Rate my potential setup

[castiel94]

Hi All, 

 

I am planning to do my very first build. Before I always had laptops, so I am new in the building work. As you will see my build is nothing special, I am not planning to use it for high end gaming, just a couple older games I plan to run on it and maybe a few newer ones, but I don't need ultra settings and a billion FPS. So the setup is just in my budget(950$), therefore if someone recommends me changing something for some reason, mind that it cannot cost a lot more, also I am from Hungary so it's possible that something you recommend costs more or not available here so I would have to ship it here. 

 

Case: BitFenix Aegis Core (black&yellow + window)

Motherboard: GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M

PSU: Thermaltake 650W Smart Pro RGB (not sure about this one, possibly would change it for something better than a 80+ Bronze)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

GPU: MSI GTX1050 TI Gaming  X 4G

RAM: Kingston 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz HyperX Fury RGB

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 64MB

SSD: Kingston 240GB HyperX Fury RGB

Cooling: 4x120mm DeepCool XFAN

CPU Cooling: NZXT Kraken M22 RGB AIO liquid cooler 

+ TP-Link Archer T6E PCI-E Wireless Adapter

 

I know it's flashy and performance wise it's not that great, but I don't need anything better and at least I can put it on my desk and it's nice to look at. Changing all the RGB stuff to regular ones could save me money, but not that much and since I don't need anything that runs a lot better why get rid off 'em? :D 

The entire budget is 1200$, but I need a monitor, mouse+keyboard and currently the ones I want to buy add up to 250$ so I am at limit with this 950$ build. 

 

Please let me know if I messed something up selecting these parts, nothing is ordered yet so I can change any and every bit. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

[Dougarooo]

Motherboard in my mind is kind of weird. I hate having video ports on it. No point. You have a graphics card. I like mobo with more usb on it since video ports are wasting that space.Other than that I see nothing wrong. Of course when you go to buy make sure you look for specials. SSD sales can hit home for bigger drives for same price or more ram for same price.

[Herman Mcpootis]

which country are you in?

[Meganter]

6 minutes ago, castiel94 said:

Hi All, 

 

I am planning to do my very first build. Before I always had laptops, so I am new in the building work. As you will see my build is nothing special, I am not planning to use it for high end gaming, just a couple older games I plan to run on it and maybe a few newer ones, but I don't need ultra settings and a billion FPS. So the setup is just in my budget(950$), therefore if someone recommends me changing something for some reason, mind that it cannot cost a lot more, also I am from Hungary so it's possible that something you recommend costs more or not available here so I would have to ship it here. 

 

Case: BitFenix Aegis Core (black&yellow + window)

Motherboard: GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M

PSU: Thermaltake 650W Smart Pro RGB (not sure about this one, possibly would change it for something better than a 80+ Bronze)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

GPU: MSI GTX1050 TI Gaming  X 4G

RAM: Kingston 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz HyperX Fury RGB

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 64MB

SSD: Kingston 240GB HyperX Fury RGB

Cooling: 4x120mm DeepCool XFAN

CPU Cooling: NZXT Kraken M22 RGB AIO liquid cooler 

+ TP-Link Archer T6E PCI-E Wireless Adapter

 

I know it's flashy and performance wise it's not that great, but I don't need anything better and at least I can put it on my desk and it's nice to look at. Changing all the RGB stuff to regular ones could save me money, but not that much and since I don't need anything that runs a lot better why get rid off 'em?

The entire budget is 1200$, but I need a monitor, mouse+keyboard and currently the ones I want to buy add up to 250$ so I am at limit with this 950$ build. 

 

Please let me know if I messed something up selecting these parts, nothing is ordered yet so I can change any and every bit. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Hello,

 

You can get a 2600 for less with the same performance more or less.

You should consider a txm from corsair or cxm depending of the budget.

Change that SSD and 500GB if you can.

If you want watercooling, you should go 240mm at least (the 2600x comes with an air cooler).

Motherboard, you should go with a b450 MSI one.

Get a rx580 8gb instead of a 1050ti too.

Ram will be good and the case doesn't look to have a lot of airflow.

 

1 minute ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

which country are you in?

Hungary

[steelo]

26 minutes ago, castiel94 said:

Hi All, 

 

I am planning to do my very first build. Before I always had laptops, so I am new in the building work. As you will see my build is nothing special, I am not planning to use it for high end gaming, just a couple older games I plan to run on it and maybe a few newer ones, but I don't need ultra settings and a billion FPS. So the setup is just in my budget(950$), therefore if someone recommends me changing something for some reason, mind that it cannot cost a lot more, also I am from Hungary so it's possible that something you recommend costs more or not available here so I would have to ship it here. 

