Is this a good deal?

[Megatree]

My friend recommended a gaming PC, here are the components

CPU: Intel Pentium Anniversary Edition G3258
Motherboard: MSI B85M-E45 Motherboard
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 2GB
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury HX318C10FBK2/8 8GB (2x4GB) Black
Solid State Drive: Samsung 750 EVO 120GB
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM003
Case: Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 Claw Black/Red
Power Supply: XFX TS Series Pro 550W Power Supply
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home USB Flash Drive

It's $1099 in Australia, i just want to know if its outdated or good value for money because i have no idea
Cheers

 

[Mr Kagouris]

As far as value goes I'd call it more or less garbage. Here's what you can get for only around 50$ more:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($273.00 @ IJK)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty H170 Performance ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($149.00 @ IJK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($57.00 @ Centre Com)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($65.00 @ Shopping Express)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 470 4GB Gaming X Video Card ($339.00 @ IJK)
Case: Silverstone PS11B-W ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($70.00 @ CPL Online)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($129.00 @ Umart)
Total: $1141.00

Sure you sacrifice the (so huge) 120GB SSD, but you get a 6th gen i5 rather than a 4th gen Pentium and an Rx 470.

 

[-HH-]

This should perform MUCH better for the money:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($239.90 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: ASRock B150M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($115.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($58.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($68.00 @ CPL Online)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 4GB NITRO+ 4G Video Card ($369.00 @ CPL Online)
Case: Antec VSK3000B U3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($45.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($32.00 @ CPL Online)
Total: $1048.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-13 18:03 AEST+1000

 

[synphul]

I would tend to say no, it's not good value for the money. The g3258 is a bit older and even though it was a decent cheap overclocker it falls flat on quite a few games that make use of more than 2 cores/threads. A b85 is a bit of a hit/miss paired with it since microcode can make overclocking it a little trickier. Microcode disables some options so you have to work around windows updates and I'm not entirely sure if it's possible with win10. If I recall correctly win10 comes with the microcode that attempt to stop overclocking on non z boards.

By contrast here's a build that uses a skylake i3 which games much better. It's $100 more than your build you listed but it upgrades from the 4th gen pentium to a 6th gen i3, 8gb of ram, moves from the 960 to a 480 gpu, slightly better ssd with double the space (240gb vs 120gb), still includes a 1tb hdd for storage, same power supply, win10. The case is a bit different, I didn't see the deep silence 4 on pcpartpicker. Case choice is a bit personal but there are other options in the same price range.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($155.00 @ Centre Com)
Motherboard: ASRock H170M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($139.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($58.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($122.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($68.00 @ CPL Online)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 4GB NITRO+ 4G Video Card ($369.00 @ CPL Online)
Case: Cooler Master N600 Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case ($82.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($129.00 @ Umart)
Total: $1201.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-13 18:17 AEST+1000