Ryzen 5 1600 new builder advice

ellm62

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Jun 30, 2017
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Hello, I'm moving from a laptop to a desktop pc after many years and wanted some opinions on this build please:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dfdV8K

The PC will be a workstation, no gaming, some music editing and some programming. I like to emulate my phone using Bluestacks or similar so I guess I need decent virtualisation(?). Overall I guess I'm looking for performance and minimal noise.

Are there any improvements I could make to lower the cost? I wasnt too sure about the CPU cooler or if the RAM was any good. Also can/should I look into overclocking with this setup? Or is overclocking only needed for gaming?

I'm an amateur here so any advice appreciated, thanks!
 
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Don't need cooler, the stock cooler from Ryzen 5 1600 is good enough. Use that toward a GTX 750 Ti GPU. I know it's purely for workstation, but the GT 710 is weaker than even Skylake/Kaby Lake integrated and you can pick up a GTX 750 Ti for cheap, second hand if you have to. At least that would support more monitor options.

BigBoomBoom

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Don't need cooler, the stock cooler from Ryzen 5 1600 is good enough. Use that toward a GTX 750 Ti GPU. I know it's purely for workstation, but the GT 710 is weaker than even Skylake/Kaby Lake integrated and you can pick up a GTX 750 Ti for cheap, second hand if you have to. At least that would support more monitor options.
 
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