Advice$750 - Gaming PC
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Budget & Currency: $750 USD

Usage: Minimal Gaming (Fortnite) and Personal Usage (watching streams, netflix, internet surfing, etc)

Monitor: Won't be needed, probably will just hook the PC up to my TV.

Peripherals: Don't need any.

Operating System: Yes, needed.

Will you overclock: Don't even know what that means.

Anything else we should know: I am just looking for a starting type of thing, but nothing lower than an Intel Core i5 please. And, I know nothing about computers, but I'm open to learning!
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Went for a Ryzen CPU because it makes the most sense for the price point compared to buying Intel. It comes with a cooler which will do the job anyway.
There is another $50 or so spare for you to buy a key for Windows 10. You can get them online for much cheaper than buying directly through Microsoft, if you need help on where to buy just send me a PM.

You will see a warning on the link below but you should hopefully be able to ask the vendor to update the BIOS before it is sent out. I would hope that they do this anyway but it's better to be safe than have to mess around.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($194.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($74.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($67.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Kingston A400 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($52.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 580 8 GB ARMOR OC Video Card ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($55.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $673.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Kara wrote but nothing lower than an Intel Core i5 please.

This is a bit of a tough requirement to fill. What i5 are you talking about? A 1st generation i5, or 9th? There are literally hundreds of models of i5's varying wildly in performance. Regardless, you shouldn't buy an Intel CPU, at least not currently IMO. Ryzen definitely makes the most sense. Something like an R3 1200 is perfectly adequate for playing Fortnite on a TV, and is pretty similar to something like an i5-6600 since they're both 4 core, 4 thread CPU's with similar IPC + clock speed. On the other hand, an R5 2600 would be a much better option than any i5 IMO, including current gen 6 core i5's.
In any case though, a better GPU is going to benefit you more than a better CPU- especially if you buy an AM4 motherboard since you can buy used Ryzen CPU's cheap as chips if you want to upgrade at any point.

If you're spending ~$750, I'd be looking at something like this;
PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.99 @ Best Buy)
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard ($114.95 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team T-Force Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Intel 660p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XC BLACK GAMING Video Card ($259.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A ATX Mid Tower Case ($72.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM (2015) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $750.78

I probably wouldn't bother with the R5 3600 since you're not going to really benefit from it with your use case, I'd just save $80 and get the R5 2600, if not an R3 1200.

However, you don't really need to spend this much to be able to play Fortnite on a TV and use the system for basic tasks. You could easily spend less than $600;
PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($59.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($71.00 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team T-Force Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Intel 660p Series 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB GAMING Video Card ($219.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($44.99 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM (2015) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $578.64

You could get it even cheaper by swapping the GTX 1660 for an RX 570/580, but NVidia cards do perform better in Fortnite and the 1660 is a better GPU than the RX 580. An RX 570/580 would again still be fine for playing Fortnite on a TV though, so if you'd rather just save some money you have that option.
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