So during this summer vacations i started working and needed the money to buy a laptop and upgrade some peripherals (being the Logitech G203 mouse i bought the first item on the setup upgrade). But i decided to stay on my current job and study to gain some money during the semester.
So this setup upgrade will be from time to time. I already have an usage in mind, that would be gaming on 1080p but i would like to invest on a 144hz monitor.
Now the budget, i don’t have a definitive amount on mind but i’m looking more on the price/performance side of things. I’m set with Ryzen this time and I saw that the R5 1600 is the best price/performance CPU atm (correct me if i’m wrong). So for the CPU the R5 1600 would be the goto option or should i look for other options?
The only thing i’m very confused about is the motherboard and RAM, i don’t have a definitive option to choose and i don’t want to over-spend on those components. So for the motherboard i’m looking for the best price/performance too.
I will keep my current GPU for now, but i’m not sure if to go for a RX580 or a 1070 if I will go for a 144hz 1080p.
Any help, tips or suggestions I will appreciate it.
R5-1600 is your best bet.
1070 on gpu when the prices ome back to what they should be.
B350 motherboard unless you want to over locking past an extra .2ghz.
Rather than focus on 144Hz, would an emphasis on Freesync be a better option? From the few demos I have seen a good freesync setup is better than a pure 144Hz for non-competitive game play. Of course, a freesync monitor that goes up to 144Hz would be nice.
Yup. 144hz is a gimmick that is only truly useful to professional e-sports players, and I’m not sure if even that is true or if it’s just some kind of placebo effect. A 60hz monitor that you can overclock to 75hz is enough for 99% of gamers.
Well i don’t have personally seen a 144hz monitor, but from the videos i saw about the difference of 60 and 120-144 it’s a very fluid experience (correct me if i’m wrong). Lately I’ve been playing more csgo and rocket league, i do have other games but because of work and school i don’t play too much .
I don’t play CSGO professionally just games in general in my PC and i appreciate the better “fluid” experience factor, but after saying this getting a 75hz one for example would be better choice?
Returning with the R5 1600, I will overclock it to get the most performance of the CPU (i think get it like 3.7 or 3.8). Any suggestions on the motherboard and ram?
If you don’t play CSGO or Dota then FreeSync is a solid choice. But if you do, FreeSync will end up being a worse off experience vs 144Hz. This is due to the game’s input latency at lower frame rate.
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I do play CSGO. I do play competitive from time to time, of course not on a pro level or on tournaments so i don’t know after saying this, is it worth it the 144hz monitor?
I would rank the importance of the games. I made the jump from 60Hz to 144Hz and it is amazing, the difference in fluidity can be felt. If you play CS a lot I would strongly suggest you go for a 144Hz. Unless you are able to find a 144Hz FreeSync monitor which you can turn off FreeSync for CS.
Thanks for the motherboard suggestions, the Asus one looks very good
Another option i saw for 30 usd more is the Asus Prime X370 Pro and also the Asrock X370 Fatality K4. Does the B350 should be enough or should I go for one of those boards i listed?
I would check the manufacture compatibility memory list and pick your ram based on that list. For example the Asrock Tachi I am going to use for my replacement desktop ( current Desktop got fried in electric storm) compatibility list, list only G.Skill F4-3200c14D-32GTZR, F4-38660c18D-32GTZR, and F4-3200c15D-32GTZR as the only type of ram I need for my use case. Of course since I need 64GB of ram I can only use 16GB chips.
This really depends on what your overclocking goals are.
And eventually if you ever have plans to maybe do an cpu upgrade to an 8 core Ryzen2 cpu in the future maybe?
Because if you have plans like that, then i would personally recommend to invest a littlebit more and buy a decent X370 board.
Just with an eye on feuture proofing.
Allthough B350 chipset boards like the Msi B350 gaming pro carbon, or B350 krait gaming, are basiclly okay enough to run a 1600 (X) overclocked on.
But i do have to mention that all B350 motherboards have a pretty poor vrm design.
Now we come to X370 motherboards.
Asrock X370 Taichi is currentlly one of the best motherboards on the am4 platform.
Its a bit more expensive than a regular midrange X370 board.
But if you every have plans to upgrade it might be worth a few extra bucks.
Asus crosshair 6 Hero, also a realy nice highend board.
The numbers I supplied up above are for the G Skill trident z RGB they are the only 16GB ram chips that where tested on the Taichi a cording to Asrock’s compatible memory list. Since I will be running 4 virtual machine on one physical machine I need 4 ram chips 16GB each giving me 64GB of ram in total. A quick question has anyone else tried any other type of ram on the Taichi. I am looking for either 32GB memory kit or 64GB memory kit.
Personally I am running the Asus Prime X370 Pro and I have zero problems with it. The VRM design on the Asus B350 mentioned is probably enough to power 4 cores to whatever they will do or six cores to 3.7 - 3.8GHz. (It actually doesn’t look to bad for a B350.) Spending the 30,- to 40 bucks extra will get you a VRM that can handle whatever your chip needs and some extra ports and stuff. AMD did say AM4 will be a supported platform at least until 2020.
With Vega around the corner, you might want to look out for used Furys over the next weeks. 4GB HBM are fine for 1080p and a fury can still push some serious frames.
Not on the Taichi but I am running 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 @ 2933 on my Prime.
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