[SOLVED] Thoughts on first custom college build

[jAm1339]

So I decided to use some student finance to create a custom pc for uni/gaming and a few other things for under £1500 (it cost just under £1400 when I bought it all and built it)as an upgrade from my old AMD 1100T Black Edition with 8GB of unsynched RAM (due to having to buy what I could afford when I could in prior courses) and this is what I built. I wanted something to be mid/high so after doing some looking around and wanting multitasking I went for another AMD rig. I ordered it a few weeks ago and wanted to see if there was anything I could have done better for this.

The specs are:

• AMD RYZEN 7 1800x 3.6 Octo core CPU
• CoolerMaster ML120L liquid cooler
• Gigabyte X470 AORUS Ultra Gaming mobo
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 at 2666MHz RAM
• Samsung Evo 1TB 2.5" SSD for Windows
• 1TB Western Blue HDD for games/other course related software
• Asus GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Pheonix GPU
• Thermaltake Core V71 TG ATX Full Tower Case
• SeaSonic FOCUS SGX 480W 80+ Gold full modular PSU
• And Win10 pro

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

The only mistake, if you will, is the ram speed. The Amd cpu is very dependant on ram speed for getting the most out of it. This would be my ram recommendation. https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb...&ranSiteID=kXQk6.ivFEQ-u1yEU2Zn4zeZ7dMRZ4O3pg

 

[jAm1339]

I debated it at the time but didn't have the money for it so I settled for the highest speed I could afford at the time, but I'll definitely look into it when I'm paid next

 

[geofelt]

The time to ask for opinions is BEFORE you buy.

1. ryzen ram is only dual channel.
A 2 x 16gb would have been a better option.

2. The ryzen stock cooler is adequate.