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The com­put­er hard­ware mar­ket is one of the most dynam­ic. Every year there are new com­po­nents that are sig­nif­i­cant­ly bet­ter than their pre­de­ces­sors. AMD stands out espe­cial­ly strong­ly in this regard: it con­tin­u­al­ly pleas­es cus­tomers with its inno­va­tions at an afford­able price. In 2020, it is impos­si­ble to unequiv­o­cal­ly name the lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er in the indus­try, but today we decid­ed to focus our atten­tion on AMD. We chose the opti­mal mod­els in terms of price and char­ac­ter­is­tics in the mid­dle price seg­ment, and assem­bled a vir­tu­al gam­ing com­put­er on them.

CPU

Best­seller of the pass­ing years Ryzen 5 1600 grad­u­al­ly goes to a well-deserved rest — new CPUs are on the way, on which great hopes are placed. And even with­out tak­ing into account the expect­ed new prod­ucts, the old man can eas­i­ly find a replace­ment, which will be much faster and not much more expen­sive.

In our opin­ion, AMD cur­rent­ly has two suit­able mod­els in the mid­dle price seg­ment. it Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 5 3600. Depend­ing on the bud­get, you can choose any proces­sor. They are both 6‑core with 12 threads on board. The per­for­mance dif­fer­ence between them is about 20%. With any of them, you will be able to run absolute­ly any game.

We lean more towards the old­er ver­sion because Ryzen 5 3600 bet­ter over­clocked from the fac­to­ry, which means that this is a more uni­ver­sal solu­tion that will suit most users. In addi­tion, recent moth­er­boards based on the B550 chipset do not sup­port the 2000 series, so there is room for upgrades in the future. Ryzen 5 2600 much less.

As for fresh­ly baked Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X, then both of these stones can be a good alter­na­tive to a bud­get assem­bly. As part of the load on 1–4 cores, they are supe­ri­or in per­for­mance to the afore­men­tioned Ryzen 5 2600 by 10–15%. How­ev­er, 4 cores and 8 threads may not be enough for some AAA projects.

Motherboard

The mid­dle price seg­ment includes three chipsets: B350, B450 and B550. In our opin­ion, the opti­mal B450because it has an ide­al price/performance ratio. B350 — out­dat­ed for­mat, and B550 — new and too expen­sive.

Depend­ing on which proces­sor you have cho­sen, you should also choose a moth­er­board. For bud­get Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X the sim­plest mod­el with 4 + 2 pow­er phas­es will be quite enough. If over­clock­ing is planned and you need a reserve for the future, it is rec­om­mend­ed to choose a moth­er­board with rein­forced pow­er cir­cuits and addi­tion­al radi­a­tors. Also, do not for­get about the pres­ence of var­i­ous inter­faces.

Our gaze fell on ASRock B450M Pro4. This mod­el will cope with any six-core and will not heat up. If desired, you can change the proces­sor to an 8‑core one in the future. 4 slots for RAM will also allow you to fur­ther increase the amount of RAM. Of the inter­est­ing: there is a USB Type‑C and an M.2 slot for a sol­id state dri­ve.

video card

Until recent­ly, buy­ers had no alter­na­tive to choos­ing a GPU: a prod­uct from Nvidia was always con­sid­ered. And although noth­ing has changed in the pre­mi­um seg­ment, when choos­ing a video card for the aver­age bud­get, you can con­sid­er sev­er­al inter­est­ing mod­els, includ­ing those from AMD.

What attracts us the most RX 5700XTwhich, both in terms of per­for­mance and in terms of price, is a direct com­peti­tor RTX 2070, but not all users have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pur­chase a graph­ics adapter for 300$. There­fore, as an afford­able alter­na­tive, you can look at RX 5600XT.

She is behind RX 5700XT only by 15–20%, but it costs 100$ cheap­er. More­over, this mod­el is 5–10% faster than its direct com­peti­tor — GTX 1660 Ti. And this is at the same price. We will not advise some­thing low­er from AMD, because in this case you will not see the cov­et­ed 60 FPS at Full HD res­o­lu­tion in mod­ern games.

RAM

The chipset of our moth­er­board allows you to over­clock the RAM, so you can save mon­ey and get cheap­er brack­ets. But every­one decides for him­self whether to over­clock man­u­al­ly or buy mod­ules over­clocked from the fac­to­ry. The main thing is to get at your dis­pos­al the fre­quen­cy 3000–3200 MHzbecause AMD proces­sors are extreme­ly sen­si­tive to RAM speed.

