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xx.herobrine.xx123

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I'm considering on switching to from intel to amd. I built my pc a few years ago and I think now is about the time to upgrade.

I currently have:
MSI H81I mini-itx motherboard
Intel i7 4770 non k cpu from a prebuilt pc
2x8 ddr3 kit ram from a prebuilt pc
EVGA superclocked 980ti
Seagate 1tb hybrid drive
650W Enermax Revolution SFX power supply with atx mounting bracket
all in a node 202 case

I did break the USB 3.0 header on the motherboard and the clear plastic piece on the power button so that will drop the value of those components some.

Now what I'm having trouble with is
1) determining the value of the case, motherboard, CPU, and ram and rather they should be sold together or separately

2) What am4 motherboard, ram kit, and CPU I should get. I'm leaning towards the AMD Ryzen 3 1200.

Now for my budget of the new pc depends on what I can get from my old hardware, hopefully between $200 to $300
Case: MasterCase H500 (Newest version)
Motherboard: Has to be on am4, can be $100 to $120 and has to have an rgb header or something that can support the H500's Fans
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Ram: Up for discussion but at least an 8gb ddr4 kit

The motherboard and case will be covered by my dad, the cpu and ram and anything else is on me.

I'm hoping I can get some feedback and suggestions on what I should do, thanks.

 
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Redneck5439
I think you would be much better off spending an additional $20 over the listed Ryzen 3 1300X and opting for a Ryzen 5 2600 which can be bought pretty easily for $150. A Ryzen 5 2600 can be overclocked relatively easily to 4.1 - 4.2Ghz and will have the same gaming performance of the R7 2700X at those clock speeds. As an added bonus the 2600 also has 6 cores and 12 threads so it will multitask and do workstation related tasks much better than your current i7 4470. I think that would be the most worthwhile upgrade. The R5 2600 is commonly known to be the very best bang for you dollar gaming processor available today and will definitely feel like a real improvement over your current rig.
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You still got a pretty good GPU. That PSU is still premium. The H500 is also a really good and expensive case.

This would be ideal:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($124.99 @ Walmart)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $324.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-10 00:12 EST-0500
 
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xx.herobrine.xx123

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I like the CPU. I'm just not sure the extra $30 compared to the regular 1200 is worth it or not. The ram is good, no problems with that, I was actually eying the slightly more expensive led ram kits they had. I also failed to mention that the motherboard and case would be covered by my dad, so I'm just responsible for the CPU and ram. The one you selected seems good but gigabyte seems to not be the most reliable or best from the reviews I've read. The motherboard I was looking at was the ASUS ROG STRIX B350 or (B450)-F GAMING because eventually, I want to upgrade to a better CPU, so I'm wanting a solid starting motherboard. Do you think that would be a solid pick? and then can you kind of help me justify the price difference between the 1300 and the 1300x. And then I just thought that the ryzen 3 might bottleneck my 980ti so we might have to consider ryzen 5.

 
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The Ryzen 5 2600 would be a better choice but even with that unless you are having problems with your current system I don't know that the boost in performance would be worth the cost. Unless you can bump up to something like the Ryzen 7 2700x I would honestly wait a bit before you upgrade or just upgrade something like the GPU for now. I made a 5 year old pre-built Alienware system last another two years by upgrading only the GPU. You don't want to spend too much money on something that is only a tiny bit better. In my opinion it would be better to save your money up and then build a new system in a year or two.
 
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I think you would be much better off spending an additional $20 over the listed Ryzen 3 1300X and opting for a Ryzen 5 2600 which can be bought pretty easily for $150. A Ryzen 5 2600 can be overclocked relatively easily to 4.1 - 4.2Ghz and will have the same gaming performance of the R7 2700X at those clock speeds. As an added bonus the 2600 also has 6 cores and 12 threads so it will multitask and do workstation related tasks much better than your current i7 4470. I think that would be the most worthwhile upgrade. The R5 2600 is commonly known to be the very best bang for you dollar gaming processor available today and will definitely feel like a real improvement over your current rig.
 
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Both CPUs will be bottle-necking your 980ti anyways so I would recommend going for the 1300X which not only has a higher Core Clock Speed but also overclocks much higher and much better than non-X AMD CPUs (which is what you want to do to reduce the bottleneck as much as possible).

The 2300X is also out so you might want to check that out. You could always go for 2x4Gb of RAM to accommodate the price difference for now, as you can simply buy another 8Gb in the future as opposed to a CPU where you have to change it altogether and probably won't want to change it for quite some time.
 
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xx.herobrine.xx123

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I'm wanting to upgrade because the node 202 has both my gpu and cpu running a lot hotter than I want them to run and i"m losing out on some performance. I would just get a new case but if I did that, I wouldn't be able to use any rgb or the front USB headers. I have to buy a new motherboard anyway so might as well as do a whole system refresh. If I were to upgrade to Intel's latest generation, it would cost way more than AMD and It would be outdated in a year. At least with am4, I would be able to upgrade to 7nn in the future and get more performance per dollar.
The 2300x appears to only be available for OEM systems so that's off the table. Going with the cheaper ram kit and opting for a ryzen 5 2600 and a solid motherboard is probably the best choice. And my 980ti is a bit overkill for only 1080p so I don't think I need to upgrade that for a good while.


 
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