Planning on Buying this PC, any thoughts?

[piemadd]

Hey LTT Community! For my birthday, my parents originally wanted to buy be a 1440p 144hz gaming monitor, but I managed to stop them, by telling them my Lenovo Yoga 730 isnt going to be pushing out anything past 1080p at 60hz or 2160p at 25hz. Instead, they are letting me use $200 from what they would spend and $200 of my own george washingtons to get a system. Immediately, my brother went to Reddit for some deals, and found an i7,2600 with some stuff for 400. I went to craigslist and found this bad boy for $325. Parts are like $525 on PCPartpicker, so def a good deal. Any red flags, and what should i upgrade first? Also, I have 2x1TB 7200RPM HDDs which I plan on sticking into the computer in a raid0 configuration for extra  s p e d while loading up all of the content in my "homework" folder. Any thoughts?

 

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PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rCmsn7

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($72.98 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($77.99 @ Best Buy) 
Storage: Crucial BX500 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($21.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 570 4 GB Red Devil Video Card  ($167.75 @ Amazon) 
Case: Aerocool Cylon ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.31 @ Amazon) 
Total: $554.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-02-02 00:15 EST-0500

Thanks!

 

From,

Piero "Pizza Man" Maddaleni

 

P.S. Yes I know i used my name, and I do not care

[Jurrunio]

Red flag will be the PSU

 

yellow flag (not as bad as red but still) for the case, cuz lack of airflow.

 

Only thing really good is 16GB RAM setup, pretty much dont need to upgrade before DDR5 replaces DDR4 in the consumer market.

[piemadd]

23 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Red flag will be the PSU

 

yellow flag (not as bad as red but still) for the case, cuz lack of airflow.

 

Only thing really good is 16GB RAM setup, pretty much dont need to upgrade before DDR5 replaces DDR4 in the consumer market.

Yeah, took that into account. To help deviate the risk, Im going to place a fan over the PSU, just to help with overheating, and that'll be the first to be replaced. As far as the case goes, Im not toooo concerned with that, but i'll also replace that at some point.

[cheez63]

That will be a nice solid performer for the price, and ready to jump up in performance later with simple upgrades. I would run it just as it is (along with your added storage) until you need more performance and know where you want to upgrade.

[piemadd]

6 hours ago, cheez63 said:

That will be a nice solid performer for the price, and ready to jump up in performance later with simple upgrades. I would run it just as it is (along with your added storage) until you need more performance and know where you want to upgrade.

Yep! I wanted to have a strong upgrade path, and this bad boy should give me a nice a reliable one.