New PC for friend

[GiftedNovaHD]

Hi LTT forum members,

 

My friend who is going to high school soon has a crappy Lenovo laptop with a Core i5 7th gen or 6th gen and Windows 7 OS. It is oh damn crappy as even in ROBLOX, on the lowest settings he can hit graphics of up to 0.4 FPS and average of 9 FPS in game. I have build several PCs and because we live in Singapore the converted price of his budget is 1100 USD (1.5k SGD). My recommended parts for him are 

Intel Core i3-9100F

Cooler Master i7C cooler

Gigabyte B365 DS3H

G.skill Ripjaw V series 16GB 3200Mhz

Crucial P1 500GB

Seagate Barracude 2TB 

Asus Radeon RX 580

NZXT H510 

EVGA BQ 500W semi modular psu

ACER KG241 

I went Intel because he is a gamer and would appreciate a few extra frames 

Cooler is pretty decent RGB cooler, he won't do much oc and only plays ROBLOX but would like a higher demanding game like Phantom Forces to have max graphics

For RAM it's 3200 Mhz cause he may be using it for large scale data transfer in high school

SSD for Os and ROBLOX 

HDD for junk in school

Radeon RX 580 for the free sync and to push out about 100 fps in ROBLOX 

Case I chose the H510 because I have worked with it before and the cable management is pretty decent NGL

PSU I went for the trusted source and a semi modular PSU because lesser wires to deal with and moderate price

Monitor as it has 144 Hz, suitable for FPS games and Free sync for better experience. 

If you have any other suggestion which would benefit the build but does cross the budget please let me know. Any suggestions and improvements would be highly appreciated as I want the best experience for my friend without having to spend too much money

[Fasauceome]

21 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

I went Intel because he is a gamer and would appreciate a few extra frames

With AMD matching Intel in performance on their current gen, and the upgrade path being quite superior, you should definitely consider a Ryzen 5 3500 and a cheap B450 motherboard.

[Fatih19]

I don't think going with an i3 9100F instead of a Ryzen 5 3500 would give you significant performance gain given the GPU.

[GiftedNovaHD]

A cheap motherboard option would be a micro ATX board. Do you have any suggestions on a good micro ATX case and would Ryzen 3 3200G be a good option as it has a good stock fan

[Fatih19]

It would. If you can wait for a month, I would recommend waiting for the 3100 and 3300x which will launch on May 21st. They're 4c/8t, which is better than the 3200G 4c/4t. A good board for this platform would be the MSI Tomahawk, just pick the mATX one.

[GiftedNovaHD]

My friends getting his new pc after Covid-19 so I will need to check the prices of the 3100x. As long as it can handle some lightweight games like ROBLOX on max graphics and some 1080p video editing it's alright 

[Fatih19]

6 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

My friends getting his new pc after Covid-19 so I will need to check the prices of the 3100x. As long as it can handle some lightweight games like ROBLOX on max graphics and some 1080p video editing it's alright 

It's 100 dollars for the 3100 and 120 dollars for the 3300x.