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bramv

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Hello, I'm building a budget gaming pc for a friend of mine and I'm wondering if all these parts will fit together nicely. I would also like to hear your opinion so tell me what you guys think of it.

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS AM4
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX - DDR4
Grapichs card: MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 Ti GAMING X 4G
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL 1000GB 3.5INCH BLUE™ 64MB 7200RPM WD10EZEX
SSD: SAMSUNG 250GB 2.5 INCH 850 EVO SERIES MZ-75E250
Power supply: Corsair Builder Series CX500 V2
Extra fans: Corsair Air Series LED AF120 Quiet Edition (2)
Case: NZXT Source 340
 
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Both. If a PSU breaks down, it may or may not harm other components as it dies. This is why getting a good power supply, maybe even a bit overkill sometimes, is so important. Get a better PSU if you want the build to be stable and safe, power-wise. You don't need too much wattage - a 450 W to 500 W PSU will suffice, but the quality should be good, as in it should have good reviews, be from the first three tiers in the PSU Tier List on Tom's Hardware. Good units include EVGA G2 and G3, Corsair RMx, and even the CX450M is okay. Another good, budget PSU is the Seasonic S12II. Either of these will provide enough wattage, and...
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that build is already real solid:
pretty balanced (the gpu will most likely be the one holding it back, but the "upgradability" is nice so it's fine)
upgradability (as i said earlier :D)
u also got an SSD for the OS

suggestion:
change the PSU into something from high tier like EVGA G2/G3 or maybe the seasonic S12II/M12II
get the fastest RAM u can afford (as ryzen benefits from faster RAM)
 
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@OP
it can harm other component (the risk are always there, even with the high quality one, the low quality one just had bigger chance most of the time) and are much more fragile (easier to go down) than the higher quality one, but usually depending on the wattage usage of your system, it' still pretty safe.
though most low quality tend to not deliver wattage as listed, so u need to take that in mind (ex: u're using a 500w when ur system only take bout 150-190w, it' still under 50% of the whole capacity so even when the PSU can only handle 50% of what it's listed, ur system should still be pretty safe)

I rather get a high quality 500w / 550w and be happy-go-lucky with it's upgradability later on, when i upgrade the parts like CPU, GPU, etc

PS: no, don't talk about brands here, every brand had their own low quality units / variant
refer to this site to check the tiers: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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Both. If a PSU breaks down, it may or may not harm other components as it dies. This is why getting a good power supply, maybe even a bit overkill sometimes, is so important. Get a better PSU if you want the build to be stable and safe, power-wise. You don't need too much wattage - a 450 W to 500 W PSU will suffice, but the quality should be good, as in it should have good reviews, be from the first three tiers in the PSU Tier List on Tom's Hardware. Good units include EVGA G2 and G3, Corsair RMx, and even the CX450M is okay. Another good, budget PSU is the Seasonic S12II. Either of these will provide enough wattage, and should be fairly reliable.
 
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bramv

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Ok thank you guys, I think I will go with the CX450M, I've build two other pc's and both have Corsair power supplies in them and I'm really happy with them, thanks again!
 
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The others have answered most of it but to add higher quality units have better protection circuits so if a failure does happen the chance of damaging other components is much lower. Also all PSU's deteriorate with time and usage, low quality units deteriorate much faster.
 
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