£700 budget for gaming PC setup

[Doosht]

Hi, i am well out of the loop when it comes to building PC's and have been asked to build a gaming system for a friends lad - for Christmas!

The budget is £700 all in including monitor, gaming keyboard, gaming mouse and Windows 10.

Any advice or build suggestions welcome.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hi, i am well out of the loop when it comes to building PC's and have been asked to build a gaming system for a friends lad - for Christmas!

The budget is £700 all in including monitor, gaming keyboard, gaming mouse and Windows 10.

Any advice or build suggestions welcome.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £112.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 570 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £149.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £29.99
• 1 x WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (WD10EZEX)= £38.99
• 1 x be quiet! System Power 9 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £54.95
• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case - Black Window= £44.99
• 1 x AOC G2590VXQ 25" 1920x1080 TN 75Hz FREESYNC Widescreen LED Monitor= £128.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Devastator III Combo Gaming Bundle 7 Colour LED Backlighting - UK Layout= £27.95

Total: £725.88 (includes shipping: £14.10)
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windows 10 via media creation onto a USB
could install windows to HDD and link SSD via StoreMI for a large fast hybrid drive

 

[Doosht]

Thank you. Shouldn't Windows 10 be costed in there?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Thank you. Shouldn't Windows 10 be costed in there?

as mention above. download windows media creation, save ISO to USB and boot from there and pick up CD key, if not windows is something like 15% of your budget

 

[Doosht]

Okay, thanks. I'm going to copy and paste those parts to my friend and he should be ordering those today.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Okay, thanks. I'm going to copy and paste those parts to my friend and he should be ordering those today.

push the £10 on te 8gb RX 570 if you can . good deal not to. dont forget to highlight i think 2 free games comes with it as well , choice from 3

just selected Gigabyte as was £10 cheaper and wasnt sure how budget would line up. but plus side mobo and gpu are both UK RMA

 

[Doosht]

ahhhh, i bet he's ringing now!

 

[Doosht]

any chance you can redo that basket so i can email it to him again please?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

any chance you can redo that basket so i can email it to him again please?

just click on the #2 on my post and you can copy the direct link

aka ...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32293433/

 

[Doosht]

so swap the gigabyte card for the MSI armour 570 with 8gb?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

so swap the gigabyte card for the MSI armour 570 with 8gb?

if you can afford the extra £10 , the easy choice

 

[dlresponse]

as mention above. download windows media creation, save ISO to USB and boot from there and pick up CD key, if not windows is something like 15% of your budget

You can get windows 10 keys really cheap if you know where to look and they are single user only.

 

[dlresponse]

Hi, i am well out of the loop when it comes to building PC's and have been asked to build a gaming system for a friends lad - for Christmas!

The budget is £700 all in including monitor, gaming keyboard, gaming mouse and Windows 10.

Any advice or build suggestions welcome.

Just a bit of advice. Don't quote a price until you are certain about the final costs. It's embarrassing having to go back to them and tell them it's going to cost more than you thought.

 

[hawko_44]

if you can manage to get 7 on it first through usb then upgrade to 10 for through through it you will save yourself £80 for free windows

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Screen can be dropped to £100 75hz version. Think it's 22" but again some savings