£650 GPU/HDD/Case

Patberts19 · 24 Dec 2017 at 13:09

Hey guys I am looking to complete my build and buy a graphics card, a hard drive and a case, I have got a budget of £650.

I have already got the ASUS B350-PLUS Motherboard and Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, as well as an Antec 550W Gold+ PSU.

ExRayTed · 24 Dec 2017 at 13:53

The GPU will largely depend on the resolution you'll be gaming at. 1080p - I don't think there's any good reason to go above a GTX 1070 or AMD equivalent.

By HDD do you mean SSD or are you looking for a mechanical drive?

Anyway, making a few assumptions I'd recommend these. The Phanteks case is lovely to look at and work with - I've got a white one on one of my builds and it looks great in my opinion. The red would go well with your motherboard.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400S Glass Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened Black/Red= £83.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1070G1-GAMING-8GD)= £428.99
1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £57.95

Total: £582.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)

Danny75 · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:12

That'd look sweet with the motherboard indeed.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to hold off on GPU till Boxing Day, see what offers are available then.

Patberts19 · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:14

ExRayTed said:
The GPU will largely depend on the resolution you'll be gaming at. 1080p - I don't think there's any good reason to go above a GTX 1070 or AMD equivalent.

By HDD do you mean SSD or are you looking for a mechanical drive?

Anyway, making a few assumptions I'd recommend these. The Phanteks case is lovely to look at and work with - I've got a white one on one of my builds and it looks great in my opinion. The red would go well with your motherboard.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400S Glass Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened Black/Red= £83.99

1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1070G1-GAMING-8GD)= £428.99

1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £57.95

Total: £582.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)

I am indeed going to play at 1080P and was originally thinking of going with GTX 1070 but I'm not sure whether I'l be able to play games like Fallout 4 with 100s of mods and Witcher 3 and other demanding games. I've got a 240gb SSD already, Kingston one, will have my OS and a few games on it.

Patberts19 · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:14

Danny75 said:
That'd look sweet with the motherboard indeed.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to hold off on GPU till Boxing Day, see what offers are available then.

You expecting some deals to pop up tomorrow?

orbitalwalsh · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:27

Phanteks p300, £54 if you like the 400, but is a bit smaller and still has glass. Save £25 odd towards GPU or HDD/SSD

ExRayTed · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:29

Patberts19 said:
I am indeed going to play at 1080P and was originally thinking of going with GTX 1070 but I'm not sure whether I'l be able to play games like Fallout 4 with 100s of mods and Witcher 3 and other demanding games. I've got a 240gb SSD already, Kingston one, will have my OS and a few games on it.

You'll be fine with the 1070 but your budget allows for a 1070ti to give you a lot of headroom and shouldn't be bottle-necked by the CPU

Patberts19 · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:40

ExRayTed said:
You'll be fine with the 1070 but your budget allows for a 1070ti to give you a lot of headroom and shouldn't be bottle-necked by the CPU

I thought I would be able to get a 1080 which would then leave me safe to upgrade my monitor later on. How much of a budget should I need to push the gpu to 1080?

orbitalwalsh · 24 Dec 2017 at 14:51

Patberts19 said:
I thought I would be able to get a 1080 which would then leave me safe to upgrade my monitor later on. How much of a budget should I need to push the gpu to 1080?

A top tier card like the Aorus can be had for £490 with a quick Google .
Amp extreme roughly just over £500

Have the Aorus 1080 11gbs version and doing a build with 1070 ti.
1080 11gbps overclocks to 2.1 ghz on the core and almost 12gbps on the ram and will pull ahead easily of an overclocked 70ti , specially at 1440p/4k or if you have a 144hz + monitor and want the best possible fps. Also lowest average frame rate is higher .
Found benching gtx 1070ti overclocked and 1080 standard version on stock, 70ti comes very very close, specially to highest frame rate but it's min frame rate is always a lot lower