Looking at Upgrading Gaming PC, Feedback on Chosen Parts (Total Cost $1100) [RESOLVED]

Brouw3r on 17/07/2020 - 15:28
Last edited 24/07/2020 - 12:54 by 1 other user

Looking at updating my circa 2012 gaming computer. Looking for suggestions on improvements/changes. Mainly playing wow classic and PUBG currently but play a bit of everything and some future proofing would be good. Pretty much sold on the R5 3600, looking mainly at better/cheaper mobo/ram/PSU/M2/case/etc.

I'll recycle the current HDD, SSD, GPU (R9 380x) and monitor (AOC G2460VQ6, 1080P @ 75Hz). I'll update the GPU in the next few months, hopefully to something like the 2070 super if the prices drop a bit and then the monitor to 1440P 144Hz or similar.

I should be able to source W10 through work.

Have everything through Amazon AU currently, doesn't necessarily need to stay this way and I've seen some things are marginally cheaper through Newegg but getting everything from one place would be good if possible.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $295.76 @ Amazon Australia
Motherboard MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $225.33 @ Amazon Australia
Memory Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory $126.68 @ Amazon Australia
Storage Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $97.18 @ Amazon Australia
Case Corsair Carbide 175R RGB ATX Mid Tower Case $95.68 @ Amazon Australia
Power Supply Corsair RMx 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $199.50 @ Amazon Australia
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter $63.37 @ Amazon Australia
Total $1,078.42

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Update

Took the feedback from a few of you and with my inpatience, certain things being out of stock and desire to use bricks and mortar stores to deal with any warranty issues I landed on the following. Have assembled and will fire it up tonight now I have a windows key.

Type Item Price
CPU Ryzen 5 3600 $299.00 @ PLE
Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WI-FI) mATX Motherboard $279.00 @ Austin
Memory Corsair 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black C16 3200Mhz $129.00 @ PLE
Storage Crucial P2 500gb NVMe M.2 $109.00 @ Austin
Case MSI MAG VAMPIRIC 010 $99.00 @ Austin
PSU SilverStone Strider Gold S ST65F-GS 650W 80Plus Gold Fully Modular Power Supply $145.00 @ PLE
Total - $1060.00
Computing

Comments

  • scrimshaw on 17/07/2020 - 15:37
    +3

    Ditch the B450 ($225.33). Grab B550M AORUS PRO, ($208.29) it's cheaper on Amazon https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/550889

    If you need WiFi included on the board, can also grab the MSI B550M Pro-VDH-WIFI for around $229.

  • Dlw on 17/07/2020 - 16:06

    I don’t have any advice for your pc. But I was wondering how you go about playing pubg. I stopped playing after there were no oceanic servers.

    • Godric on 17/07/2020 - 16:21

      They appear to PC game using Wifi, pre sure OP is not to fussed about latency

    • Brouw3r on 17/07/2020 - 16:53

      49ms ping from Perth to SEA servers. Wifi vs LAN doesn't seem to make any difference and the problems I'm having is bottlenecking from the CPU although apparently that's widespread.

  • cezasu on 17/07/2020 - 16:08

    i tried building one desktop recently although not for gaming purposes. I think not really worth the effort.

    For next time, i think I'll just just pick up something ex-lease (dell / hp / Lenovo) and add on from there.

  • kahn on 17/07/2020 - 17:59

    It needs more RGB lighting to be a gaming PC.

  • conza on 17/07/2020 - 18:50

    I'd swap a few things, at time of writing with all merchants selected this is a nat over $1000

    https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/pTMdk6

    3600, perfect, $286 at newegg

    for the motherboard you had a $70 add in wifi (when I checked the link it was that much anyway), so swapped that to a MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON MAX WIFI foe $269 from PCCaseGear. You can get a B550 motherboard instead, but since they're so new, might be better off getting a slightly cheaper B450 board that has a confirmed bios, such as this motherboard that has the MAX nomenclature, indicating it is on a bios supporting Ryzen 3000

    Found an NVME M.2 drive for $88 the Crucial P2, you had a P1, can't see any reason to spend more on that

    For the case at $150 you could get a P400A Digital which comes with 3 fans, but sticking closer to your budget of $100 went with instead with the standard P400A, still comes with 2 120mm fans and is only $118 at newegg at time of writing, much better than the case you selected without brute forcing that thing with many fans (may still be lower temperatures even with max fans on that closed case)

    Finally the power supply came up as around $216, nothing wrong with it but even with the higher prices right now, found a 80+ semi-modular unit for $120 by Cooler Master which seemed a better fit

    It begs the question though, if you're waiting for new GPUs to come out, and I hope you are and not going for a 2070S since they're just about to become the last generation, why not wait for the next series of AMD CPUs to come around? Maybe put in a cheaper CPU like a 3100 just to get it running, then check out the 4600 when that releases which might be a considerably better long term investment than the 3600? The Ryzen 5 4600 may outperform the Intel Core i5 10600K in gaming performance, which is essentially 'the' best gaming CPU on the market for 1080p high FPS players. I would recommend a B550 board if going that route though.

    Food for thought, good luck with whatever you go with!

    EDIT: Oh yeah, nothing wrong with the RAM, if you can go for CL15/16 with 3600 speed that's ideal for Ryzen since the Infinity fabric maxes out at roughly 1800mhz anyway so that would be optimal but not required, you may also be able to tune up this kit to 3600 but the timings may suffer

  • chillbow on 18/07/2020 - 21:11

    Only thing i would upgrade would be faster ram(3600mhz) and a better graphics card for PUBG high settings(gtx 1660 super)

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