Gaming pc - £700 Budget

Jake1995

Jake1995

Jake1995

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Hi,

I am looking to build my first gaming Pc, so yes I am a total newbie to this. A buddy of mine recommended this fourm to me as he too posted here asking for help and he came away with an awesome machine!

I have a £700 budget but I am completely clueless on what is good and what isn’t. I am looking for some assistance in choosing the best parts for my budget. I want to be able to run games as smoothly as possible on 1080p. I play league of legends and csgo but I want to broaden my horizons and play some new games my Mac simply cannot run. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance.

Edit: This budget is purely for the computer itself, I have a decent monitor, keyboard and mouse already.
 
Danny75 said:
Hi Jake, welcome.

What res/refresh rate on monitor, and any Gsync or Freesync on it?
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As I am not too sure what I’m talking about, I will just show you exactly what I have, I said it’s decent, I’m not sure if actually is for good gaming though.
 
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Alright, great. Name is
BenQ GL2580H

and you better remove link to competitor now :)

It's a nice looking screen with fast response time. No Gsync or Freesync so whether Nvidia or AMD doesn't matter. And at 1080p 60Hz won't need massive graphics power to get smooth play. Would suggest you try overclocking it a bit once you have your system (you can do this through Nvidia or AMD utilities) and it will be a little smoother yet.
 
Danny75 said:
Alright, great. Name is
BenQ GL2580H

and you better remove link to competitor now :)

It's a nice looking screen with fast response time. No Gsync or Freesync so whether Nvidia or AMD doesn't matter. And at 1080p 60Hz won't need massive graphics power to get smooth play. Would suggest you try overclocking it a bit once you have your system (you can do this through Nvidia or AMD utilities) and it will be a little smoother yet.
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Ok awesome at least I know my monitor will do the job! Thanks for your help.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £790.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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It's plenty over budget but I specced it as is anyway because you can get this lot* for £740 if you shop around.

* with a few non-important changes just based on current prices:

Crucial MX500 500GB Sata SSD instead of WD Blue above.
G.Skill Ripjaws 3000MHz DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) instead of TeamGroup above.
Corsair TXM550W Gold PSU (this one is actually worth getting for same price as BitFenix Formula 450 Gold because it will be better for GPU upgrades, and 7 year warranty on it + semi-modular)

Check out pics of the case from someone's recent build:


Wayne0001 said:
No major issues building it, took a while to sort out the cables.

https://imgur.com/ujTfjab
https://imgur.com/Hf1g7Ds
https://imgur.com/zReD4X5

Time to start doing all the updates. Thanks again for all your help.

Wayne
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If £740 is too much, can go cheaper on case, Ryzen 2600 instead of 2600X. Wouldn't recommend going down from a RX 580 graphics card as it is very good bang for the buck.

As for Windows 10, download from Microsoft website onto 8GB minimum USB flash drive, and install. When you tire of the watermark look for an inexpensive key online.
 
Danny75 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £790.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)
​

It's plenty over budget but I specced it as is anyway because you can get this lot* for £740 if you shop around.

* with a few non-important changes just based on current prices:

Crucial MX500 500GB Sata SSD instead of WD Blue above.
G.Skill Ripjaws 3000MHz DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) instead of TeamGroup above.
Corsair TXM550W Gold PSU (this one is actually worth getting for same price as BitFenix Formula 450 Gold because it will be better for GPU upgrades, and 7 year warranty on it + semi-modular)

Check out pics of the case from someone's recent build:





If £740 is too much, can go cheaper on case, Ryzen 2600 instead of 2600X. Wouldn't recommend going down from a RX 580 graphics card as it is very good bang for the buck.

As for Windows 10, download from Microsoft website onto 8GB minimum USB flash drive, and install. When you tire of the watermark look for an inexpensive key online.
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That’s awesome I’m going to check all of this out when I have a chance today. Thank you very much, hopefully by the end of the week I can start ordering parts and get this built, do I need to buy any separate thermal paste or screws or does it all come with the parts?
 
Jake1995 said:
That’s awesome I’m going to check all of this out when I have a chance today. Thank you very much, hopefully by the end of the week I can start ordering parts and get this built, do I need to buy any separate thermal paste or screws or does it all come with the parts?
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Ditch the Dragon GPU, poor RMA service on that one, seems OCUK been having to replace faulty cards with other brands due to lack of any service from Color
UK based RMA and reps

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-192-gi.html

And would run Rx 580 on 550w PSU

Under budget :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £688.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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Gtx 1660 releases I think end of next week or week after (meant to be 3 weeks after launch if gtx 1660ti, prices should be around £200 mark and will shake up amd pricing )
 
Jake1995 said:
That’s awesome I’m going to check all of this out when I have a chance today. Thank you very much, hopefully by the end of the week I can start ordering parts and get this built, do I need to buy any separate thermal paste or screws or does it all come with the parts?
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It comes with all that. You just need a screwdriver, and a roll of velcro can be handy for cable management.


orbitalwalsh said:
Ditch the Dragon GPU, poor RMA service on that one, seems OCUK been having to replace faulty cards with other brands due to lack of any service from Color
UK based RMA and reps

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-192-gi.html
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Struggling to understand here, Orb. If OcUK chooses to continue selling them in the knowledge that they will replace them with another brand if something goes wrong, that's on OcUK, and it sounds pretty good for the customer. What am I missing?
 
Danny75 said:
It comes with all that. You just need a screwdriver, and a roll of velcro can be handy for cable management.

Struggling to understand here, Orb. If OcUK chooses to continue selling them in the knowledge that they will replace them with another brand if something goes wrong, that's on OcUK, and it sounds pretty good for the customer. What am I missing?
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Few threads back OCUK had to replace unit with sapphire and they never got back within 30 days.
Needless to say OP was happy with OCUK and getting spanking new sapphire card :)

Pai. With companies based outside EU, say resellers handle RMA but they still need go ahead from vendor to swap, send back etc

But was t very Chinese new year.. 2 weeks of holiday ! Absolute mission getting any contact
 
Ah, Chinese New Year. Well the retailer has 28 working days to sort you out, and Gibbo has been recently promoting Powercolors and Sapphires as the best AMD cards in general so doesn't look like they usually have a problem stocking and selling them and providing customer service. Gigabyte could well get an RMA turnaround done faster though, so fair point, could pay a bit extra for that.
 
Danny75 said:
Ah, Chinese New Year. Well the retailer has 28 working days to sort you out, and Gibbo has been recently promoting Powercolors and Sapphires as the best AMD cards in general so doesn't look like they usually have a problem stocking and selling them and providing customer service. Gigabyte could well get an RMA turnaround done faster though, so fair point, could pay a bit extra for that.
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I think the key factor was buying from a good reseller. OCUK stepped up where a vendor should have :)
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £524.65 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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rzyen 2600 can be bought for £150 elsewhere, and PSU recommended is corsair CX450M, which can be bought for £48, together with the ryzen 2600.
total cost = £723
 
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