Pc Build Question - NEED HELP

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Rsector, it would be great if you gave us your budget.
As profoundnoah has mentioned gaming revolves around the GPU and not really the CPU (although depends on games) I do not mind his build apart from 2 things, the Mobo being A320 is very limited. Also I am not a fan of PSU's under 550W because they stop expandability.

Now with your new build, the change of the motherboard I do think is good. I still recommend the 550W, but as stated in the first line, you never gave anyone a budget of money to spend... so everyone is trying to keep it around the 850$ mark and now you are up to 950$...
 
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For the motherboard I noticed in the specs that the memory I have
(Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory)
The speed isn't on the motherboard support
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Specifications
MANUFACTURER
MSI
PART #
B350 GAMING PLUS
(or)
COLOR
Black / Red
FORM FACTOR
ATX
CPU SOCKET
AM4
CHIPSET
AMD B350
MEMORY SLOTS
4 x 288-pin DIMM
MEMORY TYPE
DDR4-1866 / 2133 / 2400 / 2666 / 2933 / 3200
MAXIMUM SUPPORTED MEMORY
64GB
RAID SUPPORT
Yes
ONBOARD VIDEO
Depends on CPU
CROSSFIRE SUPPORT
Yes
SLI SUPPORT
No
SATA 6 GB/S
4
ONBOARD ETHERNET
1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
Yes
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Ok thanks
So im new to putting computers together
I think this is how you do it
Get mobo insert cpu
Insert cpu cooler
Insert Ram
Put mobo in case
Connect front pannel headers on case
Connect Hard drives and ssd
Connect Fans
Put in graphics cards
Get psu and mount
Wire cables to mobo graphics card hard drives and ssd's
Boot up pc
Insert windows 10 usb
Install Windows 10
As you can probably see im new
I might of forgot a thing or 2 :)
Thanks :)
 
If yours using 2 drives ,an ssd & a secondary 1-2tb drive then leave the secondary drive disconnected until windows has been installed to the ssd

I'll be brutally honest here, your build is fine but I,personally would take the ryzen 1600 & 1050ti combo over the ryzen 1200 & 1060 3gb.

Obviously ideally it would be the ryzen 1600 & 1060 3gb but with an ssd & your reluctance to save money with an matx board it's not doable.

But for me the ryzen 1600 is boundless amounts better than the 1200 whereas the difference between the 1050ti & 1060 3gb is not as pronounced.
 


I agree with you there, but the original suggested Micro was an A series and they just suck.
But he could easily get MSI B350M PRO-VDH for $99 or
ASRock AB350M Pro4 88$
That's $30 but still needs another $30 for the 1600
Maybe a case change to Bitfenix, they are half decent for about $50 saving another $15
or just ask who ever is helping pay for this, for a $60 loan and get the better CPU :)
 
^ I dropped a build above for $913 with 1600 & 1050ti.

There's room for manouvre on the case but to be honest The board itself has 4 ram slots & 2,more useable pci express slots (after a dual slot gpu is installed) + an m2 slot.

No real use for a full atx board nowadays imo.

No one used all available expansion slots with the decent quality audio,chipsets on board & plenty of usb headers.
 
That 1050ti is now $229.

If you drop,to a matx board you can do the ryzen 1600 + a single fan 1060 in budget.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($198.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: MSI - B350M PRO-VDH Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($95.75 @ Amazon Australia)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($133.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($68.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($309.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Case: Corsair - Carbide SPEC-04 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($65.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($75.00 @ Shopping Express)
Total: $943.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-22 00:41 AEST+1000
 
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Ok thanks for all your help :)