This will be my first PC build, and I'd appreciate a second opinion on the parts I've chosen. I'm in Italy with a budget of roughly €1,400, including a keyboard, and the system will mainly be used for gaming. I already own a monitor and mouse. I'm planning to play at 1080p and would be happy with around 60 FPS, but I especially care about good overall performance and reasonable game loading times. Are there any parts I should change or prioritize differently?
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The revised build looks like a sensible direction, but it already goes slightly over the stated budget. Since you still need a keyboard, I’d avoid spending extra unless it provides a noticeable gaming benefit. A cheaper but reputable NVMe SSD, a correctly priced 32GB memory kit, or a less expensive case could bring the total down without meaningfully hurting 1080p performance.
Make sure the motherboard size matches what you actually want. A micro-ATX board will work perfectly in an ATX case, but it has fewer expansion slots and may look a little small inside a larger case. If a full-size B650 board with Wi-Fi is only slightly more expensive, something like an ASUS TUF Gaming B650-Plus WiFi could be a reasonable alternative. It isn’t automatically faster, though, so choose based on features and price rather than size alone.
At 1080p, the CPU can matter a bit more than it does at higher resolutions, but a modern six-core Ryzen 5 is still enough for a 60 FPS target in most games. The RX 9060 XT 16GB should give you more graphics headroom and will also be better suited to demanding games than a weaker card. For cooling, compare the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120, Peerless Assassin 120 SE, and Arctic Freezer 36—any of them should be more than adequate if the prices are similar.
That makes sense. I’ll compare those coolers before buying.
For a gaming system, I’d shift some money from the CPU and SSD toward the graphics card. A Ryzen 5 7500F paired with an RX 9060 XT 16GB would be a stronger gaming combination, even if the CPU is a little less powerful on paper. The graphics card generally has a much larger effect on frame rates than moving between similar Ryzen 5 processors. A 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive is already plenty for gaming, and extremely high sequential read/write figures usually don’t produce noticeably faster game loading. Also, double-check the memory price—€246 for 16GB DDR5 looks unusually high, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 kit may offer better value if priced normally.
So the GPU matters more even though I’m only planning to play at 1080p? I chose a faster SSD and DDR5-6000 because I thought they would improve loading times and general performance.

I hadn’t noticed that the board was micro-ATX. I’m new to this, so I was focused more on comparing the main components. I’ll check the features and price of a full-size board too.