First PC Build -- Any tips or comments on my planned build?

Posted by Mobile_Conference454@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 2 comments

For reference, here's a link to my pcpartpicker setup: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/sJZtYd

So this Fall I want to build my first PC because my current one is a 10 year old dust monster (although it works, it blue screens a lot) -- so I started looking into building my own PC.

This is my first time doing things so the build is most likely not optimal, but here's what I'm looking at getting. I'll explain what I'm using it for right after:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor $139.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler $34.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE AX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $149.99 @ Amazon
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory $71.48 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital Black SN770 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive $124.99 @ Amazon
Video Card MSI SHADOW 2X OC GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB Video Card $299.99 @ Amazon
Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ B&H
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $99.99 @ Newegg
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $981.32
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-07-06 18:37 EDT-0400

Note: The links are not what I'll actually be buying. The actual cost looks something like this + I'll try to get some used parts to hopefully lower the final cost:

Here's what I plan on using it for:

I mainly use my PC to play games. Here are some of the games I'll be playing:

- minecraft, starcraft ii, league, valorant, marvel rivals, lethal company, once human... Nothing too crazy

I also do a lot of software dev / fullstack dev + LLM / AI stuff -- but I doubt my models would be that big. I'll also be editing but that's not exactly a vram heavy task... unless i use adobe AE (but i dont so i think it should be fine).

I know I will definitely use sesame.ai voice model which takes up apparently only 4GB of vram so I should be fine.
Most of the games I'm playing also won't use up to 8GB of vram and I can always add more ram whenever I want.

I'm using AM4 over AM5 because I'm a brokie university student lol and I don't want a crazy rig. I just want something usable and stable.

Let me know what you think!

I'd love to know what you might swap out and why. Also feel free to share any methods you would use to find cheaper used parts. Merci buckets.