Build advice

[greyfox591]

Hi everyone.
About 10 years ago I got some great help from this community in building my first gaming pc.
Unfortunately hard times hit and I had to sell up
Now the time has come to build a new pc ready for the new battlefield game.
As I've been away for a while components have changed a lot and I don't really know what I'm looking at anymore

Anyway could I get some advice on this build please.
I know I'm missing a few bits off of the list but I have a mouse and a keyboard already and managed to bag a bargain on a gpu today (you wouldn't believe me if I told you haha) I know I need a case and a monitor but is there anything else that I am missing?

Not sure if that bundle has a cpu cooler either?


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Enclave 700W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x WD Black 1TB SN750 M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0C)= £109.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Bundle= £444.94

Total: £641.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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[greyfox591]

Edit: found the BB code

 

[Danny75]

Go to your OcUK basket, and look for the BBCode button. Click it then copy the code and paste it in here.

 

[greyfox591]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Enclave 700W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x WD Black 1TB SN750 M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0C)= £109.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Bundle= £444.94

Total: £641.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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[greyfox591]

Go to your OcUK basket, and look for the BBCode button. Click it then copy the code and paste it in here.

Thanks, I found it

 

[mickyflinn]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Enclave 700W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x WD Black 1TB SN750 M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0C)= £109.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Bundle= £444.94

Total: £641.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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That power supply is poor something like the corsair rm would be a good choice, case do you like rgb ligts or just regular type ?

 

[EsaT]

Seagate Firecuda 510 drops £10 from SSD, if you don't want to go for base level WD Blue SN550.
Seagate Firecuda 510 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP1000GM3A011)= £99.95
WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £89.99

Wouldn't trust those PSUs and neither does Kolink trust them with that short 3 year warranty.

Seasonic Core would be better with 7 year warranty.
Seasonic Core Gold GM-650 650W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
Though higher up paltform based Phanteks AMP with 10 year warranty isn't much more.
Phanteks AMP 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £81.95
Though for mainstream level graphics cards also 550W qualtiy PSU would do.
Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £72.95

 

[greyfox591]

Seagate Firecuda 510 drops £10 from SSD, if you don't want to go for base level WD Blue SN550.
Seagate Firecuda 510 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP1000GM3A011)= £99.95
WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £89.99

Wouldn't trust those PSUs and neither does Kolink trust them with that short 3 year warranty.

Seasonic Core would be better with 7 year warranty.
Seasonic Core Gold GM-650 650W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
Though higher up paltform based Phanteks AMP with 10 year warranty isn't much more.
Phanteks AMP 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £81.95
Though for mainstream level graphics cards also 550W qualtiy PSU would do.
Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £72.95

Thanks I will take a look at those PSU, I should probably mention I will be running a gigabyte RTX 3070 8gb too... not sure if this is a major difference in the PSU that I need.

As for the case, I'm still not sure what I want, I don't want to spend too much on one because I would rather the performance over a flash case, I like the sleek look like maingear cases and lian li but I want a full size ATX and good air cooling potential as I won't be running water in this rig.

As for the ssd m.2 I really have no idea about these, I need 1tb minimum for my games and OS so the faster it is the better, I will go with what ever you guys recommend

 

[greyfox591]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Bundle= £444.94
• 1 x Seagate Firecuda 510 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP1000GM3A011)= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM850 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020196-UK)= £119.99

Total: £675.38 (includes shipping: £10.50)​

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Do I need a cpu cooler of some kind and thermal paste?

 

[EsaT]

Thanks I will take a look at those PSU, I should probably mention I will be running a gigabyte RTX 3070 8gb too...

Good 650W PSU is easily enough for 3070.
750W PSU could take higher cards especially with 5600X like frugal CPU.
Phanteks AMP 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £87.95


Case selection is actually nowadays very limited compared to 10 years ago.
While there are lots of cases on sale, they're almost all copying all the same worst things and disposable design fads.
For example expandability for say more or newer IO ports has been scrapped with removal of 5.25" bays.

 

[EsaT]

Do I need a cpu cooler of some kind and thermal paste?

Arctic Freezer 34 or Alpenfohn Brocken Eco Advanced are excellent for 5600X.

Arctic Freezer 34 CPU Cooler - 120mm= £24.95
Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99

Bundled TIMs are perfectly good with differences to best ones being marginal except in extreme overclocking.

 

[greyfox591]

Good 650W PSU is easily enough for 3070.
750W PSU could take higher cards especially with 5600X like frugal CPU.
Phanteks AMP 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £87.95


Case selection is actually nowadays very limited compared to 10 years ago.
While there are lots of cases on sale, they're almost all copying all the same worst things and disposable design fads.
For example expandability for say more or newer IO ports has been scrapped with removal of 5.25" bays.

