First Budget Rig 690$

[bdexter77]

Just put together my first budget rig so far everything is running awesome. (US)

 

Components

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X w/ cooler- 99$

Motherboard: MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX- Bundled w/ CPU for 20$ (Yes 20$ is right)

Memory: G.Skill 2x8GB DDR4 3200- 74$

Graphics Card: ROG Strix Geforce GTX 1650 Super 4GB DDR6- 185$

Storage: Crucial 500GB NVME M.2- 73$

Power Supply: EVGA 600W 80Plus- 44$

Case: Thermaltake Versa H18 TG- 55$

OS: Windows 10- 119$ 

Misc: Extra fan- 13$

 

Peripherals

 

Monitor: MSI Optix MAG Series 144Hz 1ms- Free (Hand-me-down from brother)

Keyboard: Corsair K68 RGB- Free (Hand-me-down from brother) 

Mouse: Glorious Model O- Free (Hand-me-down from brother) 

 

Initially bought a open box RX 580 for 144$ with a two year warranty for an extra 20 bucks, but after installing windows I was getting blue screened and a video_tdr_failure. After attempts of rebooting into safe mode, uninstalling and then reinstalling current graphics drivers nothing worked (except when windows rolled back drivers and installed one from 2006 then everything was working fine?) I gave up returned it and got the 1650 Super and it worked instantly. No issues. Team green for the win. 

 

So far i've done a light overclock on the GPU and got an extra 6 fps in Unigine Heaven Benchmark up from 107.9 to 113.9. In Overwatch im getting anywhere from 150-190 fps now on ultra. Warzone and Apex Legends run from about 75-100 fps on medium to high settings.  No thermal issues everything is staying nice a cool but some fan upgrades down the line to quiet it up a bit are in order as well as a 2TB Barracuda 7200 HD for about 50 bucks. GPU has a two year warranty on it from micro center so ill end up upgrading it before that expires down the road. Also got a two year warranty on the motherboard for a 2 whole dollars.  

 

 

[bdexter77]

*Peek the Valorant drop on the monitor*

[Belac F]

Nice! Good selection on the parts! Where did you get the bundle?

 

(also not condoning anything, but you might be able to get a certain operating system free using a batch file in like 3 min)

[bdexter77]

5 hours ago, Belac F said:

Nice! Good selection on the parts! Where did you get the bundle?

 

(also not condoning anything, but you might be able to get a certain operating system free using a batch file in like 3 min)

Yeaaaaa i know there are some other ways to get OS for very cheap if not free and honestly if theres a chance i gotta mess with micorsoft down the line I will be avoiding that