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.
The only reson I can think of to want integrated graphics is because you have 5 monitors and graphics cards generally only have 4 outputs, but if that's not the case, you should be fine without. 5700x3d as another commentor said is decent, I would go look at the Gamer's Nexus charts to compare models.
Ram should only be used with the sticks in the kit because they are binned so tight. If they're off by a little bit, you'll lose a lot of performace, so you want to upgrade to 32 GB, you'll have to buy a 32 GB kit.
Sata drives need to be connected directly to the mobo, so if you want more storage, you'll have to swap a drive with no empty sata ports, but looking up your mobo, I'm seeing at least 4 ports, 3 in the bottom right and one spaced a little higher, so do you have disc drives or something taking up the other 2 ports left from your hard disks?
Integrated graphics is mainly as a backup plan for when discrete GPU conks off.
Presently the 2 sticks of RAM although of same brand and specification, were bought a month or two apart. So not sure if they are working as intended. How to confirm if they are working in dual channel mode or not?
If the dimms are in the correct slots, they should be in dual channel. I belive cpuz shows memory information. I did some more reading on mixing memory and I remembered things a little off. The rule of thumb to not mix kits only applies to if you're going for peak performance, but otherwise if you match speeds and timings it should work fine but you'll loose the top 0.5% of performance, which is margin of error. If you start mixing timings and speeds, it will all run at the lower speeds if it works,but you run the risk of incompatibility, which generally shouldn't be a problem, but you could get unlucky, so taking that risk is entirely up to you.