Looking to build a new PC - £375 budget

[flutterverse]

Budget (including currency): £375

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premier Pro Video Editing and Light Photoshop use however nothing too heavy, 1080p video most likely, casual video editing so YouTube and stuff for my Media course most likely. 

Video Games which include GTA V, FPS Games, Call Of Duty (custom zombies and zombies in general) Planning on running at 1080p low-medium settings really.

and running scambaiting virtual machines (1-2 cores with 2-3GB of memory allocated to the VMs) 

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 looking at something that will perform well enough for what I do and I can upgrade in the future. Looking for a CPU that's good for video editing, light photoshop work and gaming on really.  I plan on keeping my GPU which is a GTX 960 2GB so having an IGPU wouldn't matter. I modified a pre-made midrange list and took out the GPU and swapped the storage. However, I would like to know if any of you have another recommendations and if this is good or not.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	£149.99 @ CCL Computers
Motherboard	Biostar B450MH Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£49.98 @ Ebuyer
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	£60.32 @ CCL Computers
Storage	Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£49.87 @ Amazon UK
Case	Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	SeaSonic S12III 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	£45.46 @ Scan.co.uk
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£355.62
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-31 22:32 GMT+0000

My current rig: https://imgur.com/a/MXjs8bk

[Mythbusters123]

This looks really nice, I don't see anything wrong with it, besides the motherboard; but I don't have any experience with it so I couldn't tell you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[SlashedM]

Id spend a little more to get a B450 from either Gigabyte, MSI or Asrock.

[flutterverse]

14 minutes ago, SlashedM said:

Id spend a little more to get a B450 from either Gigabyte, MSI or Asrock.

Yeah, those motherboards will probably be better. Any you specifically recommend or should I just go for any of those brands?

[SlashedM]

Just now, flutterverse said:

Yeah, those motherboards will probably be better. Any you specifically recommend or should I just go for any of those brands?

Im not a big motherboard guy (especially for AMD) but just try sticking to those brands and look at the features you need. 

[flutterverse]

16 minutes ago, SlashedM said:

Im not a big motherboard guy (especially for AMD) but just try sticking to those brands and look at the features you need. 

I'll go for the one with built in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi like The Verge man said. Nah fr, thanks will do some research and find the best board for me

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm) 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£123.40 @ Alza) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£69.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£60.32 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£49.87 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£58.82 @ Novatech) 
Total: £362.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-01 02:42 GMT+0000

[flutterverse]

2 hours ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm) 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£123.40 @ Alza) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£69.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£60.32 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£49.87 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£58.82 @ Novatech) 
Total: £362.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-01 02:42 GMT+0000

I may have to go for the original motherboard as this goes over my budget as the case is out of stock and I still need a case + I need fans. Thanks for modifying the parts list though to help.

[Herman Mcpootis]

29 minutes ago, flutterverse said:

I may have to go for the original motherboard as this goes over my budget as the case is out of stock and I still need a case + I need fans. Thanks for modifying the parts list though to help.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm) 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£123.40 @ Alza) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£60.32 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£49.87 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Aerocool QS-240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£26.76 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£49.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £370.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-01 06:06 GMT+0000

[EvilPrime8]

Looks mostly good but as others mentioned I would go with a slightly better motherboard, maybe ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 on sale at Newegg for £67 and buy a used case locally. I can find free cases often or give the starving student story and a local used parts may hook you up.

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 hours ago, EvilPrime8 said:

 I would go with a slightly better motherboard, maybe ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 on sale at Newegg for £67 

that really isn't any better, you're just getting the same everything for extra money.

[flutterverse]

5 hours ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

that really isn't any better, you're just getting the same everything for extra money.

So I juat keep the original motherboard in the original list I guess.

[flutterverse]

12 hours ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm) 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£123.40 @ Alza) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£59.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£60.32 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£49.87 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Aerocool QS-240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£26.76 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£49.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £370.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-01 06:06 GMT+0000

Took out the SSD and will reuse my current HDDfor a bit. Went for the original CPU as it's better, thanks for this.

 

Any budget kit of fans you reccomend for £25 or does the case come with any?

[Herman Mcpootis]

7 hours ago, flutterverse said:

Took out the SSD and will reuse my current HDDfor a bit. Went for the original CPU as it's better, thanks for this.

the 1600 AF on the list is just the 2600 with a very minor drop in clock speeds, it won't really perform much worse.

 

7 hours ago, flutterverse said:

Any budget kit of fans you reccomend for £25 or does the case come with any?

comes with 1 case fan, you can add a couple more if the temps get too high.

[BHJohnson]

DO NOT USE A BIOSTAR MOTHERBOARD. I own one, and it is the biggest piece of garbage I have. And I own 2 FM2+ boards, 2 Excavator APU's, and 2 AM3+ boards with 2 Bulldozer CPU's. Biostar is a terrible product. Hardware, firmware, software, everything about it is terrible. See Buildzoid's video he made playing with one if you want more granularity in this opinion.

 

Just save up for a bit longer and spend the extra 20$. Cheap does not translate to good value.

[flutterverse]

On 1/2/2021 at 2:21 AM, Herman Mcpootis said:

the 1600 AF on the list is just the 2600 with a very minor drop in clock speeds, it won't really perform much worse.

 

comes with 1 case fan, you can add a couple more if the temps get too high.

maybe shouldnt of spent more, oh well whatever

[flutterverse]

On 1/2/2021 at 3:16 AM, BHJohnson said:

DO NOT USE A BIOSTAR MOTHERBOARD. I own one, and it is the biggest piece of garbage I have. And I own 2 FM2+ boards, 2 Excavator APU's, and 2 AM3+ boards with 2 Bulldozer CPU's. Biostar is a terrible product. Hardware, firmware, software, everything about it is terrible. See Buildzoid's video he made playing with one if you want more granularity in this opinion.

 

Just save up for a bit longer and spend the extra 20$. Cheap does not translate to good value.

yeah i got a better one Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard rather than the biostar one

[kendrick lamar]

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RCmZqp)

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/vrhmP6/intel-core-i5-10400f-29-ghz-6-core-processor-bx8070110400f) | £139.99 @ CCL Computers 
**Motherboard** | [MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WMNgXL/msi-b460m-a-pro-micro-atx-lga1200-motherboard-b460m-a-pro) | £68.95 @ CCL Computers 
**Memory** | [G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/mcH8TW/gskill-aegis-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-ddr4-3200-memory-f4-3200c16d-16gis) | £60.48 @ Ebuyer 
**Storage** | [Kingston A400 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WGZ2FT/kingston-a400-480gb-25-solid-state-drive-sa400s37480g) | £39.97 @ Amazon UK 
**Case** | [Thermaltake Versa H18 MicroATX Mini Tower Case](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/vbkj4D/thermaltake-versa-h18-microatx-mini-tower-case-ca-1j4-00s1wn-00) | £41.99 @ Amazon UK 
**Power Supply** | [EVGA BR 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply](https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/r2TPxr/evga-br-600w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-100-br-0600-k1) | £55.47 @ Scan.co.uk 
 | *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
 | **Total** | **£406.85**
 | Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2021-01-03 23:23 GMT+0000 |

[kendrick lamar]

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RCmZqp

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£139.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£68.95 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£60.48 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Kingston A400 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£39.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Thermaltake Versa H18 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£41.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA BR 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£55.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £406.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-03 23:23 GMT+0000