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The plan is to treat myself to a new GPU so he can have my RTX 2070. That should be plenty good enough for him. The sim racing games he plays don’t seem to be massively graphics intensive. In terms of my PC, it’s not so much that I have an itch but I’d like to extend the life of my AM4 platform...

Cheers for all the advice guys. I didn’t bother with a bundle in the end, I ended up ordering the MSI Tomahawk with a Ryzen 7600 and 32gb RAM. I‘ve wiped out my sons savings, so if he starts saving again now he’ll be able to put in a more powerful CPU in five years! Now I feel I need to...

I've done a bit of reading and watched a few videos and I've ruled out going super cheap and getting an A620 chipset. The benefit of going down the AM5 route is that in 5 years or whatever, we can stick in a new and more powerful CPU, and I don't want to potentially limit our options by going...

Thanks for all your input guys. I’ll have proper review over the weekend and consider the options. I agree 32gb RAM is probably the right approach so will do that from the outset and not buy a separate cpu cooler. I’ve just been looking at some of the 7500f bundles and they look quite...

Is going too cheap on the mobo going to negatively affect the ability to upgrade in future? I know it’s difficult to predict what bios updates there will be, but we’d want to drop in a newer gen, more powerful CPU at some point. If a new PSU isn’t required, it looks like his budget will just...

Power supply is Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' I will confess to not knowing what VRM is and how it affects anything! it would be nice to have two M2 slots but not bothered about having more. Are MSI still could boards to go for? I was a little surprised by how expensive...

Hi all My son has saved up a few hundred pound and would like to upgrade his pc for sim racing. He currently has an I7-3770k, 16gb RAM, GTX 970 cobbled together from my old parts. I’m hoping to upgrade my GPU in the next couple of months so will gift him my RTX2070, so we need recommendations...

Thanks, I’ll do that. Yeah the tomahawk. I wasn’t sure if I’d need to update the bios for the cpu but it worked out of the box. Can you post photos directly or do they need to be hosted somewhere?

I couldn’t wait in the end so went for the Ryzen. It was a good shout on the white cooler. I got white RAM too and it looks pretty smart. I’m not as nimble fingered as I used to be and my eyes aren’t what they were so building it was a bit fiddly, but Just finished and it booted first time. I...

Thanks for the detailed response, it's much appreciated. The case is still the 510 and I don't really need wifi. Does the 5600x not come with a cooler, or is a better one recommend anyway? I think since I've waited this long for an upgrade, it won't hurt to wait another 5 weeks if the Intel...

Can’t believe it was over two years since I asked for upgrade advice and I still have the same CPU as in the original post. I did upgrade the GTX 970 to a RTX 2070 and put a better PSU in, but now I need to do the rest. I was leaning towards a ryzen 5600x after considering the i5 11400 and...

Recently finished that myself... perhaps a little too dark. Good game though.

Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll check them out. Introduced him to monkey island this weekend, which he’s enjoying.

I used to love wing commander so much. I bet it hasn’t aged well though has it.

He struggled a bit with ori... he’s not great with platformers. I find it curious; he’s miles better at combat in Spider-Man than me but struggles with basic platformers, though I I was brought up on those games. I might suggest he tries ori again. Portal 2 is a good call... though I seem to...

Got a one plus x which I’m making do with but has constant warning about no storage space. I’ll keep my eye out for the 4a

Can anyone recommend me some games appropriate for my 11 year old to keep him occupied during lockdown? We have PS3 & 4, and PC... his favourite game is Spider-Man and he was fine with that despite it being a 16. I was thinking maybe the Arkham games but I suspect they are too dark. He’s...

Well this isn’t over yet... world went into lockdown... new phone never turned up... can’t offer me a new one because they shut most of their departments... they’ve now offered me a cheque for £329 which should be with me in the next 28 days... So is there now a better phone I can get with that...

In the end I put myself through another trip to pc world. I’m sure they made it more difficult than it needed to be, but in the end they arranged to have a new phone posted to me.

I think is just over 6 months now