Drop the thermal paste, the stock cooler comes with thermal paste.
If you want x570, spend 30$ more on Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite, excellent motherboard at $200.
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 ATX Motherboard - Newegg.com
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
Otherwise, lots of good MSI B450 chipset based motherboards that are just as good : B450-A Pro , B450 Gaming Plus, B450 Tomohawk ..
MSI B450-A PRO AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX AM4 AMD B450 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
Don't waste your money on a 1TB hard drive. Instead of shitty SSD and shitty HDD, spend more and buy just a SSD, get a 512GB or a 960GB-1TB SSD for around 80-100$. At that price range you get higher quality, longer lasting, more reliable SSDs than that A400 ssd, and 1 TB is not enough for a mechanical drive in 2019.... I'd get mechanical drives only from 3 TB and up.
The case is fine, with decent air flow, you don't need to throw away 25$ on a fan ... you don't have high heat producing components in the case anyway.
Case also comes with 2 fans in the front, so if you really want to you could unscrew one from the front and move it to the back of your case to pull out the warm air from the cpu area - one fan in front is enough to push air towards the video card and one in the back is enough to pull out warm air that rises.
Use those 25$ and the 5$ from thermal paste to get the x570 Elite board, or use them on the SSD budget.
Also, you can always buy additional fans later.
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