 

Case: BitFenix Aegis Core (black&yellow + window)

Motherboard: GIGABYTE B450 AORUS M

PSU: Thermaltake 650W Smart Pro RGB (not sure about this one, possibly would change it for something better than a 80+ Bronze)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

GPU: MSI GTX1050 TI Gaming  X 4G

RAM: Kingston 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz HyperX Fury RGB

HDD: Toshiba 1TB 64MB

SSD: Kingston 240GB HyperX Fury RGB

Cooling: 4x120mm DeepCool XFAN

CPU Cooling: NZXT Kraken M22 RGB AIO liquid cooler 

+ TP-Link Archer T6E PCI-E Wireless Adapter

 

I know it's flashy and performance wise it's not that great, but I don't need anything better and at least I can put it on my desk and it's nice to look at. Changing all the RGB stuff to regular ones could save me money, but not that much and since I don't need anything that runs a lot better why get rid off 'em?

The entire budget is 1200$, but I need a monitor, mouse+keyboard and currently the ones I want to buy add up to 250$ so I am at limit with this 950$ build. 

 

Please let me know if I messed something up selecting these parts, nothing is ordered yet so I can change any and every bit. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

I know you mentioned it doesn't have to be 'powerful', but why not go with a RX570 instead of a 1050ti? It's a MUCH more powerful card you can usually find cheaper than a 1050ti. If you find a RX570/580 does cost more in your country, a Ryzen 5 1600 or 2600 will be plenty enough CPU and most likely save you the difference in cost.

[Meganter]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor 
Motherboard: MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  (onboard WI-Fi)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory 
Storage: Intel 660p 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  
Storage: Toshiba P300 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card 
Case: Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply 
 

This would be around 800€ you have room for an AIO (you could consider a 120/140mm air cooler) and your monitor + peripherals.

[Froody129]

I would gun for something better than a 1050ti, even a 570 is a big upgrade for not much more money.

 

The PSU I would be hesitant about. Efficiency isn't directly linked to quality. I recommend a post in the Cases and Power Supplies section for that. 

[castiel94]

22 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

Hello,

 

You can get a 2600 for less with the same performance more or less.

You should consider a txm from corsair or cxm depending of the budget.

Change that SSD and 500GB if you can.

If you want watercooling, you should go 240mm at least (the 2600x comes with an air cooler).

Motherboard, you should go with a b450 MSI one.

Get a rx580 8gb instead of a 1050ti too.

Ram will be good and the case doesn't look to have a lot of airflow.

 

Hey, thanks. 

 

I think I will change the GPU to a rx580 8GB, and most likely the CPU too. Not sure about the SSD upgrade, but I'll keep that in mind too. 

I'll check some other Motherboards out, but the case is micro-ATX and I don't really want to change that as I am not going for a big build.

 

Thanks again for the suggestions. 

[castiel94]

15 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor 
Motherboard: MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  (onboard WI-Fi)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory 
Storage: Intel 660p 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  
Storage: Toshiba P300 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card 
Case: Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply 
 

This would be around 800€ you have room for an AIO (you could consider a 120/140mm air cooler) and your monitor + peripherals.

Hey, 

 

Thanks for the suggestions. 

I don't really want to go for a big case or tbh change the one I mentioned so the board has to be micro-ATX 

CPU + GPU most likely will be changes to ryzen 5 2600 and to a rx580 8GB. Also the PSU, cause I was already hesitant about the one I first "selected". 

 

Thanks again

[castiel94]

Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. 

 

Performance wise the RX580 makes a lot of sense so I will change to that, and I will go with AMD ryzen 5 2600 instead of the x. Originally the idea was a mini-ITX build and I wanted to go with the cooler GPU so that's why RX was not in the mix, but I changed to a micro-ATX and forgot to look for amd GPUs  SSD and HDD will be upgraded, I think will go with twice the size with both. Changed the motherboard to MSI, still micro-atx cause the case remains. Will change the watercooler too, just to a little bit cheaper coolermaster, it's not RGB. And PSU will be changed for sure, wasn't sure about it before, but now I realized it's not a good one.

 

Will check on this thread in the next few days, but I don't think any other major changes will be done after this. Thanks again for the quick and helpful replies. 

[Meganter]

5 hours ago, castiel94 said:

Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. 

