New PC Build £850-1000

[andeyknox]

Hi, my friend is looking to buy a gaming pc but is struggling to find parts atm and is unsure of what to buy aswell. Any help would be massively appreciated as hes trying to order it asap as his old 7 year pc is about to die His budget is £850-1000. Thanks!

 

[Danny75]

Can any parts be salvaged from that system, particularly the GPU and any drives, maybe case? If so, find out what models they are.

 

[dfour]

Prebuild will get you a i5 1400/3600x and a 1660 super for about £1000.

Reusing the old case could save £50 ish. Psu might be a bit ropey depending what it is. gpu can be used as a stopgap until prices 'normalize' (hopefully).

If he wants to start new and build himself something like this is about the best with the current gpu prices unless he can get a nvidia founder edition card at msrp somewhere.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black= £44.99
• 1 x MSI B560M PRO-VDH WIFI (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-11400F 2.60GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £74.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £79.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £89.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 2060 Twin X2 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £399.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99

Total: £981.54 (includes shipping: £11.70)


750 watt psu for later upgrades and wifi because I dont know if he neeeds it or not.​

 

[andeyknox]

Prebuild will get you a i5 1400/3600x and a 1660 super for about £1000.

Reusing the old case could save £50 ish. Psu might be a bit ropey depending what it is. gpu can be used as a stopgap until prices 'normalize' (hopefully).

If he wants to start new and build himself something like this is about the best with the current gpu prices unless he can get a nvidia founder edition card at msrp somewhere.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black= £44.99
• 1 x MSI B560M PRO-VDH WIFI (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-11400F 2.60GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £74.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £79.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £89.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 2060 Twin X2 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £399.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99

Total: £981.54 (includes shipping: £11.70)


750 watt psu for later upgrades and wifi because I dont know if he neeeds it or not.​

Hi, Thanks for the reply! is there anyway to use an amd processor and gpu? or is the i5 better than amd ones?

 

[dfour]

Yes but it wil be more expensive for the 5600x and less performance for the 3600.

AMD gpu seem to be very thin on the ground and expensive.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus RX Radeon 6700 XT Dual 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £689.99

Total: £699.89 (includes shipping: £9.90)​

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This is the cheapest OC have in stock. Other place might have other gpu cheaper.