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dxdafs

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It is my first time building my own PC and I would like some advice.
The part I thought to use are

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 6GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), 06G-P4-6163-KR
Processor: Intel Core i5-8500 Desktop Processor 6 Core up to 4.1GHz Turbo LGA1151 300 Series 65W BX80684i58500
Processor Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper RR-212E-20PK-R2 LED CPU Cooler with PWM Fan, Four Direct Contact Heat Pipes
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C16 Desktop Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2A2400C16)
Hard Drive: WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Desktop Hard Drive (WD10EZEX)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-B250-HD3 LGA1151 Intel ATX DDR4 Motherboard

My question is, are this parts compatible, as I said, its my first time so I wanted to make sure, also, what power supply should do the job?
If you want, you can leave your suggestions guys, just a heads up, my pc would be used for gaming, but also for prgramming games, and all involved like making 3d models and stuff.
Would really appreciate a help.
 
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Karadjgne

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No.

The new CoffeeLake 8 gen (8xxx) cpus need a 300 series motherboard, even though they are lga1151, they are basically lga1151 v2 and won't work on the skylake 100 or kabylake 200 series mobo's.

Other than that, looks fine although the inclusion of an SSD for the OS drive is usually recommended as it's considerably faster (like 5x faster) than having the OS on a hdd. The hdd is basically used for mass storage of non-essential files.

The i5-8500 is a good cpu, but considering the requirements of production work, especially stuff like rendering, you might want to either move upto the i7 series with its hyperthreading capability doubling usable threads or move over to something like a Ryzen R5 1600 and some 3200MHz ram
 
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What about changing the processor to Amd ryzen 5 1600 and the motherboard to MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen B350 DDR4 VR Ready HDMI USB 3 CFX micro-ATX Motherboard (B350M GAMING PRO). would it be ok?
if so how much power would the power supply need to have?
 
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If you're going for the Ryzen build, you'll want 3200MHz RAM. You do realize you've swapped out a full sized ATX motherboard for a shorter micro ATX? This is only an issue if you want to add other components into the expansion slots, most people never use all the available slots anyway, so you're probably fine.

The graphics card you listed is the same as I'm currently using. For a single fan design it's quite amazing, it runs cool enough and is very quiet....mine boosts itself to about 2000MHz without me having to change any settings.

A system like this would probably only use 200w under normal load, to be safe I'd double this and get a quality PSU of around 400w.

 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($174.98 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($86.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.79 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GT OCV1 Video Card ($329.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Antec - P8 ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.03 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1043.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-15 03:43 EDT-0400
 
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I read that the Ryzen 5 1600 comes with the Wraith spire cooler, I know, a stock cooler, but either way, is it better to change for the one you mentioned?
 
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Amd did their homework, finally, and have included an industry first. A stock cooler that's far better than what a stock cooler is rated as. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the Wraith series, (some can be a little louder than others) and they'll handle the 1600 pushed to 3.8GHz on all cores under gaming loads without much issue.

That said, that's gaming loads. Gaming involves 2 things. Lots of cpu usage and lots of sound. Nobody games in silence. So most all pc sounds are drowned out by gunshots, racing engines, explosions etc.
Doing 3d modeling is slightly different, and rendering those will be different again. Those are done with concentration, quietness etc. Sounds come later. So I added the larger, quieter cooler with that in mind, but it's not a necessity.

There are some slightly cheaper options, for almost everything listed, like case, ram, mobo, even the gpu, but I opted for color co-ordination as well and the extra $50 or so, to me, was worth the difference. Red ram on a blue mobo in a black case with green fans just didn't sit right
 
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