Give me a $2000 Gaming PC build

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Hey guys, my mate wants to get a new gaming pc and has given me a 2k budget to mess around with, was hoping someone could make my job easier :~). I plan on helping him to build it but I'm behind on what's good.

Approximate Purchase Date: This week

Budget Range: 2000 AUD after shipping (1500 USD)

System Usage: Gaming

Are you buying a monitor: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: https://www.ple.com.au/ (in AUD)

Location: Western Australia, Perth

Cheers
 
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coozie7
What is the monitor rez and refresh rate?
Does your mate have any preferences for parts?
Does your mate have any special requirements? For example a small, neat case or maybe a big, case with plenty of bling?

As a basis for discussion from AMD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($278.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($89.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($285.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($196.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar...
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coozie7

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What is the monitor rez and refresh rate?
Does your mate have any preferences for parts?
Does your mate have any special requirements? For example a small, neat case or maybe a big, case with plenty of bling?

As a basis for discussion from AMD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($278.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($89.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($285.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($196.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Mini Video Card ($699.00 @ Scorptec)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case ($129.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Silverstone - Strider Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.00 @ Scorptec)
Total: $1854.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-18 06:09 AEDT+1100

I stuck with the R5 1600 because it usually matches the bigger R7 1700/1700X in games for a far lower price.
The 2 1/2" SSD is a deliberate choice, M2 NVMe devices for the same money are much smaller and the performance increase for most of us isn't that great anyway.
Yep, a full on GTX1080.
And from Intel:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($368.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($56.27 @ Kogan)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370 HD3 (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($184.00 @ IJK)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($285.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($196.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Video Card ($669.00 @ Shopping Express)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case ($129.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Silverstone - Strider Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.00 @ Scorptec)
Total: $2065.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-18 06:11 AEDT+1100

Had to 'drop' to a 'mere' GTX1070Ti to keep close to budget, but there's room to swap parts around, both here and in the AMD build, either to save a little cash ( when is THAT a bad idea? ;) ) or rebalance the build-i5 8400 anyone?
 
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^ Nice build, mate, but the OP is Australia, the prices there are much higher, here's your build priced in $Aus:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor ($475.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($148.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Team - Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($329.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($179.90 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Mini Video Card ($1029.00 @ Scorptec)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($104.50 @ Newegg Australia)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.00 @ Shopping Express)
Total: $2374.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-30 08:15 AEDT+1100
 
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The ryzen build coozie7 mentioned is really nice. I recently bought almost the same components, just a SeaSonic Focus Plus Gold 650W psu instead of the silverstone one and different model motherboard and gpu.
 
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Sorry mate, I totally forgot you guys's parts were so much more expensive. I'll revise it to better reflect the AU pricing :)
 
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This is much better, BUT if he needs to lower I would definitely say to go for a single 8Gb of Ram stick, and buy a second one ASAP... as 99 percent of the time, 8gb will be more than enough for gaming.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/
 
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