$600 budget pc

[tyamin]

Hello I have been a computer enthusiast for a long time as well as a fan of ltt I recently wanted to build a pc and to get straight to the point what would a good $600 build be? And if you can; please include monitor that is if you can.

[PeachGr]

Go to PC part picker site, or watch some videos, for example bitwit (or ltt)

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

[KnightSirius]

Assuming you're in the USA as you have not stated otherwise, also I opted to not include a monitor because it is very likely that if you look at your local classified ads you'll find either dirt cheap or free older displays that you can use which would free up a good chunk of budget for the system itself.

Here is my stab at this budget, I'm a little over and if it's really not possible to squeeze the extra $50 in then you can buy a crappier case, or even look for used locally.
 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$87.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$89.99 @ Newegg
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$81.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Corsair MP510 480 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$79.98 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$176.99 @ Amazon
Case	Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case	$46.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$94.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$658.91
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-11 02:03 EDT-0400

Just a few notes:

• Opted for the Corsair MP510 because it's 10$ more than the WD Blue non-nvme drive of the same capacity so you may as well get the better performing/more reliable one.
• The Corsair CXM PSU I chose based on the PSU Tier list. Tried to get the best possible while staying relatively cheap. Although I think you can do better seeing as we're experiencing PSU shortages at the moment.
• GPU I chose EVGA due to their very good support and reliability, went with their XC Gaming model for the extra cooling seeing as the case is going to be lacking on it's own.

Last and most importantly is that B450 board probably needs a BIOS update to work with that Ryzen chip, as noted at the bottom of pcpartpicker page. That's the only wrench in the works, if you buy it from a local computer shop you can probably convince them them to help you out by updating the BIOS for you otherwise you'll need to figure that out some other way to get around that.

Either way it's a good jumping off point if nothing else!
Cheers!

[SansVarnic]

-= Topic moved to New Builds and Planning =-

[Aereldor]

Wait a bit before buying, prices are super inflated right now because of coronavirus supply disruption. $100 for a Corsair CXM? Fuck off haha. Even the dangerously bad EVGA W1 PSUs are like $60 right now...

 

[Aereldor]

14 hours ago, KnightSirius said:

Assuming you're in the USA as you have not stated otherwise, also I opted to not include a monitor because it is very likely that if you look at your local classified ads you'll find either dirt cheap or free older displays that you can use which would free up a good chunk of budget for the system itself.

Here is my stab at this budget, I'm a little over and if it's really not possible to squeeze the extra $50 in then you can buy a crappier case, or even look for used locally.
 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$87.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$89.99 @ Newegg
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$81.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Corsair MP510 480 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$79.98 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$176.99 @ Amazon
Case	Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case	$46.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$94.99 @ Best Buy

None of these are normal prices or good comparitive deals. 

The Ryzen 5 1600AF is way faster, supposed to be $75. 

Board always went for this much, but all the cheap ones are out of stock, $100 board on a $600 build, eh...

$83 for 3600 cl16 2x8 ram when 3200 is $60? I don't know, is 400mhz really like 4% of your budget.

That's a bad GPU for $177. The RX 580 beats it for cheaper. With this budget, OP should have an RX 5700.

I bought that case, it used to be $25 and it sucked at that price, let alone double.

And almost $100 for that PSU is absurd. 

Time to wait

[KnightSirius]

3 hours ago, Aereldor said:

The Ryzen 5 1600AF is way faster, supposed to be $75. 

Board always went for this much, but all the cheap ones are out of stock, $100 board on a $600 build, eh...

$83 for 3600 cl16 2x8 ram when 3200 is $60? I don't know, is 400mhz really like 4% of your budget.

That's a bad GPU for $177. The RX 580 beats it for cheaper. With this budget, OP should have an RX 5700.

I bought that case, it used to be $25 and it sucked at that price, let alone double.

And almost $100 for that PSU is absurd. 

Time to wait

Agree on all points, was just my stab at it that I took 5 minutes to toss together. It was a decent jumping off point and that's about it; with those optimizations you suggested things are looking a lot better! But yep tl;dr certainly best off waiting.