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Ryzen 5 4500
Gigabyte B450M K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Patriot Signature Premium 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory
Patriot Burst Elite 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
MSI MECH 2X OC Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB Video Card
CiT F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
be quiet! System Power 10 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Running windows 10 64bit
 
Based on the cost of a self-build, the price seems fair (I don't think OCUK sell single 8GB sticks), but I am no expert on budget pre-builds.

AMD Ryzen 5 4500 Six Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail - £79.99
ASUS PRIME A520M-A (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard - £71.99
Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey - £44.99

Asus Radeon RX 6500 XT Dual OC 4GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £149.99

Kingston A400 120GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/120G) - £22.99

Aerocool Tomahawk Midi-Tower ATX Case - Black - £29.99
Kolink Modular Power 500W 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply - £29.98

Grand Total: £441.91 (includes delivery at £11.99)

I must say though, you will lose a lot of performance from having a PCI-E 3.0 board with a 6500 XT and using such slow single channel memory.

What are you using the PC for? If you won't be gaming, I'd go for a 4600G or 5600G based pre-build, rather than the 4500 (which has no integrated graphics). The £150 on the GPU could be far better invested elsewhere if there's no gaming.
 
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Tetras said:
What are you using the PC for? If you won't be gaming, I'd go for a 4600G or 5600G based pre-build, rather than the 4500 (which has no integrated graphics). The £150 on the GPU could be far better invested elsewhere if there's no gaming.
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Top advice there. I built my wife a general purpose pc which she uses for browsing, shopping and her Facebook games and I based it around a Ryzen 4300GE. I was pleasantly surprised with the cpu's performance and that of it's onboard gpu. If it's for gaming every now and then a Ryzen 5600G (can still play at games at 1080p with settings turned down) would be a good choice and then add a graphics card later if you get more into gaming.

Also the memory is too slow and there isn't enough of it. Ryzen (or just about any other cpu these days) needs fast memory to get the best out of it plus the minimum should be 2x 8Gb matching sticks so they run in dual channel. A single stick will only run in single channel and will be sacrificing even more performance. The SSD is simply far too small at only 120Gb and that case is a abomination!!
 
I'm using for gaming and added a second ram stick(16 gigs total) and a 512 ssd

Id also use it to code in unity and make baisic games
 
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willfa said:
I'm using for gaming and added a second ram stick(16 gigs total) and a 512 ssd
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That will make it a more usable system, for sure.

I'd personally recommend (if there's any flexibility in the budget) stepping up to a 5600 non-X and RX 6600, because the 6500 XT (particularly on PCI-E 3.0) is a very limited card and the 5600 is a big jump in performance. I think that would give this system a much longer life, particularly for games and development.
 
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