With PSU, motherboard, case.. Totaling ~350 USD
I hope I won't get any defective products as returns are quite annoying in Indonesia.
Will assemble it in a week or two when I'm home.
Anyway, now I just realized that I forgot to budget for Windows 10 license ~/[°_°]/
Should have posted this here before I bough them....
I also read somewhere that DDR4 RAM could have compatibility issues with motherboard, making it run in lower mhz (albeit on the other hand you'll be able to lower the CL)
Ugh..
Hopefully I won't get hit by any bugs or edge cases as I'm buying an old cpu with an old chipset (b450)
You should not have issues with the Ryzen 2600 or using a B450 motherboard. Just be sure to use the latest BIOS for the motherboard.
I am retiring my original HTPC from 2011 that used an Intel Q9300 processor on a 775 motherboard.
Over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend I was able to procure an AMD Ryzen 2700X / ASRock B450M Pro4 combo deal for $194 USD including taxes at my local Microcenter.
The motherboard (
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B450M Pro4) came with the latest BIOS version 3.60. As for RAM I purchased Team T-Force Vulcan Z 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR4-3200 (TLRED48G3200HC16CDC01) for $40 USD when it was on a fire sale last July.
The RAM and Processor worked flawlessly in the B450 motherboard out of the box. Even enabling the XMP mode and running the memory at 3200 MHz had no issues. I then tweaked the memory settings using the "DRAM Calculator for Ryzen" (
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ryzen-dram-calculator) and got it to run at CL14 settings again flawlessly. So even if the RAM is not on the OVL list doesn't exclude it from working.
It is best to use Memtest86 for testing memory stability especially if it is tweaked:
https://www.memtest86.com
Windows 10 was free because I used the code from an old Windows 7 COA sticker.
Case was no cost because it came from a previous HTPC build.
Power supply is a Raidmax 735 watt for $35 after rebate
Video card is an old Maxwell GTX 750 for HTPC use. Again from the original HTPC.
Total cost for upgrading my HTPC is $194+$40+$35 = $269.
Since I edit out commercials and transcode using the CPU (best details) I needed an 8-core modern processor and the AMD Ryzen 2700X (
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/AMD-Ryzen 7 2700X.html) fit the bill nicely.
Since the HTPC is on 24/7 I will also be mining Monero (XMR) using XMRig (
https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v5.2.0) to help defer the cost further. The extra heat in the living room in winter is also a bonus.