OK so recently started having some issues with our existing PC which was built by the missus's BiL in Adelaide back in 2010, had a chat on the phone with him a few weeks back thinking we might be able to sort it easily but it appears not over the phone/remotely so he suggested looking at building a new PC 
He gave me a few rough ideas to look at and do some research on before getting back to him and figured I'd get some advice on here given there are quite a few computer nerds on here
Anyway I'm not a real gamer but my son does do a bit although at the moment mostly on the X-Box but figure it would be good to up spec it a bit for that as well as "future proof" it a bit
Mainly my use is general computing, web surfing, documents and storage of downloaded movies, pics etc (They get DL'ed on my old laptop). My partners use is much the same but also bookwork with MYOB and word processing etc and a bit of CD/DVD burning
Current computer specs are below and has been doing OK so far:
ATHLON II Processor X2 250 3000MHz/65W/AM3
MSI Mainboard DKA790GX AM2-Platinum PCIE2
* PCIE Express Video slot +
* Integrated Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID 0 & 1 or 0+1
* DDR2 Memory 8 Gigabytes
* x3 PCI slots
Medium Tower ATX Case - 450W PSU
Internal Card Reader 12-IN-1 3.5"
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
2 x Seagate 2TB, SATA2, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD's (In RAID)
ASUS DVD Burner 16x Dual Layer DVD +- R/RW
W7 PRO 32bit
MS Office Std 2010
So after all my research what I've been looking at is:
Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 Mid Tower Gaming Case,
Corsair CS550M Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply,
Gigabyte AB350M-D3H Motherboard,
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 4 Core 8 Thread CPU, 3.5GHz Base Clock, 3.7GHz Boost, 65W TDP, 16MB L3 cache using the AM4 Socket. Includes AMD Wraith Spire cooler,
Corsair Vengeance LED CMU16GX4M2A2666C16R 16GB (2x8G
DDR4, 2666MHz with red LED, 16-18-18-35, 1.2v, XMP 2.0,
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 OC Low Profile graphics card features a 1392MHz base clock with a 1506Hz boost clock in OC mode, 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 memory, PCI-E 3.0, 7008MHz memory clock, low profile design with 167mm card length, OpenGL 4.5 support, DirectX 12 support, Dual-Link DVI-D, 2x HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.4 (GV-N1050OC-2GL?)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo CPU Cooler Red Cover RR-212TR-16PR-R1 OR
Corsair Hydro Series H60 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler CW-9060007-WW,
Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM006 x 2,
SilverStone FP59B Bay Multi Reader and Controller,
ASUS DRW-24D5MT 24x DVD Writer,
Startech Latching SATA 45cm Cable LSATA18 x 3,
That works out to be ~$1332 (Air Cooled) or $1362 (Water Cooled).
Also been tossing up the benefits of adding:
2 x Seagate FireCuda 2TB Desktop SSHD ST2000DX002 instead of the normal HDD's and a Intel 600P Series 128GB M.2 SSD (SSDPEKKW128G7X1) for boot duties/quicker pickup etc and a Corsair Force Series MP500 120GB NVMe M.2 SSD (CSSD-F120GBMP500) for the gaming stuff
Thoughts good or bad, any changes? Does it seem OK for what I'm looking to use it for or overkill/under spec?

He gave me a few rough ideas to look at and do some research on before getting back to him and figured I'd get some advice on here given there are quite a few computer nerds on here

Anyway I'm not a real gamer but my son does do a bit although at the moment mostly on the X-Box but figure it would be good to up spec it a bit for that as well as "future proof" it a bit


Current computer specs are below and has been doing OK so far:
ATHLON II Processor X2 250 3000MHz/65W/AM3
MSI Mainboard DKA790GX AM2-Platinum PCIE2
* PCIE Express Video slot +
* Integrated Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID 0 & 1 or 0+1
* DDR2 Memory 8 Gigabytes
* x3 PCI slots
Medium Tower ATX Case - 450W PSU
Internal Card Reader 12-IN-1 3.5"
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
2 x Seagate 2TB, SATA2, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD's (In RAID)
ASUS DVD Burner 16x Dual Layer DVD +- R/RW
W7 PRO 32bit
MS Office Std 2010
So after all my research what I've been looking at is:
Corsair Carbide SPEC-02 Mid Tower Gaming Case,
Corsair CS550M Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply,
Gigabyte AB350M-D3H Motherboard,
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 4 Core 8 Thread CPU, 3.5GHz Base Clock, 3.7GHz Boost, 65W TDP, 16MB L3 cache using the AM4 Socket. Includes AMD Wraith Spire cooler,
Corsair Vengeance LED CMU16GX4M2A2666C16R 16GB (2x8G

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 OC Low Profile graphics card features a 1392MHz base clock with a 1506Hz boost clock in OC mode, 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 memory, PCI-E 3.0, 7008MHz memory clock, low profile design with 167mm card length, OpenGL 4.5 support, DirectX 12 support, Dual-Link DVI-D, 2x HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.4 (GV-N1050OC-2GL?)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED Turbo CPU Cooler Red Cover RR-212TR-16PR-R1 OR
Corsair Hydro Series H60 120mm Liquid CPU Cooler CW-9060007-WW,
Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM006 x 2,
SilverStone FP59B Bay Multi Reader and Controller,
ASUS DRW-24D5MT 24x DVD Writer,
Startech Latching SATA 45cm Cable LSATA18 x 3,
That works out to be ~$1332 (Air Cooled) or $1362 (Water Cooled).
Also been tossing up the benefits of adding:
2 x Seagate FireCuda 2TB Desktop SSHD ST2000DX002 instead of the normal HDD's and a Intel 600P Series 128GB M.2 SSD (SSDPEKKW128G7X1) for boot duties/quicker pickup etc and a Corsair Force Series MP500 120GB NVMe M.2 SSD (CSSD-F120GBMP500) for the gaming stuff

Thoughts good or bad, any changes? Does it seem OK for what I'm looking to use it for or overkill/under spec?
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