How lit is this 1200 dollar PC build?

[Prestongames]

Intel 100% of the time all the time

 

[58445]

I see that we have some biigg Intel fanboys who don't know where they are talking about. I'm not saying that I'm a fanboy of AMD but both have their ups and downs. But at this moment I'd recommend a AMD Ryzen over Intel.

 

[SapFireMC]

I see that we have some biigg Intel fanboys who don't know where they are talking about. I'm not saying that I'm a fanboy of AMD but both have their ups and downs. But at this moment I'd recommend a AMD Ryzen over Intel.

Dont forget refresh is coming out soon aswell

 

[58445]

Dont forget refresh is coming out soon aswell

Yes sorry forgot about that in my post, I'll build my new pc in about 2 weeks with Ryzen 1600X

 

[Leeiuum]

As a person who has used an RX480 for about a year and a Ryzen in just a few days, I can definitely tell you this.
Ryzen CPUs are really good. No, I'm not being the typical "Ew AMD" type, I love Ryzen. It opens great opportunities to those that cannot pay the price of Intel's latest lineups.

I have to say though in terms of getting a GPU, DO NOT GET AMD. I have suffered quite a lot of problems with their drives, especially overheating even though I undervolted my GPU at times to try and level out the temperatures, and so forth. Additionally, if you're in the industry of say, recording or streaming or even want to consider it, the encoding behind AMD is fucking terrible.

I feel like you could get so much more by doing the same exact build but with 1060. Though this is just my input, don't take it if you don't like the sound of it. Just speaking from experience.

This is what I recommend: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/PnQmXH

 

[Danny]

This is an approximate 1200 USD build that I've constructed through pc professionals.

Here in Canada, it's currently 1450 CAD for me. Which is 50 dollars within my budget.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZF3NtJ

^ Is the build. What do you think?

Be careful with the RAM. Ryzen since launch has had numerous issues regarding it's RAM. I'm on a ryzen 5 1600 system with the same ram and a different mobo. I am not able to get my ram to run at higher speeds (yes the normal speed of this ram is: 2133.

If you're wanting to get it to run at it's advertised 3200mhz you're going to have to go into your bios and allow the XMP profile (or the AMD equivalent) and do some mild OC. On your board it might work but for my board I'm still having issues, but it's best to make sure you can get your RAM speed at the highest it can be (because Ryzen benefits SO MUCH over ram speeds)

Just a heads up

Edit: Good on you for getting a Ryzen btw. So much bang for your buck and good price to performance ratio!

 

[SapFireMC]

Be careful with the RAM. Ryzen since launch has had numerous issues regarding it's RAM. I'm on a ryzen 5 1600 system with the same ram and a different mobo. I am not able to get my ram to run at higher speeds (yes the normal speed of this ram is: 2133.

If you're wanting to get it to run at it's advertised 3200mhz you're going to have to go into your bios and allow the XMP profile (or the AMD equivalent) and do some mild OC. On your board it might work but for my board I'm still having issues, but it's best to make sure you can get your RAM speed at the highest it can be (because Ryzen benefits SO MUCH over ram speeds)

Just a heads up

Edit: Good on you for getting a Ryzen btw. So much bang for your buck and good price to performance ratio!

Thanks! And yeah I'm well aware of the RAM issues. I could get B-Die ram which is specifically made for ryzen, however they usually are more expensive than i'd like them to be so I'll probably need to do some mild overclocking.