Advice for new build

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After 12 years out of pc gaming . I've grown sick of the console and the new games being released.
13 years since I last built a pc I think it was I remember the last pc I built had a Radeon 9800 grx card which was the newest card at the time.
Ive been looking at building a pc again but I'm totally lost and outdated with everything so hoping somebody can help me out.
I want to build a rig capable of playing older games , cod/uo , cod2 ,c&c red alert 2 and generals as well as a little bit of future proofing for kids who seem to be into all this Minecraft/ Roblox crap.
So if anyone can offer any advice it would be muchly appreciated
 
A 10400F or 11400F would be plenty enough for those kind of older games.

You could even buy a 5600G or 5700G, as the IGP would be sufficient, which would save you paying silly prices for a graphics card, though a 10400F and 1050 Ti or 1650 would be faster.

I wouldn't be keen on getting a cheaper quad core like the 10100F, because they're dated now for newer games, but if you're on a tight budget they do perform well.
 
Old games made for one or two cores during four cores is high end Intel stagnation era are easy even for lowest modern CPU models.
Neither they demand much from graphics card.

What budget you have?
 
Old games made for one or two cores during four cores is high end Intel stagnation era are easy even for lowest modern CPU models.
Neither they demand much from graphics card.

What budget you have?
Budget is the main question as much as I can get away with without the wife noticing lol
 
The Ryzen G-series are really decent onboard graphics (double the speed of even the i9-11900K), but for any sort of gaming, I'd still go discreet GPU if you can:

Here's a reasonably modest budget build I just helped a friend buy - does the job very nicely for 1080P gaming. The only other option I would recommend below this is a complete hack (old i5 office PC + GTX1050Ti).

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (£178.99)
Motherboard: MSI MAG B550M MORTAR Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£109.99)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£76.98)
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£86.99)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4Gb (£90)
Case: Cougar MG120 G MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£38.39)
Power Supply: SeaSonic CORE GM 500 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£49.99)
Case Fan (x3): Noctua P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan (3x £15.23 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24.0" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor (£146.94)
Total: < £825

Still needs: keyboard + mouse + speakers/headphones.

For a tighter budget, you may be able to save a few quid with an i5 (10400F/11400F) and it will be a little faster on average, but you'll need to choose carefully and spend more money on motherboard and CPU cooler (if you don't want it to throttle VRM and/or temp) and you won't have the same sort of upgrade options without significant extra spends on even higher end motherboards and coolers - some people make this choice and are very happy until any sort of upgrade is required.

Likewise the above Ryzen 5 3600 system could be build with an A-series motherboard and cheaper RAM (probably saving ~£50), but I really just wouldn't as that is a significantly compromised platform and a complete dead-end in terms of any meaningful upgrades.

That older Ryzen 5 3600 is the safest blend of solid current performance and relatively good upgrade path - it's a one-part upgrade to very high performance system (5800X) or a 5950X + cooler.

My friend's PC actually as the 3600Mhz CL16 RAM, so he has an even smoother upgrade to a 5800X when he can afford it.... but that's £20 extra on the current build.
 
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