Hey, everyone. I’m building my first PC and would like to ask for some help. I’ve always been more of a console guy, and all my PCs so far have been pre-built and intended mainly for office stuff, so I have zero experience with this.
This is what I had in mind:
https://de.pcpartpicker.com/user/kablurk/saved/hxR6Bm
It’s around €700. If I can gain a significant performance boost for paying a bit more, I can do that. For example, I’m considering getting 32 GB of ram instead of 16, although that would probably be overkill for my needs. Other than that, I’d like to keep a balance between low price and parts that aren’t already outdated in a few months.
As for my requirements:
I want to try out Linux, and I’ve read that AMD GPUs are more compatible with it than NVIDIA cards.
I’m not much of a gamer anymore :( at least at the moment. So I don’t need games to run at a 4K resolution or triple digit FPS. If modern games run at around 60-ish FPS for some casual gaming, I am more than happy. I checked some system requirements for a bunch of emulators, and they should also mostly run fine (I think).
What’s confusing to me is that the RX 6500 XT only has 4 GB of memory. Would an RX 580 with 8 GB make a difference in performance, despite being older? (Pricewise they are almost the same)
There are two motherboards in the list. One of them gives me the following warning:
“The ASRock […] Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G […] Processor with BIOS version P5.00. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, upgrading the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU.”
Is this a big problem or a complicated process? Would you recommend just getting the other, slightly more expensive board?
Any feedback is much appreciated. Thank you!
I’ve been out of the loop for a bit, so I could be wrong, but I think that warning is specifically about using the integrated graphics on the processor and isn’t a concern if you have a dedicated GPU.
As far as RAM goes, I went with 32GB when I built my system but I’ve never used more than 16 that I’m aware of and I have three monitors full of Firefox and chrome windows and tabs, a cluster of background programs, live wallpaper, and a custom rainmeter interface.
An iGPU isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If the GPU isn’t working properly, at least the iGPU will let you see what the PC is doing when the GPU isn’t working correctly.
Also it would allow you more options when you retire the CPU in the future.
I meant that if you have a dedicated GPU, I think you can update your bios either way. My understanding was that the warning was because you wouldn’t be able to get graphics output with an old bios version that didn’t support the igpu