Need Advice for Super Budget Build

[EON Nephilim]

I'm a high school student on a tight budget and my PC rn has:

• An Asus H81M-D Mobo
• An Intel Pentium G3260
• A 500 GB HDD which I believe is 7200RPM
• 4GB of DDR3 RAM, idc about its frequency tbh
• A 600 Watt PSU that comes with the case
• Some random Intex case that's Micro-ATX, no case fan rn
• An Asus monitor that goes up to 1366x768, but I really don't mind the look of 1280x720 on it.

 

I'm in the Philippines and I have access to Lazada, some parts might be pricier here because... I have no clue. The PC has been serving me well for very very light productivity (I tend to avoid anything like video editing because it's legit painful to wait for everything to process on this PC) and games like League of Legends. My budget is 20,000 PHP, which is ~400 USD. If it helps, I'm looking to buy these things around Christmas.

 

I'm looking to build this PC:

• The cheapest B350 mobo on Lazada goes for 4,799 PHP, it's a GA-AB350M-HD3 (91.75 USD)
• The cheapest listing of the Ryzen 3 2200G is for 6,079 PHP (116.21 USD)
• The cheapest 4GB DDR4 2400mhz RAM goes for 2,330 PHP (44.54 USD) and I'm looking to dual channel for better performance on the APU so that's 4,660 (89.08 USD)
• Alternatively, there's a bundle that goes for 10,299 PHP (196.66 USD) with the same mobo and CPU sooo... that's what I'm going for.
• I'm keeping the case, HDD and PSU.

I'd use it for playing older AAA titles and light video editing and other productivity stuff (y'know, for school reasons). I might even dabble into some newer AAA titles on 720p very low graphics since I seriously don't mind what games look like.

 

 

All in all, the upgrade is going to be 14,959 PHP (286.10 USD). Of course, there wouldn't be a sense in posting this if I'd already made up my mind, so the question is, is it worth it? And if it is, which one is more worth it? The aforementioned build, or one with a Ryzen 5 2400G in the place of the 2200G ? There's a bundle that goes for 12,999 PHP which is 249.11 USD with the same mobo. Everything stays the same except the APU. If you guys wanna suggest any alternatives, please feel free to. Thanks in advance.

[Herman Mcpootis]

I'd look for a used i5, another 4gb of ram and a used GPU instead.

[Guest]

The 2400g has 8 threads instead of 4, and better gpu, so better gaming and productivity. So go with that if you can. Other than that a nice build.

[CapitalistVN]

You can probably fit in another i5-4460 in that H81 motherboard, and add in another 4gb of RAM and it would be as fast as most modern computers today. We got Lazada here as well and it's full of old stuff for cheap. Put in a GTX 1050 and you should be OK for everything.

Edit: Careful with that PSU. Although it says 600W, that can be a low-quality stuff and delivers much less power than that. And it's from a brand that I never heard of sooooo... yeah.

[EON Nephilim]

10 minutes ago, CapitalistVN said:

1050 and you should be OK for everything

Would you recommend a 1050ti? The prices seem very close to one another with the ti's being about ~35 USD more expensive. The StormX 1050ti is priced 200 USD  while the non ti version is 160 USD. Would that be too much or just enough to not hold back the CPU?

[CapitalistVN]

1 minute ago, EON Nephilim said:

Would you recommend a 1050ti? The prices seem very close to one another with the ti's being about ~35 USD more expensive. The StormX 1050ti is priced 200 USD  while the non ti version is 160 USD.

Yeah if you want around 15% of a performance increase

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 minutes ago, EON Nephilim said:

Would you recommend a 1050ti? The prices seem very close to one another with the ti's being about ~35 USD more expensive. The StormX 1050ti is priced 200 USD  while the non ti version is 160 USD. Would that be too much or just enough to not hold back the CPU?

you'll be bottlenecked by your CPU and ram so upgrade those too and get the best used/new GPU with the money left.