The prices are high because I live in a ROBOT INFESTED "IT-country" with "E-residency" and all those PR buzzwords... Estonia, where everything is made to look so nice to the outside world (I think) whilst the reality is your usual crap (or worse, depends where you're from).
MOBO: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX [€117,30]
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600xt 3.8 GHz [€248,67]
GPU: RX 5700 Mech GP OC 8GB 1515 MHz [€369,90]
RAM: G.SKILL RipJawsV 2x16GB 3600MHz CL16 [€163,30]
PSU: Be Quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600W [€100.00]
Case: Be Quiet! PC Case Silent Base 601 Orange [€120,42]
Mouse: Logitech G502 HERO [€84,90]
Monitors: AOC G2460VQ6 75Hz 1ms [€116.00]
AOC G2460VQ6 75Hz 1ms [€116.00]
Storage: Crucial MX500 250GB SSD [€50,90]
Kingston A400 240GB SSD [€29,90]
Kingston A400 480GB SSD [64,00]
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD [€110,54]
Aimed for low noise while relying on fans for cooling.
PS! I messed up a few things for a good while at first:
1. Didn't update CPU related drivers, and also, didn't install the chipset
2. RAM defaulted to running at 800MHz because of that
3. Stock and custom fans ran at stock speeds (noise)
4. Didn't update bios either even though I thought I did(? - a lot of instability and weird shit happened because of missing CPU stuff probably)
And why did I mess up like that?
I didn't add a CD-ROM to the build and I didn't know what all I needed to install apart from the few things I knew I needed (such as the GPU drivers, setting the monitor refresh rate from 60 to the advertised 75Hz, etc). I only started looking into those things listed because when I opened the task manager I noticed RAM running at around 800MHz which lead me to figuring out the things I had, embarrassingly, overlooked. I never noticed the "poor performance" because the upgrade alone had a performance boost compared to old parts and so I just couldn't know any better.
At 1080p it's running things fine now, though some games are poorly optimized (Stellaris, Planetside 2, etc) and I sometimes think if I should've gone for better parts after all...