Upgrade - Looking for Advice!

[Derok]

I am currently using a REALLY old system and need to upgrade.  My budget is $500.  My case, power supply, and hard drive are all fine.  I just need to upgrade the big pieces.   I'll be using this for gaming.  My main 2 games are PUBG (which is unplayable currently. I can only squeak by on my laptop) and League of Legends (runs fine on my current computer).  I play other titles here and there.  This is not a end game build.  This is to give me the ability to actually play some PUBG with more than 15 FPS right now and upgrade later.  I am having surgery on my vocal chords in a month and will be home for 1-2 weeks not speaking, which makes for a lot of video game time.  I'm currently looking at:

 

Mobo:                      ASRock B350 Pro4      (Usually $80 any given day with mail in rebates and occasional sales)

CPU:                       Ryzen 5 1600 OR Ryzen 3 1200  (more on this below)    ($$ depends)

Graphics Card:       GTX 1050 ti                   ($150)

RAM:                      8 or 16 GB depending on budget

 

Considerations:

Ryzen 1600 and 8GB of RAM with the intent of just buying another 8GB later     (leaves me with no SSD and will have to purchase later)

Ryzen 1200 with 8GB of RAM with an SSD

Some variation of these you beautiful people can come up with.

 

So, mobo and graphics card add up to $230, which gives me $270 for the rest.

 

My thoughts:

I really like the 1600.  I am considering the 1200 just to save budget for an SSD since I currently do not have one.  Some videos I have watched with overclocked 1200 and a 1050 ti seem to work fine, but I am not sure how it would go selling the 1200 if I decide to go that route.  As cheap as it is I would probably just build a system with it later when I upgrade.  I have been looking at some used graphics cards like a GTX 970 but those are still hovering around the $200 range on eBay.  I don't live close enough to a Micro Center to take advantage of some of their crazy sales, so I have to go with standard prices from Newegg, Amazon, and the like.  There is an NVME slot on the mobo so I could use that.  I found a WD 256GB one that is the same price as a Samsung 850 EVO of the same capacity ($105).  I'l have the 1TB HDD for storage, so the SSD would only be for Windows and a few games.  

 

Your thoughts???

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($169.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($60.49 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($62.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card  ($209.68 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $503.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-15 09:05 EDT-0400

[Technomancer__]

I whould go with this

Spoiler

Ryzen 1600 and 8GB of RAM with the intent of just buying another 8GB later     (leaves me with no SSD and will have to purchase later)

 

[Technomancer__]

2 minutes ago, herman mcpootis said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($169.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($60.49 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($62.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card  ($209.68 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $503.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-15 09:05 EDT-0400

The 1600 is only a bit more expensive

[Herman Mcpootis]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

The 1600 is only a bit more expensive

still over budget. if he can spend the extra then go ahead.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, herman mcpootis said:

still over budget. if he can spend the extra then go ahead.

Yea but

About 20 extra for 2 more cores and 4 threads 

[Haeking]

22 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

Yea but

About 20 extra for 2 more cores and 4 threads 

You are correct, there is no point in going with a 1500x here its not worth the buy 

[Derok]

Thanks for the quick replies!  If I had to choose between the 1500X and the 1600, I would definitely spend the extra on the 1600.  I was considering the 1200 because people are overclocking them to 3.9 from what I have seen and it would save $100.