Building my first gaming PC for Christmas! Need some reccomendations

[SiivaGunner]

My budget is $900, but I can go up to $1000 if necessary. This PC will be mainly gaming exclusive, 1080p 60hz, and I want it to last for about 4-5 years before buying new parts.Here is my rough draft build, and I intend to buy the parts a few weeks after the holidays. I would also prefer RGB, but I can live without it. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

That looks just about perfect, I would look for an Asus motherboard though, MSI's AM4 boards have had their fair share of problems.

 

Welcome to the forums!

[seon123]

For $1000, you could get a 1070/Ti and an SSD. Don't just buy from a single store, buy the parts from wherever it's cheapest. 

A bit over $1000.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($197.48 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($95.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: *Toshiba - P300 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($39.88 @ Other World Computing) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Mini Video Card  ($449.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Thermaltake - Versa H21 Window ATX Mid Tower Case  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.90 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1018.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-24 17:30 EST-0500

Edited December 24, 2017 by seon123
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[Trevor87]

Looks good. Later on get self small SSD for windows and you wont look back

 

[easternlightNZ]

Make sure you can find your receipt if needed too. 

 

I had a problem with a Seasonic 660xp2, it was only 11 months old. Worked fine under normal Windows browsing etc but began to shutdown in various games depending upon the load. Tore my hair out testing ram, unplugging drives, reinstalling, virus checking, under clocking and rebuilding. Nothing worked so I swapped out power supply for a cheap same watt power supply built here in Japan and problem solved.

Shame as I like the idea of the Seasonic - perhaps it is all in my head but I feel it would protect the rest of my components better. However I could not locate my receipt and Seasonic live support said they couldn't help me without it, so it is a rather expensive new paper weight.

[LienusLateTips]

18 hours ago, easternlightNZ said:

Make sure you can find your receipt if needed too. 

 

I had a problem with a Seasonic 660xp2, it was only 11 months old. Worked fine under normal Windows browsing etc but began to shutdown in various games depending upon the load. Tore my hair out testing ram, unplugging drives, reinstalling, virus checking, under clocking and rebuilding. Nothing worked so I swapped out power supply for a cheap same watt power supply built here in Japan and problem solved.

Shame as I like the idea of the Seasonic - perhaps it is all in my head but I feel it would protect the rest of my components better. However I could not locate my receipt and Seasonic live support said they couldn't help me without it, so it is a rather expensive new paper weight.

Never think a brand alone can protect your components. Corsair, SeaSonic, EVGA and every brand at least make some terrible units.