Building an ENTRY level PC

[khmkim]

I am currently building a PC for my brother. He only plays league of legends and has been playing on a crappy laptop that is now dying. I will list the current specs he is using which he said was fast enough but due to the laptop dying makes it unplayable on.

Disclaimer: I live in Canada so Canadian links only please. Main sources are Amazon Prime and CanadaComputers which do price matching on NewEgg.ca and NCIX.com (I don't like ordering things online as they take forever and mostly damaged in shipping but Amazon Prime has been okay)

Intel Core i7 - 4510U
NVIDIA GeForce GT820M
8GB DDR3 - 1666MHz
500GB SSHD

So I'm thinking about getting him a PC as his budget is 600$ CAD. I'm okay with the build going up to 1000$ CAD after taxes as I'm pitching in 400$ CAD to the build. I already have him a monitor and mouse. He's going to need the rest from keyboard, cpu, gpu, mobo, cooling, power supply, case, ram, network card, etc.

Please help me with the parts with the best price to performance ratio and what is needed to fluently run league of legends. It doesn't require much but I would still like it for it to be a better/noticeable difference than that laptop up there.

Parts I have in consideration so far (to pick and choose from)
Rosewill Micro ATX Mini Tower
Ryzen 5 1400 for the CPU
Gigabyte GA-AB350M-D3H AM4 AMD B350 2 Way CrossFire HDMI DP M.2 SATA USB 3.1 Type-A Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboard
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD
Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400MHz DDR4 2x4GB Sticks
EVGA GeForce 1050TI SC GAMING 4GB GDDR5
450W Bronze EVGA Power Supply

Subtotal 813$ CAD

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

1000 US is enough for a very nice PC actually.

Here's a guide I found that shows Canadian I think. Would be a good starting point.

https://techbuyersguru.com/1000-gaming-productivity-pc-build

I think I'd go up a step or 2 on the power supply. Most of the other looks good.

A lot of guys will say Intel, but I think the 1600 is a good bang for the buck. It's what I have in my own system.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

P.S. a lot of guys love Newegg. I've ordered from them and they are ok, but I've not always been impressed.

 

[khmkim]

We only have a budget of 1000$ CAD. No need to spend it all but if needed, willing to drop that much. I only want to build something better than that laptop but good enough for regular web browsing and league of legends. I don't think I need a 1060 for that 😛.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Lol. Well in that case, maybe look at build similar to that, but you could drop to say a Ryzen 5 1400 which is a quad with hyperthreading, drop the SSD off, keep the power supply they show, and instead of the 1060, maybe pick up a 1050 ti, which is an entry level card but should let him play on medium/high settings on most titles.

 

[khmkim]

Ya I was also thinking about the Ryzen 5 1400. Do you have any recommendations for a cheap mobo for that CPU? And a different mobo if required if I decide to go for intel CPU core i5 6400? Thanks a lot. I'm not too familiar with mobo/cpu synergy or compatibility

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Going to the 1400 would drop it looks like 100 Canadian off.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06XKWT8J4/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thtebusgu06-20&camp=15121&creative=330641&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B06XNRQHG4&linkId=278b57b71d376461bdbd6c7fbd23af45&th=1&psc=1

Cut about 20 more off with this other board.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06XJRD9TY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thtebusgu06-20&camp=15121&creative=330641&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B06XDNB3G4&linkId=5cac634078fde2a87dc321f6aad28582&th=1&psc=1

Looks like you save about 180 by dropping to the 1050ti.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B01MF7EQJZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1503452139&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=gtx+1050ti

Take off another 119 if you lose the SSD. Those changes should drop the budget a bit and allow him to game, but with some room to upgrade later.

 

[khmkim]

I think I have a decent build so far. Could you check it over ? It's in my original post edit. Any advice/input on the price of the rig. I've pretty much hit the budget after taxes on that.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Looks good, may want to go higher speed memory if you can. Also, I see the tower is a mini tower. You may want to look at least at a mid tower, that way you've got room for adding bigger video cards etc later.

 

[jpe1701]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($199.99 @ Memory Express)
Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($124.99 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($78.25 @ shopRBC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB SC GAMING ACX 2.0 Video Card ($192.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.95 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Memory Express)
Total: $814.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-22 21:57 EDT-0400

 

[Lehan123456789]

I am currently building a PC for my brother. He only plays league of legends and has been playing on a crappy laptop that is now dying. I will list the current specs he is using which he said was fast enough but due to the laptop dying makes it unplayable on.

