Question Build review - first timer

[Clifton_0]

My son (he's 9!) and I are building our first computer together. I've read a few articles and read over the specs on the parts that we've chosen, but am a bit nervous about pulling the trigger since it is our first build, and the first I've put together in 20 years. If anyone has the interest I'd love to hear some feedback.

To be honest I probably went higher end then I needed to, right now this is going to be used for Minecraft mods, but I'm hoping he'll get more into gaming as time goes on.

Case: Fractal Design Define Mini C TG Black Tempered Glass Window Silent Compact MATX Mini Tower Computer Case

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352071&ignorebbr=1

Motherboard: ASRock B365M Pro4 LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel B365 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157864&ignorebbr=1

CPU: Intel Core i5-9400F Coffee Lake 6-Core 2.9 GHz (4.10 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 65W BX80684I59400F Desktop Processor Without Graphics

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117981&ignorebbr=1

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model F4-2666C15D-16GVB

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820232175&ignorebbr=1

Hard Drive: WD Purple 2TB Surveillance Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch WD20PURZ

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822231533&ignorebbr=1

Graphics Card: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 Ti WINDFORCE OC 6G Graphics Card, 2 x WINDFORCE Fans, 6GB 192-Bit GDDR6, GV-N166TWF2OC-6GD Video Card

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814932130&ignorebbr=1

PSU: Seasonic FOCUS series SSR-550FM 550W 80 + Gold Power Supply, Semi-Modular, ATX12V/EPS12V, Compact 140 mm Size, 7 yr warranty

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151203&ignorebbr=1

EDIT: Forgot the processor. Kind of useful to have one of those I'm told.
EDIT2: Fixed the CPU that wouldn't have worked
EDIT3: Update based on recommendations for MB and CPU, and CASE because its very "in" these days.

 

[rolli59]

CPU is not for that board which is made for Intel 9xxx series.

 

[Clifton_0]

Thanks Rolli59, but I thought this: i9/i7/i5/i3 meant it would support the i7 series as well? Does that mean something different?

The specs say:

Support for Intel 9000 Processors and 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processors/Intel Core i5 processors/Intel Core i3 processors / Intel Pentium processors / Intel Celeron processors in the LGA1151 package

Unless I'm missing something obvious?

 

[rolli59]

I7 is in many generations and different sockets, that means it only supports 9xxx and 8xxx series I7/i5/i3/pentium CPU's

 

[Clifton_0]

Ah I understand now. Thank you very much, your response probably saved quite a bit of frustration to say the least.

I have changed to an i5 8400:

Intel Core i5-8400 Coffee Lake 6-Core 2.8 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 65W BX80684I58400 Desktop Processor Intel UHD Graphics 630

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABT17AW3780&ignorebbr=1

 

[USAFRet]

Drives:

1. An SSD is strongly recommended.
2. The WD Purple is only 5400RPM. Performance will suffer.

Recommendations:
1TB Crucial MX500 - $130
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156174

If needed, you can add other drives later.

 

[Clifton_0]

Drives:

1. An SSD is strongly recommended.
2. The WD Purple is only 5400RPM. Performance will suffer.

Recommendations:
1TB Crucial MX500 - $130
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156174

If needed, you can add other drives later.

Thanks USAFRet, is it appropriate to replace the Purple with an SSD, or should I have both types? I read an article somewhere that people wouldn't be replacing an HDD with SSD any time soon, but that may have been out of date, or designed to sell HDD with the way things are.

 

[Finstar]

The motherboard is total overkill for that cpu.
And speaking of that cpu... The AMD Ryzen 5 2600 is much cheaper and will give you identical/better performance.

And as mentioned above, WD purple disks are made for capturing security camera footage, not for home pc use.
Green, Blue and Black are for home pc use.

 

[Bearmann]

An i5 9400F would be a bit faster and a bit less expensive than the i5-8400. No need for a Z390 MB. This B365 board would work nicely with it:

Are you a human?

www.newegg.com

See through side panels (acrylic or tempered glass) are very popular right now---just sayin'

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks USAFRet, is it appropriate to replace the Purple with an SSD, or should I have both types? I read an article somewhere that people wouldn't be replacing an HDD with SSD any time soon, but that may have been out of date, or designed to sell HDD with the way things are.

Given a 1TB SSD, and the 9 year old main user...a single SSD is what you want.
Ditch the HDD completely.

All my systems in the house are SSD only, including the one I just built for my grandkids. And have been for several years.
I do have spinning drives in my NAS box, but that's because 20+TB would be a bit tough on the old budget.

 

[Clifton_0]

Wow, thank you all very much. I am extremely glad I asked. I've updated based on all your advice. Thank you again.