£850 to spend - how is this configuration..

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How does sound for a spec? My older family member has about £850 to spend and this is about the best I was coming up with.

Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L Computer Case
Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR5 mATX Motherboard
Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 EAGLE 8GB Graphics Card
Corsair RM750x Shift Series, 750W, 80+ GOLD Certified, PCIe 5.0 ATX 3.0 Fully Modular PSU
Intel Core i5 12400 12th Gen Alder Lake 6 Core Processor
Kingston FURY Beast RGB 8GB (2 x 8GB) 5600MHz DDR5
Corsair MP600 PRO NH 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD

This stuff comes to about £850 give or take

Form factor not an issue and I'm not adverse to AMD either.

 

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dup

 

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The shift series PSU have connecters on the side not on the back so I would change that.

What's the pc main use or most demanding task ?

The main PC use will be to run...Train Simulator 2022 and Train Sim World (i'm guessing he'd like 4 to run). His current machine is really old but i've got as much out of it as i can.

 

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My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3CC-AM) = £149.99
• 1 x MSI B550M PRO-VDH WiFi (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-358-MS) = £109.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4CL-CS) = £79.99
• 1 x be quiet! System Power 9 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply **OEM NO BOX** (SKU: CA-13V-BQ) = £49.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 XT Fighter 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1A5-PC) = £338.99
• 1 x Crucial P5 Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 3D NAND NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-074-CR) = £56.99
• 1 x MSI MAG Forge M100R ARGB Tempered Glass Windowed Micro ATX Mid Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-014-MS) = £59.99

Total: £857.92 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

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cooler: thermalright assassin king 120 se (ak 120)

will run rings around the proposed 6600 build
5600x is approx 12400 level performance give or take a few percent eitherway
mobo has wifi
32gb ram rather than 16gb
6700xt vs 6600 (need i say more)
p5p, cheaper, and just as good
better ventilated case
psu is good enough to run all the above (saved some money here to cram the rest of the build in)

thank you very much!

 

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Thank you guys.

@Author_25 @tamzzy @Tetras Man, you guys know how to eke out a bang for buck.

Is the AMD or Intel option better?

Also, Uncle wont be overclocking, despite me building it I live miles from him so i dont want to be travelling to his to fix any cooling issues. Can I run on stock cooler? Or shall I get @tamzzy suggested, "thermalright assassin king 120 se"

 

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@frustin Did you want PCIe Gen 5 for future proofing, as the B660/B760 boards are Gen 4 only.

few things:
1. i can see some of them are about same price so i'm open to suggestions
2. will the CPU need to be changed
3. over all, will it affect the total price?

 

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i wouldn't bother with pcie gen 5...by the time that becomes relevant this pc would be outdated

I'm sorry, probably being dense, but I'm not following. The DDR5 RAM and mobo is comparatively the same price (bit more expensive) - isnt it worth the extra then? what do you mean "by the time it becomes relevant"?

 

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Hope OP is ok with me asking this here

no worries

 

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I decided to go over budget by £100 and take some of everything from the above, current/future platform, much better GPU, 32GB DDR5, terrible case, and argumentative on the PSU quality.


CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin King SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: MSI PRO B650M-P Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN580 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card
Case: Silverstone FARA H1M MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Gigabyte P750GM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Total: £950.00

It's entirely up to you but you should read again what @tamzzy said about the DDR5, it makes complete sense especially as you're spending a lot of extra money on it.

 

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My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 XT Fighter 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1A5-PC) = £338.99
• 1 x MSI MAG Forge M100R ARGB Tempered Glass Windowed Micro ATX Mid Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-014-MS) = £59.99

• 1 x AeroCool Trinity V2 Mini Tower PC Case - Black (SKU: CA-23J-AE) = £41.99

Turns out the PowerColor is out of stock at ocuk, however I can get an XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB SWFT 309 for about the same price but it's LONG and I dont think it'll fit in the MSI case or the AeroCool