Thank you, both.
I'm leaning towards the HP as well. Even though I had a rock solid experience with CyberPower so far for a high end system (so far).
I think the 16gb single channel ram should suffice.
Two question:
- How does Ryzen 5 5600G compare to other competitors?
- If I change up the 16gb single to dual 8gb, would HP drop the RAM speed down from 3200? I read that they do that from an Amazon review...
The 5600G is not the best CPU on the market, it ranks beneath the 5600X, even, and technically, the 12100 is better in gaming by a slight margin, in 1080p and with a 3090. Meaning, in your case with your system, the difference will likely shrink to 0, we are talking about 10FPS at most here. So with the overall system, and the 6600XT being a lot less powerful than the 3090, I don't think you would see a big difference between the two, and the 3050 is the weaker card, which makes a bigger difference than the CPU in games. And the 6 cores are probably better than the 4 of of the 12100 for the future, too, considering that games start to slowly pick up in that regard.
The 5600G also has another great advantage. It's an APU, so has integrated graphics, and of the decent kind, too (AMD leads before Intel in that regard, with a decent margin); Intel f-models do not have a GPU at all. Now, with a dedicated GPU, outside a laptop, that's not much of an issue, but if your GPU croaks, you got a fallback. I think that's worth taking into account.
About the RAM, I have no idea, unfortunately. As stated by the poster above, it might just be ignorance of how to do it. You would have to try.