Ryzen, best performance.

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Hey guys,
I'm new to building pc's/gaming PC's but not new to computers and software I consider myself pretty tech savvy, I built my first ryzen gaming pc and I think I did pretty well for my first system but I wanna hear all your opinions on the system and what I should do to Increase performace and upgrade the system . I wanna make it the best all around system I can.

Cooler master E500L case
Asrock A320M-HDV motherboard
Ryzen 5 2600 (6C 12T) with stock cooler
Corsair vengeance LPX 2400 (2x8) 16GB
Nvidia geforce gtx 1070 founders card
Pny 120GB SSD for windows 10
Samsung 970 evo NVMe M.2 250GB mainly for games.
A 1TB WD blue 7200rpm for games and storage
External Seagate 3TB hard drive for just storage
Corsair CX750M semi modular power supply
I have 2 intake fans in the front and 2 exhaust fans in the back one exhaust fans in the normal exhaust spot and the next one is right above it on the top of the case, I believe my cpu temp idle is 35C and when gaming it's right about 49c/52c my GPU idle is 44C and when gaming it's between 50c and 70c

I think that's everything if I missed anything just let me know. What is your opinion on the current build and what do you suggest?
 
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Hey guys, so I upgraded my motherboard and cooler I got a gigabyte x470 aorus 5 gaming wifi board and a master cooler masterair MA620p so now I wasnt to overclock it but I'm not sure about all the voltage settings in the gigabyte aorus bios it's different than I'm use to like dynamic vcore dvid and dynamic vcore soc and chipset core 1.05 I'm pretty sure the dynamic vcore dvid is the cpu voltage I have to change but idk about the rest I kicked my vengeance lpx 2400 ram up to 2666 and I overclocked the cpu to 4ghz/40.00 and turned the dynamic vcore dvid up to 1.35v and it seems stable I ran cpu-z and benched it all cores at 100% for a couple hours and had no issues and got a 1366 I believe in cinebench is might be hire I dont remember...
i suggest to get a better motherboard and ram,

Motherboard: a320 is the bottom of the stack cpu. a highly clocked ryzen 5 or ryzen 7 is likely to hit the upper power limit.
and may prevent you from upgrade to a more power hungry cpu in the future.

you may want to consider like a b450 board or even x470 board. they are a lot more feature rich and allows for more upgrade path in the future.
more ram slot, harddrive i/o.

memory:
ram wise, ryzen likes high speed ram, due to their design an internal data transport link runs proportional to your memory speed, and hence you will see a performance bump in CPU by having faster ram. however, the sweet spot is around 3000-3400 speed, as you will need manually configure the memory testings to reach higher speed (not recommended)

even for budget build, we suggest a ram with at least 3000 speed, and if you could afford it 3200 ram with low cas latency (like 14). that would be ideal.
depending on the ram model you have, you might be able to manually overclock the ram to higher speed.

 
Since you have a locked chipset, I wouldn't concern myself without OC talk unless you are looking to "re-do" your build.

As to all this talk about RAM speed being so crucial....I wouldn't waste the time or money to replace unless you come across an insane deal, later, when/if you need more. More important that RAM timing with Ryzen is it's compatibility with your Mobo. Changing it out for something a few hundred MHz faster isn't going to suddenly cause your computer to make you breakfast or become self aware. Typically, having faster RAM from what you have to the fastest that mobo/proc combo can actually use is around 3-5 frames in most benchmarks. The price typically doesn't bear that out until later when older/slower actually goes past the sales curve.
 
One area that you kind of screwed up on is that your 970 EVO is your fastest SSD and should therefore have your OS installed on it (IMHO), then you should have a traditional SSD for your games, and a traditional hard drive for lesser games and storage. I run this setup and things run very well. Also with AMD, RAM speed is very important, so the faster the RAM the faster overall speed of the PC. But since you probably don't want to completely redo your build with a new/better motherboard and faster RAM, I would at least think about what I said on the configuration of your SSDs/HD.
 
Hey guys, so I upgraded my motherboard and cooler I got a gigabyte x470 aorus 5 gaming wifi board and a master cooler masterair MA620p so now I wasnt to overclock it but I'm not sure about all the voltage settings in the gigabyte aorus bios it's different than I'm use to like dynamic vcore dvid and dynamic vcore soc and chipset core 1.05 I'm pretty sure the dynamic vcore dvid is the cpu voltage I have to change but idk about the rest I kicked my vengeance lpx 2400 ram up to 2666 and I overclocked the cpu to 4ghz/40.00 and turned the dynamic vcore dvid up to 1.35v and it seems stable I ran cpu-z and benched it all cores at 100% for a couple hours and had no issues and got a 1366 I believe in cinebench is might be hire I dont remember the exact number I just know it was close to 1400 what other voltages do I have to change to make sure everything is right? And I couldn't find what the stock dynamic vcore soc voltage is online
 
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