PC for around 900$

[DashRainy]

Heya guys!
I'm trying to build a gaming pc for approx 900$. I expect to be gaming at 1080p, and i was thinking about picking up:

• CPU: AMD R5 2600 (I'm fine with the stock cooler)
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE AM4 AB350 GAMING 3
• Graphics card: ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL O6G 6GB GDDR5
• RAM: HyperX Fury Black 8GB(2x4GB) DDR4 2666 MHz (or mabye just take one 8GB stick and upgrade later to 16GB)
• Storage: 1TB Seagate BarraCuda and 120GB Kingston SSD
• PSU: Corsair CX550M (Semi or full modular PSU would be great)
• Case: Don't really care about that as long as it is around 40$ max (but I already have a case i would like to buy for 38$)

(In my country this build is for 934$)

Need help with choosing the right graphics card and maybe even pick a different motherboard and take a look at the whole build if there is something that could be better for the buck. If the budget allows it, it would be great to up the RAM to 16GB.

[KotaVlogs]

The gigabyte is a good motherboard. As far as a GPU I would get a intel core i5 8400

[NelizMastr]

10 minutes ago, DashRainy said:

(In my country this build is for 934$)

Need help with choosing the right graphics card and maybe even pick a different motherboard and take a look at the whole build if there is something that could be better for the buck. If the budget allows it, it would be great to up the RAM to 16GB.

Which country? Is it primarily for gaming or do you intend to do more on it, like photo or video editing?

[DashRainy]

1 hour ago, NelizMastr said:

Which country? Is it primarily for gaming or do you intend to do more on it, like photo or video editing?

I'm from Czech Republic, and yes primarily for gaming and then some regular stuff(movies, word documents, pp presentations, browsing, etc. And for the CPU i would like to take that AMD and oc it a bit, but if there is a better intel alternative then im fine with it 

[alicskysareblue]

6 hours ago, DashRainy said:

Heya guys!
I'm trying to build a gaming pc for approx 900$. I expect to be gaming at 1080p, and i was thinking about picking up:

• CPU: AMD R5 2600 (I'm fine with the stock cooler)
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE AM4 AB350 GAMING 3
• Graphics card: ASUS GTX 1060 DUAL O6G 6GB GDDR5
• RAM: HyperX Fury Black 8GB(2x4GB) DDR4 2666 MHz (or mabye just take one 8GB stick and upgrade later to 16GB)
• Storage: 1TB Seagate BarraCuda and 120GB Kingston SSD
• PSU: Corsair CX550M (Semi or full modular PSU would be great)
• Case: Don't really care about that as long as it is around 40$ max (but I already have a case i would like to buy for 38$)

(In my country this build is for 934$)

Need help with choosing the right graphics card and maybe even pick a different motherboard and take a look at the whole build if there is something that could be better for the buck. If the budget allows it, it would be great to up the RAM to 16GB.

Id suggest not cheaping out on the case, cheap cases are a pain to work in (Ive done it not fun), often have sharp  panel and are overall flimsy. I would suggest 60-70 is better for a case

[DashRainy]

2 minutes ago, elderago said:

Id suggest not cheaping out on the case, cheap cases are a pain to work in (Ive done it not fun), often have sharp  panel and are overall flimsy. I would suggest 60-70 is better for a case

I'm for better case too, but my friend is fine with a cheap one, and i will most likely not build it, because the retailer im gonna buy it from offers to build it for a free

[Zando_]

5 hours ago, DashRainy said:

I'm from Czech Republic, and yes primarily for gaming and then some regular stuff(movies, word documents, pp presentations, browsing, etc. And for the CPU i would like to take that AMD and oc it a bit, but if there is a better intel alternative then im fine with it 

If you want to stream, edit, or do anything else that uses more threads, the R5 2600 is the best bang for the buck CPU, unless you get an R5 1600 on sale (but those are pickier with RAM and a bit slower at stock). If you're only going to be gaming, the new 6 core i5s are good. 

[DashRainy]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

If you want to stream, edit, or do anything else that uses more threads, the R5 2600 is the best bang for the buck CPU, unless you get an R5 1600 on sale (but those are pickier with RAM and a bit slower at stock). If you're only going to be gaming, the new 6 core i5s are good. 

Well mostly gaming to be honest, so i guess i should go for an intel i5 8400 then?

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, DashRainy said:

Well mostly gaming to be honest, so i guess i should go for an intel i5 8400 then?

If it's cheaper, then yeah. But IIRC Intel's stock coolers are still ew and you can't overclock. 

 

EDIT: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-8400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600/3939vs3955

 

the i5 only beats the R5 by 3%, and if you OC that advantage will be gone so I'd go for the Ryzen.