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Lord Nassirbannipal

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I'd like to get started on a long overdue upgrade of the main rig in my sig below. I haven't done a complete overhaul in a few years so bear with me as I'm a bit out of the loop.

The parts that I need to upgrade:

CPU
Motherboard
Memory
PSU

The parts that I plan to keep:

Case: Apevia XSniper2 (ATX)
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO (SATA)
HDD: WD (SATA)
Monitors: Two Acer 27" and one 24" (1920 x 1080)

Use: Web browsing, Music playback, Word Processing/Visio Design, SSH and RDP access to VMs in my ESXI server, a bit of scripting/programming, Games including Roms and Emulators (MAME, NES, SNES, GENESIS, N64, PS1, PS2, Gamecube) and PC Games, mostly Steam such as Mega Man series, Crimson Clover, Streets Of Rage 4, Mighty Gunvolt, Crisis Wing, Puyo Puyo series, Tetris series, Pac-Man series, Raiden series, Bullet Soul (Mostly shmups, maze, puzzle and action adventure/platform, nothing too heavy)

OS: I already have Windows 10 Professional

I was thinking of the following:

CPU: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-3-3100-ryzen-3-3rd-gen/p/N82E16819113649
Motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/msi-b450-a-p...OMAX&cm_re=B450APROMAX-_-13-144-268-_-Product or https://www.newegg.com/asus-prime-b...-A_asus-_-13-119-317-_-Product&quicklink=true
Memory: https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232880
PSU: Seasonic GM550 80+ Gold
GPU: https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-rx-580-11265-05-20g/p/N82E16814202362

Plan to build: Immediately

I'd like to stick with AMD and was thinking along the lines of Ryzen 3 and Ryzen 5, whichever gives the best in terms of price to performance. I'll have to go with discreet graphics. Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
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What size case are you keeping? SATA SSD or NVMe SSD? What rez are the monitors?

FYI. Ryzen doesn't have an iGPU unless you buy an APU. You'll need a discrete video card and that's what I'd recommend over an APU.
 
1) It's an ATX case:

https://www.apevia.com/products-cases/x-sniper2-bl

2) It's a SATA SSD. A Samsung 860 EVO to be exact.

3) The resolution of all three monitors is 1920 x 1080.

4) On your last note, I did some more research last night and saw that the Ryzen 3rd gen CPUs that I want don't have an APU. What discrete GPU would you recommend? I'm not doing any heavy gaming or photo/video editing and the games that I've listed run with no issues on my current setup.

Would you consider something along the lines of this to be sufficient: https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-rx-580-11265-05-20g/p/N82E16814202362

It has enough ports for all of my monitors and also room to add more.
 
 
DooKey said:
I'd grab something like this: ASRock Phantom Gaming D Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G Video Card - Newegg.com
Newer card and has 8gb.

MB: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 100-100000065BOX Desktop Processor - Newegg.com if it comes in stock
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB DDR4 3600 RAM Memory - Newegg.com
PSU: Seasonic S12III 500 SSR-500GB3 500W 80+ Bronze Power Supply, ATX12V & EPS12V, Di - Newegg.com

Just my suggestions. Others may pick out different components.
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Thanks. That's not far off from what I had edited above in my first post. If others don't have anything different, I'll proceed ahead but just to clarify, is that much processor really needed for what I'm using it for?
 
Lord Nassirbannipal said:
Thanks. That's not far off from what I had edited above in my first post. If others don't have anything different, I'll proceed ahead but just to clarify, is that much processor really needed for what I'm using it for?
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Maybe not. However, it should have lots of staying power over time. If you want to save a few bucks then you could go with a 3600X
AMD RYZEN 5 3600X 6-Core 3.8 GHz (4.4 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 95W 100-100000022BOX Desktop Processor - Newegg.com
 
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