 

Performance wise the RX580 makes a lot of sense so I will change to that, and I will go with AMD ryzen 5 2600 instead of the x. Originally the idea was a mini-ITX build and I wanted to go with the cooler GPU so that's why RX was not in the mix, but I changed to a micro-ATX and forgot to look for amd GPUs  SSD and HDD will be upgraded, I think will go with twice the size with both. Changed the motherboard to MSI, still micro-atx cause the case remains. Will change the watercooler too, just to a little bit cheaper coolermaster, it's not RGB. And PSU will be changed for sure, wasn't sure about it before, but now I realized it's not a good one.

 

Will check on this thread in the next few days, but I don't think any other major changes will be done after this. Thanks again for the quick and helpful replies. 

 

Sorry for the late answer.

 

You can post the new build here so we can give our input. You can use pcpartpicker, it's really handy.

[castiel94]

8 hours ago, Plouffe said:

 

Sorry for the late answer.

 

You can post the new build here so we can give our input. You can use pcpartpicker, it's really handy.

Thx, 

 

I'm not yet settled on Peripherals or monitor. Most likely a 31.5" FullHD LED or two 24" we'll see. Operating System will be windows 10(64-bit)

Not every item had a price on the site, I wish the total would be the one it gave me :D 

 

Here it is: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fQ84Dx

 

The liquid cooler I selected is the same but a TUF Gaming Edition in yellow. Also I added one case fan, but it'll have 4. 2 at the front, 1 at the top and 1 at the bottom. The case has 1 built in at the back. 

[Meganter]

You could go with :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	$129.20 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard	$128.98 @ Amazon
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$98.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$64.50 @ Amazon
Storage	Toshiba P300 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card	Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card	$179.99 @ Newegg
Case	BitFenix Aegis Core MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$79.00 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Deepcool XFAN 120 44.71 CFM 120 mm Fan
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$754.55
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$739.55
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-02 02:03 EDT-0400

 

The motherboard has an included Wi-Fi.

I had to change the nvme to a sata SSD because this motherboard doesn't include a pcie port and the SSD was overpriced too.

I changed the AIO for the 240mm version which is even less expensive for better performance.

[castiel94]

1 hour ago, Plouffe said:

You could go with :

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	$129.20 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard	$128.98 @ Amazon
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$98.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$64.50 @ Amazon
Storage	Toshiba P300 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card	Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card	$179.99 @ Newegg
Case	BitFenix Aegis Core MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$79.00 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Deepcool XFAN 120 44.71 CFM 120 mm Fan
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$754.55
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$739.55
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-02 02:03 EDT-0400

 

The motherboard has an included Wi-Fi.

I had to change the nvme to a sata SSD because this motherboard doesn't include a pcie port and the SSD was overpriced too.

I changed the AIO for the 240mm version which is even less expensive for better performance.

I think I'll stick with the 120 mm liquidcooler, cause on the site where I will buy them the one I selected is 15usd less than the 240mm you suggested, and I don't want to use a ton of sites to order the stuff or pay for a s#!t ton for shipping  

 

Other than that, thanks for the suggestions, I think I will change everything else accordingly. 

[castiel94]

One more quick question, what you guys think about this GPU: POWERCOLOR RX 580 8GD5 RED DRAGON - it has one HDMI, but I can go with the one monitor setup and it's 50bucks less.

 

Their core clock and overclock MHz-s are almost the same, the effective memory clock also. 

[Meganter]

51 minutes ago, castiel94 said:

One more quick question, what you guys think about this GPU: POWERCOLOR RX 580 8GD5 RED DRAGON - it has one HDMI, but I can go with the one monitor setup and it's 50bucks less.

 

Their core clock and overclock MHz-s are almost the same, the effective memory clock also. 

Both will be good : 

 Look at the AMD (RX VEGA). 

[LukeSavenije]

3 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

Look at the AMD (RX VEGA). 

the vega coolers are different from the 500 series

 

pulse>reddragon for that

[Meganter]

6 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

the vega coolers are different from the 500 series

 

pulse>reddragon for that

Ah yes my bad I read the wrong one.

[castiel94]

I see, well the red dragon is listed as a high-midrange and I think the build I put together is exactly that so I'm saving that 50 bucks on the GPU.

[LukeSavenije]

8 minutes ago, castiel94 said:

I see, well the red dragon is listed as a high-midrange and I think the build I put together is exactly that so I'm saving that 50 bucks on the GPU.

for 50 bucks i'd say it's worth it to do reddragon