System Rebuild/Upgrade

[NeutralAdrian]

Good Morning Everyone, 

 

I hope you all had a great holiday, I sure as hell did.
My in laws decided to just write me a checks this year for X-Mas, so now instead of paying down my credit card debt I am upgrading my rig.

 

Budget: 
     $800 US

Country: 
     USA

System use: 
     3D Design (Blender/Fusion 360), Steaming (Twitch/Discord), and Gaming (Cyberpunk, Modded Minecraft, Baldur's Gate 3, anything else new and fun)

 

 

I have been a 1080p 60pfs gamer for a long time but I think it is time to make the jump to 1080p 144fps. 
I am doing a near full system rebuild, the only 3 things that are staying are the power supply, graphics card, CPU Cooler, case, and peripherals.
I just replaced added these to my build in the last 2 years so, no need to replace them. 

MSI 1070 TI, EVGA 650 BQ, NZXT S340 Black, HYPER 212 EVO

 

 

So on to what I need. 

CPU: 

     I am thinking of getting into AMD. I have been an intel guy since i started building systems but the AMD Ryzen 5 3600X has caught my eye.

     I would like to have the option to upgrade, to a 5000 chip in the future but we will see. 

 

Motherboard: 

     I don't have any real opinion here besides color, I would prefer something black.
     Besides that, I have zero intention of adding anything else to the PCIE slots and i am not overclocking.
     So something cheap will do just fine.

RAM: 

     Based on my use case, I am looking at 16gb, i doubt I need anything more, but the option to upgrade in the future is not out of the question.

 

Storage: 

     I do not want to mess with any raid or multiple drives. 
     The only thing that gets stored on my current system is games, all the design work I do is saved in the cloud, and I do not save video or pics on my system either. 

     So I think a 1tb M.2 would be my best best, So i can keep all the games I want to play ready to go without any issue. 

Monitor: 

     This is where I have the least experience, I have always bought the cheapest thing I could find. 
     Now that i want to dive into 144hz though, I know I have to shell out a little more money. 
     I still want to stick to HD as 4k seems a bit much at the moment. 

 

 

I intend to try and buy everything from Microcenter, since I have one a few miles away here in STL and love the option to bring in parts that are DOA. 

Let me know if I missed anything but that should cover the basics of what I am looking for. 

 

Thanks for the help everyone!

[boggy77]

No point in getting the 3600x unless it's the same price or like max $10 more than the 3600

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$139.99 @ B&H
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$63.99 @ B&H
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$99.50 @ Amazon
Monitor	MSI Optix G241 23.8" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor	$169.99 @ B&H
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$673.46
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-26 12:57 EST-0500