Gaming/Streaming

[JustAnotherDolla]

Budget (including currency):  my budget is $1000 USD not including peripherals

 

Country:  United States 

 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  CS:GO, GTA V, SpiderMan, PUBG, Call of Duty, Coding and basic school work

 

Other details: this PC’s purpose will be solely for Gaming and School Work, I say streaming in the title as I want to get into streaming but not committed yet. I would prefer if the parts stay within the budget of $1000 but going over 50 or so is fine, if something better can be built for less I would love to see those builds too, I’m looking to average around 144 frames on high setting on any game as well thank you for your time 

 

Here’s my build bellow it’s not the best but I tried

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Z8jmsk

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($171.89 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($124.99 @ Best Buy) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($136.75 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB PULSE Video Card  ($293.98 @ Newegg) 
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) 
Total: $1042.57

[JustAnotherDolla]

P.S Im a college freshman studying computer science if that helps with anything 

[Mateyyy]

The build you put together looks good, but I made a few changes that improve it a decent bit I'd say:

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/M3kx3t

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($171.89 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card  ($319.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($70.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.99 @ Best Buy) 
Total: $1032.82

 

Quick rundown of the changes:

• the B550 Aorus Elite will natively support Zen 3 chips and also has better VRMs, allowing for upgradability to higher core count chips in the future compared to the B450 Tomahawk
• faster, cheaper (but less RGB) memory
• faster NVMe storage that's actually cheaper for some reason (no Samsung tax I guess)
• probably the most odd choice for most people - I put in a 2060 because it would be better for streaming because of the Turing NVENC encoder, but if you're not that serious about streaming and want to save $20, then the Sapphire 5600XT Pulse (or a Powercolor Red Dragon) are also great picks that will perform about the same as the 2060
• the P400A has much better airflow than the Hotbox510