PC dying, building a new one, nothing fancy £550-650

[Dain]

My current system is on the way out so I need to get something together fairly quickly. I am looking at a budget of £550-650 but open to a little more if it would make a noticeable difference.

My PC is mainly used for playing MMO's; Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Secret World Legends. I often have Netflix, DVD's, multiple browser tabs open on my other monitor as I game.

I will be incorporating my existing HDD, optical drive and Audigy FX soundcard.
Would a CPU cooler be necessary or is the stock one good enough?

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks for your time. Here is what I have come up with so far:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Quad Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 500W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £64.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0B)= £66.95
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER Twin Fan 4096MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £32.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK8GX4M2C3000= £41.99
• 1 x MSI B450-A PRO MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95

Total: £639.15 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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[marco.da.man]

a little bit more but switch a few parts for you i,e 3200 speed ram, 3600 ryzen so more cores and threads, a phanteks case, motheboard is b grade but with gigabyte get uk support, a 5500xt gpu or par with 1650 super

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x **B Grade** Phanteks Eclipse P360X Midi Tower DRGB Case - Black= £44.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherbaord= £70.00
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX432C16FB3K2/8)= £44.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 500W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £64.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0B)= £66.95
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 5500 XT Dual EVO OC 4096MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99

Total: £651.90 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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[Minibiker]

I may be wrong but I think that Gigabyte board will need a BIOS update to run Ryzen 3000 CPU's

 

[eeek]

I may be wrong but I think that Gigabyte board will need a BIOS update to run Ryzen 3000 CPU's

Looks that way

• Support for 1st and 2nd Generation Processor

I would be asking Overclockers if the bios could / had been updated before buying it.

 

[Minibiker]

Looks that way

I would be asking Overclockers if the bios could / had been updated before buying it.

Yeah thought so... Good choice otherwise

 

[marco.da.man]

yeah i was just trying give the man a sort off different approach, but dont see any reason why overclockers cant update bios for him

 

[Joxeon]

I would go with an rx580 over both the Gpus mentioned in this thread as it's pretty much the same performance, slightly cheaper and has 8gb vram so it will age better.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 580 Arez Dual OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £169.99

Total: £179.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)​

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[pc-guy]

Go with 1600AF CPU to save youself £40-£50 quid and the B450 tomahawk MAX. your budget was like mine (imanaged to pull the below for just over £500) but I didn't have to buy a CPU cooler or PSU as I used existing ones. However I needed additional NVME drives and I had the following

CPU - 1600AF
RAM - 32GB 3200Mhz C16 Crucial Ballistix
MB - B450m Mortar Max (I choose mATX for space)
SSD1 - Corsair MP510 512GB NVMe
SSD2 - Seagate BarraCuda 510 512GB NVMe
GPU - GTX 1660 Super 6GB
Case - Thermaltake H18 (this is a mATX case - for ATX I would recommend you have a look at CiT C100 Mid Tower Gaming Case)

 

[Gray2233]

If you can stretch your budget a little:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450-A PRO MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £65.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £86.99
• 1 x Toshiba Kioxia RC500 Pro 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £68.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 580 Arez Dual OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £169.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Phanteks Eclipse P360X Midi Tower DRGB Case - Black= £44.99

Total: £716.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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If not substitute the 3600 for a 1600 AF/2600, maybe look second hand.

The 3300X is a poor buy at £140 imo, given you can get the 3600 for £40 more.

 

[Joxeon]

Go with 1600AF CPU to save youself £40-£50 quid and the B450 tomahawk MAX. your budget was like mine (imanaged to pull the below for just over £500) but I didn't have to buy a CPU cooler or PSU as I used existing ones. However I needed additional NVME drives and I had the following

CPU - 1600AF
RAM - 32GB 3200Mhz C16 Crucial Ballistix
MB - B450m Mortar Max (I choose mATX for space)
SSD1 - Corsair MP510 512GB NVMe
SSD2 - Seagate BarraCuda 510 512GB NVMe
GPU - GTX 1660 Super 8GB
Case - Thermaltake H18 (this is a mATX case - for ATX I would recommend you have a look at CiT C100 Mid Tower Gaming Case)

Not sure when you did your build but prices have risen quite considerably of late.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Quad Core 4.0GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 8 Graphics - Retail= £98.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Gray Micron E-Die 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 UDIMM= £169.99
• 1 x Corsair Force MP510 series 480GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F480GBMP510B)= £98.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Dual EVO 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £248.99
• 1 x Seagate Barracuda 510 500GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive RV.1 (ZP500CM3A001)= £89.99

Total: £828.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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[pc-guy]

Not sure when you did your build but prices have risen quite considerably of late.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Quad Core 4.0GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 8 Graphics - Retail= £98.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Gray Micron E-Die 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 UDIMM= £169.99
• 1 x Corsair Force MP510 series 480GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F480GBMP510B)= £98.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Dual EVO 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £248.99
• 1 x Seagate Barracuda 510 500GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive RV.1 (ZP500CM3A001)= £89.99

Total: £828.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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I never said I bought all my parts from OCUK.

My bits were sourced from all over the web and utilising cash back.

CPU - £84
MB - £72
RAM -£99
GPU - £182 (Pallite GPU)
SSD1 - £65
SSD2 -£62
Case - £34

apologies, it was just over £600 total. Although I bought the second SSD a month later due to a good deal. Thus original build cost was around £530 as priced in Feb 2020.

absolutely that everything has gone up in prices.

if I had build my system 1 month or 2 earlier during the pre-Christmas sales, I reckon it could have been another 50quid cheaper. But there was no 1600AF then. I would have to be content with 1600 as 2600 were still a bit more than I liked.

 

[Joxeon]

Yeah, around xmas was a great time to build a PC.