Last Updated: 9/28/2024
This $600 gaming PC offers great value and exceptional performance for 1080p gaming. Equipped with a Ryzen 5 5600 and a Radeon RX 6650 XT 8GB, this $600 gaming PC will play the most recent triple AAA titles at 1080p 60fps at high or ultra settings or 240fps in high framerate esports games.
Here is an excellent $600 budget gaming PC curated for high frame rate 1080p 60-240fps gaming while also being powerful to tackle on demanding triple A PC games.
This build is centered around the Ryzen 5 5600 which is one of the best performing budget gaming CPUs on the market. Comprising of 6 cores and 12 threads, this CPU will handle any graphics card you pair with it up to a RTX 4070 Ti Super/RX 7900 XT without bottlenecking. Add in overclocking and this becomes a superb budget gaming processor for this $600 gaming pc.
The only kind of motherboard you need to pair with this gaming pc is a standard B550 motherboard in the micro atx variant, since this needs to fit inside a micro atx case. The chosen B550 motherboard also supports pci gen 4.0 on both the express lane and m.2 slot so that is covered for this $600 gaming pc.
All you need is just 16gb of DDR4 RAM for this $600 gaming pc, as 16gb of memory is still plenty for a gaming pc in 2024. That said, the ram speed is 3200mhz with a CAS latency of 16, which is standard for an affordable $600 gaming like this.
A 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD as well will satisfy the storage needs for this pc, although if you need more, then feel free to use any of the recommended 2TB M.2 SSDs from other build guides for this $600 gaming pc build.
Critically, the most important component in this $600 gaming pc will be the graphics card, which is the Radeon RX 6650 XT 8gb. This is what'll help drive high framerate gaming at 1080p. Expect this graphics card to run nearly all of your anticipated pc games at 1920x1080p anywhere from 60 to 240fps+ depending on the game. With more features like frame generation (FSR3) and AMD Fluid Motion Frames, you will be able to achieve high fps gaming with this $600 gaming pc.
Moving on, a 550W 80+ Bronze PSU is all you need for the Ryzen 5 5600 and Radeon RX 6650 XT combo for this $600 gaming pc, and the unit chosen from MSI is a reliable yet inexpensive power supply.
Finally, a standard micro ATX pc case is all you need for this kind of pc that comes with at least one included fan, even if it is ARGB.
A 1920x1080 high refresh rate monitor is also recommended for this PC, like the one linked above.
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