My ₹32k budget build

[MysticUwU]

In the starting of april i got my first freelance pay as a college student, So i decided to give myself an upgrade.

Initially i was planning to make a very old intel based build but thanks to the suggestion of the forum members (specially @PunkX 75) I extended my budget and chose AM4.

Everything except the CPU and GPU is new, i hope I didn't overpaid, mom wouldn't be proud.

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 - ₹4700
GPU: MSI Gaming X RTX3060 - ₹13500
RAM: G.skill ripjaws 3200mhz 16GBx1 - ₹2400
MoBo: Asrock B450M-HDV R4.0 - ₹4000
SSD: Crucial 500GB P3 Plus - ₹3200
PSU: Antec Neogold 80+ gold 650W fully modular - ₹2400
Cabinet - AntValue VM40 - ₹2500

Total - ₹32700

The graphic card had sticker on screw, never been repasted and was in very good condition that's why i went with it. for the psu, shopkeeper just had it lying around completely sealed so he offered me it for cheap but without bill, definitely fishy but it's good psu, tier B on PSU tier list and retails for 6k+ so i took the risk.
Coming from an i3-6006u laptop, I'm very happy with the performance it's giving. Initially it was running hot, remounting cooler and disabling boost helped quite a bit, but I'm getting a hyper 212 for it very soon.
Completed Detroit become human at extreme preset, and fans barely moved, and 12GB vram is bliss.

 

[Dhanush]

Nice build. Could have gone for dual channel.

 

[MysticUwU]

Nice build. Could have gone for dual channel.

Yes. had option for 8x2 but i thought i can upgrade in future so left one slot empty.

 

[PunkX 75]

Great build! Enjoy gaming on it

 

[YeAhx]

Sweet build. I can't believe you got a gold B tier 650W PSU for just 2.4k. Even without warranty one wouldn't sell it for less than 3k or worse. Good choice with buying 1x16gb instead of a pair, DDR4 RAM prices have fallen a lot since and will continue to do so until it manufacturing stops and it becomes obsolete. This way when you do upgrade you will get the benefit of dual channel while having a perfect amount of RAM for workloads these days. 16gb RAM is not the sweetspot anymore.
I see you went with the 500GB SSD which is fine due to budger constraints but it will be a limiting factor soon enough. I'd add an additional 500GB/1TB SSD in the near future. (or even HDD if all you will store on it will be media files)
Only thing left is to try to get a little bit more juice out of the system. I'd say try OCing RAM by 200mhz (so 3200mhz>3400mhz) while keeping the timings same. Or if you want to delve deeper you can look into RAM overclocking guide which to be honest is tedious but you can just look into how to use Thaiphoon + DRAM calculator for Ryzen (by 1usmus) without learning everything about RAM OCing. This should be enough to get a few extra percentage of performance.
Also may I know how "hot" your Ryzen 3600 is running with boosts enabled? (no PBO enabled). If it's under 95C without thermal throttling then it's fine because Ryzen processors are made to run hot without issues. A better air cooler will definitely help it by boosting higher and keeping at that boost for longer but if you are worried you are damaging your processor with the stock cooler than you are wrong and don't need to worry about it. Do use a good thermal paste with it like MX4, GELID GC or noctua NT-H2, All of which should be under 800-900rs and will last you years.

 

[MysticUwU]

I see you went with the 500GB SSD which is fine due to budger constraints but it will be a limiting factor soon enough. I'd add an additional 500GB/1TB SSD in the near future. (or even HDD if all you will store on it will be media files)

I have 1.2TB in my laptop, so currently I'm using that as network attached storage via samba, I will still surely need a HDD in it, i can feel the need for it.

Only thing left is to try to get a little bit more juice out of the system. I'd say try OCing RAM by 200mhz (so 3200mhz>3400mhz) while keeping the timings same. Or if you want to delve deeper you can look into RAM overclocking guide which to be honest is tedious but you can just look into how to use Thaiphoon + DRAM calculator for Ryzen (by 1usmus) without learning everything about RAM OCing. This should be enough to get a few extra percentage of performance.

I have XMP enabled as of now, i can try OCing it too, but do you think my mobo is decent enough to handle, it's probably cheapest b450.

Also may I know how "hot" your Ryzen 3600 is running with boosts enabled? (no PBO enabled). If it's under 95C without thermal throttling then it's fine because Ryzen processors are made to run hot without issues. A better air cooler will definitely help it by boosting higher and keeping at that boost for longer but if you are worried you are damaging your processor with the stock cooler than you are wrong and don't need to worry about it. Do use a good thermal paste with it like MX4, GELID GC or noctua NT-H2, All of which should be under 800-900rs and will last you years.

I have made the thread about it previously , It's under 75-78 now with gaming load.
I'll look into overclocking it a bit after i get the cooler to get more juice tho

 

[YeAhx]

I have XMP enabled as of now, i can try OCing it too, but do you think my mobo is decent enough to handle, it's probably cheapest b450.

For just 200mhz more yeah it should be fine.

I have made the thread about it previously , It's under 75-78 now with gaming load.
I'll look into overclocking it a bit after i get the cooler to get more juice tho

I was having a deja vu reading your username. Now I know from where haha.
That's fine.

 

[PunkX 75]

 

[altair21]

nice build but that 3600 is gonna be a major bottleneck for modern games, if you can, try upgrading your CPU, and get dual channel ram asap, DDR4 benefits from it majorly though you wont find much difference with DDr5

 

[MysticUwU]

nice build but that 3600 is gonna be a major bottleneck for modern games, if you can, try upgrading your CPU, and get dual channel ram asap, DDR4 benefits from it majorly though you wont find much difference with DDr5

Haven't faced any bottleneck with games i've tried yet (forza horizon 5, detroit become human, mortal kombat 11, spiderman 2), but understandably it might struggle with newer titles. tho i wont be upgrading atleast this year, don't have funds for it. but will get more memory and storage for sure.

 

[Rezep]

Honestly well done with the build OP, I would do the same if I were to recreate my budget build from back in 2019.

Spent around 20k in 2019 upgrading my old family PC. Bought a used rx 570 for around 8k with 2 years warranty left, an e3 1230 v2 cpu from aliexpress for the already old ivy bridge mobo, an old 8 gig ddr3 stick and I was ready to go for a good 5 years. You'll be fine with this system for another 5 years honestly.

 

[YeAhx]

detroit become human

That game is taxing on CPU depending on what settings you got on. There's one setting I'm forgetting name of which tanks performance of low-mid range CPU like yours. Crowd density? or Simulation or something like that. Luckily for us we can turn those kind of settings down/off, it's when developers don't provide option to tweak is when it gets tough. For the price I don't think you could have gotten better setup, there is option to upgrade to a Ryzen 5000 series later on after all.

 

[MysticUwU]

That game is taxing on CPU depending on what settings you got on. There's one setting I'm forgetting name of which tanks performance of low-mid range CPU like yours. Crowd density? or Simulation or something like that. Luckily for us we can turn those kind of settings down/off, it's when developers don't provide option to tweak is when it gets tough. For the price I don't think you could have gotten better setup, there is option to upgrade to a Ryzen 5000 series later on after all.

Played it on as max setting as it could get, extreme with manually maxxing whatever wasn't. cpu was 25-35% at most time. never stuttered.
Yes, I'll probably upgrade to 5000 if i feel the need.