Nice community of enthusiasts here

Recently, I also want to make a rig with similar budget to replace my very old laptop... RM conversion to USD are too much for me to buy another decent laptop XD

Hence, I have to do my research for making rig, last time was more than 15years... hahaha... hiks... I'm getting old...

Regarding to this comment...
^most of the statements are solid. However, for b350 series of Gigabyte aren't that tolerant to heat unfortunately: https://youtu.be/ZGrxhf_xZWI?t=14m10s
Just get only if you get a good price and make sure get the one with heatsink unless only 4 cores processor used. if only based on VRM, I'll take MSI boards with 4+2 designs any day.

Concerning TS questions for mother boards: the sweet spot would be Asrock b350 pro4 priced around 4XXRM although it is only 3+2 VRM but it has all the necessary things like 2 x m.2 slot! specifically if your work requires a lot of disk space, you can just pop in NVME drive in the future once it is cheaper / you have the budget. Unless you plan to overlock 3+2 VRM would be just fine.

Additionally, waiting for another couple of months would be better options if possible. Until the support of the new architecture is stabilised. There are always "bugs" for new tech... specifically ryzen has significant changes compared to previous generation... I know shops will hate me by sharing this fact

Additionally, in order to put more oil to the discussion, memory quality (speed and latency) is important when you build Ryzen based rig for overall performance (either for gaming or productivity) due to it's Infinity Fabric architecture, and yet the BIOS for Ryzen is not yet optimal at this moment. The current high performance memory are settings are for Intel. This doesn't mean you can get high performance in Ryzen, "just" requires some manual settings to get it the performance otherwise it will be clocked at lower speed or higher latency. And only some mobos allowed to change this settings at the moment; mostly high end as far as I know: X370 based XD

Nevertheless, thanks for AMD for releasing Ryzen as it makes PC building more sophisticated and fun again!

^ double mosfet will indeed decrease temp one of the reason is due to surface area. Since, you like Gigabyte, they used to have 2oz copper super durable something... can't remember exactly... that's also meant to minimise the resistance from delivery from VRM to CPU socket, this also reducing heat as resistance = heat But I guess Gigabyte no longer selling this, maybe replacing it with RGB LED as it is more obvious to see although it doesn't bring any performance benefit XD

And I agree that most people who buy the 1800x will be most likely pairing it with x370 series mobo instead. However, who know's you might upgrade your CPU in the future when the price is lower as I heard that AM4 would be supported like 4 years; good for cheapskate like me LOL. Though no one could guarantee. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/24225...zes-hard-launch

Nevertheless, I just want to get the most of my budget, most bang for the bucks I don't really bother about the brand.


^ Did you update your BIOS recently? care to share what is your setup? I'm quite curious specifically in the memory department, if you don't mind, kindly share the memory spec (clock/speed/voltage) spec vs actual.
This is my current concern to postpone hahaha... as the RAM price now is hiked, I want to be as closed as the spec it stated LOL

Thanks and that's nice freq and tight latency where did you get this lpx series corsair?
I assumes you use x370 chipset mobo with external memory clock generator / modulator to get that frequency

Good if you're happy on your Ryzen purchase
I shall state my purpose of building the rig as everyone has different needs. My plan for is to utilise it for virtualisation / programming purpose, hence: memory (speed and size) as important as the cpu cores (not to mention storage with good random access performance).
With the situation like this, I'd rather wait. My other alternative is to get X99 intel based system but I need to dig my pocket deeper XD

Nevertheless, it always a good thing to know before making a purchase; whether it is computer or other stuff; and this forum like this has always been a good source of information

^most likely isn't problem on the cpu or memory or mobo... usually more severe than this...
you can try to change update your gpu driver if still the same try to put other graphic card.