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Got together with my brothers in law last night to build a pc for one of them. We reused my 1050Ti and the others Ryzen 5 3600. All other parts are new. Had a blast!

AMDRyzen 5 3600
MSI 1050Ti Gaming X
Gigabyte B450 Aorus wifi
Team Group 2x8 GB 3200 MHz
1 TB SSD NVME
Phanteks P300a and Phanteks fans.

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Very nice, I like building PCs as well.

One thing I would've done different in this build is go with a B550 board, this way you cold upgrade to a Ryzen 5000 series chip. Ryzen will soon lunch a new 7000 series chip, so the 5000 will drop in price quite a lot. They already did and will probably drop even more.

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After checking, shoud've done that before posting, B450 boards can be upgraded to a 5000 chip but with a bios update. So OP is good to go if he wishes to upgrade the CPU in the future.
 
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I'm targeting november for a new build.
Not sure on amd 7000 series or intel raptor lake.
nvidia 4080 Although they have 2 different 4080's the 12GB and 16GB and the 16GB is more like a TI model.. confusing naming.
see here: https://www.techpowerup.com/298853/...ifferent-chips-vastly-different-shader-counts

2TB new gen m.2 ssd with 7000MB~~ read/write
new 1000w atx gen 3 power supply with 16pin connector for GPU.
32GB ddr5-6000?

Reuse some storage hdd from current PC.
new case.

Would be nice if mobo supported 2x m.2 drives so I could use my 1TB current m.2 ssd as a steam drive.

Current build is skylake i7-6700k 16GB nvidia 2060 (previous build was i5-2500k 16GB 970)
 
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I'm targeting november for a new build.
Not sure on amd 7000 series or intel raptor lake.
nvidia 4080 Although they have 2 different 4080's the 12GB and 16GB and the 16GB is more like a TI model.. confusing naming.
see here: https://www.techpowerup.com/298853/...ifferent-chips-vastly-different-shader-counts

2TB new gen m.2 ssd with 7000MB~~ read/write
new 1000w atx gen 3 power supply with 16pin connector for GPU.
32GB ddr5-6000?

Reuse some storage hdd from current PC.
new case.

Would be nice if mobo supported 2x m.2 drives so I could use my 1TB current m.2 ssd as a steam drive.

Current build is skylake i7-6700k 16GB nvidia 2060 (previous build was i5-2500k 16GB 970)
WOW! That will be one high end gaming machine.

And the new X670 board will support 3x m.2 drives but probably with different PCIe speeds. My current B550 board has two m.2 drives. But one is PCIe 4.0 and the other PCIe 3.0. Not a big deal for me.
 
WOW! That will be one high end gaming machine.

And the new X670 board will support 3x m.2 drives but probably with different PCIe speeds. My current B550 board has two m.2 drives. But one is PCIe 4.0 and the other PCIe 3.0. Not a big deal for me.
currnt drive is a 1TB 3.0 with around 3000MB read would be nice to reuse that.
I have an old samsung 950pro I can put back in. with the 2060 in it is still serviceable as gaming pc.
Probably gift it to a buddy who has fallen on hard times.
 
I recently upgraded the three home computers with I7 processors (5100 series if I remember) from I3 and SSD's. Does that count? Running Linux and no gaming so the old stuff is fine (and cheap) with my computing. Also they are mini ITX boards in small cases and don't take up much desk space.
 
Very nice, I like building PCs as well.

One thing I would've done different in this build is go with a B550 board, this way you cold upgrade to a Ryzen 5000 series chip. Ryzen will soon lunch a new 7000 series chip, so the 5000 will drop in price quite a lot. They already did and will probably drop even more.

Edit:
After checking, shoud've done that before posting, B450 boards can be upgraded to a 5000 chip but with a bios update. So OP is good to go if he wishes to upgrade the CPU in the future.
I like your thinking! We decide to stick with B450 to save money. He needed a wifi mobo and it seemed like a good middle of the road choice.
 
One thing I would've done different in this build is go with a B550 board, this way you cold upgrade to a Ryzen 5000 series chip. Ryzen will soon lunch a new 7000 series chip, so the 5000 will drop in price quite a lot. They already did and will probably drop even more.

Edit:
After checking, shoud've done that before posting, B450 boards can be upgraded to a 5000 chip but with a bios update. So OP is good to go if he wishes to upgrade the CPU in the future.
Lowly B350 boards can use 5000-series CPUs too. Though most (all?) will only be PCIe 3.0 instead of 4.0. That's a minor thing that barely affects most people. Of course a main thing about lower-end boards is their power capability. People have put 12+ core CPUs on lowly B350s and even A320s but that's not recommended.
 
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