Advice 1k budget

[misterm89]

Hi,

I have a modest budget however I'm not after a top end machine, I want something that plays mid range graphics. Quick and for the times I want to play football manager to be able to load quite a few leagues and city skylines to able to handle the big cities - But with capacity to play better graphic games. Like I say not needing high spec frame rates and super detail graphics, but needs to be a bit of a underestimated machine so to speak. Any advice where to begin, would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Tetras]

This is way over budget, but I don't think the other PCs are suitable.

From what I'm aware of, skylines is actually pretty demanding and you won't want 16GB of RAM for late stage games, which rules out most of the cheaper builds.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x OcUK Gaming Mach 2 - AMD Ryzen 5 7500F, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB DDR5, 1TB M.2 SSD Pre-Built Gaming PC (SKU: FS-PB15-EP) = £1,299.95

Total: £1,307.94 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

 

[darkblade]

What resolution and refresh rate are you planning to use for your screen?

 

[Rob_B]

Are you wanting a prebuilt or will you be building yourself?

 

[BogEyes]

What is your current system?

 

[misterm89]

I would be looking to build myself

 

[Gray2233]

I would be looking to build myself

Cities Skylines 1 or 2? The first is heavily CPU bound last I checked, but the second I believe can put more strain on the GPU.

I'm confident that Football Manager is heavily CPU limited too.

For Skylines 1 + FM, this is pretty much the closest to 1K that I can manage that I'd be happy with personally:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI MAG A650BN 650W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (SKU: POW-MSI-03345) = £47.99
• 1 x Kioxia EXCERIA 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-KIO-07149) = £139.99
• 1 x Sapphire B650M-E (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05695) = £79.96
• 1 x V-Color Manta XFinity+ aRGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 C28 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (SKU: MEM-VCR-07232) = £319.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D Six Core 4.5GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-06394) = £218.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black (SKU: CA-051-KK) = £34.99
• 1 x Thermalright Assassin X 120 Refined SE CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03270) = £15.95
• 1 x Sparkle Intel ARC B570 GUARDIAN OC 10GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPK-03924) = £199.99

Total: £1,069.84 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

If you could increase your budget a little you'd get a healthier system, although in honesty most improvements wouldn't really offer more performance for those particular two games, you could see a very big difference in anything else however if you branch out.

 

[misterm89]

Appreciate the reply, will look into your picks.

 

[Gray2233]

Returning member I'm guessing?