New to PC building, need help with my first budget PC ($800)

[pacifica068008]

Hello everyone, thank you for clicking this thread.
So, A bit of info:

-Im an animation student and currently taking both 2D and 3D animation. I plan on using this PC for rendering / editing my school projects and also for gaming.

-I'm taking Rigging, 3D effects, Motion graphics/ Compositing, audio and video editing, and some Toonboom/ Adobe flash 2D animations

-I'm looking to play games in their Mid-Ultra settings, 1080p with a stable 60FPS. I don't play Shooting games, I'm more on RPGs so I think the most demanding game I'm gonna play is Witcher 3 and the Dark Souls series.

-I plan to use this pc for a very long time, no future upgrades planned.

Here is a draft of my build.

CPU: Intel Core i5-7600
GPU: Palit GTX 1050 TI Mini 4GB GDDR5
MOBO: MSI B250M BAZOOKA
RAM: G.SKILL RIPJAWS V 16GB DDR4-2400MHZ
HDD: Western Digital 1TB 3.0 7200 rpm blue
CASE: Aerocool Aero-300 Mid Tower
PSU: Seasonic M12II Evo 520watts 80 Bronze Modular
MNTOR: AOC - I2280SWD 21.5 IPS Monitor

It will cost around $880 (44,690php, I'm from the Philippines)

Questions:
1. How Can I lower the price without affecting much of the performance? (workstation and gaming wise)
2. I'm considering an i5-7400 and a GTX 1050mini, but I don't know how big of a difference it would make and is it worth it?
3. Can a Corsair VS450w Power Supply support this build?

Thank you very much

 

[R_1]

1 have you looked to AMD. you can get more threads for the money. Ryzen
2 if you have the room in the chassis get a dual fan solution for the GPU. Most mini cards are single fans. a single fan failure can kill a single fan card.
3 the vs is the entry level unit, I do not suggest it. the grey and black labeled CX450M/M12II would be a much safer PSU

 

[pacifica068008]

1 have you looked to AMD. you can get more threads for the money. Ryzen
2 if you have the room in the chassis get a dual fan solution for the GPU. Most mini cards are single fans. a single fan failure can kill a single fan card.
3 the vs is the entry level unit, I do not suggest it. the grey and black labeled CX450M/M12II would be a much safer PSU

Is the Ryzen 5 1600 good for rendering and gaming? I don't really know how cores and threads translate to the realworld performance. Im a newbie in this, sorry.

 

[R_1]

gaming can tax 4-6 cores.
rendering if the software allows can use every resource you can give it. ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores and 12 threads.
ryzen allows you do do more than the 7600 (4-cores 4 threads) at once.
the ryzen system will be upgradable the 7th gen intel socket is dead no new chips for it. ryzen 2 will fit in a ryzen motherboard.
the ryzen platform is overclockable and the motherboards are usually cheaper. I suggest a b350 board and ryzen 1600.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3886vs3919
results are generalization, look to workstation performance as that is where the rendering falls

 

[pacifica068008]

gaming can tax 4-6 cores.
rendering if the software allows can use every resource you can give it. ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores and 12 threads.
ryzen allows you do do more than the 7600 (4-cores 4 threads) at once.
the ryzen system will be upgradable the 7th gen intel socket is dead no new chips for it. ryzen 2 will fit in a ryzen motherboard.
the ryzen platform is overclockable and the motherboards are usually cheaper. I suggest a b350 board and ryzen 1600.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3886vs3919
results are generalization, look to workstation performance as that is where the rendering falls

Can I Get an a320 Mobo instead? I dont have plans on overclocking.

 

[R_1]

gaming can tax 4-6 cores.
rendering if the software allows can use every resource you can give it. ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores and 12 threads.
ryzen allows you do do more than the 7600 (4-cores 4 threads) at once.
the ryzen system will be upgradable the 7th gen intel socket is dead no new chips for it. ryzen 2 will fit in a ryzen motherboard.
the ryzen platform is overclockable and the motherboards are usually cheaper. I suggest a b350 board and ryzen 1600.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3886vs3919
results are generalization, look to workstation performance as that is where the rendering falls

Can I Get an a320 Mobo instead? I dont have plans on overclocking.

absolutely, they are even cheaper.

 

[pacifica068008]

gaming can tax 4-6 cores.
rendering if the software allows can use every resource you can give it. ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores and 12 threads.
ryzen allows you do do more than the 7600 (4-cores 4 threads) at once.
the ryzen system will be upgradable the 7th gen intel socket is dead no new chips for it. ryzen 2 will fit in a ryzen motherboard.
the ryzen platform is overclockable and the motherboards are usually cheaper. I suggest a b350 board and ryzen 1600.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7400-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-1600/3886vs3919
results are generalization, look to workstation performance as that is where the rendering falls

Can I Get an a320 Mobo instead? I dont have plans on overclocking.

absolutely, they are even cheaper.

Thank you! Can I have your opinion with this new build I made

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 11,040
GPU: Palit GTX 1050 TI dual OC 4GB GDDR5 7,890
MOBO: MSI A320M PRO-VD/S 3,500
RAM: (ANY) 16GB DDR4-2400MHZ 8,350
HDD: Western Digital 1TB 3.0 7200 rpm blue 2,500
CASE: Aerocool Aero-300 Mid Tower 1,950
PSU: Corsair VS550 Power Supply 2,350
MNTOR: AOC - I2280SWD 21.5 IPS Monitor 5,850

TOTAL: PC Build 36,780
W/ Monitor 43,230

 

[R_1]

looks good. the board will support 2666mhz RAM without any overclocking. I would suggest the slightly faster RAM it will help when working not much while gaming
enjoy.

 

[Zerk2012]

Buy a better board get the 350 and dump that VS power supply.

 

[pacifica068008]

Buy a better board get the 350 and dump that VS power supply.

Correct me if im wrong but I searched about the difference of b350 and a320 is that b350 allows overclocking while a320 doesnt and I don't have plans on overclocking.

I also researched that VS series is fine as long as the video card is lower that gtx 1060 and doesn't overclock.

But if really needed then I would cut the 1050ti to 1050ti mini to allow my budget to get a better PSU