New PC build

[GameDragon0101]

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Halo, Minecraft(RTX sometimes), Other

Other details: 

Monitor: Acer Nitro Gaming Series VG220Q 

CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 2600 6-Core 

GPU: Some RTX 2060 

Motherboard: ASRock B450M

500G SSD

16G RAM

 

[IkeaGnome]

6 minutes ago, GameDragon0101 said:

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Halo, Minecraft(RTX sometimes), Other

Other details: 

Monitor: Acer Nitro Gaming Series VG220Q 

CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 2600 6-Core 

GPU: Some RTX 2060 

Motherboard: ASRock B450M

500G SSD

16G RAM

 

Do you already have the 2060, or do you plan to buy it? If so, where from? That decides how much is left for the other components

 

[RONOTHAN##]

First off, basically all of these recommendations will be based off of what price you can get the parts for. If you can get a great deal on some of these components, change to that instead.

 

1.) Don't buy a new Ryzen 2600 in 2021, especially at retail prices. I wouldn't spend more than $100 on one, especially since 2 years ago I bought a 2700X for $120 brand new. If you can get a deal on a used one for like $80, or get a mobo/CPU/RAM combo for like $200-250, then sure go with it, but otherwise there are a lot better CPUs to get. You can get an i5-10400F for $10 less, get a similar tier motherboard for about $10 more and you'll get much better performance for basically the same price. 

 

2.) 2060 is fine. If it were any time other than now I'd say you could probably do better for this budget, but right now you really can't.

 

3.) 500GB isn't that much now and you will have your storage eaten up with 1-2 games installed. Ignore this if you are bringing a 1TB+ HDD from another build, but it would probably be worth saving up the extra $40-50 to get a 1TB SSD instead

 

4.) What Case and PSU are you using? You don't want to cheap out on the PSU especially, since if that dies it can take everything else with it.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LDWBkX

 

This is the system I would build for the price. It leaves you with ~$500 to find a 2060, which is possible to find on eBay/Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace/etc. I would swap out that SSD for something like the SN550 1TB, but if you're really tight on cash and will upgrade the storage in the near future, you can stick with the WD Blue.

 

 

[GameDragon0101]

27 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

Do you already have the 2060, or do you plan to buy it? If so, where from? That decides how much is left for the other components

 

I dont have it yet

[GameDragon0101]

10 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

First off, basically all of these recommendations will be based off of what price you can get the parts for. If you can get a great deal on some of these components, change to that instead.

 

1.) Don't buy a new Ryzen 2600 in 2021, especially at retail prices. I wouldn't spend more than $100 on one, especially since 2 years ago I bought a 2700X for $120 brand new. If you can get a deal on a used one for like $80, or get a mobo/CPU/RAM combo for like $200-250, then sure go with it, but otherwise there are a lot better CPUs to get. You can get an i5-10400F for $10 less, get a similar tier motherboard for about $10 more and you'll get much better performance for basically the same price. 

 

2.) 2060 is fine. If it were any time other than now I'd say you could probably do better for this budget, but right now you really can't.

 

3.) 500GB isn't that much now and you will have your storage eaten up with 1-2 games installed. Ignore this if you are bringing a 1TB+ HDD from another build, but it would probably be worth saving up the extra $40-50 to get a 1TB SSD instead

 

4.) What Case and PSU are you using? You don't want to cheap out on the PSU especially, since if that dies it can take everything else with it.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LDWBkX

 

This is the system I would build for the price. It leaves you with ~$500 to find a 2060, which is possible to find on eBay/Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace/etc. I would swap out that SSD for something like the SN550 1TB, but if you're really tight on cash and will upgrade the storage in the near future, you can stick with the WD Blue.

 

 

EVGA 500 GD PSU

 

 A 500G M.2 is fine for me I'm using a laptop with the same amount but I might get a HHD to go with 

 

as for the case a already ordered it but here it is anyways (Btw I got it on sale)

https://www.newegg.com/p/2AM-00EH-00020

 

This is kind of late in the planning prosses to change CPUs How much of a performance boost are we talking?

