New Asus Themed Build Suggestion

pigeonguyuk

pigeonguyuk

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,117.81 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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You've 2K to spend on a gaming rig (one assumes) yet your going to spend only just over 10% of it on an old B Grade GPU? but £209 on a mouse and a keyboard?

You don't need a £300 Mobo either, and you can save money on your PSU a good quality 650W or 750W at the absolute maximum will be fine.

Monitor, nearly £400 on a 1080p? it's not even IPS (widely regarded as the best panel type for gaming). You should be looking at 2560x1440p and 144hz minimum with that much to spend.

Not sure why you'd want an ASUS themed build as their producrs are generally well overpriced.

I think you've allocated money in the wrong places you don't need £170 RAM either.

CPU cooler is overkill as well.

2K and only 500GB of storage space?

Sorry to sound harsh, but I'd go back to the drawing board and scrap the ASUS theme as a starting point.
 
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In cases like this we really need some form of a sticky going over the best "bang for the buck" components for that quarter and then people can use that as good guidance.

I will say don't buy some keyboard and mouse bundle, especially not for prices like that. You need to take measurements of your hand, know what grip style you have and then go from there.
 
Lots of overpriced stuff in there. I reckon @EsaT would approve of this build as he loves RGB and Asus :D

Ok seriously though you are spending a lot of money in the wrong places.

The psu is more than needed, and the regular Leadex III is cheaper.

The Ram is also super expensive just because it is Corsair Dominator.

You can get better value with other SSD's such as the WD Blue SN550, Team Group MP34 or Sabrent Rocket (Not sold on here).

You can probably get a cheaper Mouse/Keyboard bundle or buy a separate M/K etc.

You are paying over the odds for that screen. You are nearly in 1440p territory there.

The board is overpriced, as you could go with a good B450 like the Tomahawk or Gaming Pro Carbon and save £150+.

A Vega 64 isn't the best way to go with the GPU. I would be looking at a 5700XT.

The cooler is also over the top.

I get that you want a nice looking system, but you can still do that without paying the Asus tax.
 
Terrible system for the money tbh.

@lee32uk You're well into 1440p/165hz territory when spending £390.

@OP: I'd take the advice people are giving you, you could do far better for £2117.
 
Just as an example.

The Mouse and Keyboard is just there to make the price up. You can probably get cheaper/better options with other brands.

Something like this would still leave you with money if you wanted to add some RGB fans etc.

There are cheaper options for the Monitor. I believe the Pixio PX7P is good for the money, but not sold on here.

The Seagate NVMe SSD is good, but SSD's have gone up in price. The Sabrent Rocket (Not the Q) is usually cheaper but again not sold here. The WD Blue SN550 as I mentioned before is also good.

The RX 5700XT is faster than the Vega 64. Maybe not the prettiest version but it does the job.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,912.63 (includes shipping: £20.82)
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Gray2233 said:
Terrible system for the money tbh.

@lee32uk You're well into 1440p/165hz territory when spending £390.

@OP: I'd take the advice people are giving you, you could do far better for £2117.
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I guess you are referring to the Pixio ? Most 1440p 144Hz+ IPS seem to be over £400 on here. There is the Acer Nitro XV272UP 144Hz IPS for £349 but it is out of stock.
 
lee32uk said:
I guess you are referring to the Pixio ? Most 1440p 144Hz+ IPS seem to be over £400 on here. There is the Acer Nitro XV272UP 144Hz IPS for £349 but it is out of stock.
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You can get Acer Nitro 1440p/144hz IPS screens for around £330-350 if you look, and you can get 1440p/165HZ VA screens for around £280-300.

I have seen the Pixio PX7 for as low as £380 too.
 
Yep, bang per buck is spectacularly bad.

- Way too expensive memories for basic amount: Half cheaper ones would do the job with little difference. (that's the price of absolutely future proof 2x16GB)
- Say Samsung when you want to get screwed in rear overpriced drive: 1TB NVMes are cheaper!
- Ridiculously brand overpriced monitor for medieval resolution.
- Motherboard being about £200 too expensive for the needs of CPU. And if wanting strong VRM, there are lot cheaper boards with better chipset cooling design.
- More rear syncing overpriced marketing hype cooler.

