Anything wrong with this gaming build?

bogroll123

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £721.24 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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Trying to save as much money as possible as originally didn't want to spend this much so I found the cheapest B550M board I could with an M2 slot, read B550 boards are more likely to support later chips so ideally would like to future proof if possible. Went with the cheapest 3600mhz RAM and a lower end case and the cheapest 80+ PSU. Don't need wireless as will be using my existing PCI-E card, have 2 HDD's I'll also be fitting into the new build. Will be buying either a RTX 2060, super, or 3060 or 3060ti when stock is back in haha. Advice greatly appreciated, thanks. Budget £1100-1200.
 
VonScar said:
CPU cooler or stock?

Your build seems fine to me. Just wondered on CPU cooler. Below is popular but out of stock.

▷ Arctic Freezer 34 eSports 120mm CPU Cooler - … | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk) £29.99

Or

▷ Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk) £29.99

Hope your hard drives are solid state or NVME, you lose a lot of speed with mechanical ones.
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May consider that cooler when back in stock, thanks :D
Yeah my 2 other drives are mechanical hdd's, but with the 1TB NVME above I think I'll mostly be using the 2 HDD's just for file storage and keep important games on the NVME. I usually only play a few different games at a time then uninstall when I'm done. If I do run out of storage on the NVME I could always pick up an additional SSD for some more games I guess :p
 
mickyflinn said:
The koolink case as that has 2 fans where the other has one same as the corsair.

I know your trying to save money but this psu is fully modular and 10 year warranty compared to the 5 year bitfinex.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...lar-power-supply-cp-9020194-uk-ca-24r-cs.html
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Yeah that Koolink one looks like a winner not much in difference to the corsair just an additional fan and cheaper :D
Hmm I'll think about that corsair PSU, not too bothered about it being modular because that case hides all of the unnecessary cables at the bottom, but 10 year warranty does sound nice, thanks man.
 
bogroll123 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £721.24 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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Trying to save as much money as possible as originally didn't want to spend this much so I found the cheapest B550M board I could with an M2 slot, read B550 boards are more likely to support later chips so ideally would like to future proof if possible. Went with the cheapest 3600mhz RAM and a lower end case and the cheapest 80+ PSU. Don't need wireless as will be using my existing PCI-E card, have 2 HDD's I'll also be fitting into the new build. Will be buying either a RTX 2060, super, or 3060 or 3060ti when stock is back in haha. Advice greatly appreciated, thanks. Budget £1100-1200.
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If its for gaming then a build like this will net you a tonne more FPS than the above build with a 2060/3060ti, also its all in stock so available right now :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,253.09 (includes shipping: £13.20)​
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Joxeon said:
If its for gaming then a build like this will net you a tonne more FPS than the above build with a 2060/3060ti, also its all in stock so available right now :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,253.09 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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Thing is, I play a lot of CPU dependent games, especially WoW. And going off benchmarks the gpu doesn't matter that much, so the above build would just be money wasted in that scenario and I'd be down 50-100fps compared to if I had the 5600x. I'm also planning on streaming so the card needs to be NVIDIA for the NVENC encoder. Also looking to future proof as much as I can within budget so with my build I can always upgrade my GPU down the line and the 5600x should still be good for quite some time, where as I'd imagine the 10400F in a few years will start to struggle and there will be different sockets? I could be wrong, what's your opinion? Thx

 
It depends on which resolution you intend to play at as 4K / 1440p will matter less for the CPU, for streaming though an nvidia card is definetly the better option.
 
Joxeon said:
It depends on which resolution you intend to play at as 4K / 1440p will matter less for the CPU, for streaming though an nvidia card is definetly the better option.
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Yeah I'm staying with 1080p 144hz for now until my monitor packs in then will be going to 1440 most likely but hope it's atleast a couple years until that happens lol
 
bogroll123 said:
Anyone know if you NEED to flash the bios for the new 5600x's? or is that not an issue with B550 boards? Would like to avoid that if possible haha
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You will probably have to flash the bios its unlikely it will come with the correct bios unless the board was made recently.

You can do this with the q flash plus button on the motherboard.
 
mickyflinn said:
You will probably have to flash the bios its unlikely it will come with the correct bios unless the board was made recently.

You can do this with the q flash plus button on the motherboard.
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Haven't flashed a bios for a good 4+ years now, assuming I dl the upto date bios and put onto a usb, boot into q flash which will see the usb and flash it from the file right? The PC won't post with a 5600x

edit: And guessing the bios will need to be flashed without even having the 5600x installed, otherwise it won't post.
 
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