Building a PC with R5 1600

Nomad619 · Apr 27, 2017

I'm building a pc with a Ryzen CPU, mainly for gaming, and sometimes editing and rendering. R5 1600 is my initial choice with a GTX 1080 Ti, but I've read that it bottlenecks the card. Is this really the case? Also,
1. Will R7 1700 perform better with the GTX 1080 Ti?
2. Is the stock cooler provided good enough?
Here are the rest of the parts:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jLb6Fd
Other parts:
Dell 27 Monitor - SE2717H
Suggest me some changes, if necessary
Thanks in advance!

CountMike · Apr 27, 2017

Since you are going with (for now) best MB for platform, I'd suggest at least R5 1600x for better out of the box performance and easier overall OC. For gaming,6/12 cores/ threads is quite enough. Most games can't use even that much.
Depending on games in question, any that can use just 4 cores or less, you may even lower down to R5 1500x which may save you some money for now with same results.
I wouldn't go for OEM windows either. Retail Home version is not much more expensive and assures you transferability to next build for many years as MS is not planing on any new Windows in foreseeable future.

Nomad619 · Apr 28, 2017

Thanks for the reply! Will I see any improvement in gaming performance from a R7 1700 over a R5 1600X? Will R5 1600X be a good pair with a GTX 1080 Ti?

CountMike · Apr 28, 2017

Games (and programs) that use less than 4 cores and those ones most usually shift load to only one core, so frequency of that core is more important. On such games/programs a higher frequency on lets say quad core will win over lower frequency of similar processor with 6 or 8 cores but at lower frequency.

Nomad619 · Apr 28, 2017

Does higher CPU frequency = better GPU performance?

CountMike · Apr 28, 2017

Not really and mostly not directly but in case of large mismatch of processor and GPU, so called "Bottleneck" it can help a lot.

Nomad619 · Apr 28, 2017

Thanks a lot! Going with the 1600X then.

CountMike · Apr 28, 2017

That's what I'm assembling right now but with a bit lower end MB, Asus PRIME X370 PRO, I don't think that Crosshair has so much more to offer to account for price difference.

Nomad619 · May 7, 2017

Will I be able to OC the ram at 3200mhz with this mobo?

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