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Old 01-05-2021, 08:45 AM   #2395
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Sweet. Like I mentioned, I'm shooting for a little over $1000 but I'm open to any improvements on the build, It will be my first build ever. Any suggestions on RAM and Videocard?
I try not to get my nose into the video card aspect, as it's subjective based on your needs and I don't know a lot about current gen video cards.

The RAM should be completely fine, there's not really a need to shoot for something with lowest latency / highest operating clock speeds unless you're shooting for benchmarking world records.
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Old 01-05-2021, 09:10 AM   #2396
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Completely agree with this, that was my first thought (well thoughts).

On the GPU, if you are gaming this will be the most critical part of the build. Basically, buy the best card you can for the budget you have. Look at speed tests on Tom's Hardware and other such sites then find the one that matches your budget. I typically buy one level down from the top tier because the top tier usually have a stupid amount of geek tax associated with them.

It's likely your build will survive a couple of video card upgrades in the future. I've found that I usually upgrade video cards every two or three years and buy/build a whole new system every 6 to 8 years. I'm not typically running games at the bleeding edge though as I actually prefer it with some of they eye candy turned down a bit.

Right now is the new RTX 3080, but is going for almost $800, if you can find it, that is. The 2060 is more than capable and is fraction of the cost, but is hard to find right now. Is just about the only thing that I'm missing on my cart.
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Old 01-05-2021, 09:23 AM   #2397
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Right now is the new RTX 3080, but is going for almost $800, if you can find it, that is. The 2060 is more than capable and is fraction of the cost, but is hard to find right now. Is just about the only thing that I'm missing on my cart.
Yea, "coin mining" bites again on availability.

I don't track NVidia closely because I've always preferred AMD/ATI.

My current systems has a RX5700XT (it was built earlier this year). That's considered a "second tier" card at this point, but I'm very satisfied with it.

It runs everything I've thrown at it in 1920x1080 with no issues, including MS Flight Sim 2020 and VR. It also runs 3x1920x1080 games with no issue.

This might fit into your budget and I've seen availability on it. The price for it is also jacked up a bit though since availability of top tier is almost zero.
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Right now is the new RTX 3080, but is going for almost $800, if you can find it, that is. The 2060 is more than capable and is fraction of the cost, but is hard to find right now. Is just about the only thing that I'm missing on my cart.
This is the hard part. Almost no matter what your budget is, to get a graphics card that's worthwhile is ultra expensive.
If you just need something basic, I have a GTX960TI I'd give you.
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I would also suggest getting something that's modular. Not necessary, but cleans things up and the convenience is worth the extra cost
This this this times a lot.
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If you can hold off I'd try and find a 3060 not a 2060.
The price difference is minimal considering the increase in performance.
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Sweet. Like I mentioned, I'm shooting for a little over $1000 but I'm open to any improvements on the build, It will be my first build ever. Any suggestions on RAM and Videocard?
One thing I would recommend with MSI mobo's is to check the ram comparability. 100% all ram will work, at the default 2400 MHz or something. the problem is when you want to run the higher speeds like 3200mhz or 3600mhz+
My MSI Tomahawk board couldn't run 3600 gskill ram, had to turn it down to 3200 MHz. Zero issues after that.

Anywho just look up your board manufacturer site, under support find the ram comparability chart. It's that simple.
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Compatibility ?
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compatibility is on the component level.

comparability is on the user to make the right decision!
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Could I get some input on this possible set up? Im a noob, like I mentioned earlier on the thread. I'm still missing a video card. I was thinking RTX 2060 but is becoming quite hard to find. The budget is about $1000 more or less.

This is what I got so far.


CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core 4.2 Ghz Max Boost

SSD: XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus

Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo 4 CDC Heatpipes, 120mm Fan

Power: Corsair CX Series 450 Watt 80+ Bronze Certified

Case: NZXT H510
Ram: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2X16) 3200MHz

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+1 as well on a modular power supply. makes a hug difference not having the random spaghetti monster to deal with when trying to put everything together. i tend to prefer at least 600-900w power supplies. think of it as a maximum rating-- if your system only needs 400w to start, it won't draw anymore, but will likely run much more reliably because there's more headroom built into it.

the important thing to remember about ssd's is that write cycles are what damage them. my preference is to run a small ssd for the OS(under 400gb), and run a larger platter drive(1tb minimum) for any games/programs needed. that way, it somewhat isolates the programs and their save data from the OS and vice-versa. so if either drive takes a dump, i don't loose everything. i'm also not convinced that running game files off an ssd results in any performance improvement.

i second the amd/ati mindset. every time i've tried to run amd/nvidia, it gets weird issues.
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+1 as well on a modular power supply. makes a hug difference not having the random spaghetti monster to deal with when trying to put everything together. i tend to prefer at least 600-900w power supplies. think of it as a maximum rating-- if your system only needs 400w to start, it won't draw anymore, but will likely run much more reliably because there's more headroom built into it.

the important thing to remember about ssd's is that write cycles are what damage them. my preference is to run a small ssd for the OS(under 400gb), and run a larger platter drive(1tb minimum) for any games/programs needed. that way, it somewhat isolates the programs and their save data from the OS and vice-versa. so if either drive takes a dump, i don't loose everything. i'm also not convinced that running game files off an ssd results in any performance improvement.

i second the amd/ati mindset. every time i've tried to run amd/nvidia, it gets weird issues.
That is very outdated info.

TLDR;
You wont kill the drive with writes.
All programs should be on SSD's, that includes games.
Having a separate drive for OS was more for spending less on the NVMe drive itself and getting a cheaper larger SATA SSD for other program storage.
Loading times between SSD and HDD are vastly different.


The amount of writes you can do to a decent SSD these days will in all but very few circumstances outlast the computer build.

I have been using my 850EVO for just over 5 years now. It has lasted as a my only drive in 2 laptops and is now used as game storage in my desktop.
I am now pushing nearly 20TB written and the drives health is still good.

"Current consumer grade SSD's have been tested to go beyond 600TB total writes. Some past 1000 TB total writes."
That is from 2015 when I bought my SSD.

As for games not having an impact?
There are lots of articles showing drastic drops in load time when going from a HDD to even the slowest SSD. SSD to SSD is much smaller.
Case in point.
FFXV can take well over a minute to load up where I now load it in under 15 seconds.
Another example.
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That is very outdated info.
@x808drifter while I agree with most of what you said, and I do run SSD on my computers for both the OS and the Program drives, outside initial load times I'm not sure there is a lot of difference when running a game thanks to buffering, etc by the game itself.

As far as SSD lifecycle, I agree. While they are a different quality SSD, we use them exclusively in our data center for most of our highest transaction applications. Historically we had a much higher failure rate on mechanical drives than we do with SSDs.
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As far as SSD lifecycle, I agree. While they are a different quality SSD, we use them exclusively in our data center for most of our highest transaction applications. Historically we had a much higher failure rate on mechanical drives than we do with SSDs.
I can proudly say that in my years of owning SSDs, I have yet to have one start on fire. I've had a few platter drives start on fire(My Maxtor Fireball drives aptly earned their title), become corrupt (Seagate drives in mid 2000s anyone?).

I hosted a few Counter-Strike: Source servers on a computer with SSDs in RAID0 for 8-10 months in 2010 with no issues and the hard drives are still in use ( outside of RAID0) in a friend's computer.
The only thing I miss about the old drives is molex. The first time I ought a SATA drive, I was convinced I would break the power connector, I really like the solid feeling of the molex M.2 has resolved this for me recently though
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As far as SSD lifecycle, I agree. While they are a different quality SSD, we use them exclusively in our data center for most of our highest transaction applications.
I think it interesting that for some applications tape storage is still a thing and development is still taking place for this prehistoric technology.

https://au.pcmag.com/storage/84470/f...magnetic-tapes
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