first time ever bulding a pc

[megameglomania]

Budget (including currency): 500 us dollars

Country: south africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: mid range games 

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): 

 

[Eighjan]

9 minutes ago, megameglomania said:

Budget (including currency): 500 us dollars

Country: south africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: mid range games 

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): 

 

$500 is a super tight budget, esp. with the state of the market for some parts; it may even be worth dropping back a generation to get something serviceable that isn't going to cost another "king's ransom" to upgrade once normality resumes.

 

Factor in how much this will cost to ship from the US, too... unless that list is locally available, despite the lack of RSA pricing on PC Part Picker.

[FireAbyss111802]

9 minutes ago, megameglomania said:

Budget (including currency): 500 us dollars

Country: south africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: mid range games 

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): 

 

overall ok build, except 1. no GPU (because of the current market, i suppose?) and 2. No SSD. Please put a small 128gb SSD in ur PC. It will go a long long way