1000$ gaming build - advice?

[Axel1]

1. Budget & Location

I live in Slovakia (Europe) so the actual price might be around 850 EUR, however planning to purchase parts from Amazon, Newegg or whoever gives the best offer.

Minus the monitor and keyboard from the total, I guess the build would amount to around 800$.

 

2. Aim

Gaming only. I wish to play all the new titles on max settings at 60fps on 1080p for the next few years. Can compromise to medium settings in about 2-3 years if needed.

 

3. Monitors

I only need 1 monitor with 1080p, 60hz, at least 24inch which is enough for me.

 

4. Peripherals

Just monitor + keyboard (nothing fancy).

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

Simply wishing to game intensively the best titles at max settings. Could never afford to do that, so I finally wish to invest in this.

 

So far, my picks are:

Processor: Ryzen 5 1600

Motherboard: unsure

Memory: 2x8 GB

GPU: nVidia GTX 1060 6GB (had my eyes on EVGA Superclocked edition)

Case: Silverstone Raven RVZ01 (undecided - I want a slim case as I might move out of the country and wish to travel with it - worried on proper cooling though. This one support HDD as well)

PSU: a 450/500W SFX

Storage: SanDisk SSD PLUS 480GB + a 1TB HDD

Cooler: I'd like to keep the Wraith as it seems to work well, yet it seems it wouldn't fit in the case.

 

So any suggestions, improvements, advice, offers you guys might have, please help out in the comments. Your help is greatly appreciated

[Walt]

How fast is your memory? Ryzen likes high speed memory

Dont take a msi B350 motherboard they have a lot of issues.

[Axel1]

1 minute ago, Walt said:

How fast is your memory? Ryzen likes high speed memory

Dont take a msi B350 motherboard they have a lot of issues.

I was thinking of 3200 mhz, however is 2400 mhz not enough?

[Ashiella]

2 minutes ago, Walt said:

How fast is your memory? Ryzen likes high speed memory

Dont take a msi B350 motherboard they have a lot of issues.

ahem 4266mhz

[Walt]

17 minutes ago, Axel1 said:

I was thinking of 3200 mhz, however is 2400 mhz not enough?

I would stick with 3200Mhz (3000 at least)

[xDyl]

2 hours ago, Ashiella said:

ahem 4266mhz

Lmao

3 hours ago, Axel1 said:

-snip-

Please don't get SSD Plus, bad drives. Go with an ASRock B350 or ASUS B350 mobo. I invite you to get a CX550(M) as they are budget and reliable as I've seen for PSU.

[Axel1]

20 hours ago, xDyl said:

Please don't get SSD Plus, bad drives.

How are they bad? By reviews and testers so far, I understood there is little difference between the manufacturers/versions.

20 hours ago, xDyl said:

I invite you to get a CX550(M) as they are budget and reliable as I've seen for PSU.

Sounds good to me. How about 500W tho? Or even 450W? it's not enough?

[xDyl]

15 hours ago, Axel1 said:

How are they bad? By reviews and testers so far, I understood there is little difference between the manufacturers/versions.

I think @JDE can explain.

 

15 hours ago, Axel1 said:

500W

Get a 450 or 550W psu, some people say 500W psus are unreliable (no idea if legit or not, @STRMfrmXMN halp)

 

CX450(M) or 550(M) are my choices.

[STRMfrmXMN]

On 8/22/2017 at 8:50 AM, xDyl said:

Lmao

Please don't get SSD Plus, bad drives. Go with an ASRock B350 or ASUS B350 mobo. I invite you to get a CX550(M) as they are budget and reliable as I've seen for PSU.

Having used the Asrock B350M Pro4 I'd not recommend it for overclocking. Everything else is fine on it though.

[xDyl]

Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

Having used the Asrock B350M Pro4 I'd not recommend it for overclocking. Everything else is fine on it though.

How about psu? I heard like the 500B1 or BQ or whatever by EVGA is trashy.

[LienusLateTips]

17 minutes ago, xDyl said:

I think @JDE can explain.

The CX-M (grey) series is high quality, and if this were a tier list it would be the least I would recommend for a gaming PC. This doesn't mean it's bad, it's just good, not great or excellent.

[STRMfrmXMN]

2 minutes ago, xDyl said:

I think @JDE can explain.

 

Get a 450 or 550W psu, some people say 500W psus are unreliable (no idea if legit or not, @STRMfrmXMN halp)

 

CX450(M) or 550(M) are my choices.

CX500 is worse than the new CX450 and CX550.

[STRMfrmXMN]

23 minutes ago, xDyl said:

How about psu? I heard like the 500B1 or BQ or whatever by EVGA is trashy.

Both of those are kinda meh but work for basic systems.

[LienusLateTips]

5 minutes ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Both of those are kinda meh but work for basic systems.

Higher wattage BQs are good though.

[Axel1]

10 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

CX500 is worse than the new CX450 and CX550.

@JDE

Hi there,

 

Is the CX550M SFX or SFX-L tho? As far as I saw on their website, it's an ATX, so it wouldn't fit in the slim case. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

And in this case? What's your rec?

 

Thank you.

[lukart]

On 22/08/2017 at 2:00 PM, Walt said:

How fast is your memory? Ryzen likes high speed memory

Dont take a msi B350 motherboard they have a lot of issues.

 

Get the B350 Fatal1ty. its pretty good.

[xDyl]

16 hours ago, JDE said:

The CX-M (grey) series is high quality, and if this were a tier list it would be the least I would recommend for a gaming PC. This doesn't mean it's bad, it's just good, not great or excellent.

I meant for the SSD Plus question, but thanks ;p

[LienusLateTips]

6 hours ago, Axel1 said:

@JDE

Hi there,

 

Is the CX550M SFX or SFX-L tho? As far as I saw on their website, it's an ATX, so it wouldn't fit in the slim case. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

And in this case? What's your rec?

 

Thank you.

I'm blind. In that case, I would go for the Enermax Revolution SFX 650W, since that's a cheap and good SFX unit.

[Axel1]

11 hours ago, JDE said:

I'm blind. In that case, I would go for the Enermax Revolution SFX 650W, since that's a cheap and good SFX unit.

Whoa that's 110 bucks on Amazon.

[LienusLateTips]

5 minutes ago, Axel1 said:

Whoa that's 110 bucks on Amazon.

Yeah good SFX units are expensive

[seon123]

1 hour ago, JDE said:

Yeah good SFX units are expensive

Aren't the SF series from Corsair good? Tier 1 in the list