best $2000 pc?

[iLostMyXbox21]

hey, so my friend is on a $2000 budget, he wants me to build it... so i went ahead and put together this list

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor	$259.89 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$68.65 @ Walmart
Motherboard	MSI - B360 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$94.89 @ OutletPC
Memory	Team - T-FORCE XCALIBUR RGB SE 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-4000 Memory	$249.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$27.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AMP Edition Video Card	$714.98 @ Newegg Business
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$74.10 @ OutletPC
Monitor	Acer - ED242QR Abidpx 23.6" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor	$179.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1754.37
	Mail-in rebates	-$25.00
	Total	$1729.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-31 23:51 EDT-0400

 

 

he mostly wants it to have gaming at its best.. i decided not to put a case because it would look so much cooler without a case, especially since the water cooling and all the RGB, as you can see, there is an extra $300 left over, should i go ahead and add to the list? or should i exclude that for games? i think he does not want to record / stream, but he still might, considering me and him were talking about him starting a channel so we can collab

 

 

mostly he wants max settings 1080p at over 60fps, he already has a keyboard and mouse plus a headset, so he does not need that.. also should i just over charge and keep the extra money? lol jk.. of course i will XD im kidding i wouldnt do that.. 

 

 

anywho he never specified what games he wants to play, but he has csgo, overwatch, and TF2, but he was talking about wanting to play PUBG max settings without dropping below 100.. so i think this is perfect.. he also said to go all out on RGB, since he loves rgb stuff...

 

 

anyways, should this be sufficient for $2k?

 

ps.. he will probably play r6 as well

[Crunchy Dragon]

Ryzen would be better price/performance, you should be able to fit a 2700x in that budget.

 

Please, for the love of everything good on this earth, do not get an Amp card. They tend to struggle with VRM cooling. Avoid MSI Armor cards as well, get something from Gigabyte or Asus.

 

120GB of SSD really isn't a lot, Windows on its own will take up most of it. Aim for a 240GB SSD at the very least.

 

DDR4-4000 is really overkill, tone that down to at most DDR4-3200.

 

I'd get some kind of case personally, you'll need something to hold everything in.

 

Other than those points, all looks good.

 

EDIT: I also just want to say that I originally misunderstood your thread title and immediately thought of an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ and a 9800GTX. Might be a good idea to stick a $ sign in there...

[iLostMyXbox21]

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

 

Ryzen would be better price/performance, you should be able to fit a 2700x in that budget.

 

okay i will work on it

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Please, for the love of everything good on this earth, do not get an Amp card. They tend to struggle with VRM cooling. Avoid MSI Armor cards as well, get something from Gigabyte or Asus.

oh no... miss click i did not notice.. thank you

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

120GB of SSD really isn't a lot, Windows on its own will take up most of it. Aim for a 240GB SSD at the very least.

240? got it.. also should i do m.2? smaller form factor (i am using smart words, are you proud of me now? lol) he does not do much decelopment so he wont be booting mono develop or visual studio, which are the 2 things on my laptop that take the longest to boot.. so m.2 240gb?

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

DDR4-4000 is really overkill, tone that down to at most DDR4-3200.

oh okay.. see, i saw higher numbers and i said “ooh”

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'd get some kind of case personally, you'll need something to hold everything in.

what about a wooden board with 4 supports around the corners and rope wrapper around the supports, like a fence? or maybe just an open side case? (all sides except bottom and top open)

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

EDIT: I also just want to say that I originally misunderstood your thread title and immediately thought of an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ and a 9800GTX. Might be a good idea to stick a $ sign in there

oh no, i did not notice that thanks lol.. it is 12am and i am tired, but i cant sleep cause my anxiety is hell today and i am sick too..

 

 

 

 

thanks

 

7 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

120GB of SSD really isn't a lot, Windows on its own will take up most of it. Aim for a 240GB SSD at the very least.

so i chose an m.2, and this error comes up... what exactly does it mean? i do not know anything about Sata other than it plugs into your drives

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

9 hours ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

240? got it.. also should i do m.2? smaller form factor (i am using smart words, are you proud of me now? lol) he does not do much decelopment so he wont be booting mono develop or visual studio, which are the 2 things on my laptop that take the longest to boot.. so m.2 240gb?

It's really up to you, there's not too much of a difference between M.2 and SATA in terms of speed. SATA will usually be cheaper.

 

9 hours ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

what about a wooden board with 4 supports around the corners and rope wrapper around the supports, like a fence? or maybe just an open side case? (all sides except bottom and top open)

With a $2000 budget, you should have a proper case.

 

9 hours ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

so i chose an m.2, and this error comes up... what exactly does it mean? i do not know anything about Sata other than it plugs into your drives

 

That just means that one of your SATA ports will be disabled when one of your M.2 slot is being used, since the M.2 slot uses the SATA bus and shares bandwidth with one of the SATA ports. Your board's manual should state which SATA port is disabled when using an M.2 slot.

[iLostMyXbox21]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

It's really up to you, there's not too much of a difference between M.2 and SATA in terms of speed. SATA will usually be cheaper.

 

With a $2000 budget, you should have a proper case.

