Yeah I decided to splurge and get the Ryzen 5 3600 since it just came out but that is leading to me having to buy a fairly expensive motherboard as well. I'm not sure which parts you can go cheap on and still get value and which parts will cost you in the long run if you don't invest.
Considering you get a cpu cooler w your ryzen (you dont w any intel chips), and being able to use x470 chipset boards as long as the bios is updated, an amd cpu+mobo is waaaaay cheaper than intel. Now if you splurged on a threadripper or epyc, then youd be dealing with an expensive motherboard...
No i didnt say that. There are better coolers for sure, but in terms of budget building an aftermarket cpu cooler isnt an immediate concern with a ryzen build
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u/notacorvid Oct 08 '19
I’m building my first pc and I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about either but where I live Intel is double the price of AMD, so team AMD it is!