In the cur­rent real­i­ties, 16 GB is the amount of mem­o­ry that is more than enough for 99% of games. There­fore, two strips of 8 GB each is the most rea­son­able option. How­ev­er, you can save mon­ey and buy only one mod­ule for the first time. But do not delay the upgrade, because the dual-chan­nel mode will increase the over­all per­for­mance of the PC by 20–30%.

And since our assem­bly is focused on AMD, you can also buy mod­ules from their pro­duc­tion. They are inex­pen­sive and run well.

Power Supply

Accord­ing to the online cal­cu­la­tor for our assem­bly, the pow­er sup­ply is enough for 500 W. We rec­om­mend tak­ing a PSU with a small mar­gin so that there is room for a future upgrade. That’s why 600–650W you will have enough even if you decide to upgrade to an 8‑core proces­sor and over­clock it in the future.

We liked the mod­el from BeQui­et. It has all sorts of pro­tec­tions that will save your hard­ware in case of emer­gency. There is also 80 Plus Bronze cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, which is more than enough for home use. Some­one may not like a small num­ber of 15-pin SATA con­nec­tors — only 6 pieces.

Drives

Any gam­ing com­put­er must have SSD stor­age, as well as a slow­er but more spa­cious HDD for games. In order not to expe­ri­ence dis­com­fort, it is bet­ter to take a sol­id state dri­ve with at least 240 GB. And since we took a moth­er­board with an M.2 slot, then we will choose a dri­ve with the appro­pri­ate inter­face.

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite 256GB — a dri­ve with excel­lent speed per­for­mance: 1800 Mbps when read­ing and 900 Mbps when writ­ing. MTBF is 1800000 hours. Flash mem­o­ry type — TLC 3D NAND.

It is dif­fi­cult to rec­om­mend the HDD vol­ume, but you def­i­nite­ly should not take a hard dri­ve less than 1 TB, it is unprof­itable. We have exten­sive expe­ri­ence in oper­at­ing West­ern Dig­i­tal hard dri­ves — not a sin­gle one has yet “fall­en down”. Prob­a­bly every­one has heard of the WD Blue line — let’s take it.

Frame

The case should be select­ed based on the dimen­sions of the com­po­nents. The form fac­tor of the moth­er­board and pow­er sup­ply should not be larg­er than the form fac­tor of the case. Also look at the length of the video card and the height of the CPU cool­er if you plan to install tow­er cool­ing on the CPU.

We liked the Zal­man i3 Black mod­el. This is an ATX case with built-in fans, there are also addi­tion­al places for mount­ing turnta­bles. Pow­er sup­ply mounts — bot­tom. Of the minus­es — a lot of weight and only 2 bays for 3.5 for­mat hard dri­ves.

The cost of a fin­ished com­put­er will depend on the spe­cif­ic choice of com­po­nents. But, rest assured, it is these com­po­nents that will allow you to get the max­i­mum result for every ruble invest­ed. If you need more build options, look for them here.

In our opin­ion, AMD cur­rent­ly has two suit­able mod­els in the mid­dle price seg­ment. it Ryzen 5 2600 and Ryzen 5 3600. Depend­ing on the bud­get, you can choose any proces­sor. They are both 6‑core with 12 threads on board. The per­for­mance dif­fer­ence between them is about 20%. With any of them, you will be able to run absolute­ly any game.

We lean more towards the old­er ver­sion because Ryzen 5 3600 bet­ter over­clocked from the fac­to­ry, which means that this is a more uni­ver­sal solu­tion that will suit most users. In addi­tion, recent moth­er­boards based on the B550 chipset do not sup­port the 2000 series, so there is room for upgrades in the future. Ryzen 5 2600 much less.

As for fresh­ly baked Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X, then both of these stones can be a good alter­na­tive to a bud­get assem­bly. As part of the load on 1–4 cores, they are supe­ri­or in per­for­mance to the afore­men­tioned Ryzen 5 2600 by 10–15%. How­ev­er, 4 cores and 8 threads may not be enough for some AAA projects.

Motherboard

The mid­dle price seg­ment includes three chipsets: B350, B450 and B550. In our opin­ion, the opti­mal B450because it has an ide­al price/performance ratio. B350 — out­dat­ed for­mat, and B550 — new and too expen­sive.

Depend­ing on which proces­sor you have cho­sen, you should also choose a moth­er­board. For bud­get Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X the sim­plest mod­el with 4 + 2 pow­er phas­es will be quite enough. If over­clock­ing is planned and you need a reserve for the future, it is rec­om­mend­ed to choose a moth­er­board with rein­forced pow­er cir­cuits and addi­tion­al radi­a­tors. Also, do not for­get about the pres­ence of var­i­ous inter­faces.

