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Budget AMD System

stlwrx
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Hi All,

 

I'm building a budget system for my buddy's sons birthday; around $550 budget. I have a lot of experience building high-end windows gaming machines but not AMD. What are your opinions on the below system? He will mainly use it for fortnite, twitch, youtube videos, Borderlands, etc. I went with AMD due to the onboard GPU and the included cooler. All these parts are from my local MicroCenter.

 

NZXT H500

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6 Core

ASRock AB350 Pro4 AM4 ATX AMD Motherboard

Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB - Bundle of two 8GB DDR4-2666

Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500 Watt 80 Plus ATX Power Supply

Inland Professional 240GB 3D TLC NAND SATA III 6GB/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (240G)

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  • Try and get faster RAM for Ryzen, something 3000mhz plus.
  • As mentioned, only the "g" CPUs from AMD have integrated graphics.
  • 240GB of storage is going to disappear very, very quickly. Try to up it to at least 500GB, or consider adding an HDD.

 

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz

Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

OG Gaming Rig - Gone

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CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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4 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

Mainstream Ryzen CPUs don't have iGPU. If due to limited budget you can't afford a decent discrete gpu, i would recommend APU like 2200g / 2400g which both feature a very capable iGPU for moderately demanding games like Fortnite.

Ok - what about:

 

AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Gigabyte B450 AORUS M AM4 mATX AMD Motherboard

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