Building a entry lvl system for a friend, Inputs appreciated

[InsufficientSleep]

Hi everyone. 

A friend asked me to build him a budged gaming pc with a $500 MAX budget.

I'm just wondering if anyone can see something I cant see or some better alternatives.

With the prices lvl here I have come up with this Plan. 

 

- Svive Luna x350w midi tower ( It's on sale )

- Corsair TX550M psu ( It's on sale )

- WD Black 3,5" 1TB hdd ( can clone it later and upgrade to an SSD and use the HDD for storage)

- Asus prime B350 pluss AM4 MOBO

- AMD Athlon X4 950 cpu ( can upgrade to Ryzen later )

- HyperX Fury DDR4 2666MHz 8GB  ( can upgrade later )

- OS Windows 10 Home

- Sapphire rx460 2GB ( He gets that one from me for free and can upgrade later )

- System fans ( He gets that from me too for free )

 

Anyone see something i should do different ? This build will cost him $496 + shipping.

One last thing, It's an AMD build.  I'm not giving more money to Intel.

 

[brob]

Where are you shopping?

[xriqn]

I recommend this for your budget:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4Pdgw6

Ryzen 3 2200G OEM/TRAY (that means it doesnt come with a cooler) 4 cores @ 3.5GHz with integrated graphics (Vega 8)

Patriot Signature 8gb ddr4 2400MHz Dual Channel

ASRock - A320M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard

Toshiba 1TB Hybrid Drive (Best balance between HDD and SSD for the price)

Zotac GTX 1050 2GB Mini GPU (performs better than an RX 460) (OPTIONAL DUE TO 2200G's iGPU)

Logisys - CS136BK ATX Mid Tower Case that comes with a 480W PSU

2x ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan

Noctua NT-H1 Thermal compound (better than the crap AMD give you)

RAIJINTEK - JUNO-X 52.0 CFM CPU Cooler

 

The costs below DO NOT factor your windows install, however you could use a popular linux distro such as Ubuntu.

With 1050- $495.28

Without 1050- $325.39

 

Personally I'd recommend the build without the 1050 because you can then afford windows 10 and you have integrated graphics onboard the CPU therefore you don't have to give him your GPU, saving your hardware and money. Fans were factored in because again, it saves you using your own stuff.

EDIT: The costs also factor in your shipping. And ignore the compatability note, it's just saying the usual bios crap which shouldn't be an issue and that the case doesn't have USB 3.0 ports but the mobo has the headers for it.

[InsufficientSleep]

25 minutes ago, brob said:

Where are you shopping?

From different sites in Norway

[InsufficientSleep]

34 minutes ago, xriqn said:

I recommend this for your budget:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4Pdgw6

Ryzen 3 2200G OEM/TRAY (that means it doesnt come with a cooler) 4 cores @ 3.5GHz with integrated graphics (Vega 8)

Patriot Signature 8gb ddr4 2400MHz Dual Channel

ASRock - A320M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard

Toshiba 1TB Hybrid Drive (Best balance between HDD and SSD for the price)

Zotac GTX 1050 2GB Mini GPU (performs better than an RX 460) (OPTIONAL DUE TO 2200G's iGPU)

Logisys - CS136BK ATX Mid Tower Case that comes with a 480W PSU

2x ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm Fan

Noctua NT-H1 Thermal compound (better than the crap AMD give you)

RAIJINTEK - JUNO-X 52.0 CFM CPU Cooler

 

The costs below DO NOT factor your windows install, however you could use a popular linux distro such as Ubuntu.

With 1050- $495.28

Without 1050- $325.39

 

Personally I'd recommend the build without the 1050 because you can then afford windows 10 and you have integrated graphics onboard the CPU therefore you don't have to give him your GPU, saving your hardware and money. Fans were factored in because again, it saves you using your own stuff.

EDIT: The costs also factor in your shipping. And ignore the compatability note, it's just saying the usual bios crap which shouldn't be an issue and that the case doesn't have USB 3.0 ports but the mobo has the headers for it.

I'm not sure Ubuntu is the solution for someone that expect everything to work straight away. 

The ASRock - A320M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard is nice but not possible to overclock in the future if he wants to upgrade his cpu. You know how it is when you first get a taste of pc building. I'm pretty sure he want to look into that in the near future.

I don't mind using my own stuff so the GPU , Fans and Thermal compound is on me, I have some Thermal Grizzly stuff laying around here somewhere.

But the Ryzen 3 2200G looks interesting, It's not in stores here yet but It's just a tiny price jump up for what I can see + a lot of performance gain . 

I'll present some options for him an ask if he can go slightly higher on his budget too.  

 

Edit: The Ryzen 3 2200G is in stock in some stores 

[xriqn]

2 minutes ago, InsufficientSleep said:

I'm not sure Ubuntu is the solution for someone that expect everything to work straight away. 

The ASRock - A320M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard is nice but not possible to overclock in the future if he wants to upgrade his cpu. You know how it is when you first get a taste of pc building. I'm pretty sure he want to look into that in the near future.

I don't mind using my own stuff so the GPU , Fans and Thermal compound is on me, I have some Thermal Grizzly stuff laying around here somewhere.

But the Ryzen 3 2200G looks interesting, It's not in stores here yet but It's just a tiny price jump up for what I can see + a lot of performance gain . 

I'll present some options for him an ask if he can go slightly higher on his budget too.  

 

Edit: The Ryzen 3 2200G is in stock in some stores 

Only suggested the A320 mobo because I wanted to keep as tight to your budget as possible while managing to squeeze a good gpu into the pc at the same time. The cheapest B350 mobo only just didn't make the cut in this instance.