Friend is planning to get into pc gaming, any thoughts for this build?

[Niami]

Budget (including currency): £600

 

Country: United Kingdom

 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA games at atleast medium-high at 1080p60

 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

He already has a basic k&m and monitor 

 

Here's a first draft parts list:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
Motherboard	ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£91.40 @ Alza
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	£74.48 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Crucial BX500 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£57.58 @ Currys PC World Business
Video Card	Asus Radeon RX 570 8 GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card	£139.99 @ CCL Computers
Case	Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£32.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply	Corsair CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	£54.98 @ Amazon UK
Custom	Ryzen 5 1600 AF	£113.53
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£564.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-06 01:34 BST+0100

 

 

[Dravinian]

Are you missing a CPU?  Assuming you are going AMD by the motherboard.  Ahh I see it is at the bottom as a custom piece.

 

I think the b550 motherboards and 3100 and 3300 AMD CPUs are about to hit the market, which are £99 and £120 respectively, might be worth looking at them.

[Niami]

2 minutes ago, Dravinian said:

Are you missing a CPU?  Assuming you are going AMD by the motherboard.

The cpu is added as a custom part because pcpart picker doesn't have the 1600 af officially

[Niami]

23 minutes ago, Dravinian said:

Are you missing a CPU?  Assuming you are going AMD by the motherboard.  Ahh I see it is at the bottom as a custom piece.

 

I think the b550 motherboards and 3100 and 3300 AMD CPUs are about to hit the market, which are £99 and £120 respectively, might be worth looking at them.

Good point. Thanks for reminding me. I probably will change to zen2 when they're fully released.