I've decided now to go for a ryzen 5 when it comes out instead of an i5 build. I need some advice on which ryzen 5 to go for, mobo, gpu and ram. I've been watching quite a few videos on ryzen 7 benchmark videos and most of them seem to have the Asrock X370 k4 but thats what they were sent to test the ryzen with. Should i go for that board or a different one?
So far I've only got a Nzxt s340 elite case with the nzxt x62 liquid cooler (am4 bracket on order) 2 ssd and 1 normal hdd.
only preference I've got on a motherboard is easy overclocking features and I prefer the ones with the cover over the ports at the back as ill have a glass panel on the case. I know that a lot of these am4 boards need bios updates to run better so ideally I'd like a board that has a current update available.
These are some of the boards I've had a look at,
MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON for £156
ASRock AMD AM4 Ryzen X370 Gaming K4 £155
Gigabyte AORUS AMD Ryzen AM4 AX370 GAMING K5 £150
MSI AMD AM4 Ryzen X370 KRAIT GAMING £151
or should I go for a b350 board and save around £50?
For the gpu should I go for a amd or nvidia card. Couple I've seen on offer are:
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC for £335
MSI Radeon RX 480 Armor OC 8GB for £199
Only thing left now is the ram, ideally looking to spend around £150 on 3200mhz 16gb. thanks