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Hi, i think this is quite a good build for the price, although you could go with a slightly cheaper motherboard and get a seperate wifi card (im assuming that you picked that board because it is one of the cheapest options with onboard wifi). Going for a 650w power supply could open up some more options for a GPU upgrade in the future so if you can find one for not too much more money then i'd recommend that.

 

I went for a simmilar build myself about 1 year ago (with a 5700g instead of a 5600g) and only recently added in a graphics card. You can expect playable framerates with low-medium settings in most AAA games (at 1080p), and it gives you an excelent upgrade path in the form of just adding a discrete GPU if you need some extra performance. There are also pleanty of games like minecraft that will be able to hit tripple digit framerates, even on higher settings.

 

I was able to get an extra 200mHz overclock on the integrated graphics without much difficulty which gives about a 10% perfromance boost so id recommend trying that out if overclocking is something that you are comfortable with. I also found that since the integrated graphics use system memory (RAM) instead of vRAM, my RAM usage was quite high in some games (for me Escape from Tarkov was using all 16GB of RAM) so i actually upgraded to 32GB of RAM soon after building my system. I had no issues with temperatures just using the stock AMD cooler, although you will see a performance boost from undervolting the CPU since it will lower the temperature and allow the CPU to boost higher.

 

At this price point you might also want to consider buying some of the parts used

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Budget (including currency): around 500 US dollars

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Star Wars: Jedi fallen order, FNAF security breach, Minecraft, Deltarune, Way of the Hunter; a large range of games as you can see

Other details: 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/c42fZw 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($128.97 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($171.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: *TEAMGROUP T-Create Expert 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: *Kingston NV2 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($32.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: *Thermaltake Smart BM2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $525.91
 

This is my first Time building a pc and would like to know if this is a good entry level build for gaming or if there are any other suggestions for components in the same price range.

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Hi, i think this is quite a good build for the price, although you could go with a slightly cheaper motherboard and get a seperate wifi card (im assuming that you picked that board because it is one of the cheapest options with onboard wifi). Going for a 650w power supply could open up some more options for a GPU upgrade in the future so if you can find one for not too much more money then i'd recommend that.

 

I went for a simmilar build myself about 1 year ago (with a 5700g instead of a 5600g) and only recently added in a graphics card. You can expect playable framerates with low-medium settings in most AAA games (at 1080p), and it gives you an excelent upgrade path in the form of just adding a discrete GPU if you need some extra performance. There are also pleanty of games like minecraft that will be able to hit tripple digit framerates, even on higher settings.

 

I was able to get an extra 200mHz overclock on the integrated graphics without much difficulty which gives about a 10% perfromance boost so id recommend trying that out if overclocking is something that you are comfortable with. I also found that since the integrated graphics use system memory (RAM) instead of vRAM, my RAM usage was quite high in some games (for me Escape from Tarkov was using all 16GB of RAM) so i actually upgraded to 32GB of RAM soon after building my system. I had no issues with temperatures just using the stock AMD cooler, although you will see a performance boost from undervolting the CPU since it will lower the temperature and allow the CPU to boost higher.

 

At this price point you might also want to consider buying some of the parts used

System: AMD R7 5700g (OC to 4.45GHz fixed clock) / Noctua NH-D15 / Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 / Gigabyte Waterforce WB RTX 2080 Ti / Crucial 4x8GB DDR4 (OC to 3800MHz Cl16) / 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus / Corsair 4000D airflow / Corsair TX650M / BenQ Mobius EX2510 24.5" 1080p 144Hz 

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