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Build Advice Old kit, new build, advice please

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by MrP, 12 Apr 2020.

  1. MrP

    MrP seeking inspiration

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    I'm looking at upgrading some of my old rig.

    Current it's an i7-2600, 8GB ram, r280x and it's good enough, but I'm bored and fancy something newer.

    I have a few bits that I have bought over time that I want to use, a corsair carbide 400c case, coolermaster masterliquid lite 240aio, and a 512gb corsair mp500 m.2 as

    I'm fairly settled on a ryzen 5 3600cpu, and some corsair vengence rgb pro 3600 ram (bit ott maybe, but for once I want a little bling!)

    I'm torn on what board to use, I fancy x570 for future proofing and bling, but sense says b450, but either way I would like built in WIFI (for bluetooth). The gpu is staying for now (not ideal but I dont have the cash to upgrade that as well)

    Many only other concern is my psu its is/was a decent unit, a corsair hx620, but it's I dont know how old and I'm slightly worried that it may no longer be good enough when I want to oc thecpu.

    Any advice please, esp on the board psu.

    Many thanks
     
  2. Spanky

    Spanky Multimodder

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  3. MrP

    MrP seeking inspiration

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    Does the 3rd gen ryzen suffer with the memory issues when paired with b450?

    Was it the cpu or chipset that resolved those issues?
     
  4. spolsh

    spolsh Multimodder

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    B450 with a Ryzen 3600 I've had working at 3600 C16 and 3200 C14 RAM ... never got over 2933 with the old 1700
     
  5. Vault-Tec

    Vault-Tec Green Plastic Watering Can

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    It's CPU dependent IIRC. They've gotten better.
     
  6. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Yeah Ryzen 3000 has far less issues compatibility wise.
     

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