£1600 iRacing build help.

CF14 · 3 Dec 2025 at 20:05

I've literally melted my brain trying to get my head around exactly what I would need to buy to get the best possible spec's for this price give or take a few quid to go iracing for the next few years without the need to upgrade, I've looked at and read about pre-built pc's but would rather know exactly what I'm getting for my money, I'm confident in my ability to put it all together, but knowing exactly what to buy is beyond my current knowledge of gaming pc internals, If anyone would be so kind as to come up with a build list for me I would be extremely grateful.

mickyflinn · 3 Dec 2025 at 22:35

Hi and welcome.

Slightly over budget but worth it imo 7800x3d with 9070xt , memory prices are stupid ATM .

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £329.99
1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C36BBEAK2-32) (SKU: MY-29S-KS) = £359.99
1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £149.98
1 x Asus Radeon RX 9070 XT Prime OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASU-04155) = £590.00
1 x Sapphire Pulse B850M WiFi (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05692) = £129.94
1 x PHANTEKS XT M3 Micro-ATX Case, includes 3x 120mm Fans - Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-05735) = £52.90
1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02519) = £104.99
1 x Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 Evo Dark CPU Cooler - 120 mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02667) = £19.99

Total: £1,737.78 (includes delivery: £0.00)

CF14 · 4 Dec 2025 at 17:14

Cheers mickyflinn, really appreciate your input, as I've missed BF/CM so called deals I'll wait until just after Christmas and see if there are any savings to be made which I can put towards some peripherals.

Craig_d1 · 6 Dec 2025 at 17:20

CF14 said:
Cheers mickyflinn, really appreciate your input, as I've missed BF/CM so called deals I'll wait until just after Christmas and see if there are any savings to be made which I can put towards some peripherals.

I'd keep watching ram prices daily and check multiple vendors. 5600c36 ddr5 ram would have been sub £100 couple on months ago. due to AI data center buildout, there's a world shortage now. Again, ssd prices going up too because of it. The ssd @mickyflinn lists is very good, and a good price..even at it's lowest it was £120 briefly but more £130/140. Mobo/case both new and were same price...one thing to note for mobo, it has a hard limit 150w draw for cpu. The 7800x3d is an excellent gaming cpu and very efficient so is a great pairing, but if down the line you intend to put a much more powerful cpu in then you could hit that limit. the 9800x3d for instance can actually draw more than 150w under load(not by much, and not during gaming)..if you ever think you'll upgrade the cpu to something far more powerful (9950x3d for exmaple can draw 230w), then plum for the nitro+ version (on £10 more but on preorder astm, but if you're happy to be patient...)
There's also talk now that gpu's will start going up in price soon also, as they use vram, which ai gpu's love, so professional gpu's can have a huge ammount of vram on them)

CF14 · 6 Dec 2025 at 17:57

Craig_d1 said:
I'd keep watching ram prices daily and check multiple vendors. 5600c36 ddr5 ram would have been sub £100 couple on months ago. due to AI data center buildout, there's a world shortage now. Again, ssd prices going up too because of it. The ssd @mickyflinn lists is very good, and a good price..even at it's lowest it was £120 briefly but more £130/140. Mobo/case both new and were same price...one thing to note for mobo, it has a hard limit 150w draw for cpu. The 7800x3d is an excellent gaming cpu and very efficient so is a great pairing, but if down the line you intend to put a much more powerful cpu in then you could hit that limit. the 9800x3d for instance can actually draw more than 150w under load(not by much, and not during gaming)..if you ever think you'll upgrade the cpu to something far more powerful (9950x3d for exmaple can draw 230w), then plum for the nitro+ version (on £10 more but on preorder astm, but if you're happy to be patient...)
There's also talk now that gpu's will start going up in price soon also, as they use vram, which ai gpu's love, so professional gpu's can have a huge ammount of vram on them)

Thanks for that info @Craig_d1