mhz ram boots faster than the AMD system with a 3700x Rocket 4.0 and 3600 CL16 RAM.
It is not slow to boot but slower than you would expect it to be when compared.
And just in general for a PC that is going to pretty much just play games, listen to music, talk on discord and watch YouTube any NVMe drive will perform “the same” if you don’t have benchmarks open to tell you exact speeds, they are all super fast and faster than your hand so interacting with them all feels as snappy as each other.
Unless you are doing some project work that is taking advantage of the sustained crazy fast reads and writes I don’t think it is really worth it to get a fastest of the fast drive. For just gaming they all feel the same.
Never really paid much attention to boot times… Fastest boot is suspend and its not a boot I am generally not aware of my fast nvme until I start shuffling files around. Maybe decompression ?
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