I have an AM4 based desktop with the following current configuration:
- Ryzen 2200G CPU
- 8 x 2 DDR4 3000 MHz RAM
- RX 7600 GPU
- Gigabyte B450M D3SH motherboard
- Corsair RM550 PSU
- 1 GB M2 NVME disk
- 2 HDDs - 1 mirroring the NVME and the other as data drive
- Acer FullHD flat panel with FreeSync
Goals are casual gaming at 1080p or slightly lower resolution, target fps 30+
Please give me suggestions for:
- Best AM4 CPU available now (a) with no integrated graphics (b) with integrated graphics.
- How would you rate Ryzen 5700G for this setup? It is available and budget friendly.
- Can I buy 3200 MHz RAM to fill the 2 vacant RAM slots in my motherboard so that I can continue to get dual channel benefit? 3000 MHz RAM seems to be no longer available from the brand/locally.
- 1 GB SATA SSD for cheap purely to store game installations (Crucial BX) but there is no spare SATA port in the motherboard, is there a way to connect 2 HDDs to same SATA port?
EDIT 1: I think there are 3 HDDs and 1 DVD drive occupying all 4 motherboard SATA ports. I erred in the post above earlier.
How often are you planning on having your dgpu fail?
Yeah it’s nice as a backup, but why spend more money for a worse performing chip? On the used market a 5700x/5800x can be pretty damn cheap. But the APU variant is a lot less common, and as a CPU performs worse because it’s completely different from the 5700x that shares its name.
Recently I am thinking like that too, but my previous cards failed within 2 years.