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Building My First PC!

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1. Budget & Location

I'm Planning on Spending $1000 US on a build, Where I am I can only order Online.

2. Aim

This is going to be Mainly a Gaming Computer, for games like Monster Hunter World, Ark Survival, Warframe, Minecraft, League of Legends, then random steam games.

3. Monitors

Only One Monitor.

4. Peripherals

I will be using Windows, and I plan on purchasing a brand new Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse, all at a later date. So it won't be using the $1000 budget.

5. Why are you upgrading?

I recently moved, and couldn't bring my previous PC, which could run LoL at a Amazing 20 frames, jumping down to 2 in a fight, at the lowest settings! So I need a new and improved PC.
If Possible, I'd prefer something with a Ryzen 5, and a Radeon GPU. After a few months, I will be giving this PC to my cousin, and building me a $2000 PC, since I'll have a bit more money to play with and he needs a PC just as bad as I do.
I plan on ordering the parts for this PC between now, and two weeks from now, if that helps. Thank You.

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If you can stretch slightly over $1000 dollars, this is an incredible build with a great upgrade path. (Get Windows 10 from kinguin for $30)

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $189.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $83.98 @ Newegg
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport AT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $74.98 @ Amazon
Storage Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $104.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card $499.99 @ Newegg
Case Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case $44.99 @ B&H
Power Supply Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $59.99 @ Corsair
Custom Windows 10 $30.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1088.91
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-12 03:08 EST-0500  

 

To get under the $1K mark, you could downgrade to a 2070 non-super or a 2060 super.

You could also get a 2nd gen Ryzen CPU on deep discount (the 2600 and 2700 are selling for insanely cheap nowadays), but 2nd gen Ryzen has worse single-thread performance, so doesn't game as well.

 

you could save maybe $15 on a plain-jane black box as a case, and decrease storage to 512GB. (there are also cheaper OLoY memory kits, but I've never used them so can't recommend, doesn't mean they're bad though.)

 

 

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If I'm wrong, please point it out. I'm always learning & I won't bite.

 

Laptop:

Lenovo Yoga 7 Air: Ryzen 7840S, 32GiB DDR5

 

Desktop (Old but I never replaced it):

Delidded Core i7 4770K - GTX 1070 ROG Strix - 16GB DDR3 @2000Mhz

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($103.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB Video Card  ($399.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Thermaltake Versa J24 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($43.98 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Phanteks AMP 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1012.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-12 03:16 EST-0500

 

@RadiatingLight motherboard are very weak, what upgrade potential ? QLC SSD, you can get TLC for cheaper. And that case are rather poor, there are better options for the price.

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11 minutes ago, Juular said:

adiatingLight motherboard are very weak, what upgrade potential ? QLC SSD, you can get TLC for cheaper. And that case are rather poor, there are better options for the price.

Motherboard is fine for a 3600X and even for upgrading to a 3700X, and even a 3900X with some active cooling or good airflow over the VRMs.

Motherboard tier list (in my sig) says that the B450M Pro-VDH is tier D (100A). Your motherboard is better at tier C (125A) but both should be enough.

 

I agree that TLC SSD is better, @Spader you should get the WD Blue instead.

 

Case is personal preference. I chose the Q300 because I thought it looked cool, but that is personal choice.

 

Overall, you chose higher-quality parts, but my parts were good enough, and lowered the price enough to squeeze in a 2070 Super compared to your 2060 Super, which is a huge gaming difference.

QUOTE/TAG ME WHEN REPLYING

Spend As Much Time Writing Your Question As You Want Me To Spend Responding To It.

If I'm wrong, please point it out. I'm always learning & I won't bite.

 

Laptop:

Lenovo Yoga 7 Air: Ryzen 7840S, 32GiB DDR5

 

Desktop (Old but I never replaced it):

Delidded Core i7 4770K - GTX 1070 ROG Strix - 16GB DDR3 @2000Mhz

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1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

Motherboard is fine for a 3600X and even for upgrading to a 3700X, and even a 3900X with some active cooling or good airflow over the VRMs.

3700X with good airflow maybe, i don't think it will pull-off OC'd 3900X, stock at best, if you aim on upgrading to 3900X eventually i'd recommend getting GP\A-Pro\Tomahawk at least, or better any X570 board (except MSI and probably Gigabyte ones).

4 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Case is personal preference. I chose the Q300 because I thought it looked cool, but that is personal choice.

Yeah, it's pretty but airflow are terrible.

Tag or quote me so i see your reply

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1 minute ago, Juular said:

AMD drivers tho.

I know some people have had problems with them, but personally haven't had any problems with my 5700xt Red Devil.

Also according to GN AMD is focusing on fixing the driver problems, and they did release a new drivers few days ago that fixed 27 bugs.

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($114.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: OLOy 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($57.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($66.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Phantom Gaming D OC Video Card  ($379.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Metallic Gear Neo Silent ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Phanteks AMP 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $979.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-12 07:43 EST-0500

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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There you go mate....enjoy!!

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($194.13 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($103.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Phantom Gaming D OC Video Card  ($379.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Metallic Gear Neo Silent ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.36 @ Amazon) 
Total: $996.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-12 11:41 EST-0500

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TB - WD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

Case - Fractal Design Meshify C

PSU - Super Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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