Looking to build a low to mid-range PC

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Hello.

I am looking to build a low-mid range pc that I can also use for gaming. I'm just a casual gamer and mostly use the PC for normal purposes. I've never built a PC myself before.

My budget is around $600-700. The thing is I'm in India, so everything that I'll buy will cost me around $25-30 more than you'll buy in say, the US.

I have my eyes on either Intel i5 7500 or 7600k. They'll cost me about $230 and $280 respectively here. I hear the 7600k doesn't come with a fan which will cost me about $30 more.


So, I want you guys to suggest me a good motherboard, PSU and GPU. If the three go out of budget, I'm willing to get a different processor too, so you can suggest that as well.

Thanks!
 
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The key difference between Ryzen 5 1400 and Ryzen 5 1500X is a couple hundred mhz base clock (little performance difference) and XFR, which is fancy auto overclocking, nothing you can't do with a little know-how and a decent aftermarket air cooler.

Like I said, if you go Ryzen, you need a GPU. They don't have onboard graphics so GPU will be your only way to see anything.
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The problem with sinking so much into a CPU is that you won't have much left for a quality system. Gaming performance rides on a good GPU, so I'd step the CPU down a little

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pK7Tf8

Another problem is at present moment all the RX 470's which I'd normally recommend in place of the 1050ti I put in there, they're all gone. Any good cards from $150-300 have disappeared, not sure about you.

Anyways tell me how this looks?
 
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I would probably go with a Ryzen 5 1400. Power supplies seem expensive in India, it was difficult to find a decent one for a budget build. But if you went with the i5 like you are wanting:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-B250M-Gaming 3 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (₹5960.61 @ Amazon India)
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB STRIX Video Card (₹12186.10 @ Amazon India)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (₹7600.00 @ Amazon India)
Total: ₹25746.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-24 23:23 IST+0530
 
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I am willing to wait a month to buy the Gpu and I'll probably have another $100 saved up by then. So, if I can get a decent build with the CPU I mentioned in my op, that would be good.


I've heard that AMD processors only use a single core at a time so that's why I preferred Intel.
 
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You heard wrong, AMD is able to use multiple cores and they have simultaneous multi-threading. Ryzen processors are good.
 
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Also, as I said, I'm willing to totally exclude the GPU for the time being, and invest 30-32k inr/$500 into PC. I don't game too much anyway so I can buy the GPU after a month or two when I've saved enough for a good one.

I wanna build a PC that I won't need to upgrade much for in terms of CPU and the motherboard, for the next 4-5 years.
 
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If you are excluding GPU at first do not buy Ryzen 5. They have no integrated graphics and will be a nice paperweight until you can buy a good GPU.

If you're cool with waiting, I'd buy;
https://in.pcpartpicker.com/list/nmcqf8

More expensive than what you had in mind, but it's a solid system. If it needs to be 40k you could trim it back to 8 GB RAM.
Maybe in a few months decent gaming GPUs will actually be in stock too which will be nice

It's more expensive than what you had in mind but it should be a real solid sys
 
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@Justiceinacan and @MrN1ce9uy,

I looked into Ryzen 5 1400 and it looks pretty good even compared to the Intel processors I looked at first. Can I get some more info on how it holds up against those Intel processors? Also, is 5 1500x a substantial upgrade in performance?

@Justiceinacan, will the motherboard be compatible, if I decide to upgrade to a better AMD processor further down the line?
 
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@Justiceinacan,

I already have a new HDD so that would cut the cost to about 40k. But if I'm not buying the GPU, I'd like to keep it to somewhere around 30k so that I can buy a good GPU after adding a bit.

I never considered the cost of the RAMs which is what's the difference between 30 and 40k
 
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The key difference between Ryzen 5 1400 and Ryzen 5 1500X is a couple hundred mhz base clock (little performance difference) and XFR, which is fancy auto overclocking, nothing you can't do with a little know-how and a decent aftermarket air cooler.

Like I said, if you go Ryzen, you need a GPU. They don't have onboard graphics so GPU will be your only way to see anything.
 
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