7/22/2020 $800 Gaming and Streaming

Have been seeing a lot of requests around the $700-900 range for entry gaming and this is probably the lowest we could go with dedicated graphics with a NVIDIA card. We could go lower with an AMD or even a 1650 or 1650 Super. But, I still don’t trust AMD cards yet to remain stable***. Also, the 1660 is the lowest with a dedicated Turing NVENC encoder for you up and coming streamers. As the list progressed it worked into a White and RGB list.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($139.85 @ Amazon*) 

Motherboard: ASRock B450 Steel Legend ATX AM4 Motherboard ($129.88 @ Amazon*) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory ($65.98 @ Amazon*) 

Storage: Patriot VPN100 256 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($49.99 @ Amazon*) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.00 @ Amazon*) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card ($293.99 @ Amazon*) 

Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Amazon*) 

Power Supply: be quiet! 500 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX ($79.31 @ Amazon*) 

Total: $875.82**

CPU: 

I went with the 2600 because the 3100 is sold out on Amazon and the 1600(12nm) is overpriced right now. The 2600 is a 6 core, 12 thread little beast which will have no issue running games and even a stream.

Motherboard:

I knew at this price range I wanted to go full ATX board and this B450 board is well paired to the 2600.

Memory: 

This 3600 Ram will rip through anything it's thrown.

Storage: 

You didn’t think I was going to cheap out here did you: Going with a 256GB NVME from Patriot with 512MB of Cache (DRAM). We paired that with my favorite budget hard drive, the seagate Barracuda 2TB.

Video Card: 

I wanted to make sure the card I put here wouldn’t be a slouch, Was an NVIDIA for stability,*** and had the Turing NVENC so that the aspiring streamers could start with this PC. The 1600 checks all the boxes. So, Why not go 1660ti?

Case: 

This case checks all the boxes. PSU shroud, Tempered glass, Cable management,.....

Power Supply: 

This Be Quiet PSU is a nice little Semi-modular PSU which is well-reviewed and should last years to come.

Case Fans: 

I didn’t add any to this list. With the parts on the list, the single exhaust in the case should be plenty but you can add up to 3 120mm fans to the front of the case

Conclusion: 

This is the perfect build to get someone started gaming and even streaming if they want to.

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**Based on the prices and availability at the time of writing. Pricing and availability changes minute by minute.

***AMD has reportedly fixed their driver issues. We will not be including them in builds for a while to make sure the issue is truly fixed.