New build help! Budget £2000

Tony Montana

Tony Montana

Tony Montana

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Hey folks,

Looking for some help with a new build. My budget is £2000 however I do like getting decent bang for buck so It’s definitely not a must to use the full budget. I’ve built a few pcs so I’m happy to build rather than buy pre-built.

I currently have mouse, keyboard and monitor so just the pc is required.

I’ve noticed a lot of budget builds are using Ryzen opposes to Intel, again I’m happy going with either. Only point to note is my monitor is an Alienware Aw1834DW with g-sync.

The pc will only be used for gaming, mostly Wow, Diablo and bf1. Monitor red is 3440 x 1440 so looking for something that will give me decent frame rates as high settings ( like things to be pretty )

Any help would be hugely appreciated!!
 
 
intel version:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,077.35 (includes shipping: £12.60)​
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The above builds look really good . I would suggest however going for a RTX 2080 rather than the Ti , I use a 3440 x 1440 monitor at 120fps and get excellent performance from my RTX 2080 FE ( watercooled ) . This will allow you more spending power on other parts of the build . my suggestion is
970 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive : HD-23N-SA
Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM : CP-65M-IN
ROG Maximus XI Hero Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard :MB-6CQ-AS
Inno Chill 2080 Twin X2 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card : GX-077-IN
be quiet Silent Loop Superior Liquid CPU Cooler - 360mm : HS-01A-BQ
2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive : HD-3A5-SE
EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply : CA-013-EA
Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit :MY-0A3-TG
Lian-Li PC-O11 Air RGB Midi Tower - Black Window , with 3 extra 120mm RGB fans : CA-76V-LL

Grand total of 2018.93 with delivery

 
nickf23 said:
The above builds look really good . I would suggest however going for a RTX 2080 rather than the Ti , I use a 3440 x 1440 monitor at 120fps and get excellent performance from my RTX 2080 FE ( watercooled ) . This will allow you more spending power on other parts of the build . my suggestion is
970 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive : HD-23N-SA
Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM : CP-65M-IN
ROG Maximus XI Hero Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard :MB-6CQ-AS
Inno Chill 2080 Twin X2 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card : GX-077-IN
be quiet Silent Loop Superior Liquid CPU Cooler - 360mm : HS-01A-BQ
2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive : HD-3A5-SE
EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply : CA-013-EA
Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit :MY-0A3-TG
Lian-Li PC-O11 Air RGB Midi Tower - Black Window , with 3 extra 120mm RGB fans : CA-76V-LL

Grand total of 2018.93 with delivery
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Get the best gpu you can afford in the budget. Sure an RTX 2080 will run 3440 x 1440 but the 2080 ti will last longer. Also the Asus board is best avoided. The Gigabyte Z390 boards or something not Asus are better on Z390.
 
lee32uk said:
Get the best gpu you can afford in the budget. Sure an RTX 2080 will run 3440 x 1440 but the 2080 ti will last longer. Also the Asus board is best avoided. The Gigabyte Z390 boards or something not Asus are better on Z390.
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I have to disagree with you there . I have tried 3 different Gigabyte boards and had nothing but niggling issues , and in one case complete failure . but we all have our own opinions . that's what makes a good forum . I am using a maximus XI formula and I am pleased with it . The Chrome matches my waterblocks and chrome pipework
 
nickf23 said:
I have to disagree with you there . I have tried 3 different Gigabyte boards and had nothing but niggling issues , and in one case complete failure . but we all have our own opinions . that's what makes a good forum . I am using a maximus XI formula and I am pleased with it . The Chrome matches my waterblocks and chrome pipework
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ASUS warranty is awful, it's history for ignoring known issues and abandoning customers is the stuff legends are made of and has been for many, many years. Ask the C6H owners, look at the US legal cases - specifically the faking of FCC certification and resulting fines along with the whole networking fiasco and resulting fines, then search for 'Asus RMA' and look at the tales of woe. Gigabyte aren't perfect, but they are in a different league compared to ASUS in terms of RMA/support.
 
nickf23 said:
I have to disagree with you there . I have tried 3 different Gigabyte boards and had nothing but niggling issues , and in one case complete failure . but we all have our own opinions . that's what makes a good forum . I am using a maximus XI formula and I am pleased with it . The Chrome matches my waterblocks and chrome pipework
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The VRM's on the majority of Asus Z390 are very poor compared to the likes of Gigabyte who have really stepped up. Also as mentioned above their warranty is really bad compared to Gigabyte who have UK based RMA support.


 
Avalon said:
ASUS warranty is awful, it's history for ignoring known issues and abandoning customers is the stuff legends are made of and has been for many, many years. Ask the C6H owners, look at the US legal cases - specifically the faking of FCC certification and resulting fines along with the whole networking fiasco and resulting fines, then search for 'Asus RMA' and look at the tales of woe. Gigabyte aren't perfect, but they are in a different league compared to ASUS in terms of RMA/support.
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Well , I must be lucky , only ever had 1 Asus RMA which was dealt without problem . But everybody has there own opinion . I watch most of the you tube guys , and see them regularly using ASUS boards , and they always seem to get good reviews . I also find it depends on which end of the cost spectrum you are on . I have found MSI are excellent value at the cheaper end of the market and are really reliable . I have tried high end boards from most manufacturers and always seem to end up back with ASUS . I do have a niggling issue with my memory at the moment but this has improved since I switched to ASUS from Gigabyte .
 
nickf23 said:
Well , I must be lucky , only ever had 1 Asus RMA which was dealt without problem . But everybody has there own opinion . I watch most of the you tube guys , and see them regularly using ASUS boards , and they always seem to get good reviews . I also find it depends on which end of the cost spectrum you are on . I have found MSI are excellent value at the cheaper end of the market and are really reliable . I have tried high end boards from most manufacturers and always seem to end up back with ASUS . I do have a niggling issue with my memory at the moment but this has improved since I switched to ASUS from Gigabyte .
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Stop and ask yourself about those channels, who pays for/provides the hardware? Are RMA’s and any issues handled through the normal RMA process or the PR team?

In a purely hypothetical scenario imagine you knew someone who makes a few quid from reviewing hardware and doing builds on YouTube, they’re reasonably popular and well known, but it’s not the main thing they do. Imagine as someone who’s known them 20 years (longer than they’ve been on YouTube) and has a shared love of hardware, that you look at what they use daily and the real kit behind the scenes and see a mix of Dell/HP network kit and that said person would rather pay himself for non ASUS kit for his personal rig. Friends/family tend to get the ASUS stuff as in his words ‘it looks like a transformer had a dump and wiped its arse with a motherboard and it runs like it too.’

ASUS spends a lot on marketing, that’s what they’re good at, the actual hardware is merely OK and they simply move on to the next SKU rather than fix fundamentally basic issues despite the community begging for them for months/years. UK RMA’s have been a joke for years since they outsourced it many years ago. Glad you had a positive experience, but was that via ASUS or the retailer?
 
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