Advice on new PC, around £2,500 budget

Ron333 · 22 Sep 2020 at 11:32

mickyflinn · 22 Sep 2020 at 11:58

Hi and welcome.

In the overclockers basket there is a bb code button lower right and click it, then a window will pop up.

Copy what's in that window and paste it here.

jigger · 22 Sep 2020 at 12:00

For the price of the i9 you could have a 3950 system. Seem the 3080 is out of stock until 2021.

lee32uk · 22 Sep 2020 at 12:10

Hi welcome to the forum

What is the pc going to be used for ? Also what monitor do you have ?

Ron333 · 22 Sep 2020 at 15:12

Mickyflinn,

Is this what you wanted?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x OcUK Tech Labs Intel 10th Gen "Comet Lake" Pro Gaming PC Configurator = £2,537.82
- Cases:ASUS TUF Gaming GT501 Midi-Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass
- CPU Cooler:Corsair Hydro Series iCUE H115i PRO XT RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 280mm (CW-9060044-WW)
- Memory:Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-29200C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
- NV Link Bridge - Nvidia RTX Cards Only:Unwanted
- Mechanical Hard Drive 1:WD 2TB Black 7200RPM 64MB Cache Internal Performance Hard Drive (WD2003FZEX)
- Mechanical Hard Drive 2:Unwanted
- Power Supply:Kolink Continuum 1050W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
- Soundcard:Unwanted
- Network Adapter:Unwanted
- Case Lightinghanteks RGB LED Strip Starter Kit (PH-LEDKT_CMBO)
- Operating System:Unwanted
- Security Software:Unwanted
- Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched in approx 10-15 working days
- Keyboard:Unwanted
- Mouse:Unwanted
- Headset:Unwanted
- Speakers:Unwanted
- Monitors:Unwanted
- Gaming Chair:Unwanted
- Gaming Desk:Unwanted
- CPU:Intel Core i9-10900K 3.7GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM
- Motherboard:Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero (WI-FI) (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
- Graphics Card:MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio 10GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Graphics Card 2:Unwanted
- M.2 Solid State Drive 1 (Primary Drive If Selected):Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
- M.2 Solid State Drive 2 (Secondary Drive If Selected):Unwanted

Total: £2,551.92 (includes shipping: £14.10)

lee32uk,

Mostly gaming and some photoshopping. I'm looking at buying a new monitor at some stage.

lee32uk · 22 Sep 2020 at 16:39

Here is a Ryzen cpu alternative.

If you are looking at 1440p monitor then there won't be a huge difference, and even less so at 4K.

The R7 3700X would be a placeholder as the Ryzen 4000(5000) series are due to announce in October (8th). Not sure if they release then or a few weeks later, but you will have to wait for a 3080 gpu anyway.

The RX 6000 gpu's also get a release date in October (28th).

The X570 Tomahawk is a really solid board and has wifi 6. It will easily handle any current or next release cpu.

I haven't looked at many reviews for the RTX 3080 so there might be better options than the one below. You do get UK RMA though with Gigabyte.

You shouldn't really need any more than 650W if going with a Ryzen cpu. A 3950X and RTX 3080 pulls about 520W.

I would go with 32GB Ram as you have a nice budget, and Ram is pretty cheap at the minute.

The SSD is pretty decent, but I would look for an Adata SX8200 Pro 2TB. Not sold on here so you would have to Google it.

Case is personal pref, but the Phanteks P500 has good airflow and has 3 fans included.

Good mid range air cooler. You don't really need to spend more for a Ryzen cpu. Even a £30 odd Arctic Freezer 34 esports would be ok.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £338.99
1 x MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £209.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Eagle OC 10GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £719.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £99.95
1 x Intel 660P 2TB M.2-2280 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe QLC 3D NAND Solid State Drive (SSDPEKNW020T801)= £259.99
1 x Phanteks Eclipse P500 Air ATX Case Tempered Glass DRGB Satin Black= £117.95
1 x Scythe SCMG-5100 Mugen 5 Rev.B CPU Cooler= £42.95

Total: £1,895.70 (includes shipping: £15.90)

Quartz · 22 Sep 2020 at 16:44

AMD are announcing / launching their new CPUs on Oct 8th.

EsaT · 22 Sep 2020 at 20:43

lee32uk said:
The R7 3700X would be a placeholder as the Ryzen 4000(5000) series are due to announce in October (8th). Not sure if they release then or a few weeks later, but you will have to wait for a 3080 gpu anyway.

With these and also electricity waste currency miners interested on new cards, suspect Zen3 CPUs are available before Ampere cards are in better availability.
https://www.techspot.com/news/86800-scalpers-selling-rtx-3080-cards-ebay-thousands-dollars.html

Heck, wouldn't be wonder AMD gets to at least publish their RDNA2 cards before that.
Us old timers have had plenty and some more of experience of long waits for real availability.

EsaT · 22 Sep 2020 at 20:50

Ron333 said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-rog-maximus-xii-hero-wi-fi-socket-lga-1200-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-6ec-as.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/samsung-970-evo-plus-250gb-m.2-2280-pci-e-3.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-23x-sa.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-2tb-black-7200rpm-64mb-cache-internal-performance-hard-drive-wd2003fzex-hd-410-wd.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kolink-continuum-1050w-80-plus-platinum-modular-power-supply-ca-02r-kk.html

Super ridiculously priced motherboard will never make PC faster or longer performing than good enough boards.
Intel doesn't even have any upgrade path from that 10 core (unlike AMD offering models all the wya to 16 cores) or PCI express 4.0.

Just forget brand overprice Samsung in SSDs.
Besides if you're aiming for such expensive parts with little, or absolute zero benefit for the price, you should be aiming straight for 2TB NVMe drive.
Which isn't even that costly when discarding brand overpricers like Samsung.
Certainly that budget PC shouldn't use old "spinning rust" for anything else than slow media storage like music/movies.

And definitely not a slightest sense in above 850W PSU.

Ron333 · 23 Sep 2020 at 08:48

Lee32. You have me convinced me. Its going to be a Ryzen Cpu build. I will see what October brings. Thanks for all the help.

As to the extortionate prices for Ampere cards...... I came across a December 2004 PC Format article for best Xmas buys that showed a Disgo 2GB Flash drive:
'Ah, the Flash memory stick. How every man coverts one'
The price of this wonderful piece of kit than was £400!