Building my own £1500-£2000 gaming rig

Gray2233 · 13 Sep 2025 at 20:01

Quick example build for you:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Phanteks AMP GH 1000W 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Modular - White (SKU: POW-PHK-02522) = £138.95
1 x Antec CX600M Trio ARGB M-ATX Mini Tower - White (SKU: CAS-ATC-04166) = £74.99
1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE A-RGB White CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02666) = £34.99
1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Ki (SKU: MY-0AY-TG) = £91.99
1 x MSI B850M Gaming Plus WIFI6E (AMD AM5) B850 DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-05943) = £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £109.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £399.95
1 x Asrock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASR-04036) = £619.99

Total: £1,622.83 (includes delivery: £11.98)

Tetras · 13 Sep 2025 at 20:03

nutski1873 said:
Going to try and go all white, or as close as possible to it, as always had black cases and parts before. Does purchasing white options cost more? Going to get some white PSU Cables to match.

It does normally, yeah. Here's a white version of the earlier build I did.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £399.95
1 x MSI B850 Gaming Plus WIFI6E (AMD AM5) B850 DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-05941) = £149.99
1 x Crucial Pro 48GB (2x24GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01087) = £124.99
1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid OC White 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04789) = £1,079.99
1 x NVIDIA - Borderlands 4 Standard Edition & the Gilded Glory Pack DLC (SKU: DIG-NVI-06102) = £0.00
1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £109.99
1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - White (SKU: CA-7B9-LL) = £95.99
1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - White (SKU: POW-PHK-02520) = £114.94
1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital White CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-04206) = £50.00

Total: £2,137.82 (includes delivery: £11.98)

You can swap in a 360mm AIO easily with this case.

nutski1873 · 13 Sep 2025 at 20:08

Got my

9800X3D
MSI B850 Gaming Plus
32gb ddr5 cl30 6000 ram - WHITE
2tb nvme

Already, just the other bits now.

nutski1873 · 13 Sep 2025 at 20:09

Cheers guys as always

nutski1873 · Monday at 13:16

All parts ordered now. Went with the white build. Arriving between tmr/wednesday.

Wish me luck.

nutski1873 · Wednesday at 14:56

Can you tell me how too post links like how you have done the basket. So I can list all the parts I got and you can tell me where I have screwed up. Ta

nutski1873 · Wednesday at 15:16

Am I able to mention a place I was looking at getting Win11 to see if anyone else has used it, or is that against the rules?

mickyflinn · Wednesday at 15:40

nutski1873 said:
Am I able to mention a place I was looking at getting Win11

No

nutski1873 · Wednesday at 15:48

mickyflinn said:
No

Didn’t think so. Wanted to check before I done it and got skelpted.

mickyflinn · Wednesday at 15:51

nutski1873 said:
Didn’t think so. Wanted to check before I done it and got skelpted.

Read customer reviews even though they can be scammed .

Capitano · Wednesday at 19:04

excellent budget for top end 1440p and even mid level 4k imo

Tetras · Wednesday at 19:16

nutski1873 said:
Can you tell me how too post links like how you have done the basket. So I can list all the parts I got and you can tell me where I have screwed up. Ta

If you show your basket at OCUK, down the bottom of that screen there's a "share cart as" and you can copy and paste the bbcode into your forum post.

nutski1873 · Wednesday at 19:37

Tetras · Wednesday at 21:58

nutski1873 said:
Now you can tell me where I’ve went wrong. lol

You've spent more on the case+fans+AIO than I would have, but if you like the looks that's up to you.

The RAM is also on the pricey side for 32GB, so I'd have preferred my original choice, albeit they're black instead of the white theme you're going for.

Gray2233 · Wednesday at 22:20

nutski1873 said:
This is what I have bought:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...ocket-am5-processor-retail-pro-amd-03517.html - £399.95
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...d-am5-b850-atx-motherboard-mot-msi-03994.html - £169.99
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phan...power-supply-modular-white-pow-phk-02522.html - £138.95
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...00c40-6000mhz-dual-channel-mem-crs-05813.html - £136.99
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...i-e-gen4-solid-state-drive-sto-gig-05732.html - £109.99
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...-all-in-one-cpu-cooler-360-coo-tlr-04202.html £119.99
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-v100-white-cas-lia-05154.html - £73.98
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-ztc-04789.html - £1,079.99

From elsewhere - Thermalight TL C12CW-S x3 120mm ARGB white fans - £11.99

Total - £2,241.82

Now you can tell me where I’ve went wrong. lol

Got an email from Nvidia today saying I can get a 5090FE card. So tempted at the price. Still a bit high but for a FE it’s probably a cracking price.

Aesthetics over function are always going to hammer into your budget, especially when aiming higher end.

I'd rather have a black build with a 5090 than a white build with a 5080 personally, the amount you've spent on visuals would eat up some of the cost to boot. Everyone has different preferences, but if you've yet to receive the order and really want the 5090 you could cancel your current order, although if it's already shipped returns might be a pita.

The 5080 is in my mind the worst value card on the market right now, it should have been much closer to the 4090 performance wise and that's without having to fiddle around with OC's etc. Even if you want to stick to white overall, the 5090FE is pretty understated and might even act as a really nice centre piece to set off the build? It pretty much will be the only black thing right in the middle of the case so it could work.

nutski1873 · Thursday at 00:43

I had to get the 5090FE, after getting the email and thought the price was excellent, so went ahead and cancelled the 5080.

I know I spent too much on aesthetics by going white, went for a white build for a change. Never had a white build.

Gray2233 · Thursday at 00:47

nutski1873 said:
I had to get the 5090FE, after getting the email and thought the price was excellent, so went ahead and cancelled the 5080.

I know I spent too much on aesthetics by going white, went for a white build for a change. Never had a white build.

I suspect with the FE 5090 dead middle will stand out and look cool as **** tbh.

Call it your black hole build.

deviation · Friday at 18:54

Gray2233 said:
I'd rather have a black build with a 5090 than a white build with a 5080 personally

You electronics racist

JK

Jokes aside, I totally agree though, especially if it's under a desk or next to a massive monitor, I couldn't care less. Nor do I want to be blinded by a disco to the right of my monitor :cry:

I don't mind RGB, but I'd end up turning it on only to show people before quickly turning it off.
And having a beast of a rig versus lesser spec, will always win

tamzzy · Friday at 20:33

Gray2233 said:
I'd rather have a black build with a 5090 than a white build with a 5080 personally

Once you go black you never go back?

Gray2233 · Friday at 20:49

tamzzy said:
Once you go black you never go back?

Joking aside, if you're going for an AMD based GPU build rather than ultra-high end white is pretty viable right now at little to no extra cost. There's plenty of well priced white 9070/9070XT/9060's etc, some are even among the cheapest of the cards on the market from the likes of XFX.

It's just Nvidia GPU's that seem to have the lunatic tax, it's barmy.

Case/motherboard/ram etc are all pretty much about on par with black variants as long as you're a little flexible with component choice.