Best of the OCUK Pre-builts for 4K Media and Light Gaming?

Shampoo

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As per title. Need a living room PC that can be used for the streaming services, and watching local backed-up 4K media and also up to some mid-end gaming. Hopefully up to giving me a good 3 years of service. Choice is overwhelming. Can I have assistance? Budget is a hard grand. :)
 
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How light is the gaming? Would an APU (5600G/5700G) do the job, or are we talking 'proper' games? There's not really such thing as a cheap 4K gaming PC.

My basket at OcUK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Hawk - AMD Ryzen 5 5600 AMD Radeon RX 7600 Gaming PC (SKU: FS-1FB-OG) = £989.98
    • Case: 1 x Aerocool Hive V3 Midi Tower Tempered Glass - Black
    • Processor: 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Six Core 3.9GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega Graphics - Retail
    • Graphics: 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
    • Memory: 1 x Lexar Hades 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
    • M.2 Solid State Drive - Primar: 1 x WD Blue SN570 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0C)
    • WIFI: 1 x ASUS PCE-N15 300Mbps Wireless N PCI-E Adapter
    • Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems
  • 1 x AMD - Starfield SI Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-00543) = £0.00

Total: £997.97 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

This PC could play older (or less demanding) games with upscaling (FSR) to 4K and the RX 7600 has encode/decode for AV1.

Similar spec, but cheaper and with a 5600 (instead of 5600G) and 3060 instead of 7600.

My basket at OcUK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Enigma Essential - Ryzen 5 5600 GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming PC (SKU: FS-1DV-OG) = £916.96
    • Case: 1 x Kolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case - Black
    • Memory: 1 x Lexar Hades 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
    • Graphics Card: 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 WindForce OC LHR 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
    • Solid State Drive: 1 x WD Blue SN570 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0C)
    • Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems

Total: £924.95 (includes delivery: £7.99)​
 
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Defo need a real card. Proper mid-end gaming would be wanted. Gaming expectations would be around 1440p. Just media at 4K.
 
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Shampoo said:
Can take 1080p if it reduces costs decently.
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Then something like the RX 7600 proposed by @Tetras should be just fine.

Tetras said:
  • Processor: 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Six Core 3.9GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega Graphics - Retail
  • Graphics: 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
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However, there's no need for a Ryzen 5600G if you're also having a GPU.

Since this PC is going in the living room, I do suggest paying particular attention to the case and how it will fit in with the rest of your stuff.
 
Is getting a decent machine circa £800 too much of a fantasy? Just recalled I have a 3060 in storage and none of the pre-builds seem to allow removal of the GPU...
 
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Is getting a decent machine circa £800 too much of a fantasy? Just recalled I have a 3060 in storage and none of the pre-builds seem to allow removal of the GPU...
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Do you mean to build it yourself?

If you ask them, I'd imagine they would allow you to customise a build (and not include a GPU).

If you did mean a self-build, you can do that easily without graphics, even if you include the OS:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £769.79 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

The 12400F is cheaper, but I thought the IGP+QuickSync might come in handy, given your usage.
 
Intel Core i5-12400 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
CP-6AL-IN
£140 (incl. VAT)
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Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMK32GX4M2D3600C18)
MY-4D1-CS
£71 (incl. VAT)
£60 (incl. VAT)
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Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case Black
CA-7B2-LL
£70 (incl. VAT)
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Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-Bit DVD - OEM (KW9-00632)
SW-18J-MS
£120 (incl. VAT)
£108 (incl. VAT)
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be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 CPU Cooler - 92mm
HS-01S-BQ
£25 (incl. VAT)
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That looks great. CPU is in 'pre-order' state tho so not sure if that actually means end of line which OCUK tends to do with that stuff rather than just say so properly.
 
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