Budget PC for mild gaming, content creation and general office

[dx4100]

Hey All

What would you recommend I buy / build to satisfy the following for my teen daughter...

Gaming : nothing more complex than roblox
Office / Home work : usual stuff a kids going to do for GCSE / College home work
Content creation : she likes to play around with youtube content creation. Nothing to fancy.

Personally prefer an intel chip. Ideally around £500.

Its a stop gap really until I get her a decent laptop in a couple of years time.

Cheers

 

[dx4100]

For a DIY build, maybe something like this:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x MSI PRO H610M-E DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03383) = £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 3050 Dual OC 6GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASU-03832) = £154.99
• 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02681) = £43.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K2 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-046-KK) = £38.00
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £79.99

Total: £528.94 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Not normally a fan of the 3050 6GB, but should be fine for light gaming. RX 6600 is much more powerful.

There's a b-grade 1650 for £100, which is worth considering to push you under budget. I don't recommend dropping the memory or SSD capacity from 32GB/1TB for quality of life reasons.

'Budget' PSU stock is very light at OCUK.

There's a CPU cooler in the CPU box, it'll do.

Just wanted to say thanks for this. Sorry for the late reply but I went away for New Year so this went on to the back burner. This looks like a great build for the money. I think I want to swap out the graphics card for something a bit better so I can do some reasonable gaming on it. This look good ? Our monitors only do 1080p so thinking this will be a good setup.

The PSU seems to have jumped in price. Any cheaper alternatives worth considering ?

I have chosen the right RX 6600 card ?

Thanks

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x MSI PRO H610M-E DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03383) = £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02681) = £43.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K2 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-046-KK) = £37.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £119.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 6600 Dual 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-47K-AS) = £199.99

Total: £613.93 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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[dx4100]

The girls have Acer Predator XB241H monitors that support G-Sync so thinking this graphics card might be a better choice.

Any thoughts?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x MSI PRO H610M-E DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03383) = £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02681) = £43.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K2 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-046-KK) = £37.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £119.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce RTX 3050 VENTUS 2X XS OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-MSI-03207) = £199.99

Total: £613.93 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[dx4100]

Is it worth upgrading the case to something with better airflow ?

 

[dx4100]

Thanks for the feedback...

Swapped back to the 6600...

What sort of PSU would you recommend ?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x MSI PRO H610M-E DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03383) = £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02681) = £43.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K2 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-046-KK) = £37.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-061-AS) = £119.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 6600 Dual 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-47K-AS) = £199.99

Total: £613.93 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[dx4100]

How about ?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £98.99
• 1 x MSI PRO H610M-E DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 mATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03383) = £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MY-295-KS) = £52.99
• 1 x Team Group MP33 PRO 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-02681) = £43.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K2 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black Window (SKU: CA-046-KK) = £37.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 6600 Dual 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-47K-AS) = £199.99
• 1 x Corsair CV Series CV550 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020210-UK) (SKU: CA-25C-CS) = £53.99

Total: £547.93 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[dx4100]

Yeah was going to ask about pre-order. Doesn't seem to say when the parts are due.

 

[dx4100]

Any suggestions on parts to swap them out for at Overclockers ? Or should I just source those bit from other providers.