RequestLooking to build my dad a pc for his birthday
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Hey, dads 50th is coming up and hes been needing a new pc for awhile so im lookling to build him a nice one. He doesnt play any games really just uses it mainly for work or watching videos. Looking for a pretty quick build preferably Ryzen and a 500gb ssd installed into it.

What is your budget and currency? 500-600GBP
Do you need a monitor? no
Do you need a keyboard? no
Do you need a mouse? no
Do you need an operating system? no
What will you use the PC for? Mainly daily use web browsing, youtube etc!

I Have an NZXT h500i already from a mate and a GTX 970 from my previous build because i thought i'd just throw that in there incase he wanted to play a game or so further down the line.

thanks for your time
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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£200.00)
Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.84 @ AWD-IT)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£67.59 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Intel - 660p Series 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£97.27 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 970 4 GB ACX 2.0 Video Card (Purchased For £0.00)
Case: NZXT - H500i ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For £0.00)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 (EU) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£65.47 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £520.17

Add whatever capacity HDD you want/need, and you can add an aftermarket cooler if you want since the R5 3600 will only come with a WWraith Stealth. July 7th forthe R5 3600.
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Fantastic thanks for the quick reply again 21 just ordered the parts and will wait for ryzen 5 3600!
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Honestly, you'd be fine with even an R5 2400G. The R5 2600 is similarly priced though and since you have a discrete GPU anyway, that could be a good shout if you just want to build asap. Zen 2 is only a couple of weeks away now though and looks like it's going to be pretty good so I would personally just hold off for Zen 2.
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Yeah was looking into the 2600 before! Definitely will take your advice and wait for Zen 2 though! His birthday isn't till the end of next month anyway so it works out well! Thanks again 21!
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