Decent for $1200?

[Owen the Trusty man]

My friends budget is around $1200 so I made him this parts list. Decided only to go with a R5 3600 instead of a R7 3700x to have extra money for the 2070 super. Also yes I know the h510 is a generic and overused case but I still went for it since it will be my friends first build and I don’t want the case to be too confusing or overwhelming.

 

Edit: also decided to keep him with the stock cooler since he won’t be overclocking and it saves around $40

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$166.89 @ Walmart
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$79.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Western Digital Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$69.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card	$499.99 @ B&H
Case	NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case	$69.99 @ Best Buy
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$99.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1156.82
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-11 23:11 EDT-0400

 

[FeIIex]

Looks fine to me

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

All looks good to me but you might consider a Crucial MX500 instead, it's a faster SSD than the WD Blue, but the WD blue is also a fine drive

[Mazdaspeeding]

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I really don't like the small OS SSD/big mech HDD meta, I'd advise just grabbing one 1TB NVME drive and using that until it's full and then buy another SSD.  Unless you have a huge music/video library, spinning rust is no fun to put games/applications on.

 

 

It made sense in the 64/120GB SSD days but a 1TB drive is about $100 now.