Can You Build a PC Under $500?
Spoiler alert, you can!
500 is a rather tight budget. You should look into your local second hand market if you want to make anything decent with that budget. I honestly think that buying a per-owned and per-assembled PC is better nowadays, because of preposterous GPU prices. For second hand PC I would recommend these items from Amazon.
Ryzen 3 1200/2200 - $80–100
A320 boards - …