£600-800 spec machine. Light gaming

[heeeed]

Offered to help a mate build a PC. Needs everything bar monitor in this budget as I have an old monitor he can have. He would consider 2nd hand options also.
He’d like to game on it as escape from kids time. Game most interested in for future is civ 7 which I’m assuming will be CPU demanding more than GPU. The monitor I can give him is 1080p and no need to spec higher gaming than that, but I doubt at that budget better is on cards anyway.

What would the hive mind suggest?

 

[Spleen Sauce]

Steam Deck plus a dock? It’ll then be an option to go elsewhere and game if needed.

 

[heeeed]

Interesting left field option. How well do they function docked on normal pc use? I dont honestly think he’d mobile game tbh, so perhaps he’d be paying more for that functionality that wouldn’t use?

 

[mickyflinn]

Rx 6600 £180 as a baseline for decent 1080p gaming which ch I've left out the build below.

7600 comes with a cooler do could do op that till later and is slightly overpriced. , PSU will give plenty of options for future upgrades but could save money there.



My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £199.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming A620M-PLUS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASU-01397) = £124.30
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO/XMP 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRS-00996) = £82.99
• 1 x Kolink Stronghold M Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-068-KK) = £44.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95
• 1 x Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 Evo Dark CPU Cooler - 120 mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02667) = £19.99
• 1 x Team Group MP44L 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-03128) = £49.99

Total: £607.20 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[heeeed]

that looks a nice little build. I might see if he can find any decent deals on something second hand for GPU when the 5000 series hits, but I'm sure that would suit him well with the RX6600 anyway in all honesty

thanks

 

[Quartz]

What other peripherals does he need? Keyboard + mouse? Speakers or headset?

 

[heeeed]

He’d need keyboard and mouse, suspect speakers or headset too tbh. I might have some old speakers I can donate or a headset in the loft junk box, depends when I last donated my junk to my dad