Thanks ill swap that psu over then that's saved a tad to put towards a monitor lol I have no idea about these either haha

As for the case I've seen the selection is really bad these days, I was looking for a CM cosmos 2 but there's none on the site but I'm guessing it's just personal preference on this

 

[EsaT]

2560x1440 is the golden middle in gaming monitors and choise is plentiful especially in 27" size.
If wanting bigger, 32" size is new for 100+ Hz gaming monitors with only few models especially for IPS.


Unless you have forklift to move it around, CM Cosmos isn't sensible for this level PC with its huge size and weight.
Since Lian Li going all bling bling gaming stuff there really aren't any big cases without big weight.
And CM Cosmos really takes the cake in that.
I mean its weight starts approaching 30kg when you put parts in.
And without removing that HDD cage of main compartment, intake airflow doesn't get well to graphics card.

 

[greyfox591]

Unless you have forklift to move it around, CM Cosmos isn't sensible for this level PC with its huge size and weight.
Since Lian Li going all bling bling gaming stuff there really aren't any big cases without big weight.
And CM Cosmos really takes the cake in that.
I mean its weight starts approaching 30kg when you put parts in.
And without removing that HDD cage of main compartment, intake airflow doesn't get well to graphics card.

So I've found a case I quite like the looks of, it's not in stock but there is a B grade in stock, I'm not too fussed about a b grade case because it saves money and I'm more interested in what's inside lol I've added it to basket for you to look at, I also don't quite understand what a midi case is, I'm guessing it's not a micro and nits not quite a full tower?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600X - Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 Bundle= £444.94
• 1 x Seagate Firecuda 510 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP1000GM3A011)= £99.95
• 1 x Phanteks AMP 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £87.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Fractal Design Define S2 Blackout Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £112.99

Total: £789.92 (includes shipping: £14.10)​

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[greyfox591]

Having a look at these monitors and their prices and my budget, what I think I might do is buy a used case to save some money and put that towards a monitor, I also need to buy a table for all of this too haha I'm extremely lucky that I got the RTX 3070 at a reasonable price of sweet F.A which has helped me with my budget when I saw that GPUs are out of stock and massively inflated prices everywhere I was beginning to abandon hope on building this PC

 

[KeanuIsLife]

2560x1440 is the golden middle in gaming monitors and choise is plentiful especially in 27" size.
If wanting bigger, 32" size is new for 100+ Hz gaming monitors with only few models especially for IPS.


Unless you have forklift to move it around, CM Cosmos isn't sensible for this level PC with its huge size and weight.
Since Lian Li going all bling bling gaming stuff there really aren't any big cases without big weight.
And CM Cosmos really takes the cake in that.
I mean its weight starts approaching 30kg when you put parts in.
And without removing that HDD cage of main compartment, intake airflow doesn't get well to graphics card.

I would also say 3440 x 1440p is great if wanting a larger size with 34-35 inch screens. I find this resolution very immersive and slightly less demanding than 4k, so a 3070 could easily push higher fps like 120 or 144 at this resolution.

 

[greyfox591]

I would also say 3440 x 1440p is great if wanting a larger size with 34-35 inch screens. I find this resolution very immersive and slightly less demanding than 4k, so a 3070 could easily push higher fps like 120 or 144 at this resolution.

I would love a bigger screen but it comes down to price for me at the moment
I don't want less than 27" as I'm playing battlefield 3 again but it's on my 15.6" laptop and it's very hard to see what's going on Lol
But saying that, I also don't want a monitor that will not give me the benefits of the card quality but that is also reflected in the price

 

[mickyflinn]

2 changes i would make thw rmx is on offer is quieter and the e34 has more cooling and looks better.

CODE My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Corsair RMx Series RMx750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020179-UK)= £89.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports 120mm CPU Cooler - Black / Grey= £29.99

Total: £130.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)​

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[greyfox591]

2 changes i would make thw rmx is on offer is quieter and the e34 has more cooling and looks better.

CODE My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Corsair RMx Series RMx750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020179-UK)= £89.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 34 eSports 120mm CPU Cooler - Black / Grey= £29.99

Total: £130.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Much appreciated

 

[mickyflinn]

Much appreciated

Your welcome.

Did you see the mesh front fractual s2 it would allow slightly more airflow ?


https://www.overclockers.co.uk/b-gr...e-blackout-dark-tempered-glass-bg-01v-fd.html