Well, i'm running a Corsair RM850x PSU on a sort of similar build on an 1800x which is like 10 more watts. But i'm also running a d5 pump in a full loop which adds around 30w.

To be safe i'd say 750w. To future proof, another 850 would be a solid choice. Unless of course you plan on doing Ti cards in SLI or something silly. I still believe that a 650w would work for now, though it's always safe to future proof.

Edit* i don't recall ever having the fan on this PSU turn on. I don't think it turns on until around 400w worth of load. FWIW.

 

Funny you should mention the fan thing. After reading up about how they handle the fan curve in these things, it sounds like it doesn't even bother to turn on until you hit 40-50% load anyway. That makes the 750W is start to sound a lot better. Thanks for weighting in

 

Sooo story time. 2 monthsish ago i bought a ryzen 1700 with 3000mhz gskill ram and asrock fatal1ty gaming k4 mobo. Used my oem windows cd. Apparently its fucked up because the system kept on crashing. I updated it as far as i could but it still kept crashing. Borrowed corsair 3200mhz ram from a buddy, no luck. Returned it. Exchanged it for another 1700 with asus prime x370pro mobo and corsair vengeance 3200mhz ram. Was told to install the creators update and then it ran fine with that for a month overclocked to 3.75. Then it started crashing again every 10 minutes. At that point I said **** it and returned everything to the store.

 

"crash"

Not even a single BSOD code?

 

The only time I've had multiple crashes with no BSOD was a dying video card.

 

I've had PSUs do it. Even a short in the system do it. Kinda silly to blame this on ryzen.

 

I'm starting to think it may be time for an upgrade. Eight years is a pretty good life for a desktop PC...





I should note that I'm not even running AutoCAD or anything special in the background. Just a few dozen tabs across four browsers, my VMware sandbox machine, and VLC.

 

Looks like you need to download more RAM.

 

Do you want 8 more years out of a PC?

Really the argument is how cheap do you want to be. Because for your tasks you can literally get by with some low end hardware these days.

I always recommend an SSD these days or even NVME. Never go back to physical drives. 4 core 8 thread is enough. 16gb of ram just because. Reuse or buy some used video card. All set.

 

I agree. Sadly, this motherboard is maxed out at 16.



Ideally, yes. I'm pretty sure this machine is the longest-lasting home PC I've had, and I'm both cheap and greedy.


I'm already running a 250 GB SSD as the boot & applications drive, with data on a dedicated 1 TB spinny-rust drive, media on 6 TB of rotating oxide, another 1 TB spinner as an overnight differential backup volume for the first two and a 120 GB SSD as the pagefile drive.

Current CPU is an i5-750 (Nehalem), which is a 4-core. No in-socket upgrade path available from here, and as you can see, it's running at near maximum.

Already have 16 GB of RAM, which is maxed for this board, and as said above, the pagefile is also on its own dedicated SSD.



Not really looking for advice, just randomly bitching. At some point I'll get tired enough of it to do something...

 

What are your storage needs like? SSD is the way to go for your OS and frequently used programs, but for mass storage they are not cheap - i dunno how big your **** folder is but you can pickup 2TB seagates for around $70 for file storage. That being said a 500GB Samsung SSD is around $180 now..big enough for OS + programs.

 

joe, you want my old MB, cpu, and ram?

 

Serious question: which CPU?

 

MB BIOSTAR TA970 AM3+ AMD970 R
CPU AMD 8-CORE FX-8320 3.5G 8M R
MEM 8G CRUCIAL BLS8G3D1609DS1S00 R x 4

it's only 4 years now, so youll get another 4 years out of it!

 

Joe, remember how scott couldn't do modern computer tasks with that setup so he upgraded to a slightly faster Intel mobo cpu combo?

 

Uhm... how do I say this politely?

No thank you.

 

its your funeral.

 

Someday, your parents will explain it to you.

 

Nice, but should have gone for NVMe. Basically up-to 5x SSD speed.

 

Speaking of NVME I put a heatsink on mine. It lowered temperature s from 52C to 40C. Hopefully it extends the life a little.