Completely new to gaming pc and looking to build my own pc, need help on buying correct parts?

Overkill. 8 core is a sweet spot for cost and future proof balance. But depending on performance requirements, you could even justify a quad core. Your motherboard compatibility plays into this game of balance also. With 3000 Ryzen you still have an upgrade path to 5000 at least.

The 3700x will be good with the MSI cashback. Without it you're close to the 5600x release price predictions.
 
Ok so say for example, I was wanting to start buying pieces now... maybe excluding cpu and gpu if they are all being upgraded within the next month. Where and what should I start to buy in the meantime?
 
Lewis Hood said:
Ok so say for example, I was wanting to start buying pieces now... maybe excluding cpu and gpu if they are all being upgraded within the next month. Where and what should I start to buy in the meantime?
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If you can't wait Buy what's on offer like the m2 drive,psu could go for the corsair rm has 10 years warranty
 
personally i wouldnt touch an MSI part even given to me freely after the way they have behaved recently.

But AMD seems to be the flavour recently namely the 570 boards with a new 5000 series cpu out shortly, id base a build on that and bung at least 16GB in it - no less

As regards a GPU your spoilt for choice shortly but sadly the nvidia 3000 series cards and launch have been a let down for everyone and itll be anohter month or so till you can get a 3080 - maybe.

Hard drive wise stretch for a single M.2 drive of at least 1TB the samsung EVO 970 are nice and are around £100 second hand on ebay

Id look at waiting until AMD release their GPU's first and then make an informed choice based on whats on offer. But youll get a pretty nice build for £1500

Assuming youve got an old dog of a monitor running at 1080 youll eventually need a new one, but it will do you for now.

PSU wise id go for a 1000w one and a branded one so you have headroom and itll last you years if you clean it regularly

The alternative to buying new is the way id go id go with and for me the second hand market via ebay is king and there are some good deals on high end 1151 - z390 boards and processors on ebay constantly now that will do the job perfectly well and youll save a lot of money you can then buy better parts with

If you live close id build you one for free if you supplied the parts we could sit and do it together and i could teach you how its done as ive built dozens now over two decades, there is nothing to it and there are numerous guides on youtube -
Go second hand bits and build your own bud, you wont regret it and if your in the midlands shout me
 
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Oh shoot ok, I’ll stay away from MSI and lean towards an AMD.

i haven’t made any commitments on CPU or GPU at the moment was recommended to wait to see what the reviews are on the newer equipment.

my monitor is a HP 27xq.

the equipment I’ve been looking at so far is;

Motherboard - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK (before I knew about MSI not being good recently)

SSD - Samsung 970 EVO 1TB

PSU - Corsair RM 750/850Kw


ADATA XPG SPECTRIX D60G 16GB (2x8GB) 3600Mhz

seagate barracudda 2TB HDD
 
Lewis Hood said:
MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK (before I knew about MSI not being good recently)
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Just because some subsidiary of MSI was selling marked up GPUs on ebay it doesn't make MSI products bad.

The mag tomahawk is an excellent motherboard, probably best in class at its price.
 
I just picked up an MSI board. It was the best board that fitted my needs, plus best VRM temps, as well as cheapest in the range. Additionally the cashback offer, and a few more quid free in Steam vouchers available.
And i know they'll support Zen 3 with a bios update without issue.
A colour decent manual included too :)

2 sides to every story.

No point going Samsung SSD imo, unless cash is flowing. You pay a premium there. The WD SN550 blue it decent quality for the cash. MX500 also.

Seasonic high end PSUs come with 5/7/10/12yr warranties also if you were interested. There's others that offer similar too.

Checking the motherboard's website for official ram compatibility is worth a look, though it's not essential.
 
Can’t thank everyone enough for their advice and everything from there experience.

Another noob question, is there any real reason to go for a full tower over a mid tower? Do mid towers cause heat problems?
 
Lewis Hood said:
SSD - Samsung 970 EVO 1TB

seagate barracudda 2TB HDD
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Zero sense to pay Samsung's brand overpices.
Besides combined price of that Samsung and Seagate likely approaches price of 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro.


Lewis Hood said:
Another noob question, is there any real reason to go for a full tower over a mid tower? Do mid towers cause heat problems?
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Without adequate airflow to remove heat out from case full tower only heats up slower.
And with current fashion of no expandability/upgradability courtesy of lack of 5.25" bays there's no sense to waste money and space for most full towers.
 
My bad, was thinking that was the nvme model.@esat

Lewis Hood said:
Can’t thank everyone enough for their advice and everything from there experience.

Another noob question, is there any real reason to go for a full tower over a mid tower? Do mid towers cause heat problems?
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Ease of building, no space limitations, negligible price differences imo, less chance of building issues with drive bays in the way for example, larger radiators etc. Can't personally comment on heat. But if you can remove enough air quickly enough, at a sound increase i'll add, things are okay from my own experience.

You can still go matx motherboard with a full tower if it supports it also. But atx boards have more room anyway, and like i said negligible price difference anyway. Look at some cases you like the look of, then measure out a cardboard box to the same dimensions. See how it looks/fits in your room/area of choice.

Personally haven't seen temp tests of new nvidia 30xx GPUs vs the older known hot cards like R7, gtx970, etc.
 
A Full tower is often far, far too big for most people. I'd say 80-90% of the time there's really no need. Most modern PC's are simply lost in one. They can be 2 feet tall, sometimes more. Unless you absolutely need one, I wouldn't bother.
 
midtower or even smaller.. unless you are planning to do watercooling at some point. todays rigs can be really small and efficient.. i recently swapped to nzxt h1 and i like it.
 
The_Arbiter said:
You can still go matx motherboard with a full tower if it supports it also.
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Smaller "version"/standard motherbaord always fits into bigger standard case.
But below ATX size motherboard choise drops really badly.
Most mATX boards are aimed for cheap market PCs and ITX board just doesn't have room for much anything but minimums.
 
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