Plus Asus being about the worst when it comes to quality of AMD graphics cards.
(like they were paid by Nvidia to sabotage AMD cards)


GregI said:
I will say don't buy some keyboard and mouse bundle, especially not for prices like that. You need to take measurements of your hand, know what grip style you have and then go from there.
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You forgot vast behaviour/feel differences between different keyboard switches.
After usual cheap membrane/rubber dome keyboard that very light linear switch might be too easy to keep pressing accidentally causing need to focus on avoiding that.
 
Thanks for all the input guys, its been a few years and I've lost track of everything. Ive always been a fan of ASUS as you can tell and I know some brands carry premiums. Not sure if ill spend anything near the 2k total as not sure what time i'll get to game due to other commitments.

So to make thinks easier I want something that I could say is future proofed so thinks like PSU / Motherboard don't mind having them "Overkill" if that means i've upgrade options in the future eg 6>8>12>16 core

Suppose a good options would be knowing which Manufacture have UK /Europe Based RMA

I'm even considering just going Ryzen5 3400G APU until I decide if ill have the time to game as that will save me hundreds and just have a very basic monitor. What happens the lack of G.Skill ram on the site, my previous build hand the Trident Z RGB and I loved the look of it in the system.
 
pigeonguyuk said:
Thanks for all the input guys, its been a few years and I've lost track of everything. Ive always been a fan of ASUS as you can tell and I know some brands carry premiums. Not sure if ill spend anything near the 2k total as not sure what time i'll get to game due to other commitments.

So to make thinks easier I want something that I could say is future proofed so thinks like PSU / Motherboard don't mind having them "Overkill" if that means i've upgrade options in the future eg 6>8>12>16 core

Suppose a good options would be knowing which Manufacture have UK /Europe Based RMA

I'm even considering just going Ryzen5 3400G APU until I decide if ill have the time to game as that will save me hundreds and just have a very basic monitor. What happens the lack of G.Skill ram on the site, my previous build hand the Trident Z RGB and I loved the look of it in the system.
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But you don't need a £300 MOBO to do that, the motherboard forum will set you up with a MOBO that will futre proof you in the way you want and save you £150 or thereabouts. Plus if anything power consumption in PC gaming is going down, so at 850W you're not future proofing yourself either. I recently built a system around a 750W PSU, I could easily have made do with 650W though.

Make your mind up about how much you can game and then set a budget and then ask for further advice, but the advice you have been given so far by everyone is correct.

For a gaming rig, here's where the majority of your money should be going GPU, CPU, Monitor - primo RAM and Mobo's are not worth the extra money, unless you have particular requirements - get some fast storage for quicker load times, and a good qaulity PSU to power it, there's lots of good quality PSU's these days.
 
pigeonguyuk said:
Ive always been a fan of ASUS as you can tell and I know some brands carry premiums.
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Blind buying of brand is the surest way to find hands elbow deep in manure or get leeched.

Asus has history of producing some of the worst Radeon cards with for example 5700 XT TUF being straight scam with memory running burning hot.
And in B450 boards Asus is basically selling scams incapable to powering all CPUs those claim to support.
MSI simply curb stomps Asus completely in those and even lowly Asrock B450 Pro4 is better than brand BS hyped Strix B450-F.
In X570 Asus corrected VRM (while MSI started scamming) but that took all of their brain capacity and chipset cooler is directly under graphics card and bathed in its heat to make sure it keeps wearing fast enough.
Though that shouldn't have been surprise.
Asus had some total crap fast wearing chipset coolers in Athlon boards like 15 years ago.
They should have literally shipped board bundled with three replacements coolers for it to last warranty period.
(after second cooler failing got bored to changing them and got passive aftermarket heatsink)


Also Asus charges ridiculous brand overprices from many lowly TN panels and basic sRGB gamut monitors.
 
It's always best to buy on a product by product basis, all brands release crap and some even charge more for the privilege. Some might even charge more for essentially the exact same thing as competitors but hike prices for nothing but branding.

You often get people who are die hard Corsair PSU fans for example, Corsair don't even make their own PSU's. They've a number of OEM's across their product range, while some are damn good others are garbage.

Monitors are another good example. I often recommend the Pixio PX7 Prime on here, which can be had for around the £400 mark. The EXACT same panel it uses can be found in Gigabyte and I believe Asus monitors yet the price is £80-100 more expensive for both.

Never fall into the trap that "X" brand is always going to be good.
 
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