£1400+ build check/advice

[megalomanic]

Hi,

I've been asked to put a build together for a friend, max £1500 budget ideally closer to £1400.

There'll be no desire to overclock anything. I'm mainly questioning if this is the best RAM choice.
I won't have a another CPU for the board so wondering if there's a chance it may need a bios update to support this CPU (is this still commonly a thing?).

Any advice on cheaper alternatives or if this looks good is much appreciated, thanks.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £529.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £64.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £278.99
• 1 x Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh RGB Midi-Tower Case - Black= £96.95
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £69.95
• 1 x Gigabyte B550 AORUS Pro AC (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard= £159.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32-bit/64-bit - USB flash drive= £109.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £89.99
• 1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM= £17.99

Total: £1,463.48 (includes shipping: £14.70)​

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[Craig_d1]

Some other options. Mobo x570 for £20 more, with wifi 6 and option on additional pcie4 nvme. Crucial ballistix 3600c16 and £10 cheaper. Cooler you have is great, this is just another option for same price. Again slightly more powerful psu with 10yrs warranty, but not really necessary. Where does the internal DVD writer go in the case? Wouldn't you need an external one?

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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £179.99
• 1 x MSI MPG A750GF UK PSU 750W, 80 Plus Gold certified, Fully Modular= £74.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports White CPU Cooler - 120mm= £29.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £79.99

Total: £376.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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[dfour]

Also just pick up a windows 10 key instead of using a physical key and disk. Will save a good few pounds. You can legally download windows 10 from microsoft.

The Crucial ram (above) is much better than the kingston and cheaper so its a new brainer.

Also the msi psu is a bargain and being modular is a real help.

Either cooler will easily cool the 5600x and fit in the case as it has goos cooler clearence.

You will need an extranal dvd drive at about £30 instead of the internal unless your going to change the case.

Also maybe 1 or 2 more fans for the case.

 

[megalomanic]

Thanks both, good advice!.

I didn't even notice the case didn't have a drive compartment... how times have changed. I'll try convince him that an external drive (or no drive) is probably the better choice.