Me again, sorry.
Looking at the motherboards then it seems to me that I could save £40 and not cause myself any difficulty today. However, I would lose some expansion possibilities which I may or may not need in the future. It seems to me that's perhaps a false economy.
The case I shall use is perfectly adequate and will take either mATX or ATX. It seems that the ATX again gives me more flexibility, such as 6 or 4 SATA.
So, it seems that this ATX at £117 is probably wisest for me. Thoughts?
www.cclonline.com/product/258499/90MB0YS0-M0EAY0/Motherboards/Asus-ROG-Strix-B450-F-Gaming-AMD-AM4-ATX-Motherboard-RAID-LAN-AMD-Radeon-Graphics-/MBD2490/
On the subject of the CPU, whilst I do now understand what I am looking at and what is involved, [thank you] I don´t really know enough to be clever.
The recommendation given has good reports, seems pretty good performance and going to do all I want. So probably smartest just to listen.
www.cclonline.com/product/250246/YD2600BBAFBOX/CPU-Processors/AMD-2nd-Gen-Ryzen-5-2600-3-4GHz-Processor-16MB-L3-Cache-with-Wraith-Stealth/CPU0537/
The motherboard allows for 4 x DIMM. At this time I'm comfortable that I need 16GB. I certainly don't need 32GB but 8GB might be restricting. Is 2x8 the best distribution? As opposed to 4x4 or 1x16? Assuming that it is, though I'd be interested to understand why, then the following seems pretty good to me. Comments?
www.cclonline.com/product/293046/CMK16GX4M2Z3200C16/Desktop-Memory/Corsair-Vengeance-LPX-16GB-2-x-8GB-Memory-Kit-PC4-25600-3200MHz-DDR4-DIMM-C16/RAM4168/
I hadn't considered the question of storage. However, since the subject came up I checked and indeed my current storage is slow by today's standards. However, the vast majority of it is bulk storage of photos, videos, music, various device backups and documents. And when I say 'bulk' I mean around 6TB. I don't think it needs 'fast'. There is a 500GB SSD which is the current system disk, and until I started looking at the m.2 stuff I was pleased with it.
So I think buying a single m.2 for the OS and some stuff, leaving most of the programmes on the other SSD and all the storage on the SATAs should be ok.
1TB at £125 seems excessive and 256GB at £45 doesn't seem much of a saving.
So I'd go with your recommendation of;
www.cclonline.com/product/264398/ASX8200PNP-512GT-C/Solid-State-Drives-SSDs-/ADATA-XPG-SX8200-Pro-512GB-M-2-2280-PCIe-Gen3-x4-NVMe-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-/SSD0896/
The power supply, cooling and GPU will all work with that motherboard - I am sure. They're all pretty new and capable. I don't need monitors or audio.
All in all, £340 or £380 depending on which way I fall with the motherboard.
For your interest if I tried to buy it here then I couldn't. Going for as close as possible with substitutes where necessary then a probably less capable machine would cost me around £640
So, assuming that I'm on the right tracks all I've got to do is get it here. Which I can do though it'll take a bit of long distance dicking around.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Mon 31 Aug 20 at 07:41
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