I already have the Motherboard, Video Card, and Monitor (No, I am not going to upgrade my Motherboard/Video Card). My max budget is $600 USD, and I’ll be using this for gaming, video/photo editing, and work/school stuff. I also have a Micro Center near me. Your suggestions would help me out, thank you.
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Get a b550 mobo.
You could save about $100 by ditching the AIO, if you’re willing, for an air cooler like the thermalright Peerless Assassin, and downgrading your cpu to a 5600. It’s basically the same processor with two fewer cores, which you won’t desperately need unless your school/work workloads are seriously intense.
I have a very similar setup, a 5800x instead. I reagulary used it for video and photo editing and it’s been great. I don’t know what the difference in peformance is beetween a 5700x and a 5800x but I imagine it won’t be huge so you should have a similar experince.
Enjoy it!
Ditch the AIO, get a competent aircooler, aircoolers are cheaper and perform just as good. Deepcool has digital aircoolers, they have a display on them with some stats you can customize as well as RGB, it looks sick. They’re the Deepcool AK500 Digital and AK620 Digital if I’m not mistaken.
Seems you already have the GPU and motherboard so I’m gonna leave that.
Other than that maybe a fully modular PSU? Corsair RMX series, Be Quiet! Dark Power series, Be Quiet! Straight Power series to name a few good ones.
I would suggest to go with a newer gen CPU. With some extra cash, AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (AM5) would be nice and future proof (I guess).
Note: you would need a different mobo (B650).
Micro center has Samsung 990 series m.2 drives on sale. May be worth it to upgrade
Arctic are great coolers. I have the 280 and is offset on the cpu fan specifically for the AMD hotshot on CPUs. Your 3060 is going to be your bottleneck on this build. If you can spring its almost better to get a 4070 or atleast 3070
If possible I would spend the extra ~$100 for a 5800X3D.
At Micro Center the 5600X3D is $229.99 and the 5800X3D is $299.99.
If you need to save money get a 5600 for $119.99. You can use an AMD box cooler just fine and ditch the AIO liquid cooler.
1. Upgrade to a 5800X3D.
2. If you need to make monetary space, ditch the AIO and go with the peerless assassin.
3. ???
4. You now have a great gaming PC that realistically would only need a GPU upgrade whenever you feel you want more out of your system.
Look up the cardea z440 m.2 drive on pcpartpicker. If I recall correctly it is only 2 or 3 dollars more than what you picked and is 2tb.