Help with Mini-ITX Gaming Build

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Pemalite said:

Have you thought about going Ryzen? AMD is smashing it right now... And for good reason.

The ASUS ROG Strix B450-I Gaming + Ryzen 7 2700 would be hard to pass up right now.


...Also. Why the Sata SSD? Go big or go home! :) (Hint: NVMe)
It's hard not to recommend Crucial at the moment... Great price/performance across the spectrum.

In any case, just 500GB is pretty small and will only allow a couple games to be installed these days.

Hence my suggestion: First, get an AMD CPU. Then, get a 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD and a 2TB 2.5" HDD and combine them with AMDs StoreMI into one single drive that's as fast as a SATA SSD but costs significantly less for the amount of storage it provides.

The thing with Pemalite's suggested AMD CPU & mobo is that they're coming in at £244.98 & £158.99, compared to £179.99 & £95.48 for the 8400 & mobo I originally suggested...

On top of that, from what I can see from this article, the 8400 is faster for gaming than every Ryzen chip... So what am I missing - why would I pay significantly more for less performance?

Re. M.2 NVMe SSDs, I didn't even know they were a thing :)  Will definitely have a rethink on that one!