Disclaimer: I live in Canada so Canadian links only please. Main sources are Amazon Prime and CanadaComputers which do price matching on NewEgg.ca and NCIX.com (I don't like ordering things online as they take forever and mostly damaged in shipping but Amazon Prime has been okay)

Intel Core i7 - 4510U
NVIDIA GeForce GT820M
8GB DDR3 - 1666MHz
500GB SSHD

So I'm thinking about getting him a PC as his budget is 600$ CAD. I'm okay with the build going up to 1000$ CAD after taxes as I'm pitching in 400$ CAD to the build. I already have him a monitor and mouse. He's going to need the rest from keyboard, cpu, gpu, mobo, cooling, power supply, case, ram, network card, etc.

Please help me with the parts with the best price to performance ratio and what is needed to fluently run league of legends. It doesn't require much but I would still like it for it to be a better/noticeable difference than that laptop up there.

Parts I have in consideration so far (to pick and choose from)
Rosewill Micro ATX Mini Tower
Ryzen 5 1400 for the CPU
Gigabyte GA-AB350M-D3H AM4 AMD B350 2 Way CrossFire HDMI DP M.2 SATA USB 3.1 Type-A Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboard
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD
Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400MHz DDR4 2x4GB Sticks
EVGA GeForce 1050TI SC GAMING 4GB GDDR5
450W Bronze EVGA Power Supply

Subtotal 813$ CAD

Looks good, I would just upgrade the RAM from 2400Mhz to 3000 or 3200, as Ryzen loves fast RAM!

 

[khmkim]

I decided to dissect my own PC as I had two SSD's 250GB and 120GB and going to give him the 120GB one to save some more money. Woo hoo

Also, would the PC even use the 3000MHz?
My personal PC has 3200MHz DDR4 ram but bios won't load and can only use at 2666MHz. Won't post any higher once I change in bios. XMP doesn't load either.

I'm worried we're going to pay some extra dollars and the PC won't even be able to use the 3000MHz like my own PC 🙁 I regret getting 3200MHz.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Looks good. May consider upping psu a little to allow future GPU upgrades as well. Otherwise, I think it will be a fine start.

 

[jpe1701]

I decided to dissect my own PC as I had two SSD's 250GB and 120GB and going to give him the 120GB one to save some more money. Woo hoo

Also, would the PC even use the 3000MHz?
My personal PC has 3200MHz DDR4 ram but bios won't load and can only use at 2666MHz. Won't post any higher once I change in bios. XMP doesn't load either.

I'm worried we're going to pay some extra dollars and the PC won't even be able to use the 3000MHz like my own PC 🙁 I regret getting 3200MHz.

Perhaps you could save some money by buying slower ram for your system and using yours in his pc. Ryzen is affected by faster ram but for what he plays you won't notice a difference if you get slower ram. your build looks great, the psu isn't the best but it will last a few years.

 

[khmkim]

I would do that but unfortunately mine are 2x16GB LPX 3200MHz sticks and he wouldn't need 32GB of ram 🙁. If mine were 2x4 I would definitely do that haha.

Would 450W be sufficient or should I get the 500W for 10$ more? or 600W for 15$ more.

Total comes out to 868$ CAD after tax.

Decided to go with

Rosewill Micro ATX Mini Tower
Ryzen 5 1400 for the CPU
Gigabyte GA-AB350M-D3H AM4 AMD B350 2 Way CrossFire HDMI DP M.2 SATA USB 3.1 Type-A Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4 2x4GB Sticks
EVGA GeForce 1050TI SC GAMING 4GB GDDR5
500W Bronze EVGA Power Supply
Corsair K55 RBG keyboard

Giving him one of my Samsung 24 inch monitors, 120GB SSD and a Deathadder chroma

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Should be very nice. There are also some very nice ones on eBay. I paid 2.99 in us currency for one that when I got it, is set up similar to a razer deathadder. We'll see how long it survives

 

[khmkim]

Anyways, thanks everyone who helped out Appreciate it. Hopefully my brother likes this new PC! Should be a step up from a Lenovo Z40 LOL...

 

[jpe1701]

Yeah very nice setup. You are a good brother.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

That system will throw down. Hope he likes it.