Let's discuss on the parts of my friend's new PC build

[csandreas1]

Here is my list of the parts on amazon of the new PCi am going to build for my friend. I need some experienced advice if that build is okay on that ~700 pounds budget or how it can be better on the same budget. This pc is mainly for gaming. Thanks.

I am considering to buy a 1tb SSHD with 120mb cache to keep the budget on that price

 

[Dunlop0078]

There is no list.

 

[csandreas1]

Would it be a good idea to change the cpu to a ryzen 3 1300x and buy a 64gb SSD with 1 tb wd blue HDD to keep the budget?

 

[Corwin65]

64 GB SSD is a waste of time/money It's just too small, even a 120 GB SSd is kinda small.

I'd also swap that HD for a 7200 rpm one.

 

[csandreas1]

64 GB SSD is a waste of time/money It's just too small, even a 120 GB SSd is kinda small.

I'd also swap that HD for a 7200 rpm one.

7200 rpm HDD would be better than 5400 rpm SSHD?

 

[Dunlop0078]

64 GB SSD is a waste of time/money It's just too small, even a 120 GB SSd is kinda small.

I'd also swap that HD for a 7200 rpm one.

7200 rpm HDD would be better than 5400 rpm SSHD?

That depends on what you use it for, I had an SSHD in my school laptop and it was great for that as I only used the same few programs on it over and over. An SSHD does not have much in the way of solid state storage, so it only keeps programs that are used heavily on the SSD portion of the SSHD. It would not be good for say gaming as games nowadays are far too large to fit on the SSD portion of the SSHD.

 

[Corwin65]

In my opinion yes. I'm not a fan of SSHD's.


There are some who would disagree, probably many.

 

[csandreas1]

Okay i will go for the Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200 RPM. Let's discuss about the CPUs. I am between ryzen 3 1300x and ryzen 5 1500x. The one is 110 the other one 151 on amazon. There is not that much difference in gaming, but as i have noticed on some youtube videos, the r3 1300x is better on some single core games like rocket league. The r5 1500x is better on newer multicore games like pubg. In some games they have the same performance

 

[csandreas1]

8gb single ram is out of stock. Can i install 4GB x2 Single rank memory ?

 

[csandreas1]

Would you recommend that hard drive over the wd blue 5400 rpm?