Our gaze fell on ASRock B450M Pro4. This mod­el will cope with any six-core and will not heat up. If desired, you can change the proces­sor to an 8‑core one in the future. 4 slots for RAM will also allow you to fur­ther increase the amount of RAM. Of the inter­est­ing: there is a USB Type‑C and an M.2 slot for a sol­id state dri­ve.

video card

Until recent­ly, buy­ers had no alter­na­tive to choos­ing a GPU: a prod­uct from Nvidia was always con­sid­ered. And although noth­ing has changed in the pre­mi­um seg­ment, when choos­ing a video card for the aver­age bud­get, you can con­sid­er sev­er­al inter­est­ing mod­els, includ­ing those from AMD.

What attracts us the most RX 5700XTwhich, both in terms of per­for­mance and in terms of price, is a direct com­peti­tor RTX 2070, but not all users have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pur­chase a graph­ics adapter for 300$. There­fore, as an afford­able alter­na­tive, you can look at RX 5600XT.

She is behind RX 5700XT only by 15–20%, but it costs 100$ cheap­er. More­over, this mod­el is 5–10% faster than its direct com­peti­tor — GTX 1660 Ti. And this is at the same price. We will not advise some­thing low­er from AMD, because in this case you will not see the cov­et­ed 60 FPS at Full HD res­o­lu­tion in mod­ern games.

RAM

The chipset of our moth­er­board allows you to over­clock the RAM, so you can save mon­ey and get cheap­er brack­ets. But every­one decides for him­self whether to over­clock man­u­al­ly or buy mod­ules over­clocked from the fac­to­ry. The main thing is to get at your dis­pos­al the fre­quen­cy 3000–3200 MHzbecause AMD proces­sors are extreme­ly sen­si­tive to RAM speed.

In the cur­rent real­i­ties, 16 GB is the amount of mem­o­ry that is more than enough for 99% of games. There­fore, two strips of 8 GB each is the most rea­son­able option. How­ev­er, you can save mon­ey and buy only one mod­ule for the first time. But do not delay the upgrade, because the dual-chan­nel mode will increase the over­all per­for­mance of the PC by 20–30%.

And since our assem­bly is focused on AMD, you can also buy mod­ules from their pro­duc­tion. They are inex­pen­sive and run well.

Power Supply

Accord­ing to the online cal­cu­la­tor for our assem­bly, the pow­er sup­ply is enough for 500 W. We rec­om­mend tak­ing a PSU with a small mar­gin so that there is room for a future upgrade. That’s why 600–650W you will have enough even if you decide to upgrade to an 8‑core proces­sor and over­clock it in the future.

We liked the mod­el from BeQui­et. It has all sorts of pro­tec­tions that will save your hard­ware in case of emer­gency. There is also 80 Plus Bronze cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, which is more than enough for home use. Some­one may not like a small num­ber of 15-pin SATA con­nec­tors — only 6 pieces.

Drives

Any gam­ing com­put­er must have SSD stor­age, as well as a slow­er but more spa­cious HDD for games. In order not to expe­ri­ence dis­com­fort, it is bet­ter to take a sol­id state dri­ve with at least 240 GB. And since we took a moth­er­board with an M.2 slot, then we will choose a dri­ve with the appro­pri­ate inter­face.

ADATA XPG SX6000 Lite 256GB — a dri­ve with excel­lent speed per­for­mance: 1800 Mbps when read­ing and 900 Mbps when writ­ing. MTBF is 1800000 hours. Flash mem­o­ry type — TLC 3D NAND.

It is dif­fi­cult to rec­om­mend the HDD vol­ume, but you def­i­nite­ly should not take a hard dri­ve less than 1 TB, it is unprof­itable. We have exten­sive expe­ri­ence in oper­at­ing West­ern Dig­i­tal hard dri­ves — not a sin­gle one has yet “fall­en down”. Prob­a­bly every­one has heard of the WD Blue line — let’s take it.

Frame

The case should be select­ed based on the dimen­sions of the com­po­nents. The form fac­tor of the moth­er­board and pow­er sup­ply should not be larg­er than the form fac­tor of the case. Also look at the length of the video card and the height of the CPU cool­er if you plan to install tow­er cool­ing on the CPU.

We liked the Zal­man i3 Black mod­el. This is an ATX case with built-in fans, there are also addi­tion­al places for mount­ing turnta­bles. Pow­er sup­ply mounts — bot­tom. Of the minus­es — a lot of weight and only 2 bays for 3.5 for­mat hard dri­ves.

The cost of a fin­ished com­put­er will depend on the spe­cif­ic choice of com­po­nents. But, rest assured, it is these com­po­nents that will allow you to get the max­i­mum result for every ruble invest­ed. If you need more build options, look for them here.

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