Good PC build?

[Waynelu127]

(Sorry if this post shouldn't be under Graphics Cards) My friend is trying to build his 1st PC, and his budget is low $1000. I attached his current build, is there anything he should change or upgrade? Thank you. 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$179.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.88 @ OutletPC
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$87.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$77.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$59.78 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Zotac - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB GAMING Video Card	$348.99 @ SuperBiiz
Case	NZXT - H500 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	$69.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$50.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1035.59
	Mail-in rebates	-$45.00
	Total	$990.59
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-17 14:55 EDT-0400

 

[Justinzonfire]

Solid build for the 1k price point. Personally, I wouldn't really change anything other than the possibility of changing the 500GB 860 evo with a 1TB evo. I got mine on sale for $95, and it happens often. worth the $20 IMO 

[Princess Luna]

Seems pretty solid to me.

[tarfeef101]

I generally find the samsung drives not to be worth the markup they normally come with on budget builds. there are other brands that offer better value for similar performance in the SSD market. But I'll leave that up to you to decide if it's worth it. 

Otherwise I'll just say this: If you care more about gaming/single threaded performance and don't like to overclock, stick with what you got. But if you care about multithreaded performance or are willing to put a lot of time into overclocking, getting a 2600 and a decent cooler would suit you better. 

You can get a higher all-core clock speed by overclocking even the 2600, and if you're willing to do per-core overclocking, you can even meet or exceed the single-threaded performance of PBO/XFR