£400-£550 first (help pls:)

mdkilinc

mdkilinc

mdkilinc

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Hi,

My friend is planning to get a PC soon and we're looking for a bit of help on his build. He doesn't know how to set up a build but wants the best for his money. So far he's looking at a pre build on eBay but I thought the guys at overclockers would do a much better job. Can anyone suggest builds both prebuilt or parts for this price range?

The PC he is looking at:


Also can overclockers build and set up the PC fully if we buy it part-by-part.

Thanks!
 
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You'll have to remove the link as its a competitors link, OCUK pay for these forums...

As for that prebuilt in the link I'd stay well away, for £540 you could get a more upto date system with better performance.. The DDR3 platform is dated now

Whats your friend total Budget and is it the whole lot they need?

Monitor, keyboard, mouse and tower?
 
Hi,

Alright sorry I wasn't aware. At the moment he's definitely not considering getting it. So far he only wants to get the tower if that means the actual PC. He doesn't need a monitor, keyboard or mouse. He just wants to get the best out of the core build.

Ideally up to £520
 
His current build is

1 x AMD Ryzen 3 2300X 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Processor
1 x AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphics Card
1 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4 Memory (2 x 8GB)
1 x 1TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive
1 x Asus A320M-K PRIME MicroATX Motherboard
 
You should have probably led with that information.

If that's his current build why is he looking for a totally new system? He could just upgrade the CPU and maybe GPU and he'd be fine.

What resolution is his monitor and what power supply is in that build?
 
mdkilinc said:
His current build is

1 x AMD Ryzen 3 2300X 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Processor
1 x AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphics Card
1 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4 Memory (2 x 8GB)
1 x 1TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive
1 x Asus A320M-K PRIME MicroATX Motherboard
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That his shopping list or he actually has it?
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £538.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Google around for a 2600 or 1600AF, but make sure it is the AF and not the regular, you can get them for £90-100 or so.

Better components in general, he could try to get a second hand RX580 or RX590 for under £100 also.

Should bring his build under £520.

If he needs more storage down the line adding an HDD is easy enough, it's best to start off with an SSD as a minimum.
 
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mdkilinc said:
It's his shopping list. He wants to upgrade the CPU a bit more but doesnt know if it's possible. He willing to pay a bit more to upgrade it.

Does anyone have suggestions for CPU upgrades?

Thanks again,
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@Gray2233 has sorted you nicely. That Zalman T7 would also be my choice for budget case. It's ATX and the board is micro-ATX but not a biggie. Gives you more options for future upgrade and even more room for air under the GPU.
 
Yes, think Zalman have been listening to feedback and have improved on their budget cases. The cutouts for the fans are perfect with no obstruction, unlike the metal grille mess they had on their older Zalman i3, for example.

The Zalman M3 Plus micro-ATX looks really good too, albeit £20 more expensive.
 
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1 x AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Hex-Core CPU
1 x AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphics Card
1 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4 Memory (2 x 8GB)
1 x 1TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive
1 x ASUS PRIME B450M-A AM4 Motherboard
1x Cooler Master CM MWE White 600W PSU

Hi guys,

Thanks for you builds. I forwarded it to him. So far he's gotten this build. He raised his budget to just under £600. He's ended up with this build at this moment costing £595. Is it compatible or are any part lacking? I told him to get the RX 570 but he said he wants a better GPU.
 
mdkilinc said:
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Hex-Core CPU
1 x AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB Graphics Card
1 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz DDR4 Memory (2 x 8GB)
1 x 1TB Seagate BarraCuda Hard Drive
1 x ASUS PRIME B450M-A AM4 Motherboard
1x Cooler Master CM MWE White 600W PSU

Hi guys,

Thanks for you builds. I forwarded it to him. So far he's gotten this build. He raised his budget to just under £600. He's ended up with this build at this moment costing £595. Is it compatible or are any part lacking? I told him to get the RX 570 but he said he wants a better GPU.
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I'd be swapping that motherboard for the Asrock B450M Pro4 or an MSI B450 Mortar Max personally
 
Charlatan said:
I'd be swapping that motherboard for the Asrock B450M Pro4 or an MSI B450 Mortar Max personally
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At the site he's on he said there are only 3 motherboard available for his build.

-Gigabyte GA-A320M-H Micro-ATX AM4 Motherboard
-Asus A320M-K PRIME MicroATX Motherboard
-ASUS PRIME B450M-A AM4 Motherboard
 
If any advice we give is going to be ignored for poorer quality parts that somehow work out as more expensive, I'm not really sure what we can do to help.

The build I listed above is superior in almost every way that matters and costs less.

If nothing else tell him not to skimp on the PSU, the one he's looking to buy is low quality, the PSU is the most important part in your computer.

Building yourself really isn't difficult.
 
mdkilinc said:
At the site he's on he said there are only 3 motherboard available for his build.

-Gigabyte GA-A320M-H Micro-ATX AM4 Motherboard
-Asus A320M-K PRIME MicroATX Motherboard
-ASUS PRIME B450M-A AM4 Motherboard
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Missed that, but I'd be going elsewhere than blowing his budget on substandard parts
 
Gray2233 said:
If any advice we give is going to be ignored for poorer quality parts that somehow work out as more expensive, I'm not really sure what we can do to help.

The build I listed above is superior in almost every possible way and costs less.

If nothing else tell him not to skimp on the PSU, the one he's looking to buy is low quality, the PSU is the most important part in your computer.
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Thanks for the reply Gray. He has been following your build but he is unable to build the PC for himself so he is using a site which offers to let you pick the parts and send it built for you. They have limited options on what parts you can pick. For the PSU they only have available:

-Game Max 550W Modular RGB Gold Power Supply
-Corsair VS650 80+ Power Supply
-Corsair CV650 650W Bronze PSU

He increased his budget a bit but he wants to get a PC that's ready to go. Sorry for any inconvinence.
 
It's just a shame that he's going to be spending money on poor quality stuff.

Out of those the CV650 is likely the highest quality of the bunch.
 
Gray2233 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £538.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
​

Google around for a 2600 or 1600AF, but make sure it is the AF and not the regular, you can get them for £90-100 or so.

Better components in general, he could try to get a second hand RX580 or RX590 for under £100 also.

Should bring his build under £520.

If he needs more storage down the line adding an HDD is easy enough, it's best to start off with an SSD as a minimum.
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Hi guys a bit of an update. He's finally found someone to build his PC so he doesn't need to worry about building it himself. He's gonna go ahead and follow this but hes willing to go up to £600. What parts of this build can we upgrade to get the best performance for games.
 
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