New build for a friend's son - little out of the loop

[Hathaway]

Hi guys.
So I've agreed to put together a PC for a friend's son, but I'm a bit out of the loop on what's good at the moment. Haven't done any major upgrades to my own PC in a few years.
The budget is £750 but she's told me she's willing to go up to £900 if it makes a big difference to the power/longevity of the machine.

Peripherals (monitor/mouse/keyboard) are taken care of so looking at the case and internals.
He'll be using it for general school work but also for games like fortnite, rainbow six and possibly some other newer games. Hoping to get some components which will last a good few years without needing a major upgrade. Also would like some sort of LED system as he'd like to see the internal components through a side window.

Could anyone help with some suggestions for a build? Would greatly appreciate it.
Cheers guys and Merry Christmas!

 

[Big Frank]

Also would like some sort of LED system as he'd like to see the internal components through a side window.

Case with a good side window LED main board with loads of fan headers and some nice LED fans are in order.

 

[MrRockliffe]

I think you'd be fine going for something like an R5 2600 + 580 8GB or 1060 6GB. Add a Hyper 212 Evo or similar and you'll be able to get the CPU to 3.9 GHz stable at least.

If budget allows, I'd aim for 16GB of DDR4, I believe the Samsung based stuff works best with Ryzen?

Then you just need to find a half decent motherboard, PSU and storage

Oh and a case of choice

 

[Big Frank]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £119.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 580 Red Dragon V2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £199.99
• 1 x Cooler Master MasterAir MA410P RGB CPU Tower Cooler= £29.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £99.95
• 1 x Cooler Master MasterBox Pro 5 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black= £59.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £59.99
• 1 x Toshiba 2TB P300 7200RPM Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £52.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £82.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Arctic MX-2 Thermal Compound (4g)= £3.95

Total: £873.92 (includes shipping: £14.10)


There are obviously some savings that could be made by shopping around.

The case has 3 RGB fans built in which is a plus.

I think this is a pretty good template to start messing around with.​