£1400 budget Gaming PC advice

lee32uk said:
Hi welcome to the forum :)

Are you able to build a pc yourself ?

As for that system it is based on an older chipset. I would be looking at a newer Z370/H370/B360 CoffeeLake or an AMD Ryzen myself.

Is the budget just for the tower ?

What monitor are you going to be using ?
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I think I probably could if I had too but I never have before. Don't have any friends local with experience either :(

Is the chip age a problem do you think or worth going for most recent ones possible? I'm open to AMD CPU's, have no allegiance to Intel just vaguely familiar with their processors.

Budget just for tower yes.

Not sure which monitor(separate research) but it'll be 144hz and 4k for sure.

Thanks for replying !
 
lee32uk said:
Hi welcome to the forum :)

Are you able to build a pc yourself ?

As for that system it is based on an older chipset. I would be looking at a newer Z370/H370/B360 CoffeeLake or an AMD Ryzen myself.

Is the budget just for the tower ?

What monitor are you going to be using ?
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I think I probably could if I had too but I never have before. Don't have any friends local with experience either :(

Is the chip age a problem do you think or worth going for most recent ones possible? I'm open to AMD CPU's, have no allegiance to Intel just vaguely familiar with their processors.

Budget just for tower yes.

Not sure which monitor(separate research) but it'll be 144hz and 4k for sure.

Thanks for replying !

orbitalwalsh said:
Baby lake is 7th Gen Intel, currently on 8th... The difference is intel finally has taken the step to add more cores !

Also, your budget, do you need a monitor to go with it ? If not what's your current one ?
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Hopefully the above answers your question too. Not too in the loop RE difference between 7 and 8th Gen Intel products so will definitely take that on board. Other than gaming the PC won't do anything remotely taxing so not sure if that's a factor ?

Thanks for replying !
 
Thanks both for replying. Not sure how to multi-quote from my phone so I'll just manually reply to you both!

Lee- coffee lake definitely makes sense as that is a tangible improvement. I'm open too Ryzen if the budget is pushed up by a better graphics card etc as a trade-off definitely. 1440p would be fine I'm sure. Yes mostly FPS stuff but also stray into RPGs like The Witcher, Dark Souls etc. Have heard good things about Vega but again not sure on freesync Vs gsync argument.

Orbital - is that second prebuilt's CPU competitive? Just on ghz alone it looks slower than i3 bit unsure if that would affect it in practice? Looking at your 3rd option that appears an insanely good deal - for me to build I'm assuming ? Or is that where you state OCUK could build for £100-150?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-8400

i5 8400 boosts to 3.8ghz all cores when gaming - need a better cooler then stock intel though

3rd option, self build of pay OCUK to build at roughly £100-150 . believe they can build and test without loading CD Key -£105 and can buy your own to activate windows

if going to self build.. get the Gigabyte Vega 64 for £500! more powerful and drive that monitor slightly better for longer :D

Built dual builds - ryzen 2600 would offer more performance at stock then 1600 did and OC higher, only got 3.8ghz on mine but 2600 should hit 4.1ghz all cores!
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also ryzen 1600+ vega 56 and ran just as well , gtx 1070ti did have the lead but no bottlenecks from both CPU on either card at 1080p!

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orbitalwalsh said:
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-8400

i5 8400 boosts to 3.8ghz all cores when gaming - need a better cooler then stock intel though

3rd option, self build of pay OCUK to build at roughly £100-150 . believe they can build and test without loading CD Key -£105 and can buy your own to activate windows

if going to self build.. get the Gigabyte Vega 64 for £500! more powerful and drive that monitor slightly better for longer :D

Built dual builds - ryzen 2600 would offer more performance at stock then 1600 did and OC higher, only got 3.8ghz on mine but 2600 should hit 4.1ghz all cores!
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also ryzen 1600+ vega 56 and ran just as well , gtx 1070ti did have the lead but no bottlenecks from both CPU on either card at 1080p!

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This is super interesting, thanks for testing!

Do like the idea of that Vega 64 and giving AMD a go! I think building it would be fun too. Might look at getting a bunch of parts together for a full build. Not sure on cooling etc requirements for a machine like that (now into properly virgin territory!)
 
Ahh that's really handy, thanks!

Looking at this for an Nvidia prebuilt:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...S2'4wbhNT2'5;bhOa2'5,bhOb2'53bhOc2'5*bjaG2_7@

The 3 year guarantee / warranty is really attractive to be honest since I'm a novice so that is influencing me. I think it would do everything I'd need it too from what you've been saying. Plus little bit below budget so wouldn't have to save long for a badass monitor. I'd just use a regular 1080 for a month ha!
 
lee32uk said:
I would suggest going with a better psu if you choose that prebuild. The description just says '500W 80 Plus Bronze' which is a bit vague. At least get something like a Bitfenix Formula.
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For some reason I can't seem to edit the PSU on OCUK for this build? Or am I being stupid?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
I think you'll have to call up customer service as it would be change of parts not on the list . They should be able to do it as it's a sale.. but as always, will cost

For smooth gameplay I. FPS, G-sync or Freesync is nice to have , is I listed above there's a £200 price difference though .
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I'll give them a call and check for sure.

Yeah I'd get gsync on a monitor in a month or so for sure.
 
Hi guys,

Just thought I'd update you with what I'm currently looking at buying, morphed a little bit from last discussion on here. As below:


UK Gaming Chromium ATX Gaming PC
CA-06U-PT Phanteks Eclipse P300 Glass Midi Tower Case - Black 1
CA-230-BX Bitfenix Formula Series 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply 1
CP-63U-IN Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail 1
GX-41P-AS *Build Stock* Asus GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix OC 11264MB Graphics 1
Card
HD-004-TG TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive 1
HD-384-SE Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD 1
HS-013-RT Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black 1
MB-560-GI Gigabyte Z370-HD3 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard 1
MY-088-TG Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz 1
Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24
NW-088-AS Asus PCE-AC56 Dual-Band Wireless AC1300 PCI-E Adapter
 
Haven't looked at pricing on the site for the other card yet so unsure. Doesn't matter if +/- £30 ish. Yes and I don't intend to buy for 3/4/5 weeks so possibly pricing will fluctuate some more in that time too.
 
lee32uk said:
The B450 chipset is being released for AMD Ryzen. If you are going with Intel though then it won't apply to you.

On the other hand if you decided to go with an R5 2600/X then that cpu would slot right in without the need of a bios update. The current B350 chipset needs an up to date bios for R5/R7 2xxx cpu's.
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Think I'd go better than a 2700X over 2600. Not sure where to go with a card to compete with a 1080ti though...
 
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