Old 1080p gaming PC build help

[sebasura]

Hi, my sister wants a PC to play some games, nothing too demanding (Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, VR Chat without a VR set god knows why, Fortnite), and I was looking for PC parts (even used) and I came up with this:

 

Ryzen 5 1600
RX 480 4GB

2x4GB 2666mhz

MSI A320M PRO-M2 V2

Corsair CX550M

240GB SSD

1TH HDD 7200RPM

Case Cougar MX330

But even this "old" build with used parts is around $700 USD in my country. That's pretty high imo, so I was thinking of an older build, like a good enough CPU with DDR3 cheaper RAM and something like a GTX 960 or 1050 Ti, but I'm not sure what CPU (and other older parts) would be enough to game and do some light Photoshop work. The budget I have in mind is around $450-$500 USD (considering in my country parts are about double the price of US prices, but I'll get used parts, so around +25-30%).

 

Oh and btw I have a question. I've seen a lot of DDR4 sticks like 1x4GB but I don't know if they can be used as dual channel. How can I know that? Does it depend on the M/B or the RAM? For example here: https://www.solotodo.com/rams?types=130774&ordering=offer_price_usd could these single sticks be used in dual channel?

 

Scrapyard wars comes to mind lol.

[Vishera]

48 minutes ago, sebasura said:

MSI A320M PRO-M2 V2

 

That is a garbage motherboard.

Go for ASRock B450M PRO4 or Gigabyte B450M DS3H

The ASRock B450M PRO4 is preferable.

[Akira Shimazu]

23 minutes ago, Vishera said:

That is a garbage motherboard.

Go for ASRock B450M PRO4 or Gigabyte B450M DS3H

The ASRock B450M PRO4 is preferable.

Asrock pro 4 is good for budget.

 

46 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

Look into old haswell quadcore systems, prebuilts business machines are fairly cheap globally.

Anything with an i7 4770/4790 or i5 4460 or similar. DDR3 is cheap, even the processors are cheap if you find one with a haswell Pentium or Celeron and upgrade to an i5 or i7.

In the US you can find these optiplex 9020 MT’s for under 250$ usually that are kitted with an i7, 8gb of ram and windows preinstalled. But cheaper variants or barebones models are all over as well.

Something like this with a 75w PCIe power only gpu like a 1050ti make great budget gaming machines.

 

As for the ram question, yes. You don’t have to buy ram in retail pairs to have it work in dual channel. It can be multiple mismatched sticks. Usually it’s best to keep the same paper specs but most memory controllers from later DDR3 and DDR4 based chipsets are fine with mismatch capacity, speed and timings, and will automatically adjust accordingly.

 

So if you have two identical sticks of 4gb that came separate, they’ll work fine together in dual channel. 
Different speeds or timings and they will default to the lowest speed of all the sticks. Different capacities can sometimes cause dual channel configurations to fail, and they sometimes run as single channel, but I think that’s only an issue on low end chipset models. 

like he said. Hashwell edition are quite cheap and  affordable. and it has amazing boost clock. i prefer 570 for gpu. but if its too expensive go for 1050TI

[Akira Shimazu]

everythign can run dual-channel tho.

[sebasura]

Alright, thanks for all the answers! I think an i5 4460 + RX 480 would be the best option in that price range. For some reason, people are selling used i7 4770/4790 for the same price as a ryzen 5 1600, and I've seen the gtx 1050 ti for the same price as the RX 480.

 

Would one of those office PCs support the VGA and 16gb of ram? I don't know if the case will have enough air flow and the PSU/motherboard will be reliable.

 

Also, from this list, what case would you say is good enough for a system like this? https://www.solotodo.com/computer_cases?motherboard_formats=251389