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I am going to use this build as my main pc at home, so gaming would be a thing too, but I am mainly looking forward to using it for programming and 2D/3D design.
My budget is about 1200$-1300$, but I am not willing to pay way more for something, that will bump up my performance just a bit.

Case: Zalman Z1 NEO
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X370-A
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700
GPU: Gigabyte GV-N1060WF2OC-6GD
RAM: HyperX Predator Black DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 3000MHz
Hard disk: WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm 6Gb/s
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
PSU: Zalman ZM500-GVM

That is what I have so far, but this is my first build, that I am trying to put together by myself, so I would appreciate some help or advice on what to change in my build.
 
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King Dranzer

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Here is the list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($289.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX X370-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($156.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design - Core 2300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($35.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1307.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-29 11:07 EDT-0400

Way more powerful for the work you do.
 
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Ok thanks for your reply and advice, I see that you made some changes and still stayed in the budget range, but as I am new to the PC building can you please write more detailed version why you prefer these components over mine ?
 
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G-skill Trident-Z uses Samsung B-die, which to date has shown the best performance/stability of high speed ram with Ryzen cpus.

Ssd isn't quite as good, but for the General public, there's really no discernable difference other than price. With both rated to last somewhere around 10 years or so, paying extra for benchmark results is nuts.
2Tb vrs 1Tb, for an extra $10. Kinda no brainer there.
Zalman brands quite a few different pc components, mainly cpu coolers, psu and cases, but none are really over-the-top quality, being more mediocre-decent. Fractal Design specializes in cases, very good quality, but dabbles in psus and aio coolers. (both decent-good). The price/quality ratio is much higher for FD, and that case at that price is a bargain.

1080 vrs 1060. Depending on your software and usage, the 1080 is around twice as strong as the 1060 for stuff like rendering via gpu etc, so if using something like Sony Vegas, the 1080 is going to save a considerable amount of time. It'll also handle any monitor you choose, so if you start dabbling in 4k/5k you'll be good, whereas the 1060 is going to suffer.

The SeaSonic S12-II 620w is an older, group regulated design, but that's fine for amd who doesn't need dc-dc like anything Intel Haswell needs to cover the lower power c-states. It's a solid psu and for a long time was the standard other psus were measured against and usually failed. It's a workhorse that'll take a beating and ask for more.
 
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That Fractal Design Core 2300 Case is much easier to work in and comes with great quality components and is makes the system quiet to some extent. That is much better than Z1 NEO

The SeaSonic - S12II 620W is great PSU with very high quality capacitors. This PSU is much better than Zalman ZM500-GVM.

GTX 1080 comes with more cuda cores and increased amount of DDR5 RAM when compared to GTX1060 which will improve the performance a lot in 3D modeling.

I went with WD Blue 250GB M.2 SSD over SAMSUNG 850 EVO because it is equally good in performance and quality while being easier to install and makes cable management tiny bit easy. Went with 2TB HDD as you will be doing productive work so the storage space gets filled up much quicker than what a general use or a gaming PC does. So having extra space makes it last longer.

That STRIX X370-F motherboard is bit better in quality than PRIME X370-A(PRIME X370-A is not bad at all but STRIX X370-F is bit better). It comes with greater ROG support software which can come in handy if requiered and also has better OC stability and is much easier to OC.
 
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