Budget Build - £700

Shaddow1086

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Good Morning All,

A good friend has asked me to help spec / build him a PC which will be mainly used for basic home tasks (Word / internet etc..) but would like to be able to play some games on it. (He currently plays on PS4).

Unfortunately all my experience is with Intel and NVidia.
For some reason, Intel systems seem to be a lot more ££ than the AMD (Same with NVidia over Radeon). Ive seen a lot of positive feedback on the recent Ryzen 5 CPU's and they seem to come in at decent prices. Unfortunately having never built or looked closely at AMD processors, I am hoping the OC community can lend a hand.

Trying to spec something myself quickly goes well over the budget.

Any assistance is much appreciated.

The £500 budget is not set in stone and he is willing to spend a bit more to give him a little more future proof system. (Lets say a stretch to £650).

He already has a monitor, keyboard and mouse, so only tower build required.
 
Thank you very much for the assistance guys. Will definitely be looking at the Ryzen and RX bundle mentioned.
Just for my own understanding, what would the Rx570 be compared to on the NVidia range?

Werner
 
Oh WOW, didnt realise OC prices changes so quickly.

From £670 2 days ago up to £705 today. Guess I'll need to downgrade some parts to bring down closer to budget.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £705.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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orbitalwalsh said:
£7 more , board quality slightly lowered, RX 580 instead of rx570, extra 12gb of Storage- which means when its formatted and before windows install you'll have roughly 500gb of space .

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £712.54 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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Thanks, but that is a bit too much over the initial £500 budget and stretch of £650.
 
With the other builds so close in price, what are peoples opinions of the Citizen Gaming build on offer at the moment.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-8gb-graphics-three-free-games-fs-1aq-og.html

Has a better GPU and can swap the HDD out for an SSD at almost no extra cost.

With windows removed, it comes in at £705.

Also, any recommendations on which of the 2 GPU's? Or are they near identical apart from visual appearances?
 
I like DIY build but just thought with this the gpu is a lot better with same cpu and ram as in DIY build.
So only real difference would be psu. Could look to ask for an upgrade on psu.

DIY build comes in at about 680
So for £25 more get upgrade from 570 to 590 gpu. Looking at benchmark website, the 590 seems to score about 25% higher.
 
@tamzzy sorry, but the build you have spec'd is just shy of £800, so £100 more than the citizen gaming build. So I would expect better parts.

I've ordered the Citizen gaming build for the better gpu. Comes with 3 year warranty, so sure OC would sort out any issues if they occur on the psu.
Also, as much as I like building the systems myself, the mortar MB seems to be out of stock absolutely everywhere.
 
Im not ignoring @tamzzy advice. Just the custom build spec'd was knocking on £800.
I know it only comes with 8gb Ram, but that will be enough for now with option to upgrade later when new funds become available.
Main use will be standard home/office use with the odd bit of gaming.
As for SSD, already called OCUK to amend the order and remove the 2TB HDD in favor of an M.2 SSD.

Yes the PSU is not the greatest, but again, that can easily be upgraded at a later stage to modular when more £ come available.
 
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