What MB and RAM should i buy with a Ryzen 3 2200G ?

[gordo83t]

Hello everyone !
I'm building my first PC and i have trouble on which RAM should i buy to work well with the CPU.
Friends told me to buy Corsair or G.skill, but not the MHz i should take ( i saw people saying 3000MHz is good ), also i don't want to spend more than 150€/$ on : 2x4GB or 2x8GB, which is the better ( for a gaming build ). I know nothing in term of RAM :/

Also i need help for the Motherboard, i have found 2/3 of them that are good for me ( needs to be a Micro ATX ) :
- Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H
- Gigabyte B450M DS3H
- MSI B350M GAMING PRO
I think there it is, i hope the motherboard and BIOS are updated for the Ryzen 2nd Gen.

( Last thing, i will buy soon a RX 580 Armor, is it okay to buy that with a Ryzen 3 2200G ? I will buy every thing at the lowest price even if i need to buy on Amazon.com and wait more time to get my components, is that okay ? )

Thanks for your precious answer 😍

For the moment i have a "shit" (because very old) pc :
- AMD A6-6400K APU
- AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
- 16 GB of DDR3 RAM at 1600MHz
- a SSD 120Go where there is my System
- a HDD 1To where i stock everything ( games, files, images etc )
- A88XM-A ( FM2+ ) Motherboard
- Windows 10 64bit

 

[kanewolf]

If you are going to start this PC as a non-GPU build, then I would get 2x8GB. The integrated graphics will take away some of the RAM and you HAVE to have dual channel RAM with the APU. I would also go with a B450 motherboard to ensure you have BIOS compatibility.

 

[Danra]

RAM: G.SKILL Flare X series 8GB [2 x 4GB] DDR4 3200, better is 16GB [2x 8GB], however 8GB total is playable, although most people recommend 16GB.

The RX 580 will work fine, however, the cooling system used on the Armor series has been poor. If you will be using a small case, you will need better cooling on the video card. Excluding single fan and Armor cards, the rest of the MSI video card series have better cooling.

You might want to compare prices with the MSI GTX 1060 and use the less expensive one, they both provide the same performance. Either card will perform very well on 1080p monitors.

Here are some videos that I think you should watch [ignore any Cinebench, CPUMark, Blender, 3DMark Firestrike and 3DMark Time Spy scores]. The first ones use the CPU built in graphics only. The last video include a GTX 1060, which yields the same performance as the RX 580:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS-rYX6GPAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPRxE0hVeWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZsHwItmC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHu_OFr5LXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unqArdBaF8

 

[gordo83t]

RAM: G.SKILL Flare X series 8GB [2 x 4GB] DDR4 3200, better is 16GB [2x 8GB], however 8GB total is playable, although most people recommend 16GB.

The RX 580 will work fine, however, the cooling system used on the Armor series has been poor. If you will be using a small case, you will need better cooling on the video card. Excluding single fan and Armor cards, the rest of the MSI video card series have better cooling.

The RAM you shared ( for the 2x8GB )is a bit too high in price :/
I saw multiple time people saying after 3000MHz it's not worth it to pay more, and the guy on the first 4 video was using this RAM should i take this one ? it's more into my budget.

Also why the 3200MHz Ripjaws V series is less expensive than the same one at 3000MHz ?

 

[Danra]

The RAM in the link you just posted will work. The links I provided for YouTube videos were made by honest men.

Why is the 3200MHz less expensive? Sometimes there are incentives, for example, either the manufacturer or retailers of a product have to much stock or something is not selling well enough prices will be lowered for a while, sometimes it is simply a magnet to draw attention to their product line, sometimes a competitor lowered prices, or timings may be lower on one type of RAM. There are many reasons.

 

[gordo83t]

Hmmm I just saw that the RX 580 use GDDR5, does that mean the DDR4 RAM will not boost it a bit ?

 

[Danra]

GDDR5 RAM is dedicated memory on the video card and is much faster than system memory, DDR4. Get a video card with enough RAM to support all the games you play and the screen resolution you will use. You do not want to run out of VRAM while gaming, if you do it gets choppy and may even become unplayable on some games.