First Time Building a gaming/ hobby work PC, and Need Feedback

[arothunder]

Hello everyone, 

 

For a long time, I've been playing console games for a very long time, but I did play some pc games from time to time, however, I never take pc gaming serious. Until, I've been watching gaming mods like Skyrim and Fallout on the pc, and it got me curious in trying out pc gaming with my laptop. I can run some games that I have in Steam, but I wasn't strong enough to play smoothly and I have to tone down the graphics to play. Now my laptop is reaching to where it can't hold up today's standards or something like that, so I decided to build a gaming PC.

 

So I've been sitting down on how to build my own PC. Seeing prices, benchmarks, understanding benchmarks (still trying to learn), looking into the specs, the whole nine yards. So right below this is what games I'll be currently planning to play, and apps that I'll be using for the next few years and my ideal build would look like, as well the target budget for the PC itself (not including monitor, I got a different question, about that), and I need feedback if this build can support the games I'll be playing and render my content.

 

Estimated Budget Cost: Ranging less than $1,000 USD

 

• What games I'll be currently playing in this PC (Max Settings):

- Fallout (3, New Vegas, & 4)

- Smite

- Destiny 2 

- Apex Legends

- Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut

 

• What applications I'll be using in this PC:

-Photoshop

-Premiere Pro

• My Ideal PC

- AMD Ryzen 5 3600x CPU

- Asus TUF B450 Plus Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard

- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 RAM

- Kingston A400 240GB 2.5" SSD & Crucial P1 1TB M.2-2280 MVME SSD

- ASRock Radeon RX 580 8GB Phantom Gaming X GPU

- Cooler Master Master Box MB510L ATX Mid Tower Case

- Thermaltake Smart 600W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply

- LG 34UC79G-B 34.0" 2560x1080 1080p IPS FreeSync 144Hz Monitor

The Total amount of the PC itself is roughly around $817.55 USD - without tax/ with the monitor is around $1296.55 USD - without tax

For a visual look on the parts listed above, I used PC Parts Picker to build all of these

 

As for a keyboard and mouse, I already have a good keyboard and mouse that came in a bundle during Black Friday along with a wide mouse pad, all for a single price :)

 

For the monitor, the reason I separate the price, is because 1. I'm still exploring other monitors and narrow it down I want in a monitor. 2. I'm worrying that the GPU can't handle a ultra wide monitor even if the monitor is a 1080p. What I want in a monitor is a high Hz (higher than 60Hz), resolution, IPS panel, ultra wide, G-Sync/FreeSync (depending on the GPU of course). HDR is not so important to me at least, unless there's a good reason to chase HDR.

 

That's all I have so far, now I'm looking forward to everyone's feedback, please let me know what am I missing in this build, is there a better PC part that I may overlooked, got a better recommendation for PC combo parts. Does this GPU can run a 1080p Ultra Wide monitor? If not, what GPU can run a Ultra Wide monitor for gaming?

 

Also, does anyone have benchmark those games, especially Fallout 4. Throughout my research on finding the right CPU and GPU combo for Fallout 4. I believe the game is CPU intensive game (that's why I chose a higher CPU). However I am looking for a cheaper CPU and GPU combo that can run Fallout 4 max setting while I'm modding (High setting is also acceptable). I been using this website that shows the game's minimum and recommended specs, as well showing the estimated averages FPS in each resolution to find the right CPU and GPU combo. The sit is called Game System Requirements, I know this site doesn't give an accurate result, that is why I'm asking for an actual benchmark results from an actual person. So if you do have a radeon rx 580 and R5 3600x (or 3600) do let know how well does that combo work for this game.

 

So sorry for the long message. This is my first build, and I want to get it right and I am a little nervous on putting these parts together. Thank for reading this, and have a great day.

[AntiHero]

if this build is within your price range it looks good, except i worry about the possible bios update issue between your cpu and mobo, it can be a headache you dont wanna deal with. one other prob, you will need more storage 240gb isnt enough, especially  with destiny 2 pushing 100gb BEFORE shadowkeep. you slap like 1tb HDD on there and use that for main game storage and save the SSD for like OS and antivirus and other "mission critical" programs, maybe stick one game you play alot but isnt super big on the solid state.