PC for Home office - Productivity. Budget 40K for AMD rig

[getvmurali]

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.' Vague answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work.)
Ans: Home office. Mostly MS-Office, trading, multi media

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then please mention.
Ans: 40K

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Win 11 Home (already have a licensed version)

5. How much hard drive / solid-state drive space is needed?
Ans: 250 GB

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention the screen size and resolution you prefer. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, then do mention the screen size and resolution of the monitor you have.
Ans: No. already have a 22" Monitor

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy? i.e. which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: KBD, Mouse and Monitor

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: in the next 2 weeks time

9. Have you ever built a desktop before? Or, will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: By Assembler in Chennai

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Chennai

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans:
1. Wanted AMD rig with 5600G. Don't want a dedicated GPU
2. MB should be best value for money with good VRAM support and with Wifi and BT support (latest versions)
3. Need 16GB RAM
4. Need the smallest build since I have space constraint in my house
5. Not keen in RGB cabinets

 

[nac]

You can comfortably fit these in your budget.

Ryzen 5600G
B550M PRO VDH WIFI (Make sure it's 5000 series APU ready, if not get it updated when buying).
2 x 8GB 3600mhz DDR4 Memory (Corsair/G Skill/Adata/Kingston)
WD Blue SN570 500GB NVME drive
Corsair CV450
You can find cases with 3-4 fans pre installed from Deepcool, Antec in the price range of 3 - 4k. Take your pick. Prefer the ones that comes with filters.

 

[omega44-xt]

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI has a weird positioning for front USB 3.0 connector (its placed below SATA & not facing upwards). So the cabinet should not block it. A friend faced this issue with Deepcool Matrexx 30 cabinet as the HDD cage was in the way. Matrexx 40 is a step up & from the looks of it, won't be an issue. If RGB fan will bother you too much, get the non 3FS variant for 3k which has just a single non-RGB fan at the rear. It will be enough for cooling when doing basic tasks.

pcpricetracker.in/b/s/c8ca0cb6-1dc4-4b05-b9ab-6cfc9210146d

 

[getvmurali]

Thanks both. May I ask why we are going with B550 board. Can we do with a 450 one?

Wanted to understand the benefits of B550 over a B450

 

[omega44-xt]

Thanks both. May I ask why we are going with B550 board. Can we do with a 450 one?

Wanted to understand the benefits of B550 over a B450

Better VRM, Gen4 SSD & GPU support (not with 5600G though, CPU limitation), don't remember what else is different but that one is a great B550 mobo with WiFi under 11k, has good enough VRMs to handle even 5800X3D if you decide to upgrade for gaming purposes. Not much point in saving 2-3k with B450 IMO.

It fits your budget, so why second guess.

 

[nac]

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI has a weird positioning for front USB 3.0 connector (its placed below SATA & not facing upwards). So the cabinet should not block it. A friend faced this issue with Deepcool Matrexx 30 cabinet as the HDD cage was in the way. Matrexx 40 is a step up & from the looks of it, won't be an issue. If RGB fan will bother you too much, get the non 3FS variant for 3k which has just a single non-RGB fan at the rear. It will be enough for cooling when doing basic tasks.

pcpricetracker.in/b/s/c8ca0cb6-1dc4-4b05-b9ab-6cfc9210146d

It looks like it's impossible to plug front USB 3. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[omega44-xt]

It looks like it's impossible to plug front USB 3. Thanks for pointing it out.

It will be fine on a case with no obstruction on right side of mobo, which is majority of expensive cases. But on my friend's scenario, the cabinet (Matrexx 30) had a 3 slot HDD cage which blocked the USB 3.0 port. Unlucky combination for him.

 

[getvmurali]

Thanks all for the help. There is slight change in the plan.

Instead of the onboard wifi and BT, is it advisable to go with an pcie adapter, like this?

*www.tp-link.com/in/home-networking/pci-adapter/archer-tx20e/

In case we are to go with TP link AX1800, which model of B450 MB will be the best?

 

[omega44-xt]

Thanks all for the help. There is slight change in the plan.

Instead of the onboard wifi and BT, is it advisable to go with an pcie adapter, like this?

**www.tp-link.com/in/home-networking/pci-adapter/archer-tx20e/

In case we are to go with TP link AX1800, which model of B450 MB will be the best?

No

How much are you even saving by getting B450 + that 3k adapter vs say buying the B550 Pro VDH WiFi at 10.5k or so? That B550 is a better mobo as well, surely lacks WiFi 6 support, but WiFi 5 is still good.

 

[getvmurali]

No

How much are you even saving by getting B450 + that 3k adapter vs say buying the B550 Pro VDH WiFi at 10.5k or so? That B550 is a better mobo as well, surely lacks WiFi 6 support, but WiFi 5 is still good.

Thanks. In case if we wanted to go for best value for money B550 motherboard without wifi/BT, which one would you adivce?

 

[omega44-xt]

Thanks. In case if we wanted to go for best value for money B550 motherboard without wifi/BT, which one would you adivce?

Maybe Gigayte B550M DS3H, but that is still 9k. The MSI one has much better VRMs as well as WiFi + BT for 1.5k extra. If you have LAN connection, get a cheap B450 to save enough money, MSI B450M-A PRO MAX for 6k should be ok.