New mATX Ryzen Build

[Zetro]

Good evening

A very good friend of mine is looking to upgrade his old in the tooth Core i5 750 rig. Space is an issue so he is looking mATX. Here is the build I am proposing:

I am a bit out of date on what is cool / fast as I deal much more with servers/storage in my work life than consumer hardware nowadays

1) Geomatic's engineer workstation, lots of number crunching followed by 1080P gaming and video encoding
2) $1400 or so Tax in - Canadian
3) Would be purchasing from Memoryexpress.com
4) Only will be re-using the monitor/keyboard/mouse, will be replacing the entire tower.
5) Re-using no parts from current PC
6) No
7) 24" 1920x1200
8) Immediate
9) M.2 PCI-E Bootable, rest of the standard features
10) Will need a Windows 10 Home license

The parts list:

AMD Ryzen 1600 - $299.99
Gigabyte AB350M-D3H - http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX66089 - $124.48
Corsair 2400MHz 2 x 8GB - http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX57070 - $168.35
eVGA GTX 1050 TI 4GB - http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX64346 - $199.99
Corsair Carbide 88R Micro-ATX Case - $74.99
Liteon DVD Burner - $19.97
eVGA BQ 650W Bronze Semi-Modular - http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX63359 - $79.01
Windows 10 Home 64-Bit - $116.88
WD Blue 500GB M.2 SATA3 - $193.48

Total - $1341 with tax - the prices include the price beats I already placed.

Notes:
-I figured Ryzen made the most sense as he wants more of a workstation first and gaming second
-I am pro-Gigabyte myself but am very open on what would be considered a better board
-The video card I felt was the best I could fit into the budget and should be fine for 1080P gaming right?
-the 650W eVGA should be fine for this build I am thinking. No intention to go multi-card or overclock
-I tried to talk the individual to spend more on a PCI-E M.2 drive but they could not justify the cost. The Samsung 850 EVO would of been my choice but I find on the last 2 builds I completed the the Samsung Magician software doesn't detect it on boot fast enough and errors. Until that is fixed (does it on my machine!) I will just go with the WD Blue drives as they are quick and cheap.

Any thoughts or insight is always welcome!

 

[Private_Ops]

Just adding my opinion on the 850 Evo. I have one with my rig. Between the older Intel 335 and a Silicon Power drive that I have, it's a huge upgrade over a spinner drive any day. I'm sure an M.2 might be faster but any SSD is better than a spinner unless capacity is paramount.