 

That just means that one of your SATA ports will be disabled when one of your M.2 slot is being used, since the M.2 slot uses the SATA bus and shares bandwidth with one of the SATA ports. Your board's manual should state which SATA port is disabled when using an M.2 slot.

yeah im just sticking to the familiar and using an SSD, i managed to fit an AMD Ryzen 2600 and a GTX 1080ti, when watercooled i plan on decent overclocks.. i showed him the list and he says he likes it, but i started reading the specs to him and i lost him at that point.. so i explained “any game mex settings 1080p 60fps

 

he understood that

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, iLostMyXbox21 said:

yeah im just sticking to the familiar and using an SSD, i managed to fit an AMD Ryzen 2600 and a GTX 1080ti, when watercooled i plan on decent overclocks.. i showed him the list and he says he likes it, but i started reading the specs to him and i lost him at that point.. so i explained “any game mex settings 1080p 60fps

 

he understood that

2600 is a good CPU, will a 2700 really not fit?

[iLostMyXbox21]

12 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

2600 is a good CPU, will a 2700 really not fit?

it probably will, but he says he wants to go all out on RGB so i need to keep some aside for that.. plus a capture card and a 144hz monitor

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, iLostMyXbox21 said:

it probably will, but he says he wants to go all out on RGB so i need to keep some aside for that.. plus a capture card and a 144hz monitor

Gotcha. That looks like a pretty solid build.

[iLostMyXbox21]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Gotcha. That looks like a pretty solid build.

he just confirmed he wants to record the games, but since he will be getting a 144 hz monitor he wont see much of a difference

 

plus i will probably OC the CPU and GPU, considering he has watercooling

 

 

[Guest]

No point getting a 'K' cpu with a B360 chipset. Does he want to overclock ? 

 

Also you can't run ram that speed on B360. The fastest is 2666MHz. Anything over that will just clock down.

 

A 1070 ti would be good enough for 1080p if you wanted to save some money.

[iLostMyXbox21]

45 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

No point getting a 'K' cpu with a B360 chipset. Does he want to overclock ? 

 

Also you can't run ram that speed on B360. The fastest is 2666MHz. Anything over that will just clock down.

 

A 1070 ti would be good enough for 1080p if you wanted to save some money.

1070ti can run everything at at least 60?

 

anyways i changed the CPU for a Ryzen 2600

 

the motherboard is compatible with 3000 / 3200mhz ram now, i boosted it to 16gb (2x8)

 

and he says if it can stay cool enough, overclocking is a possibility

[VEXICUS]

11 hours ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

....

Build this instead....

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($264.90 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($127.77 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($145.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC 11G  Video Card  ($704.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.88 @ OutletPC) 
Monitor: Samsung - LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1898.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:21 EDT-0400

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

1070ti can run everything at at least 60?

 

anyways i changed the CPU for a Ryzen 2600

 

the motherboard is compatible with 3000 / 3200mhz ram now, i boosted it to 16gb (2x8)

 

and he says if it can stay cool enough, overclocking is a possibility

Yeah you shouldn't have any issues getting over 60fps with a 1070 ti. 

 

You should definately overclock the R5 2600 as much as possible as you will get slightly less performance than you would with an Intel cpu at 1080p otherwise.

 

 

 

 

[iLostMyXbox21]

Just now, vexicus365 said:

Build this instead....

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($264.90 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($127.77 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($145.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC 11G  Video Card  ($704.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.88 @ OutletPC) 
Monitor: Samsung - LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1898.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:21 EDT-0400

he said he doesnt really want rgb parts, and a 2600 should be good for what he needs. he said he just wants RGB (purple) strips and he want it as cheap as possible, but he is willing to spend $2000

[VEXICUS]

22 minutes ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

he said he doesnt really want rgb parts, and a 2600 should be good for what he needs. he said he just wants RGB (purple) strips and he want it as cheap as possible, but he is willing to spend $2000

Maybe this???

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($159.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Video Card  ($384.98 @ Newegg Business) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Monitor: Acer - XF270H Bbmiiprzx 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($199.48 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1173.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:47 EDT-0400

[iLostMyXbox21]

25 minutes ago, vexicus365 said:

Maybe this???

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($159.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Video Card  ($384.98 @ Newegg Business) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Monitor: Acer - XF270H Bbmiiprzx 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($199.48 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1173.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:47 EDT-0400

yeah im sorry lol... i decided to up to the 2700

 

i thought about it and it would be much better considering he will ne recording / streaming

 

 

[VEXICUS]

12 minutes ago, iLostMyXbox21 said:

yeah im sorry lol... i decided to up to the 2700

 

i thought about it and it would be much better considering he will ne recording / streaming

 

 

I have shared both the builds, go with whichever you like...

1 hour ago, vexicus365 said:

Build this instead....

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($264.90 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($84.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($127.77 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($145.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC 11G  Video Card  ($704.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.88 @ OutletPC) 
Monitor: Samsung - LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1898.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:21 EDT-0400

 

39 minutes ago, vexicus365 said:

Maybe this???

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($159.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($55.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Video Card  ($384.98 @ Newegg Business) 
Case: NZXT - H500 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($68.65 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($65.98 @ Newegg) 
Monitor: Acer - XF270H Bbmiiprzx 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  ($199.48 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1173.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 11:47 EDT-0400