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[SOLVED] Advice on my planned purchase?

PhillFellix

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I'm upgrading my PC that has a Radeon R9 280 GPU and an i5 4440 CPU (also only 8GB of ram and 1TB HDD) with the components from the picture My budget is 530$ and these components are 525$ where I'm from so this is as high as I can go price wise (I could up the budget but I'd really prefer not to). So I'm replacing my mobo, gpu and cpu and getting new ram and a SSD. Are there any problems with this build?
 
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Whoops, didn't see clearly; thought it was a 2600. My mistake. The 1600 should be fine then.

I can understand trying to save on the motherboard, though it's one I'd personally prefer not to save too much on (it connects everything after the PSU).
It should work assuming BIOS is up to date. So you may find yourself at a disadvantage straightaway. Are there no affordable B450 motherboards?

In terms of upgrades in future, I see lower end chipset motherboards as option limiting; but that's just my opinion.
 
There is a B450 motherboard available for about 20$ more but from what I saw, The A320 supports 1st gen ryzen so it should be good. I had to cheap on a component and I'd rather do it on the motherboard than anything else. I'm planning to use this for at least 5-6 years.
 
Whoops, didn't see clearly; thought it was a 2600. My mistake. The 1600 should be fine then.

I can understand trying to save on the motherboard, though it's one I'd personally prefer not to save too much on (it connects everything after the PSU).
 
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