First build, opinions?

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I’d go with a 2tb HDD since there is hardly any price difference. Hitachi has one which cost only £4 more. They are a great brand.

At some point you may want to use a good third party heatsink to reduce noise, temps and improve overclocking.

If gaming an i5-8400 is a better choice.
Verify that RAM will do 3Ghz with Ryzen. Actually 2933mhz. Ryzen won’t do 3Ghz.

Otherwise it is a solid build.
I’d go with a 2tb HDD since there is hardly any price difference. Hitachi has one which cost only £4 more. They are a great brand.

At some point you may want to use a good third party heatsink to reduce noise, temps and improve overclocking.

If gaming an i5-8400 is a better choice.
Verify that RAM will do 3Ghz with Ryzen. Actually 2933mhz. Ryzen won’t do 3Ghz.

Otherwise it is a solid build.
 
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I think when youre running that kind of budget with a 1080 in there I'd look more at intel personally (& that's coming from a ryzen owner)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£214.05 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370P D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£86.83 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£149.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£79.79 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Inno3D - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Twin X2 Video Card (£551.63 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT - H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£102.00 @ Box Limited)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1302.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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So upgrade the hard drive to 2tb, is the fact the ram won’t run 3000mhz a problem or? And I’ll take a look into heat sinks


 


3000mhz isn't a speed supported by Ryzen. It will run at 2933 Mhz, at best. The real issue is if it isn't Ryzen compatible it may only run at 2133Mhz. Which will reduce system performance some. It also would mean you are wasting money on more expensive RAM.

That RAM isn't on the Qualified Vendor List (also known as Memory Support List or QVL) of any Ryzen motherboard. The manufacturer makes no claims of Ryzen compliance either. Although there are some user reports of it working at 2933Mhz on some Ryzen motherboards. Odds aren't that great. I wouldn't make that choice.

I've updated the RAM choice. The Kingston Predator 16GB 3200Mhz (HX432C16PB3K2/16) is listed specifically on your motherboard's QVL. So, ASUS has tested it with the Strix B50-F Gaming and says this exact make and model will work at 3200 Mhz with it's XMP profile. This is just about as good of a guarantee you can get. This is the RAM I would buy for peace of mind. There was nothing else in that price and performance range on the QVL for your motherboard. Get this or gamble on something else. Don't forget to update your BIOS.

I also took the opportunity to add my HDD choice. I also added my heatsink of choice. It is one of the best performing air coolers on the market but is priced with mid range coolers. There isn't much point in getting cheaper units. They don't offer a big advantage over the stock heatsink. I consider the third party heatsink a completely optional piece. Unless you want max overclocks.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£151.12 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£56.54 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - TUF B350M-PLUS GAMING Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£84.74 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston - Predator 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£182.76 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£79.79 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.60 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB D5X Video Card (£569.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: NZXT - H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£102.00 @ Box Limited)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1348.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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If £1300 is a hard line in your budget. Consider the ASUS TUF B350M-Plus Gaming motherboard. That Kingston RAM I listed also resides on the QVL for that motherboard. You can also consider a cheaper case the NZXT S340. Seeing both in person. The H440 looks like it has much better build quality. The S340 looks and feels a little flimsy.
 

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its Not a hard line of a budget, but I’m not looking to spend more than that sort of price


 
There isn't a huge difference between the two. If your goal isn't insane FPS and you are keeping the resolution at 2560x1440 or lower. There isn't really any harm in dropping to the GTX 1070. There is about a 15% to 20% difference between the two. Even at 4K for the most part the GTX 1070 is fine. There are just a handful of AAA titles it can't handle at high settings at such a high resolution.

You could do a 1070 Ti with hardly any loss.

If I was doing a Ryzen build at that price. It would look something more like this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£151.12 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£56.54 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard (£98.48 @ BT Shop)
Memory: Kingston - Predator 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£182.76 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£112.74 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.60 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Dual Video Card (£488.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: NZXT - H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£102.00 @ Box Limited)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1314.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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or this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3GHz 8-Core Processor (£231.59 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£56.54 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard (£98.48 @ BT Shop)
Memory: Kingston - Predator 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£182.76 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£112.74 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.60 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Dual Video Card (£439.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: NZXT - H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£102.00 @ Box Limited)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£81.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1345.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-03-25 19:48 BST+0100

Most likely the latter. Why? Expected lifespans. I expect a CPU and motherboard to give me five or more years of gaming life and ten or more years of total useful life. Those extra two cores and four threads can make quite a difference. Evidenced by the current differences between second generation Core i5 and Core i7. An i5-2500 isn’t very good now while an i7-2600 is still performs respectably well. When it is no longer useful for gaming. You can re-purpose it as a server, media center, work desktop, give it to a family member or some combination. An old high-quality motherboard still commands high resale values in the second-hand market. The price P45 chipset motherboards still command is insane.

Neither the GTX 1070 nor 1080 should be expected to have as long a useful life. When the GTX 1070 feels too old and slow, so will the GTX 1080. It isn’t just a matter of RAW speed. Something like the next DirectX version will likely kill their performance. If they can even utilize it. Other changes in hardware acceleration heavily effect older generations too. They won't have much use for secondary purpose such as servers or business desktop. Since they will waste too much energy without any performance benefit in daily tasks. When they could be sold and buy whatever the current low power option is out there for those machines. Like a GT 3030 or whatever naming convention nVidia uses.

As for the larger SSD. You can store a decent number of games on it. Once you feel the difference in launch times between an SSD and HDD. You’ll never want to use a HDD again for gaming. If you are using Steam. You can archive games to your HDD you’re done playing. In case for some reason you ever wanted to play them again without waiting for them to download. I don’t bother with the archiving myself. When I’m done with a game. It’s highly unlikely I’ll ever play it again. I have way too many unplayed games in my library. It’ll take me years to get through them all. Blasted Steam sales.
 

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Thanks, will certainly look into the second as FPS is pretty important, is there anything on that build where you think if I threw a little more money in, it would drastically improve the build? Or is the next upgrade an expensive one.


 
All that will really improve the Ryzen 7 1700 build gaming wise is changing the GPU to a GTX 1070 Ti or GTX 1080. Nothing else can really be improved upon CPU or RAM wise unless you went with Intel. NVMe SSD won't really make a difference. A larger SSD could store more games.