Build for a friend

[avector]

Budget (including currency): ~£800

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CAD (Fusion350 and TurboCAD2015), Blender, Gaming

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): 

Upgrading from:
Intel Core i5-6500 @3.20GHz
16 GB of Ram
H110U Motherboard
NVidia 970 GTX Graphics Card
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD

My proposed parts list for him:
 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£164.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£71.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£62.35 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£58.08 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  (£353.40 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£67.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£53.60 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £832.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-18 23:05 BST+0100

The questions are:

• Buying a better motherboard to make upgrading to CPUs with higher current draw a viable upgrade path I think is worth it, so to go at least to Tear C so that he can get to a 3900X if he wanted to. Probably a B550 would be all he needed, rather than a 570. I'd need to research which is the cheapest in that tier.
• He could probably leave off the nvme drive and just buy that later if need be.
• I did consider the 5700XT but he's used to Nvidia and Blender, when last I checked, played better with the green team.
• The 3600X seems like the sweet spot at the moment, so even though CAD would benefit from more cores, the cost per core goes up a lot from there.

UserBenchmark, if it is to be believed, has a decent boost:

Thoughts?

[dfsgsfa]

3 months later new gen cpu and gpu come out and regret your life

dont pick that mobo, 2nd lowest model from each brand is miles better

get better ssd, NO QLC, NO DRAMLESS, full speed 3000mb+ for little more

[dizmo]

25 minutes ago, dfsgsfa said:

3 months later new gen cpu and gpu come out and regret your life

dont pick that mobo, 2nd lowest model from each brand is miles better

get better ssd, NO QLC, NO DRAMLESS, full speed 3000mb+ for little more

GPU likely won't come out until late fall/early 2021, and the CPU won't see that much of an improvement and will cost more.

I doubt he'll be regretting much.

[avector]

18 hours ago, lexusgamer05 said:

I think your proposed build looks good, I wouldn't change anything

You can do that if you want to but the 3600 will probably be fine for a long time

I looked up some Blender benchmarks, and for the most part, it fluctuates a bit, but here's the benchmark scores and you can make your decision

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Also, don't use UserBenchmark, it's unreliable

 

Thank you, super helpful reply, both re UserBenchmark and the Blender benchmarks 

[You_found_dom]

19 hours ago, dfsgsfa said:

3 months later new gen cpu and gpu come out and regret your life

dont pick that mobo, 2nd lowest model from each brand is miles better

get better ssd, NO QLC, NO DRAMLESS, full speed 3000mb+ for little more

What? A second lowest model from most companies don’t even have 1 vrm heatsink. At least this board does