First Gaming PC

[SignatureSigner]

Budget (including currency): $600-700 (US)

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, 1080p/1440p (light Video Editing) Fortnite, Shotgun farmers ETC

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): 

I am comfortable buying lightly used or open box items. This is my first gaming oriented PC I have keyboard mouse and monitor already that I can use. I am thinking about a combo of a ryzen 5 2600, 16gb, ram 3200mhz, and either a RX 580 8 GB or a GTX 1650 or 1060. Just looking for some advice as I have worked on/in computers before but this would be a first building of a PC. I can wait awhile and am just looking for some advice. Thanks ;)

[mahyar]

wait for zen3 and if you cant say and i will make a list for you

[AndreiArgeanu]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$114.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$124.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$68.98 @ Amazon
Storage	Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$57.99 @ Adorama
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card	$169.99 @ Newegg
Case	Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case	$50.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	EVGA BQ 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$59.53 @ Walmart
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$702.45
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-28 12:37 EDT-0400

This is kind of the best you can get. You can sacrifice in some places to potentially get better parts, like going for a smaller cheaper SSD, and a lesser motherboard, to get something like a gtx 1660 instead of a 1650 super. But that does come down to your prefference.

[SignatureSigner]

I would be interested in seeing what someone else could make up that would be good at 1080p/1440p gaming at 120or144 fps in most titles at med to high settings for under 700$ I dont plan on buying core components anytime soon, so I probs will wait for ZEN 3 and for the new RX cards to make the older ones cheaper

Thanks for the reply.

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, SignatureSigner said:

I would be interested in seeing what someone else could make up that would be good at 1080p/1440p gaming at 120or144 fps in most titles at med to high settings for under 700$ I dont plan on buying core components anytime soon, so I probs will wait for ZEN 3 and for the new RX cards to make the older ones cheaper

Thanks for the reply.

For gpu's don't be afraid to go used. There's a heap of deals to be had there.

[SignatureSigner]

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

For gpu's don't be afraid to go used. There's a heap of deals to be had there.

Thanks I've been on midweekmaddness every wed for gpu/psu's

[jaslion]

Just now, SignatureSigner said:

Thanks I've been on midweekmaddness every wed for gpu/psu's

Don't get a used psu ever. Not a good idea even if it's almost new. Not worth the risk for a little savings.

[mahyar]

2 minutes ago, SignatureSigner said:

Thanks I've been on midweekmaddness every wed for gpu/psu's

i would recommend something like rtx2070 super and maybe ryzen 5 2600

[SignatureSigner]

30 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Don't get a used psu ever. Not a good idea even if it's almost new. Not worth the risk for a little savings.

Thanks  Ill keep that in mind its just so tempting because of how EXPENSIVE so many psu manufacturers are rn.