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on2ron
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advise for new pc build wanted

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Hi,

I like to tear down my old pc tower and update it with a new motherboard, CPU, Memory and Graphics card.

I always did build Intel based pc's but now I like to assemble an AMD based pc since the performance of their CPUs's has improved much in the past two years.

I was thinking of an AMD Ryzen 5-3600 CPU without build in GPU. Combined with a B550 motherboard with M.2 NVMe slots and an Nvidia 1650 super card.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

73' Ron
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CPU is a choice, I went with a 10th Gen I7 for my build last month with a Z490 MB.

But other things, M.2 NVMe is a good choice, I went with a WD Blue 512GB NVMe.

For RAM I went with 32GB.

I run a lot of SDR's on this PC and it screams.
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NC3Z wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:23 pm CPU is a choice, I went with a 10th Gen I7 for my build last month with a Z490 MB.

But other things, M.2 NVMe is a good choice, I went with a WD Blue 512GB NVMe.

For RAM I went with 32GB.

I run a lot of SDR's on this PC and it screams.
Screams is probably an understatement!
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Just completed my newbuild today. Sounds like I went pretty much the same was as Gary above. A 10th gen i7-10700 with an Asus Z490-Plus motherboard. It's been up and running for about 20 minutes now. :) Kept the GeForce GTX1050 video card from my old desktop (which is now running Linux Mint 20) and transferred the Win10 HDD. Took a few minutes to sort the new bios and Windows 10 activated without issue after the move.

Think it's a keeper. :)
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mbott wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:03 pm Just completed my newbuild today. Sounds like I went pretty much the same was as Gary above. A 10th gen i7-10700 with an Asus Z490-Plus motherboard. It's been up and running for about 20 minutes now. :) Kept the GeForce GTX1050 video card from my old desktop (which is now running Linux Mint 20) and transferred the Win10 HDD. Took a few minutes to sort the new bios and Windows 10 activated without issue after the move.

Think it's a keeper. :)
GTX 3080 needed :mrgreen:
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Simon G4ELI wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:14 pm
GTX 3080 needed :mrgreen:
Ha! Was able to keep this upgrade under $650 which was my goal. Maybe I'll upgrade the video and add another 16GB memory sometime in the near future. For right now, I'm happy with the result.
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Listening to a spot of music on WRMI 9395. Not sure the CPU can get much lower.
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i get pretty much the same on my build from last week. I've now transferred the OS from a SATA SSD to an M2 and that's made a considerable difference to boot time and everything else.
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After some research and advice the compilation of the future desktop has changed to the new announced AMD Ryzen 9-5900X 12 core/24 thread CPU (November 2020) with an MSI X570-A pro motherboard with 32Gb DDR4-4000 MHz memory a Samsung 980 PRO-NVMe SSD and the MSI-Geforce-1650 video card. Hope to get the system running by the end of this year.

73' Ron
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Hello Ron

Just a quick comment. Be sure to steer clear of the 1650 (regular) version and go for 1650 Super. They are substantially different cards.

The regular 1650 is not a great GPU. The 1650 Super is an excellent card. Be sure to get the Super.

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