£900 Gaming PC

[wanderer89]

Hey guys!

I'm in need of some help with a new gaming PC.

I've been out of it for far too long and I'm not really up to date with new things so I thought I'd enlist the help of people who know a lot more than I do.

I've got a case (NZXT S340) and mouse/keyboard already, but I do need everything else unfortunately.

So looking at Mobo, CPU, Ram, GPU, PSU, SSD, HDD and a monitor if possible.

Budget is £900, don't really want to go above that but can if I need to.

Hopefully you guys can give me the help I need, it'd be much appreciated!

 

[ExoMale]

suggestion from intel.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £158.99
• 1 x MSI Z370 Gaming Plus Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD48G3000= £89.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 120GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £26.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo CPU Cooler= £16.99
• 1 x Asus VC239H 23" 1920x1080 IPS Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black= £128.99

Total: £904.11 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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suggestion from AMD

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD416G30= £169.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 570 Red Dragon 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99
• 1 x AOC G2260VWQ6 22" 1920x1080 TN FREESYNC 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red= £89.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £44.99

Total: £903.52 (includes shipping: £12.60)
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4gb vram 570, but included a freesync monitor to go with it, double the ram of the intel build and a bigger ssd.



the ryzen has a faster clock speed, comes with its own cooler and is overclockable unlike the i5 i chose, but both are 6 cores and generally intel are stronger for gaming.


edit: this is how the ryzen build would look if you lowered the ram to 8gb, put in the 1060 with a bigger, 1080p monitor.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £44.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99
• 1 x LG 25UM58-P 25" 2560x1080 IPS Gaming Super-Wide Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £169.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD48G3000= £89.99

Total: £903.52 (includes shipping: £12.60)​

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[wanderer89]

Hi Exo, thanks for those. It's much appreciated!

I've always gone with Intel and Nvidia under the assumption that those were the best but I've heard good things about Ryzen but unsure about the AMD GPUs.

I think the last build would be the one of go for. Isn't Ryzen supposed to be better when it comes to doing multiple things at the same time?

 

[southernorth]

Hi Exo, thanks for those. It's much appreciated!

I've always gone with Intel and Nvidia under the assumption that those were the best but I've heard good things about Ryzen but unsure about the AMD GPUs.

I think the last build would be the one of go for. Isn't Ryzen supposed to be better when it comes to doing multiple things at the same time?

Are you reusing a Windows key?

And if you're going ultrawide, 25inch is a bit small imo, go 29in+

 

[wanderer89]

I've got Windows sorted so that's not a problem.

I'd like to go ultra wide but think that's a future thing at the moment.

I've been offered parts of a PC and wondered if it was worth it or not.

For £200 I'd get:

i7 3820 @ 3.6GHz
16gb ram
Asus or Gigabyte Mobo
AIO Water Cooler for CPU
InWin Grone Case
GTX 580

Any good for the money?