Gaming Build for 12 year old boy - £800 Budget

ParaJel

ParaJel

ParaJel

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Hi to all, I just joined this forum as I'm trying to put a PC together for a friends 12 year old boy. Their budget is £800. They have a ATX case and mechanical Hard Drive.

This is my list so far. I've seen the possible cash back with MSI which is about £36 with this setup.

They would like a 27" Monitor which I have said would be about £150 (ASUS VZ279HEG1R Gaming Monitor not on list)

Could I do better and have I missed something?

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X Six Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail £229.99

Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2x8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit £74.99

Kolink Modular Power 600W 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply £49.99

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 WindForce OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive £59.99

MS MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard £159.95

Total Should be. £744.90

Thanks for any advice.
 
Hi

3600x is overpriced the 3600 makes more sense (will free up some cash) you could tweak to 3600x speed.

Drop the m2 drive and get an ssd £45 for 500gb you want windows and games on the fastest drive.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...gbps-3d-nand-solid-state-drive-hd-00h-tg.html

1660 super is a far stronger gpu if you can squeeze it in budget.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-35v-ms.html

Psu is very poor
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/be-q...plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-132-bq.html
 
My take

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £762.00 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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Better psu, much bigger m.2 drive.

Sacrifice drive size for a 1660 super as Mickyfinn mentioned.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £781.96 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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Hi Guys

Thanks very much for your advice you have been great. I have followed your advice and just ordered through Over Clockers.

If you don't mind I have 2 more additional questions.

1. What 27" Monitor would you buy, budget is £150. I've seen a ASUS VZ279HEG1R Gaming Monitor £149, what do you think?

2. My mother would also like me to build her a PC, this budget is around £1500.

She's not a gamer but wants something fast that will last for a good few years.

My through's are as she like designing Birthday, Christmas Cards a good monitor might impress her.

Again thanks for any advice.
 
https://www.asus.com/uk/Monitors/ASUS-VZ279HEG1R/

The monitor looks good for the money.

Does she need keyboard and mouse as well as monitor?

IMHO you could just use my spec and drop the graphics card to a nvidia gt710 silent for about £45 and a decent cpu cooler like an arctic freezer 34 and be done. Drop to m-atx case and a 4K ips screen to top it off.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £536.02 (includes shipping: £18.12)​
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dfour said:
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That's a pretty poor PSU bud, old design and it's missing a bunch of protections such as OCP and OTP, the only tests I've seen have shown it to be generally poor performance wise too.

The weirdest thing is that it isn't even made by Seasonic, it's outsourced to some Chinese company.

If going for a 1660S this would be a much better option at the same price;

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £218.99 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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ParaJel said:
2. My mother would also like me to build her a PC, this budget is around £1500.

She's not a gamer but wants something fast that will last for a good few years.

My through's are as she like designing Birthday, Christmas Cards a good monitor might impress her.
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If mum isn't a gamer whatsoever, you'd probably better off looking at something like the Asus PN50. Don't need to spend anywhere close to £1500 for a non-gaming rig.

It's a great new small form factor PC which ASUS released last month. OcUK don't sell them but few other retailers do if you have a search online. You have to buy an NVMe SSD and SO-DIMM RAM to go in though, as they are a 'barebones' kit of sorts.

Monitor wise, depends maybe just a decent 1440p display?
  • £370 - ASUS AMD Ryzen 7 4700U DDR4 Mini PC
  • £56 - Crucial CT2K8G4SFRA32A 16 GB Kit
  • £95 - 1TB NVMe (e.g. WD SN550)
  • £325 - ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV Professional Monitor - 27-inch, IPS, WQHD (2560 x 1440), 100% sRGB
Total £521 for the PC system + £325 for monitor would be £846.

You could go even lower spec PC or lower grade monitor (or some other display altogether) - but if she'd appreciate a really good IPS panel and a very good small form PC this would be perfect imo.
 
Gray2233 said:
That's a pretty poor PSU bud, old design and it's missing a bunch of protections such as OCP and OTP, the only tests I've seen have shown it to be generally poor performance wise too.

The weirdest thing is that it isn't even made by Seasonic, it's outsourced to some Chinese company.

If going for a 1660S this would be a much better option at the same price;

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £218.99 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Thx for the info on the seasonic, wont recommend it again. Yes i normally do recommend the super ventus I have no idea why i picked the single fan card there :confused::confused::confused:
 
dfour said:
Thx for the info on the seasonic, wont recommend it again. Yes i normally do recommend the super ventus I have no idea why i picked the single fan card there :confused::confused::confused:
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No problem.

Easily done as most Seasonic PSU's are made by them and are generally good quality.
 
It's not a bad PSU, it's just badly priced for what it is. You can do better for the same price or a few weeks more.
 
It was recommended as above, do you know what would have been a better choice for same money? May be I can call Over Clockers in the morning and change it?
 
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