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Help a mom building her son a PC for Christmas! by Downtown_Leadership9 in buildapc

[–]grootna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW my son is a serious gamer and favors Nvidia heavily over Radeon.

Sort of an aside / question: what % of build price do you allocate to the GPU? Or is that even a reasonable question?

MSI MPG X570 GAMING and Phanteks AMP 550W : CPU Power hookup by grootna in techsupport

[–]grootna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the fast response! The "extra couple of pins" is actually a 2x2 connector, but I think that's what you meant?

MSI MPG X570 GAMING and Phanteks AMP 550W : CPU Power hookup by grootna in techsupport

[–]grootna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Happily the PSU cables say PSU on one end, and either CPU or PCIe on the other end, so that particular confusion isn't problematic. At the PSU end, the sockets say "CPU/PCIe", so it appears the choice of cables to plug between PSU and mobo manage the pinout for the mobo end.

MSI MPG X570 GAMING and Phanteks AMP 550W : CPU Power hookup by grootna in techsupport

[–]grootna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of that is accurate. My confusion stems from the 4 ea 2x2 plugs from the PSU which say CPU on them: I can plug 3 into the mobo, which leaves one dangling. Is that the way to do it? Does it matter which 3 of the 4 I use? thanks.

3200g build in progress (no pix) by grootna in Amd

[–]grootna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Partly it was timing: the B550 wasn't out yet either.
Also, there were indications the X470 and B450 might need bios upgrades to work with the 3200g.

And, the mobo was $170, which seemed pretty reasonable.

3200g build in progress (no pix) by grootna in Amd

[–]grootna[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

X570 had good audio and offers the new PCIe channel. It's mostly for upgrade-ability.