New $600 USD PC help

[ekoplayer1]

Budget (including currency): $600 (USD)

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Only gaming, ex: ready or not, Beamng, Warthunder

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): I already have the peripherals needed for this new pc, so i don't need any recommendations on those. Upgrading from a lenovo laptop with integrated graphics. Planning on buying within the next 2 months. Only planning on playing at 1080p 144hz.

 

Current parts list: 

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5500

Motherboard: ASRock B550M Micro ATX

GPU: ONIX LUMI Arc B580 12gb

Case: XPG Invader X mid tower

PSU: Thermaltake Smart Series 600w

SSD: KingSpec m.2 2280 1tb

 

The reason there is no ram or cpu cooler is because i am taking those from a previous build. 

 

If there is any way to upgrade this list within the strict $600 USD budget, any recommendations would be appreciated.

 

 

[Dedayog]

4 minutes ago, ekoplayer1 said:

Budget (including currency): $600 (USD)

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Only gaming, ex: ready or not, Beamng, Warthunder

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): I already have the peripherals needed for this new pc, so i don't need any recommendations on those. Upgrading from a lenovo laptop with integrated graphics. Planning on buying within the next 2 months. Only planning on playing at 1080p 144hz.

 

Current parts list: 

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5500

Motherboard: ASRock B550M Micro ATX

GPU: ONIX LUMI Arc B580 12gb

Case: XPG Invader X mid tower

PSU: Thermaltake Smart Series 600w

SSD: KingSpec m.2 2280 1tb

 

The reason there is no ram or cpu cooler is because i am taking those from a previous build. 

 

If there is any way to upgrade this list within the strict $600 USD budget, any recommendations would be appreciated.

 

 

How much are the components you're buying?  We can't improve without having a baseline to compare.

 

Personally I'd go with a Ryzen 5600 minimum though.

[Hellowpplz]

38 minutes ago, ekoplayer1 said:

Budget (including currency): $600 (USD)

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Only gaming, ex: ready or not, Beamng, Warthunder

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): I already have the peripherals needed for this new pc, so i don't need any recommendations on those. Upgrading from a lenovo laptop with integrated graphics. Planning on buying within the next 2 months. Only planning on playing at 1080p 144hz.

 

Current parts list: 

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5500

Motherboard: ASRock B550M Micro ATX

GPU: ONIX LUMI Arc B580 12gb

Case: XPG Invader X mid tower

PSU: Thermaltake Smart Series 600w

SSD: KingSpec m.2 2280 1tb

 

The reason there is no ram or cpu cooler is because i am taking those from a previous build. 

 

If there is any way to upgrade this list within the strict $600 USD budget, any recommendations would be appreciated.

 

 

 

33 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

How much are the components you're buying?  We can't improve without having a baseline to compare.

 

Personally I'd go with a Ryzen 5600 minimum though.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KMhr9C
 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($119.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: KingSpec XF 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($115.99 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Video Card: ONIX LUMI OC Arc B580 12 GB Video Card  ($259.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: ADATA XPG INVADER X ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 600 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $660.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-31 16:45 EST-0500

I just threw @ekoplayer1's list of parts into pcpartpicker without modifying it.

[Dedayog]

9 minutes ago, Hellowpplz said:

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KMhr9C
 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($119.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: KingSpec XF 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($115.99 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Video Card: ONIX LUMI OC Arc B580 12 GB Video Card  ($259.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: ADATA XPG INVADER X ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 600 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $660.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-31 16:45 EST-0500

I just threw @ekoplayer1's list of parts into pcpartpicker without modifying it.

Thanks for that.

 

I'd grab a  $200 used GPU like a 2080 or 3070 if OP wants to bring it under $600.

 

 

[ekoplayer1]

My current Newegg build says $612 for the components, i'm mostly just wondering if these parts will all work together well and be the best performance for new parts at this price. I also meant to say that i was trying to keep it under $600 before tax.

[dark_globe]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($74.11 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($81.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: TEAMGROUP T-FORCE G50 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB Video Card  ($249.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G370A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Phanteks AMP GH 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $616.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-31 18:45 EST-0500

ryzen 3600 is basically almost as good as 5500 in multithreaded tasks and almost as good for gaming -
bottom line if you want a real deal you need to go for ryzen 5600 at least , otherwise 3600 will do for 75 bucks
especially if paired with mid tier GPUs (3600 also has 32mb of L3 cache instead of 16mb which helps him to keep up with 5500 pretty well)
rtx 5060 however outperforms arc b580 by 20% - despite having 8gb of VRAM there will be only few games where you hit that limit hard at 1080p ,
in every other game rtx 5060 is simply faster than the arc and it also has better features ...
(better quality power supply will also save you some dilema later on and you will be free to upgrade your cpu and gpu to higher models
without having to worry whether or not the power supply will hold)