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Building a gaming PC from scratch with a budget of about $1k?
| It's very much possible and it's gonna be very good, especially with used parts. Where are you from?
| >>477393
Ukraine. Really don't want to get used parts, though. Had some particularly bad experiences with used tech, and it seems like it's very much common here.
| Aim for 1080p 60fps. Get ryzen cpu and amd gpu (RX470/570 will do). 8Gb of ram, 1TB of storage. Also add 120gb SSD, or maybe the 240GB one if you still have the budget.
| >>477435
What about Ryzen 5 2600X and Nvidia 1060? I also thought about maybe spending a bit more and getting 16GB RAM, really would come in handy for work stuff.
| >>477609 sure, that shoulds viable. You should probably mention games that you want/regularly played, though.
| >>477613
Hmm. That's kind of a tough one. I plan to finally get around to playing Monster Hunter World and Final Fantasy XIV and XV when I get a new PC, other than that I don't really know yet, will have to see later. Maybe throw in some newer games when they come out. Primarily I want this rig to hold out at least ~3 years and be ready to upgrade when needed. I'm also going to be spinning up several (usually) VMs for work so CPU and RAM are probably the most important parts.
| >>477636
You may need to get that 1060 to a 1070 by the very least later down the road, but all those sounds like a good plan; The Ryzen should give you plenty of headroom for VMs as well, if that is what you need.
| What I've came up with so far:
Motherboard: Asus Prime B350-Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX1060 6144Mb G1 GAMING
RAM: Kingston DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 2666 MHz HyperX FURY Black
SSD: Kingston A400 240GB
HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB
Power Supply: CHIEFTEC 600W
Around $1k total, maybe *slightly* more. Rate my build?
| >>477710
You don't need to. I'm only recommending it once you've done the build and wanted to do a small jump later on. The 1060 6 GB is good enough for most common 1080p60 usage.
| >>477711
Everything but the PSU looks a-okay. I don't have a particular experience with Chieftec, but I know that they aren't that well-known for being durable. If you're at your budget limit, then you can stick with it for the time being, I guess.
| >>477722
I just don't know much about good PSUs, honestly. Locally I can only get Vinga, Xilence, CHIEFTEC and AeroCool, I think. Maybe I'll have look in other places, too, but those seem to be the most common.
| Waste of time, why do you need a "gaming" pc?
| >>477729
Answering for the OP here: because 'gaming' PC tends to also be powerful enough to be used in other workloads. Just because it's 'gaming' doesn't mean it's a mono-function machine. It's not a server rack whose job is just one.
| >>477728
No EVGA and the likes? I guess your choice is limited here and I only recognise Chieftec from the list you made. Guess it's going to be a Russian roulette from here.
| >>477731
Yup. Well, I'll ask around some stores and see what they can recommend. Maybe lurk some forums for reviews.
>>477729
Because I want to play videogames on a PC and I need to get a more or less powerful PC for work, so I'm kinda killing two birds with one stone. Maybe the term "gaming" was misused, I just need a good PC, I dunno.
| >>477721
Also, a question: what if I were to go a bit more budget-y and replace the 1060 with a Radeon RX580 8Gb?
| >>477743
I did the small research and found that AeroCool and Xilence is not something you want. If you are forced to choose, I'd pick the Chieftec.
>>477756
I've been finding the RX590 to be slightly cheaper in my area, and it has better price-to-performance ratio. The 580 is a good replacement for the 1060 though. I'd say I recommend it *slightly* above the 1060.
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| Is it possible? How powerful will it be? What specific parts should I get? Preferably no used ones.