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Building PC for my best friend! Help!

Budget (including currency): $800 - $850 USD

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: It will be used for Video Games, mainly The Isle (dinosaur game). 

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): 

So my friend has a crappy laptop and gets trash frame rates with any game. He's saving up money for a PC and I told him I could Help him build on. I want the PC to run AAA games at high settings 1080p decent FPS. I just want to know if these parts are good and compatible, if not, I would greatly appreciate help. Thanks!

Parts:

CPU: i5 9600k (Currently on sale at nearby micro center) $170

GPU: GTX 1650 Super $170

MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z390 UD $130

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2 x 8gb $65

STORAGE: 256GB Samsung 860 EVO $50

CPU COOLING: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo $59

PSU: EVGA 80+ White 500W, 3 Year Warranty

CASE: Cooler Master MasterBox Q500L 

 

Please revise these and make sure it works and if you have any suggestions please tell me. Thanks!!!

 

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At the same price I'd definitely take the 3600 over the 9600K. Sure the i5 will have slightly better single-core performance, and some games (mostly older ones) might perform a little better on it, the lack of hyper-threading is already a problem in various modern AAA titles.

Also you're getting a significantly better GPU, double the storage (also NVMe) and a non-fire-hazard power supply.

Desktop: Intel Core i9-9900K | ASUS Strix Z390-F | G.Skill Trident Z Neo 2x16GB 3200MHz CL14 | EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER XC Ultra | Corsair RM650x | Fractal Design Define R6

Laptop: 2018 Apple MacBook Pro 13"  --  i5-8259U | 8GB LPDDR3 | 512GB NVMe

Peripherals: Leopold FC660C w/ Topre Silent 45g | Logitech MX Master 3 & Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed | HIFIMAN HE400se & iFi ZEN DAC | Audio-Technica AT2020USB+

Display: Gigabyte G34WQC

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8 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

non-fire-hazard power supply.

I actually ran that PSU for three years and it was perfectly fine, still works. Just replaced it with a RM850x in preparation for buying a 3080.

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