Friend wants to build PC, just want to double check them.

[DarkBlade2117]

He doesn't have a specified price point, just $800-950ish 

1st Opiton: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b4WXBP

2nd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dtD8kT

3rd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WNm8kT

Weary on how an R5 1400 will perform with a 1070 though it does depend on his budget and he is selling his laptop. He doesn't care about looks, cable management ect... so I choose the cheapest board, ram, ect and tried to keep everything within Amazon/Newegg to make purchasing easy. He'll likely end up with the 1st or 2nd option if they are fine

 

 

[Stevoisboss]

I think 1st option the the most balanced. 3rd is best if you can afford it though. 

[smokefest]

4 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

He doesn't have a specified price point, just $800-950ish 

1st Opiton: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b4WXBP

2nd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dtD8kT

3rd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WNm8kT

Weary on how an R5 1400 will perform with a 1070 though it does depend on his budget and he is selling his laptop. He doesn't care about looks, cable management ect... so I choose the cheapest board, ram, ect and tried to keep everything within Amazon/Newegg to make purchasing easy. He'll likely end up with the 1st or 2nd option if they are fine

 

 

3rd option seems to be the best, obviously, but its more costy $$

 

But I think ur friend shud pick the 3rd option due to the gtx 1070, he will really likes it

[smokefest]

Yeah, either 1st or 3rd option, depending on if he wants to pay more $$$ then pick the 3rd option as the gtx 1070 is worth the extra money.

 

I'd say pick the 3rd if he can afford it

[Flavlus]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QTKZd6 try thin one on for size

 

Minor changes but better Mobo AND gpu while getting a smaller psu as you dont need that one

[Flavlus]

16 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

He doesn't have a specified price point, just $800-950ish 

1st Opiton: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b4WXBP

2nd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dtD8kT

3rd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WNm8kT

Weary on how an R5 1400 will perform with a 1070 though it does depend on his budget and he is selling his laptop. He doesn't care about looks, cable management ect... so I choose the cheapest board, ram, ect and tried to keep everything within Amazon/Newegg to make purchasing easy. He'll likely end up with the 1st or 2nd option if they are fine

 

 

 

Also the G1 gaming is a better card tahn the 1070 you selected and worth teh extra 20$

 

[Zyndo]

17 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

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What will this PC be used for? and if its going to see any gaming action what is the resolution and refresh rate of the monitor which will be paired with it?

[Princess Luna]

17 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

fine

I prefer the third one, I think it is the best cost to performance out of them, then again I would strongly advise not getting MSi for motherboard, at least here in Brazil they have been a fiasco on BIOS, or so would indicate national forums, on the other hand Asus Prime is doing wonderfully well.

[Moress]

5 minutes ago, Flavlus said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QTKZd6 try thin one on for size

 

Minor changes but better Mobo AND gpu while getting a smaller psu as you dont need that one

going to swap that Green Label psu out. They're garbage. The M12II is much better

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($217.55 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($78.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Patriot Viper Elite 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($94.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($80.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.45 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card  ($350.69 @ Amazon)
Case: Azza Cosmas ATX Mid Tower Case  ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.90 @ Newegg)
Total: $955.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-03 20:04 EDT-0400

[Zyndo]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

I prefer the third one, I think it is the best cost to performance out of them, then again I would strongly advise not getting MSi for motherboard, at least here in Brazil they have been a fiasco on BIOS, or so would indicate national forums, on the other hand Asus Prime is doing wonderfully well.

could you elaborate on issues with the MSI boards? I've been recommending them a lot in the new Ryzen setups due to their amazing price and wonderful compliment of features.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Zyndo said:

could you elaborate on issues with the MSI boards? I've been recommending them a lot in the new Ryzen setups due to their amazing price and wonderful compliment of features.

Basically none seems to go past 2666mhz on ram, sadly most my friends aren't fluent in english so I can't tag them here but two of them have had difficulty with MSi, not only the ram issue but system instability the first one from one them, which was a MSi x370 SLI PLUS came broken, gave everyone the big time scare on the building day because someone dropped the 1800x still on the box any ways, their costumers service is bloody useless like the worse we ever been through here in Brazil, makes you really give EVGA more credit we end up only getting a half $ refund and this b350 OP's showing because lolz

 

The board works fine, if you don't mind only getting 2666mhz from that expensive 3200mhz ram... My Asus Prime x370-PRO on the other hand all it took was a first week bios update and ever since running the 1800x fully stable with ram on 2933mhz (3000mhz stick) ever since.

[emtproject]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FKf8kT Intel i5600k because of better base oc and a 1060 6 GB with better parts overall

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, emtproject said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FKf8kT Intel i5600k because of better base oc and a 1060 6 GB with better parts overall

Get out the here

 

But just for the lulz here's the best Intel competition at this price tag:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($292.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-VD PLUS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Team Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($82.37 @ NCIX US) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.29 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini Video Card  ($339.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: DIYPC VT380-W ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.12 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.90 @ Amazon) 
Total: $996.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-03 19:39 EDT-0400

 

 

[Zyndo]

42 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

He doesn't have a specified price point, just $800-950ish 

1st Opiton: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/b4WXBP

2nd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dtD8kT

3rd Option: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WNm8kT

Weary on how an R5 1400 will perform with a 1070 though it does depend on his budget and he is selling his laptop. He doesn't care about looks, cable management ect... so I choose the cheapest board, ram, ect and tried to keep everything within Amazon/Newegg to make purchasing easy. He'll likely end up with the 1st or 2nd option if they are fine

the best gaming PC on this list, for the price, is option number 2. option 1 has a weaker GPU, which results in far less total FPS. Option 3 spends an extra 50 bucks to have you go from 4 cores to 6 cores, which doesn't make sense if your only objective is gaming because nearly every game in existence will not see any performance benefit by increasing your thread count from 8 to 12 therefore its basically wasted money.

 

option 2 is the smartest investment to make if you're after a purely gaming pc

[DarkBlade2117]

16 minutes ago, emtproject said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FKf8kT Intel i5600k because of better base oc and a 1060 6 GB with better parts overall

No... You made it $100 more than it needs to be. RX 580 is better and R5 1600 is similar in gaming... Be real you won't notice a few FPS difference and crushes in rendering ect which he does