Entry Level AMD Gaming Build

CPU

The Ryzen 5 5600G is an APU, which can adequately serve the role of both CPU and GPU. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, with a boost clock of 4.4 GHz. The Ryzen 5 5600G includes a stock cooler.

Motherboard

We aselected the ASRock B550M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard. It includes include 2 DIMM slots for up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM. There is a x16 PCI Express slot on board for a future discrete GPU.

Memory

For this build and most machines outside of the top end we opted to go with 16GB of DDR4 memory with CAS latency no higher than 18 clock cycles. The Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB kit of memory that are within AMD’s recommended specifications. We chose DDR4-3600, as modern AMD CPUs do best with this speed.

Storage

We selected the Silicon Power 512GB NVME drive for storage. NVME drives are fairly inexpensive today, no reason not to choose one for the build. Everyone's storage needs are different, so feel free to change drive capacity or add a drive to fit yours.

GPU

The Ryzen 5 5600G's iGPU provides this build's graphics processing. It can play many games on lower settings and lets you bypass the need to find a GPU in stock. This build does not use a discrete GPU, but you can easily upgrade to one after saving up more money.

Case

The Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L is an mATX mini tower case with 2x front panel USB 3.0 Gen 1 ports and fits full-size graphics cards without issue. It provides several cable management holes and a couple patterned magnetic dust filters for easy removal and cleaning. If you so wish, you can also move the I/O panel to up to six different locations on the case.

PSU

We selected a 80+ White certified 500W PSU made by Thermaltake. It provides future connectors when you are ready to buy a discrete GPU. These are still high quality PSUs.