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Jasun
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Budget (including currency): <=$800 (basically as cheap as possible)

Country: United States of America

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games like VALORANT, CSGO, etc. medium-intensive games. Very light photo editing, video editing, everything university related. 

Other details: 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HnJn4d - part list but it's the very minimal. I'm getting a deal from a friend for the GPU so DO NOT CHANGE that. For the RAM, I just wanted to find one as cheap as possible so someone is willing to sell me that but I know that Ryzen CPUs are very picky so a little more money on that, I can do. 

Peripherals do not need to be included- I have everything already. 

 

I just want yall's thoughts on this and how to make this part list as efficient as powerful without spending too much money. 

"May your frame rates be high and your temperatures low"

I misread titles/posts way too often--correct me if I don't.

 

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1 minute ago, Jasun said:

Budget (including currency): <=$800 (basically as cheap as possible)

Country: United States of America

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games like VALORANT, CSGO, etc. medium-intensive games. Very light photo editing, video editing, everything university related. 

Other details: 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/HnJn4d - part list but it's the very minimal. I'm getting a deal from a friend for the GPU so DO NOT CHANGE that. For the RAM, I just wanted to find one as cheap as possible so someone is willing to sell me that but I know that Ryzen CPUs are very picky so a little more money on that, I can do. 

Peripherals do not need to be included- I have everything already. 

 

I just want yall's thoughts on this and how to make this part list as efficient as powerful without spending too much money. 

Would go for b550 (or even b450) over a520.


Phanteks P360a has much better airflow than an H510

Would say to get a little higher mhz ram, but 16gb of ram for under 50 dollars is a steal, so you can keep that
 

CXM 550 is good enough https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B72W0A2?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

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This is what I would go with:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $205.00
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $97.18 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory $45.00
Storage Team MP34 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $113.99 @ Amazon
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB DUAL EVO OC Video Card $150.00
Case Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $89.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $761.06
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-05 11:39 EDT-0400  

Better components across the board for basically the same price.

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stay away from A-series motherboards, the money you save on them is not worth the decrease in component quality. Any B450 should be fine as you won't need the features of b550 for the r5 3600, if you plan on upgrading to 5000-series cpu getting a x470 board might be worth it.

 

I noticed that your PSU isn't on the PSU-tier list so you might want to have a look at that too. (

 

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Oh, I forgot to mention that I want a fully modular PSU

"May your frame rates be high and your temperatures low"

I misread titles/posts way too often--correct me if I don't.

 

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1 minute ago, Jasun said:

Oh, I forgot to mention that I want a fully modular PSU

The one I listed is semi-modular - here's a fully modular one:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $205.00
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $97.18 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory $45.00
Storage Team MP34 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $113.99 @ Amazon
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB DUAL EVO OC Video Card $150.00
Case Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Phanteks AMP 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $89.99 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $761.15
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-05 11:43 EDT-0400  

 

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12 minutes ago, Jasun said:

Oh, I forgot to mention that I want a fully modular PSU

Least of your worry at this price range, really. Just choke the unused cables right down below near the hole where the cables come from.

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20 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

This is what I would go with:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $205.00
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $97.18 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory $45.00
Storage Team MP34 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $113.99 @ Amazon
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB DUAL EVO OC Video Card $150.00
Case Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $89.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $761.06
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-05 11:39 EDT-0400  

Better components across the board for basically the same price.

Great build, mostly what I thought.

 

I would cheap out on a case since it doesn't really matter, save 20 bucks.

 

Im not familiar with this NVME model but its pretty standard and has DRAM which is crucial in my opinion.

you could go for that, or just take a WD SN550 1tb, doesn't cost that much.

 

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45 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

This is what I would go with:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $205.00
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $97.18 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory $45.00
Storage Team MP34 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $113.99 @ Amazon
Video Card Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB DUAL EVO OC Video Card $150.00
Case Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $89.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $761.06
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-05 11:39 EDT-0400  

Better components across the board for basically the same price.

Exactly what I was going to recommend. However, the Team MP33 is like $15 or so cheaper and is still around the same performance of the MP34.

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5 hours ago, kendrick lamar said:

Great build, mostly what I thought.

 

I would cheap out on a case since it doesn't really matter, save 20 bucks.

 

Im not familiar with this NVME model but its pretty standard and has DRAM which is crucial in my opinion.

you could go for that, or just take a WD SN550 1tb, doesn't cost that much.

 

 

5 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Exactly what I was going to recommend. However, the Team MP33 is like $15 or so cheaper and is still around the same performance of the MP34.

The SN550 and MP33 are both DRAMless, hence my reason for avoiding them. The case is the cheapest I'd consider to have acceptable build quality and airflow.

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