I’ve been toying around with the idea of building a new PC after a long time of using a gaming laptop. I don’t need anything cutting-edge, just some gaming and movie watching and what not. Looking for any advice, noticeable bottlenecks, or glaring red flags would be great.
Some general advice: cut as many expenses as you can and get a higher end GPU if your only performance demanding activitity will be gaming. You can get a 4070 at this PC budget if you make some cuts elsewhere. Although I understand if you prefer a fancy case - and motherboard with all the ports, I’d personally move $150 from those two towards your GPU.
Regardless of if you do or not, that PSU looks sketchy. I see some Reddit threads saying that, while it’s electrically good, the fan is super loud. Always get a PSU that went through rigorous testing and the wider enthousiast community backs as reliable in every way: power quality, reliability, warranty honor. Most gold rated Seasonics and Corsairs will do fine in those categories. You don’t need more than 600W for a build in this range, so you can go for a cheaper wattage option.
While AM4 is still a very cost-effective platform, I don’t get why you want a 5700G when you’re not going to use the iGPU. The 5700X supports PCIe 4 and has more cache.
For a $1300 build you should be on AM5 playing at 1440p with no issues.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xkBdmD
Motherboard: Pretty much one of the cheapest options with wifi.
Cheaper and still very good storage more than enough of your needs.
GPU general rule of thumb is to go for the cheapest AIB (version), its black/silver so if you want can get pure black for 10 dollars more.
Case in general is personal preference but you choose a way too expensive one for no reason, this one is a smol like the matx you chose and really nice in my opinion
PSU is pretty much one of the cheapest high ends, you can save 20 dollars or so by getting a C or B rated.
mother board and power supply seem a bit expensive. You could bump up to a 6800XT / 7700XT pretty easily if you skimped a bit on those. Case too but sometimes the aesthetic is worth it.
