Need Help for building a PC of Friend

[Afnan Mahmood]

I am going to build a system for a friend of Mechanical Engg.

The build I have decided is:
>i5 8400 processor
>Gigabyte h370-hd3 mobo
>16 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz (8GBx2) RAM (GSkill, Corsair etc.)
>Segate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive
>Cooler Master VS650 PSU
>Samsung 850 250GB SSD
>GPU will be added in near future

He use most of his computer for the following tasks:
MS Office, Matlab, ANYS, Solid Works (Not Big assemblies e.g the cage of car), Primere Pro (Editing light 1080p footage), Photoshop, Maybe some light gaming (Can be done on integrated GPU) & Illustrator.

He will be using this computer for round about 5 years. I need your opinions whether this PC will be worth it or should make changes.

Important Note:
Due to the high USD rate here in Pakistan. This is the least which I can do.

[suchamoneypit]

For probably less money you could instead use a Ryzen 2600 and you would get 6 cores 12 thread instead of the 8400's 6 cores 6 threads which would very useful as it seems this is a very workstation oriented build which would greatly benefit from more CPU threads. You would need at least a cheapo gpu to get display output though as it doesn't have an igpu. Should he want to upgrade, he'll have a plethora of drop-in upgrade options on the AM4 motherboard socket.

[NunoLava1998]

AM4 is better as @suchamoneypit has said, and the VS PSU is pretty trash.

[paddy-stone]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	₹17299.00 @ Amazon India
Motherboard	MSI - B450M MORTAR TITANIUM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	₹12250.00 @ Amazon India
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	₹12000.00 @ Amazon India
Storage	Patriot - Burst 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	₹4542.43 @ Amazon India
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	₹7392.00 @ Amazon India
Video Card	PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Video Card	₹20300.00 @ Amazon India
Case	Thermaltake - Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	₹9999.00 @ Amazon India
Power Supply	Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	₹3988.00 @ Amazon India
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	₹87770.43
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-27 15:26 IST+0530

 

Any good? don't know Indian prices, I know you're from Pakistan, that's the closest PCPP I could select.

[paddy-stone]

Sorry wrong link  before.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	₹17299.00 @ Amazon India
Motherboard	MSI - B450M MORTAR TITANIUM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	₹12250.00 @ Amazon India
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	₹12000.00 @ Amazon India
Storage	Patriot - Burst 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	₹4542.43 @ Amazon India
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	₹7392.00 @ Amazon India
Video Card	PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8 GB Video Card	₹20300.00 @ Amazon India
Case	Thermaltake - View 28 RGB Riing Edition ATX Mid Tower Case	₹7650.00 @ Amazon India
Power Supply	Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	₹3988.00 @ Amazon India
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	₹85421.43
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-27 15:29 IST+0530

 

[Afnan Mahmood]

4 hours ago, suchamoneypit said:

For probably less money you could instead use a Ryzen 2600 and you would get 6 cores 12 thread instead of the 8400's 6 cores 6 threads which would very useful as it seems this is a very workstation oriented build which would greatly benefit from more CPU threads. You would need at least a cheapo gpu to get display output though as it doesn't have an igpu. Should he want to upgrade, he'll have a plethora of drop-in upgrade options on the AM4 motherboard socket.

@suchamoneypit  I agree with u Ryzen is better. Ryzen 2600 is not available now in Pak. Only option was the Ryzen 7 1700X which costed about 33,000 PKR , i5 8400 costs 35,000 PKR and i7 8700 50,000 PKR. Ryzen does not have integrated graphics so I have to add a GPU which kicks off my budget (Thats why i am going to add the gpu later, will be using intel hd for now).
 If i would have been in us i would definitely go 4 the ryzen. thanks 4 replying though.

[Afnan Mahmood]

4 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

AM4 is better as @suchamoneypit has said, and the VS PSU is pretty trash.

Yeah I will look towards changing the PSU. Is FSP good?

[suchamoneypit]

On 1/27/2019 at 9:04 AM, Afnan Mahmood said:

@suchamoneypit  I agree with u Ryzen is better. Ryzen 2600 is not available now in Pak. Only option was the Ryzen 7 1700X which costed about 33,000 PKR , i5 8400 costs 35,000 PKR and i7 8700 50,000 PKR. Ryzen does not have integrated graphics so I have to add a GPU which kicks off my budget (Thats why i am going to add the gpu later, will be using intel hd for now).
 If i would have been in us i would definitely go 4 the ryzen. thanks 4 replying though.

The 1700x would be even better than a 2600. By cheapo GPU I mean a like $20-40 GPU just to get a display output. It probably be faster than the igpu in the 8400 anyways.