Building my first gaming PC looking for tips / advice

acentix · Feb 4, 2018

I am planning on building my first gaming PC, my friend told me to get these parts and i added them to PCPP.
I was wondering if this is a good PC to run newer games (PUBG, Fortnite, CODWW2 etc.) and if i should switch out some parts or not (another friend of mine told me that i should upgrade to a better PSU, i don't know if the one that i'm planning on getting right now is good or not)

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZLvPM8
changed out some parts
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/9XsyvV

wesleyh2003 · Feb 4, 2018

The PSU would be just enough. I recommend getting a 500 watt. Also i see you don't have a ssd which i do recommend considering loading times.

velocityg4 · Feb 4, 2018

The Ryzen 5 1600 is less than £20 more. I think it would be shortsighted to get the 1500x. The Ryzen 1600 should have a considerably longer useful life.

That PSU is a Tier 5 unit. Extremely low build quality. I recommend a Tier 3 unit or better. At a bare minimum get a Tier 4 unit.
Tier List: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/

imsqam · Feb 4, 2018

Not sure of the status of the issue but the B3 series has been noted by more than one reviewer as have a serious safety issue in the design.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/evga-450-b3-psu,review-33989-11.html

For CPU demanding games I too would opt for the 1600, PUBG is one of the most demanding because of the lack of optimization.

Ryzen also likes fast RAM, I would suggest 2666 or above.
http://www.legitreviews.com/ddr4-memory-scaling-amd-am4-platform-best-memory-kit-amd-ryzen-cpus_192259/6

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