ATTENTION: Graphics card prices are excessive by historical standards; therefore, consumers should delay or completely forgo any midrange to high end graphics card purchases. The gouging has two root causes: lack of market competition and shortage/"new normal" pricing during the mining hayday.
Want help? >State budget & CURRENCY >Post at least some attempt at a parts list >List your uses, e.g. Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors, include purpose (e.g., photoediting, gaming) and graphics card pairing (if applicable)
CPUs based on current pricing: >Athlon 200GE - HTPC, web browsing, bare minimum gaming (can be OC'd on most mobos with the right BIOS) >R3 2200G - Recommended minimum gaming >R5 2600/X - Good gaming CPU with great value >R5 3600 - Great gaming CPU >R7 2700 - Budget video editing >R9 3900X - Professional tasks
RAM: >Always choose at least a two stick kit; 2x 8GB is recommended >CPUs benefit from high speed RAM; 3200CL16 is ideal >AMD B and X chipsets and Intel Z chipsets support XMP
Graphics cards based on current pricing: >AAA or multiplatform games: Radeon card appropriate for your montior >PC centric games, VR games, or ray tracing: Nvidia card appropriate for your display >Used RX 570s can be had for a steal; inquire about warranty 1080p 16:9 >RX 570 8GB - good performance with great value >GTX 1660 - standard
General: >PLAN YOUR BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING >Don't bother buying a new monitor for gaming unless it's high refresh with adaptive sync >A 250GB or larger SSD is almost mandatory; consider m.2 form factor >Bottleneck checkers are worthless
is it worth it to upgrade to zen 2 if I had first gen ryzen? Going to pair the cpu with a 2080.
Joseph Brown
If you're not at 4K, yeah
Aiden Ross
So if I work real hard for 8 months I can afford this I earn 180 USD a month (CLP) I will use it primarily for Photo editing, Illustration, Videogames and some video editing
I've never done anything like that so consider me a 100% noob
Yes. zen and zen+ are worse than haswell in singlethreaded tasks whereas zen2 performs nearly at the level of skylake.
Oliver Howard
if by zen 2 you meant zen 3rd gen and making the jump from 1st to 3rd then yes its worth it while 2nd gen sees a jump, its not that big compared to 1st to 3rd
is there any budget zen2 motherboard, not bios-updated zen1? There is B450 Tomahawk Max, which is Tomahawk but with 32mb rom instead of 16mb, which is nice, but it's nowhere as popular as other b450 so i doubt they'll be updated, but if there is nothing better then i'll get it.
Jack Torres
Will SATA SSDs become obsolete? How will we mount a dozen NVME drives without blocking the view of our GPU in horizontally oriented motherboards?
