Helpless begginer needs help, build mainly for graphic design work

[Polkadotted]

Budget (including currency): 650€

Country: Portugal

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Graphic design (photoshop, illustrator, indesign), as well as playing games, and video editing.

Other details: I already have a good monitor, keyboard and mouse. I'm currently using a office pc that my friend got from his mom's friend in like 2020... my old laptop was worse honestly.

Anything is better than my current setup but i'm looking for something that will still be good for a while and wont need any major, expensive upgrades. Upgrading setup bc i just finished uni and need to start applying for jobs, would prefer to work from home but with a pc like i have right now it's impossible.

 

Currently i have made this part list by myself and i have very little to no knowledge about anything so a little help will go a long way.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/gvWYBq

 

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage: *KIOXIA EXCERIA G2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

 

If its possible to replace any of these parts for cheaper stuff that works pleaasee save me. I'm almost going over my budget and I can barely afford this already.

[Hinjima]

7 minutes ago, Polkadotted said:

Budget (including currency): 650€

Country: Portugal

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Graphic design (photoshop, illustrator, indesign), as well as playing games, and video editing.

Other details: I already have a good monitor, keyboard and mouse. I'm currently using a office pc that my friend got from his mom's friend in like 2020... my old laptop was worse honestly.

Anything is better than my current setup but i'm looking for something that will still be good for a while and wont need any major, expensive upgrades. Upgrading setup bc i just finished uni and need to start applying for jobs, would prefer to work from home but with a pc like i have right now it's impossible.

 

Currently i have made this part list by myself and i have very little to no knowledge about anything so a little help will go a long way.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/gvWYBq

 

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage: *KIOXIA EXCERIA G2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card
Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

 

If its possible to replace any of these parts for cheaper stuff that works pleaasee save me. I'm almost going over my budget and I can barely afford this already.

I guess its difficult for you to answer due to your lack of knowledge, but how is the used market in in Portugal? Any idea?
At the used market is where you will find good cheap options.  Cheap case, Cheap RAM etc.

 

I would change the Ryzen 3600 to a 5600 as its newer,faster AND its cheaper.

The Motherboard might not support it out of the box but the motherboard does have whats called a BIOS Flashback button, so you can update the motherboard without having a compatible CPU, to make the Ryzen 5600 work   I can assist you with this as well.

 

https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/bsmf4p

[SpookyCitrus]

What are the office computers specs from 2020? If it's a 2018 or newer model computer it's possible that could be upgraded for less than building a whole new system.

 

Only way I'd really say you could get anything cheaper would be buying used parts.

[Polkadotted]

13 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

I guess its difficult for you to answer due to your lack of knowledge, but how is the used market in in Portugal? Any idea?
At the used market is where you will find good cheap options.  Cheap case, Cheap RAM etc.

 

I would change the Ryzen 3600 to a 5600 as its newer,faster AND its cheaper.

The Motherboard might not support it out of the box but the motherboard does have whats called a BIOS Flashback button, so you can update the motherboard without having a compatible CPU, to make the Ryzen 5600 work   I can assist you with this as well.

 

https://pt.pcpartpicker.com/list/bsmf4p

Online used market is out of my knowledge but I do go to second-hand markets that happen in my town and never came across anyhing computer related in the past few years. Can be just me tunneling so ill keep an eye out next time.

 

Thank you!

[Polkadotted]

30 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

What are the office computers specs from 2020? If it's a 2018 or newer model computer it's possible that could be upgraded for less than building a whole new system.

 

Only way I'd really say you could get anything cheaper would be buying used parts.

I don't know from when the pc is really from since i got it from a friend that got it from a friend blahblah but he got it in 2020 so I was basing myself on that.

Anyway, current specs bellow 

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-3240 3.40GHz
Motherboard: Dell 0WR7PY
Memory: 8GB ddr3

Storage: Seagate ST250DM000
Not sure if any of these parts will be compatible with modern things or even if they are worth it but if so i 100% would use them again

[Hinjima]

5 hours ago, Polkadotted said:

I don't know from when the pc is really from since i got it from a friend that got it from a friend blahblah but he got it in 2020 so I was basing myself on that.

Anyway, current specs bellow 

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-3240 3.40GHz
Motherboard: Dell 0WR7PY
Memory: 8GB ddr3

Storage: Seagate ST250DM000
Not sure if any of these parts will be compatible with modern things or even if they are worth it but if so i 100% would use them again

Not much to reuse here really, they are all very old components.

The only thing that might be worth reusing is the Seagate ST250DM000 HDD but its probably getting up there in age an is an unreliable storage unit, at least for important files and documents.

 

The PC listed above with a Ryzen 5600 + Radeon 6600 will absolutely stomp over this PC in terms of productivity and gaming.