Budget PC Advice - £500-600

Jimbo81

Jimbo81

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Good Morning Ladies and Gents,

So I have a request for help as I have a PC from the time smoking was cheap and petrol didn't require a loan and it's time to upgrade the poor *******.

My budget is effectively very very limited, so what I'm looking for is best bang for buck setup to run most relatively modern games 60fps plus. I'm not looking to build a FPS slaying machine or anything like that. Budget is £500 ideally.

So currently - the PC is
i5-4570 CPU
16GB Ram
1TB SSD
960 GTX 4GB

I'm keeping the SSD. I have a good case and PSU should be fine so what I'm looking for is best budget CPU/MOBO/Ram combo for that price range.

For the GPU I'm going to be looking second hand for either a 980 or 1080 with a budget of £100-200 out of the above. If you guys think that it's better to go get a 1060 or something like that please recommend.

I used to be hot on building PC's. Now a lot of things have changed and I literally haven't a clue anymore regarding the processors or anything like that. I feel like a Dinosaur.

Help me.
 
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Bang for the buck CPUs are the Intel 12100F and 12400F, with the 13100 and 13400 expected soon.



As for the GPU, a GTX 980 Ti will cost you about £150 on fleabay but a brand new RX 6600 will set you back £230.
 
If you're on a super tight budget I'd just get a new RX 6600 (OCUK have the Sapphire for £240) and see how it goes. If you don't get the improvement you want, then add somethng like this:

Intel Core i3-12100F 3.30GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail - £119.99
Asus Prime H610M-A D4 - Intel H610 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard - £99.95
Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey - £85.99

Grand Total: £316.43
 
goldy6660 said:
Why not just update to a better chip temporarily like the 4790k?
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I did think of doing that. My only issue with it is that if I'm gonna get a new CPU I might as well pay a bit more and bring the whole thing up to relatively modern standards with the MB and Ram as well, with a PCI 4.0 and the better RAM.
 
Yeah fair, it'd be a proper cheap upgrade like £30 ish from cex or somewhere. As long as you have a decent cooler and you'd see benefit straight away, can always sell again later on too. Could always get a GPU now too, then when you're ready do the upgrade to everything else
 
 
Thanks guys! I went fo:-

Intel Core i3-12100F 3.30GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail - £119.99
Asus Prime H610M-A D4 - Intel H610 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard - £99.95
Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey - £85.99

Plus a NVME m.2 SSD to compliment my Sata one and a Sapphire RX6600. Looking forward to booting it up, it will most likely blow my mind first time I do it.
 
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