Advice needed for new gaming pc

[juliand123]

I'm not new to gaming at all and i'm not new with pcs. I just have never bought a completely custom pc, but i'm looking for a gaming pc for £980 max.

I need to be able to play games frequently, especially online games as im a online gamer, needs to run battlefield 2042 without the mcuh lag.

Im wanting a ssd not hdd
Im not wanting any water cooling system
The case ill choose myself its just the parts im wanting advice for

 

[Haz123]

Hi juliand123. You have picked a very specific amount of money for the build so I will not recommend anything that pushes it to far over that figure. You have very limited options to get a decent PC within your budget that will run BF2042 well. The first , best and only sensible option is to instal the Telegram APP then join the fepartalert channel so you get stock updates when the Nvidia Founders edition cards come into stock. You will want to pick up a 3060ti for £369 because that is the best bang for buck card you can get by a country mile. They come into stock every 2-4 weeks or so and you have approx 5 mins to buy one of them. When you have gotten one of them (good luck with that because it is insanely hard) you can build something like the below PC to go with it.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - OEM= £244.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X DDR4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £74.99
• 1 x Corsair RMx Series RM650x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports White CPU Cooler - 120mm= £29.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 500GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0C)= £34.99

Total: £671.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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As you can see, once you add the £369 for a 3060ti FE you are over your budget. The cooler I put in this build was just for an example, you would have to be certain the cooler you eventually buy for this build has a 1700 mounting kit and not many of them do at the moment.

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• 1 x Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £74.99
• 1 x Corsair RMx Series RM650x 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports White CPU Cooler - 120mm= £29.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 500GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0C)= £34.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £269.99
• 1 x MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard= £129.95

Total: £626.00 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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That is an AMD based system. This one would be in your budget but you would be better off getting the 5800x and not the 5600x which would push you over budget once GPU was added.

You may notice I did not add windows. You would need to goto the microsoft website and download the installer for Win10 from there, or Win11 if it is availableas a free download. Win10 is actually free but you can get a license from multiple places if you so wish.

Until the GPU shortage crisis ends there are not many options available for low cost builds.

 

[Joxeon]

This is about the best set up you can get while remaining in budget.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-11400F 2.60GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Asus B560M-A PRIME (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £79.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit= £49.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black= £44.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £559.99
• 1 x Jonsbo CR-1000 120mm RGB CPU Cooler - Black= £20.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £69.95

Total: £987.59 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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