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It’s a bit more than that for older intel systems. Reusing as much as I am able I’ll want/need:
CPU
Mobo
RAM
M.2 boot drive
PSU (seems sensible with this level of upgrade)
Case, GPU, SATA and optical drives I can reuse on the cheap.
I asked someone a favour, the did it and got me some pricing from ASRock, I'd imagine that you'll see it between £139-£159 depending on which retailer you prefer. If the low end boards are in short supply you might see some scalping on that auction site, or even from some e-tailers.
I find it utterly weird people are needing high end boards if you are going for the 6 or 8 core CPUs. The TDPs are not higher and they are 7NM CPUs,so power consumption shouldn't be a problem. I would expect an overclocked Ryzen 7 3700X should consume less power than an overclocked Core i9 9900K.
For instance your ASRock was fine with a Ryzen 5 1600 overclocked and I would expect a £100 board should be fine with a Ryzen 5 3600.
Probably because they are G Skill and RGB
Missing from the 8 Pack line up is some 32gb (2 x 16gb) 3200 C14 (B-die) sticks, at the moment there is only the G.Skill F4-3200C14D-32GTZR to choose from.We contract 8 Pack RAM with TeamGroup and have a specification that must be met, so only SCREENED Samsung B-Die, so best binned IC.
We also buy in huge volumes so our cost is way below the same counterparts from G.Skill.
You don't NEED an NVMe SSD and honestly a good normal SSD would work fine. The cooler will work fine too unless you plan on overclocking.
Plus if you are talking from scratch a whole PC will cost the same or more from Intel so I still fail to see the issue.
And when v4 already brought all these signal integrity issues/need for better motherboard design/contruction, need for retimers for longer traces, v5 likely needs even more.2020/2021 for enterprise on PCI-e 5. we probably wont see it till around 2022... Doesn't seem worth the wait.
Also everyone is acting like you have to have an X570 board?? Why not a cheaper B450 or X470,and its quite possible the B550 might support PCI-E 4.0,to a lesser degree.
Because Sandy Bridge is DDR3.
I earn my living on my PC, and prefer it as quiet as possible during the day.
So buy the AM4 mounting kit for your current cooler.
Also if you earn your money from your PC then does having a slower less capable system not effect you, or do you just work with word documents etc?
16GB B-die DIMMs are dual rank, something not liked by memory controller of current Ryzens.Missing from the 8 Pack line up is some 32gb (2 x 16gb) 3200 C14 (B-die) sticks, at the moment there is only the G.Skill F4-3200C14D-32GTZR to choose from.
My cooler's so old there's no such animal as an AM4 kit!
Well, having a "slower" PC does affect me, but in these days of "incremental builds" (maven/gradle), it's the disk IO that's most important (and a SATA SSD takes care of most of that.)
CPU upgrade will mainly be for gaming; the old 3770k is not pushing the 1080ti hard enough.
Shame if you had a Noctua cooler pretty much all of them have a kit available.
Also people are over hyping the prices they won't be as high as everyone is banging on about.
Why? What will happen with 3200?
Won't boot. It'll give you a message to buy more ram.