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Hello,

I am planning to buy a new PC, which I do not plan to overclock. I want to use it for 1080p gaming at 60fps (graphic intensive games), semi-professional video editing. It should be able to render Blender scenes at more or less acceptable speed.

MSI B350 Tomahawk
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Stock AMD Cooler
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6GB
400W bequiet Pure Power 80+ Silver
16GB G.skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CL16
500 GB Samsung 960 Evo M.2

What do you think about this config?

Thanks in advance,

Luca

 
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Supahos
You can 100% hit 3.6 on the stock cooler if your case is set up with decent airflow 3.7 is usually no issue. The voltage required for either speed is well within safe limits. That's how I would handle it personally. You'll likely need the newest bios to hit any speed above 2933, maybe just to get above 2666. So update it before messing with the ram settings
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If gaming is more important to you then a 1600x will be a good bit faster than a 1700 if you're not going to overclock. Your ram will only run at 2133 or 2400 unless you're willing to overclock and over volt it. So if you're flat not going to oc save some money and buy cheap ram (ryzen. Loves fast ram, not a great idea but no need for 3200mhz ram if you're gonna run it at 2133)


Okay that is how to make your build better

My real advice (once again assuming you're mostly a gamer who just edits some.vidoes after.) Is get a 1600 (do overclock.it to at least 3.7 can be done on stock.cooler) use the savings to get a 1070 as it'll help both gaming and editing vs a 1060. Also unless you're bringing in a hard drive from another build a 500gb SSD is woefully too small of you're really.going to have a lot of videos on your pc
 
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Thanks for the reply! Excuse my probably stupid questions, but I am not that experienced in PC hardware :)



Oh okay I didn´t know that... is there a way to run 3200MHz RAM at 3200MHz without overclock? Is it limited because of the Motherboard?



I actually want to use the PC for rather serious video editing, mostly 4k S-Log 2 material (I would rather not go through the mess of using proxies). I´ve looked at some Premiere/After Effects/DaVinci GPU Benchmarks. In all of them the 1070 has only 2-3% more performance compared to the 1060 - therefore I figured it would be smarter to invest the money in other parts (RAM)(?).



I should have stated that I have a extra 2TB hard drive around :)





 
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I mean it's just a setting in bios to make it run at 3200 but to my knowledge all 3200/3000 mhz sticks also require a voltage boost to 1.35v I'm not saying it'll cause an issue, just that dropping 3200mhz sticks into any computer results in 2133/2400 speed until you oc them. If you're not going to oc at all I highly suggest at least a 1700x (you'll need a CPU cooler as well something like the cryorig h7 is cheap and solid) that stock speed on a 1700 is pretty bad for games and not great for editing.
 
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Okay, in order to stay in my price range, what about switching to a 3000MHz ram and getting it to run at 300MHz and overclocking the 1700? Would it give me a drastic improvement if I would switch from the stock cooler to a 40$ cooler? Or would it be better to leap to a 1700x and buying a very cheap cooler? I already am on the edge of my budget, so I would rather not make the PC that much more expensive...
 
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You can 100% hit 3.6 on the stock cooler if your case is set up with decent airflow 3.7 is usually no issue. The voltage required for either speed is well within safe limits. That's how I would handle it personally. You'll likely need the newest bios to hit any speed above 2933, maybe just to get above 2666. So update it before messing with the ram settings
 
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