AMD Desktop upgrade

[jos789]

I need to upgrade, photo editing is getting too slow on a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard and FX 6300 CPU. This is what I came up with so far:

Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
G.SKILL F4-2400C15D-16GVR

and I want to keep the GT1030

Will CPU, motherboard and RAM work well together? Or are there better choices in that price range?

Thanks for any advices.

 

[Darkbreeze]

This is a few dollars more, but well worth it.

The B450 chipset has some features not found on the B350 chipset, but more importantly it has improved memory support which can be an issue on Ryzen chipsets. Also, Ryzen is highly sensitive to memory speed and shows marked improvements in performance with 3000/3200mhz memory over lower speed modules. You WANT the faster memory, especially for graphics and productivity software.

Also, the 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs have improved memory support as well as other refinements as this is the optimization of the 1st gen processors. I would not recommend a first gen Ryzen CPU for any new build unless the budget absolutely dictates that it has to be.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($159.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($73.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($114.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $348.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-10 02:13 EST-0500

 

[jos789]

Thanks for the quick answer darkbreeze.

Here I can get:

Gigabyte B450M DS3H … amazon.ca $94.99
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 … newegg.ca $259.99
Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 … amazon.ca $342.10

That's close to CAN$ 700.00 and another $160.00 for Windows 10 pro

I think, I'll still wait for a while.

 

[Darkbreeze]

I would, and here's why. There will be a brand new motherboard chipset AND new Ryzen 3 CPUs coming out in the near future. If I understand correctly, and I think I do, I believe they both will be releasing sometime in April or May near or at the time of Computex.

There will be an X570 chipset series of motherboard that includes the first PCIe 4.0 architecture, which will be of particular interest for gamers and possibly graphic artists as well, as well as the Ryzen 3000 series Zen 2 processors. This close to that time it seems to make more sense if there is not an imperative need to upgrade immediately, to wait for that and that is twofold.

For one, these are going to have better performance and probably also use less power and all that comes with that such as less heat, less consumption on your bill and hopefully more overclocking headroom if that is something of interest to you.

It also means that current existing Ryzen hardware will probably see another drop in price as vendors try to shed themselves of the older parts which generally happens with cpus, motherboards and graphics cards anytime a new platform is released. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way if the current parts are in really high demand, as we saw initially with the graphics cards during the mining craze, but if you look now those same graphics cards are lower in price than they've been since release for both AMD RX and Nvidia 1000 series cards.

Either way, it might be wiser to wait unit then unless you need something sooner and that could be totally understandable.

 

[jos789]

Thanks again darkbreeze!

I can wait that couple month. I had that feeling, that Windows 10 1809 slowed things down pretty good, so I installed today 1803 again and it seems to be a bit faster again. I'll probably wait for the new Ryzen 3 CPUs.