Suggestions for my build? (Ryzen 2) Thanks!

[firesoul453]

My last build ended up a lot better due to the advice from this forum (Shoutout to ATMINSIDE and Blaylock)

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
• MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Prime X470-Pro AMD Ryzen 2
• GPU:GIGABYTE R9 290 4GB Windforce 3X OC (Keeping until Vega 64 goes down in price or new GPU comes out)
• CASE: Fractal Design FD-CA-FOCUS-GY-W Focus G ATX Mid
• PSU:EVGA SuperNOVA NEX650G 80PLUS Gold Certified (Old version From old build)
• HDD: Samsung 960 EVO Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E1T0BW) (and Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD from old build)
• RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)
• Monitor: Samsung LC27HG70QQNXZA C27HG70

(This started with me wanted a new SSD and realizing my old build could not support fast M.2 SSDs)

Questions:

• Is it dumb to spend all this money and use a R9 290? Should I bite the bullet and get a Vega 64 at current prices?
• Is 16gb a ram plenty? (Maybe I should get 4* 4gb?)
• I'm 99% sure everything is compatible but am I missing anything important?

Any suggestions / comments whatsoever are very welcome.

 

[EarthDog]

Questions:
Is it dumb to spend all this money and use a R9 290? Should I bite the bullet and get a Vega 64 at current prices?
Is 16gb a ram plenty? (Maybe I should get 4* 4gb?)
I'm 99% sure everything is compatible but am I missing anything important?

1. That's your call. Pricing is high, no doubt. But can/do you want to wait a few months for new cards to come out? Up to you.
2. For a general/gaming rig, that is plenty.
3. Not that I can see at first glance.

 

[firesoul453]

1. That's your call. Pricing is high, no doubt. But can/do you want to wait a few months for new cards to come out? Up to you.
2. For a general/gaming rig, that is plenty.
3. Not that I can see at first glance.

If I buy this I'll probably stick with the r9 and see how it goes. GPU is just about the easiest thing to upgrade anyway.

 

[trents]

16 gb of RAM is a good amount for general purpose computing including gaming.

The Radeon 290 is still a reasonably potent card and I imagine you can still play a lot of modern games with it at acceptable fps.

My only suggestion is get the low latency TrizentZ RAM (CL14) if you can afford it to maximize your chance of getting the coveted Samsing B die chips. This will maximize the chance, in turn, that you will be able to run the RAM at the full 3200 mhz.

 

[firesoul453]

16 gb of RAM is a good amount for general purpose computing including gaming.

The Radeon 290 is still a reasonably potent card and I imagine you can still play a lot of modern games with it at acceptable fps.

My only suggestion is get the low latency TrizentZ RAM (CL14) if you can afford it to maximize your chance of getting the coveted Samsing B die chips. This will maximize the chance, in turn, that you will be able to run the RAM at the full 3200 mhz.

Thanks for the suggestion I ended up buying the better ram.

Unfortunately now my SSD seems to d DOA. Tried in both slots, tried updating the bios and disabling CSM mode. Hopefully with have completed build soon.