Looking for PC build under $1000, AMD pref.

[ccdsg]

Budget (including currency): $1000~

Country: U.S.

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: League, GTA

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): Unsure

 

[RAM555789]

@ccdsg

Does the monitor, keyboard and display need to be included into the budget? 

[ccdsg]

Just now, RAM555789 said:

Does the monitor, keyboard and display need to be included into the budget? 

No. Pure PC

[Guest PhatRATTY]

Just now, ccdsg said:

No. Pure PC

b450 16gb ram 600 watt psu 2070 3600

[DudePlayinADude]

Do you live near a microcenter or frys?

[RAM555789]

Just now, PhatRATTY said:

b450

B450? Unless he lives outside the U.S. the B550 boards are a much better choice.

 

[RAM555789]

This was the the cheapest I could get that included a 1TB SSD with a DRAM cache and a 2070 SUPER. I had to keep the case pretty cheap and the PSU is slightly older model (2017) but its actually the same one I own and I can vouch for it being great and reliable. If you want a better case, you either need to drop down the size of your SSD to about 500GB or if you want a newer PSU/Case you could also step down from a 2070 Super to just a 2070. Also don't forget that the new Nvidia cards are expecting to come out pretty soon, and there seems to be new leaks and speculations everyday about it.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($114.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($46.00 @ Amazon) 
Storage: TCSunBow X3 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($85.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card  ($499.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case: Antec VSK4000E U3 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($43.19 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1040.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-11 21:10 EDT-0400

[dizmo]

I'd hold off a bit honestly. Then grab the new stuff when it comes out. Otherwise you're leaving a lot of performance on the table.

[LienusLateTips]

27 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

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here's something with some more frills if OP wants that:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.00 @ Best Buy) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB MECH OC Video Card  ($369.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox MB311L ARGB MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($67.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($79.90 @ B&H) 
Total: $996.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-11 21:41 EDT-0400

 

Regardless, still should get the Pure Power 11 instead as it's more efficient, and 600W vs 450W. Good quality on both units.

 

But would also wait for new Navi/NVIDIA Ampere

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 hour ago, DudePlayinADude said:

Do you live near a microcenter or frys?

Frys is dead...

[DudePlayinADude]

1 minute ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

Frys is dead...

for some reason i was thinking B&H died.

 

I never had a fry's anyway, just microcenter.

[Young Cash Register]

18 hours ago, RAM555789 said:

This was the the cheapest I could get that included a 1TB SSD with a DRAM cache and a 2070 SUPER. I had to keep the case pretty cheap and the PSU is slightly older model (2017) but its actually the same one I own and I can vouch for it being great and reliable. If you want a better case, you either need to drop down the size of your SSD to about 500GB or if you want a newer PSU/Case you could also step down from a 2070 Super to just a 2070. Also don't forget that the new Nvidia cards are expecting to come out pretty soon, and there seems to be new leaks and speculations everyday about it.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($114.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($46.00 @ Amazon) 
Storage: TCSunBow X3 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($85.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card  ($499.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case: Antec VSK4000E U3 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($43.19 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1040.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-11 21:10 EDT-0400

I like this build I would recommend it. The only change I would make would be get a 2600 instead of a 3600 and with the money saved get an NVMe drive since the motherboard supports them.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Young Cash Register said:

I like this build I would recommend it. The only change I would make would be get a 2600 instead of a 3600 and with the money saved get an NVMe drive since the motherboard supports them.

The R5 3600 is the better cpu, and anyway the R5 2600 won't work in a B550 board.

[Young Cash Register]

16 hours ago, lee32uk said:

The R5 3600 is the better cpu, and anyway the R5 2600 won't work in a B550 board.

Yeah I know the 3600 is obviously faster but you will notice the difference in speed between a SATA SSD and an NVMe drive considerably more than the slight difference between a 2600 and a 3600. Just my opinion.

 

NVMe Drive:

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-black-sn750-nvme-1tb/p/N82E16820250110?&quicklink=true

CPU:

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-2600/p/N82E16819113496?Description=ryzen 2600&cm_re=ryzen_2600-_-19-113-496-_-Product&quicklink=true

Motherboard:

https://www.newegg.com/msi-b450-gaming-plus-max/p/N82E16813144264?item=N82E16813144264&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-motherboards+-+amd-_-N82E16813144264&gclid=CjwKCAjwydP5BRBREiwA-qrCGnNMZ8vn8bHyDVApaeNX9-2Piz8DW72d2quFHUZ1-mJ2NPl0M7fpNRoCgfMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, Young Cash Register said:

Yeah I know the 3600 is obviously faster but you will notice the difference in speed between a SATA SSD and an NVMe drive considerably more than the slight difference between a 2600 and a 3600. Just my opinion.

 

NVMe Drive:

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-black-sn750-nvme-1tb/p/N82E16820250110?&quicklink=true

CPU:

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-2600/p/N82E16819113496?Description=ryzen 2600&cm_re=ryzen_2600-_-19-113-496-_-Product&quicklink=true

Motherboard:

https://www.newegg.com/msi-b450-gaming-plus-max/p/N82E16813144264?item=N82E16813144264&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-motherboards+-+amd-_-N82E16813144264&gclid=CjwKCAjwydP5BRBREiwA-qrCGnNMZ8vn8bHyDVApaeNX9-2Piz8DW72d2quFHUZ1-mJ2NPl0M7fpNRoCgfMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

The R5 3600 will give you a higher framerate than the R5 2600. An NVMe SSD won't really make any difference vs a SATA for loading times. If the op wants an NVMe then he is better going with a budget one like the Crucial P1/P2 or WD Blue SN550.

 

Also not sure that board is worth it, considering the much better B550-A PRO is only $30 more. 

[YT_DomDaBomb20]

20 hours ago, lee32uk said:

The R5 3600 is the better cpu, and anyway the R5 2600 won't work in a B550 board.

It should work, but a 3600 is definitely the better option

[Young Cash Register]

Wow holy shit I just did some more research and the 3600 really does give quite a bit more FPS than the 2600 I really underestimated that difference. I thought it would be more like 5fps difference some games get like 40 more fps. I definitely was wrong about that, seems like a good build then considering that it gets my approval. I do notice a good improvement in system snappiness when I upgraded from an SSD to an NVMe drive so maybe once he fills up that 500gb drive I'd reccommend getting an NVMe and putting windows on it. But yeah thanks for making me realize how much of a difference processors make in FPS value im not sure why I thought it wouldnt be that much of a difference.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

On 8/11/2020 at 9:42 PM, LienusLateTips said:

here's something with some more frills if OP wants that:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.00 @ Best Buy) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB MECH OC Video Card  ($369.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox MB311L ARGB MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($67.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($79.90 @ B&H) 
Total: $996.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-11 21:41 EDT-0400

 

Regardless, still should get the Pure Power 11 instead as it's more efficient, and 600W vs 450W. Good quality on both units.

 

But would also wait for new Navi/NVIDIA Ampere

I'd go with this build, though if you livestream you might want to see if there are used RTX 2070s available in the area since the NVENC encoder is really something

[Nena Trinity]

I have like 3 or more suggestions in my signature! :3

 

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (1000$) build: pcpartpicker.com/list/PLBXcq

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (1050$) build: pcpartpicker.com/list/dvnTGc

Intel Core i5-10400/10400F (1000$) build: pcpartpicker.com/list/jTTBV7

Intel Core i5-10400/10400F Z490 (1000$) build: pcpartpicker.com/list/3vJy6R

 

Note: I posted this from phone hehe...