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My friend's budget is about $1000. We live in the US. His PC will be used for gaming, editing, recording, and streaming. He plans to buy soon and we already have a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PZy9W3

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($239.00 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($149.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($78.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial MX500 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  ($339.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($98.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 600 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($57.99 @ B&H) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($108.78 @ Other World Computing) 
Total: $1164.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-10-18 19:26 EDT-0400

 

 

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53 minutes ago, Danicos said:

My friend's budget is about $1000. We live in the US. His PC will be used for gaming, editing, recording, and streaming. He plans to buy soon and we already have a mouse, keyboard, and monitor. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PZy9W3

 

There are huge enough nearby enough upcoming changes that the definition of soon matters.  Holding out till multiple new GPUs are released is one, holding out until console hardware is known is another.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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59 minutes ago, Danicos said:

His PC will be used for gaming, editing, recording, and streaming.

An excellent first draft.

 

Step down to the 3600 and save the $40 for a performance hit you won't notice.

A small SSD for a boot drive is the right strategy, but it really should be an NVME. That performance boost will be noticed.

Spend the $9 to double the capacity of your home/working drive.

Don't wish to speak disparagingly of any particular company, but get another PSU.

I also changed the memory to something $4 cheaper with slightly tighter timings. Not that anyone will notice.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $199.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard $149.99 @ B&H
Memory Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $74.99 @ B&H
Storage Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $52.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card $339.99 @ B&H
Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case $98.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply EVGA BQ 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $72.99 @ Newegg
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit $108.78 @ Other World Computing
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1153.69
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-10-18 07:28 EDT-0400  

 

18 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

There are huge enough nearby enough upcoming changes

Which may or may not effect pricing of major components. It really is worth waiting to see.

 

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11 minutes ago, stanfiveohtwo said:

An excellent first draft.

 

Step down to the 3600 and save the $40 for a performance hit you won't notice.

A small SSD for a boot drive is the right strategy, but it really should be an NVME. That performance boost will be noticed.

Spend the $9 to double the capacity of your home/working drive.

Don't wish to speak disparagingly of any particular company, but get another PSU.

I also changed the memory to something $4 cheaper with slightly tighter timings. Not that anyone will notice.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $199.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard $149.99 @ B&H
Memory Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $74.99 @ B&H
Storage Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $52.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card $339.99 @ B&H
Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case $98.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply EVGA BQ 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $72.99 @ Newegg
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit $108.78 @ Other World Computing
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1153.69
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-10-18 07:28 EDT-0400  

 

Which may or may not effect pricing of major components. It really is worth waiting to see.

 

I lack surety to be able to make assumptions about upcoming needs.  Motherboard is hefty enough to take a bigger cpu if needed.  I worry for one that current nvme may be high priced and low speed for what will be needed.  My move would be a single large SATA SSD and no HDD as it won’t affect current game loads much, and if an nvme turns out to be needed later at least there would be room.  Could go into the nvme 3.0 rather than the nvme 4.0 slot I guess.  Might make things a tad messy later.  If it turns out fast 4.0 nvme is needed I suppose the nvme SSD could be turned into cache for the HDD with primocache or whatever will be available then.

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Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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12 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

There are huge enough nearby enough upcoming changes that the definition of soon matters.  Holding out till multiple new GPUs are released is one, holding out until console hardware is known is another.

My friend will probably buy it by the end of this year.

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6 minutes ago, Danicos said:

My friend will probably buy it by the end of this year.

“By the end of the year” let’s out rocketlake desktop iirc.  My memory is that was Q1 2021. So are several Nvidia restocks though.
there a bunch of major announcements slated for November.  There are dates but I don’t remember them:

 

zen3

nvidia 3070

AMD RDNA2 

ps5

XboxX

 

All of them promise to be somewhat shattering to PCs in either requirements for future gaming or prices or both.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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