Tragthemercenary Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 In the next week, I'm going to a Best Buy to purchase a new gaming rig. Note that my current PC is seven years old, and though it functions perfectly, it's barely able to handle Skyrim Special Edition, and cannot handle anything that requires anything over 4 gigs of RAM. What is your general impression of AMD Ryzen 5 1500x Specifications:Storage: HDDHard Drive: SATAHD Capacity: 3000 GigsGraphics: NVIDEA GForce 1050 tiRAM: 16 gigsProcessor speed: 3.5 ghzType: AMD Ryzen 5Operating System: Windows 10 I'm just buying the processing tower, as I have a 24inch monitor, Razer Ornata Chrome keyboard, and logitec gaming mouse. Impressions, ideas, suggestions? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pru777 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Hi Tragthemercenary, I haven't used the Ryzen 5 1500x but having built a new pc about 18 months ago and based it around the i7 6850 I really wished I had waited until the Ryzens had come out. But hey that's why hindsight is always 100%. The Gforce 1050Ti will knock spots of Skyrim especially over old rig. A good place to have a look at your components for yourself is www.cpubenchmark.net...it will make you depressed tbh and fall off your chair at the prices of some of the bits n pieces. One thing I have spotted about your choices is the Sata.... if you could grab a cheap SSD to drop Win10 onto you will see a huge increase in performance. If your mobo has a slot for a SSD all well and good but if not you could grab a board for a pci slot and slap it in there. Hope this helps. Best Wishes to you and yours, Pru777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaizeld Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Shop around before going to best buy is my advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tragthemercenary Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Hi Tragthemercenary, I haven't used the Ryzen 5 1500x but having built a new pc about 18 months ago and based it around the i7 6850 I really wished I had waited until the Ryzens had come out. But hey that's why hindsight is always 100%. The Gforce 1050Ti will knock spots of Skyrim especially over old rig. A good place to have a look at your components for yourself is www.cpubenchmark.net...it will make you depressed tbh and fall off your chair at the prices of some of the bits n pieces. One thing I have spotted about your choices is the Sata.... if you could grab a cheap SSD to drop Win10 onto you will see a huge increase in performance. If your mobo has a slot for a SSD all well and good but if not you could grab a board for a pci slot and slap it in there. Hope this helps. Best Wishes to you and yours, Pru777 Thanks very much. I appreciate the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik005 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) A modern PC needs an ssd, a cheap NVME one would be perfect for Ryzen Edited February 28, 2018 by Erik005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tragthemercenary Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 Gentlemen (and lady?), I ended up buying an ACER, with the 7th Generation 7700 processor, Hybrid 256GB SSD/1 TB SATA, NVIDIA 1060 Graphics, and 16 gigs of RAM (upgradable to to 64 gigs). I'm a little worried about the graphics card (it's 3 gigs), but just in case, I have a 4-gig NVIDIA 1050 ti, sitting around. Thanks for your recommendations! The original computer that was shipped to me was the CYBERPOWER with the Ryzen microprocessor, but I returned it. The thing was not packed properly inside (the disk drive was on the floor of the case, when I received it, and the graphics card was bent downward). It would not even boot up the Windows 10. I did some more research, and the Acer ariives, tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik005 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) The 1060 3gb is a lot faster than the 1050ti regardless of the size of the memory buffer. The 7700 runs hot make so sure the case has enough airflow. Why last gen Intel you know the 8th generation has six cores on the i5's right, and they are probably cheaper. Edited March 12, 2018 by Erik005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tragthemercenary Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 Thanks, Erik005, for the advice. I'm going to add extra cooling to it, as soon as I can, and I always use an external fan on my computers, to keep air flowing inside the case. I would completely open the case and use it that way, if I wasn't worried about dust or liquids getting into it. I appreciate the information about the 1060. I checked the specs on my games, and I don't have any that requires more than 1 gig of RAM, in the graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik005 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Thanks, Erik005, for the advice. I'm going to add extra cooling to it, as soon as I can, and I always use an external fan on my computers, to keep air flowing inside the case. I would completely open the case and use it that way, if I wasn't worried about dust or liquids getting into it. I appreciate the information about the 1060. I checked the specs on my games, and I don't have any that requires more than 1 gig of RAM, in the graphics card. The CPU cooling might be loud just prepare for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonewax Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 running a ryzen 5 1600 myself. Had to use my gtx 980 ti 6gb because gfx card prices are obscene right now but my 980 handles skyrim like buttah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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