Thoughts on build

[Walt]

Hi everyone,

I am helping my best friend with building his new game pc. We made a list of all the parts. We used pcpartpicker and changed some prices to the prices here (only if they were cheaper) And we would really appreciate some thought on our list. Thanks!  

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Further information:

1. Budget & Location = Around 900 euro's & we live in the Netherlands (german pcpartpicker is fine)

2. Aim = Gaming and a little bit of school work

3. Monitors = 1080p monitor

4. Peripherals = nothing needed

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (€221.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€100.95) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€127.00) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  (€268.84 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  (€89.00) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€93.95) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  (€11.95) 
Total: €913.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 20:51 CEST+0200

 

We have 2 questions:

- Are 2 case fans enough?

- We know we don't have a ssd in the build. We did not get in fit in this build so maybe with some help? Otherwise he will buy it later or wait a month longer before building. (for a 120GB or 250GB ssd)

 

If you have any question feel free to ask them!

 

Thanks in advance!

 

[Walt]

5 minutes ago, charrst said:

You could maybe get a slightly cheaper PSU to try and get some money for an SSD. Not entirely sure about EU pricing, but my 600W semi-modular PSU was only $60.

 

And how is your copy of Windows 10 only €11.95???

 

Two case fans is probably fine. But if you see thermal issues down the road it isn't too hard to toss some more fans in there.

I know its weird but the cheap Windows 10 copy works!  Which PSU do you own? its not bronze certified right? 

[Blackhole890]

2 minutes ago, charrst said:

You could maybe get a slightly cheaper PSU to try and get some money for an SSD. Not entirely sure about EU pricing, but my 600W semi-modular PSU was only $60.

and probably crappy, don't ever cheap on psu and neither get 99%+ rated diamond certified psu...

 

 

[Blackhole890]

1 minute ago, Walt said:

Which PSU do you own? its not bronze certified right? 

what if its? you dont need a gold certified psu, and less if its a budget build...

[Blackhole890]

PCPartPicker part list: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/kVrwnn
Price breakdown by merchant: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/kVrwnn/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€204.09 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-B250M-D2V Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€71.46 @ Mindfactory) 
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€106.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€97.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  (€268.84 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  (€90.00) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€72.40 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €911.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 21:18 CEST+0200

 

ryzen 5 are more for budget content creators, if you only game, with an i5 you would be fine

Edited May 7, 2017 by Blackhole890

[Blackhole890]

Just now, charrst said:

Its 80+ bronze. Corsair CX 650M.

Its not that bad. Its at least an upgrade from my old Thermaltake PSU (which died).

well, you live in us which these prices are much lower than on eu... I got my cx450m for the same price... T_T

[brob]

SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze would be an excellent psu choice. 

 

 

[Walt]

27 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

PCPartPicker part list: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/kVrwnn
Price breakdown by merchant: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/kVrwnn/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€204.09 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-B250M-D2V Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€71.46 @ Mindfactory) 
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€106.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€97.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  (€268.84 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  (€90.00) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€72.40 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €911.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-07 21:18 CEST+0200

 

ryzen 5 are more for budget content creators, if you only game, with an i5 you would be fine

The 6 core 12 threats have no use for gaming? Im a N00b at those things so please explain

 

[brob]

6 minutes ago, Walt said:

The 6 core 12 threats have no use for gaming? Im a N00b at those things so please explain

 

Most games are lightly threaded so they do better with fewer more powerful (faster/higher IPC) cores than with more less powerful ones. There are a few exceptions, but not many.

 

Just now, charrst said:

Most current games focus more on single-thread performance.

But the R5 1600 has single-threaded performance comparable to the i5-7500 with significantly better multi-threaded performance. As time goes by more games will be able to make use of more threads, so I would recommend the R5 1600 over the i5-7500.

The argument that more and more games will start using more threads has been made for the last 10 years. So far there does not seem to be a stampede in that direction.