[Marcos1121231234]

I would get a hard drive and a slightly better cpu like a 3500, If you want to save a bit you could go for a 120 or 240 gig ssd along with the hard drive

[RONOTHAN##]

4 hours ago, GameDragon0101 said:

EVGA 500 GD PSU

 

 A 500G M.2 is fine for me I'm using a laptop with the same amount but I might get a HHD to go with 

 

as for the case a already ordered it but here it is anyways (Btw I got it on sale)

https://www.newegg.com/p/2AM-00EH-00020

 

This is kind of late in the planning prosses to change CPUs How much of a performance boost are we talking?

The only things you would need to change is the CPU and motherboard, whatever memory you were planning on would work fine. The performance boost is pretty significant, about 10-15% in single core performance and about 5-10% in multicore loads. It's worth it to either return the motherboard if you already bought it.

[GameDragon0101]

Do you have a different mobo suggestion with Wi-Fi?  If not do you know what Wi-Fi adapter I should use?

 

Oh Btw dose the CPU come with a cooler or do I need one?

Edited August 10, 2021 by GameDragon0101

[GameDragon0101]

uhhh I cant delete this post sooo... yah

[GameDragon0101]

On 8/9/2021 at 10:38 PM, RONOTHAN## said:

The only things you would need to change is the CPU and motherboard, whatever memory you were planning on would work fine. The performance boost is pretty significant, about 10-15% in single core performance and about 5-10% in multicore loads. It's worth it to either return the motherboard if you already bought it.

Uhhh are you still active?

[RONOTHAN##]

17 hours ago, GameDragon0101 said:

Uhhh are you still active?

yeah, I've just been busy for the last few days, plus this is the first message you actually quoted me on so I didn't get a notification before.

On 8/10/2021 at 6:18 PM, GameDragon0101 said:

Do you have a different mobo suggestion with Wi-Fi?  If not do you know what Wi-Fi adapter I should use?

 

Oh Btw dose the CPU come with a cooler or do I need one?

You're probably best off just buying a $10 wifi adapter off eBay or Amazon, very few people actually benefit from getting a good one. 

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-wireless-network-Adapter-SoftAP/dp/B008IFXQFU/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=wifi+adapter&qid=1628776224&sr=8-6

Something like this should be more than fine for most people.

 

As for if the CPU comes with a cooler, it does, but not a good one. The stock cooler will get you up ad running, but it wouldn't be a bad investment to buy something better like a Hyper T2 or be quiet! Pure Rock 2 (nearly any cooler in the $20-25 range would be more than enough, so just pick the one you think looks the best)

[GameDragon0101]

6 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

yeah, I've just been busy for the last few days, plus this is the first message you actually quoted me on so I didn't get a notification before.

You're probably best off just buying a $10 wifi adapter off eBay or Amazon, very few people actually benefit from getting a good one. 

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-wireless-network-Adapter-SoftAP/dp/B008IFXQFU/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=wifi+adapter&qid=1628776224&sr=8-6

Something like this should be more than fine for most people.

 

As for if the CPU comes with a cooler, it does, but not a good one. The stock cooler will get you up ad running, but it wouldn't be a bad investment to buy something better like a Hyper T2 or be quiet! Pure Rock 2 (nearly any cooler in the $20-25 range would be more than enough, so just pick the one you think looks the best)

is this a fine cooler? Thermaltake UX100 38.82 CFM CPU Cooler

[RONOTHAN##]

3 hours ago, GameDragon0101 said:

is this a fine cooler? Thermaltake UX100 38.82 CFM CPU Cooler

Not a huge fan of Thermaltake, and the general rule of thumb is that the bigger the cooler, the better it performs. I would expect this to outperform the Intel stock cooler, but not by a whole lot. Something like this I would expect to perform better https://pcpartpicker.com/product/99DwrH/arctic-cooling-cpu-cooler-acfz13.