Building for a friend

[KromaZone]

Ok so my friend wants me to build him an all white setup with his budget set around the £2500-£2700 mark. I have tried to get it as all white as I can, what do you guys think? can I do slightly better regarding the price or build? thanks.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WIFI II (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASU-01398) = £349.99
• 1 x Intel Core i9-14900K (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-00798) = £439.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C32 6400MHz Dual Channel Kit - White (SKU: MEM-KNG-03172) = £245.00
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4080 Super Trinity OC White 16Gb Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-01495) = £989.98
• 2 x Crucial P3 PLUS 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-07B-CR) = £101.00
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool III RGB Full Tower PC Case - White (SKU: CA-7AZ-LL) = £159.94
• 1 x NZXT Kraken 360 Elite White RGB AIO CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: HS-02U-NX) = £260.00

Total: £2,646.89 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[KromaZone]

Is he comfortable with going 14th gen, given the potential issues?


Is this a gaming PC only, or does it have other usage?

If it is a gaming PC only, you could easily step down to an i7, with a cheaper B760 or Z790 board and downgrade the AIO (or switch to a peerless assassin/phantom spirit) and case choice.

yeah he knows about the potential issues regarding the 14th gen cpu. This will be a gaming computer as well as other things like editing etc.

 

[KromaZone]

Get him a prebuilt so you're not tech support forever

Hahahhaha good idea

 

[KromaZone]

is a 7950x3d no good for editing? I wouldn't touch intel, and the new intel cpu's are dogs atm. just watched pc centric, and his 285k was no better than a 7600x in a lot of instances for gaming

It will be mainly used for gaming, I did tell him about the amd cpu but he wants intel.

 

[KromaZone]

if you don't have the time or patience then this is very important

i've built quite a number of computers for friends, you end up being the go-to if anything goes wrong
if building/troubleshooting computers is a hobby then fine
but know that you will likely not get paid for your time and if anything goes wrong it's on your head

TBH he does know quite a bit about computers and troubleshooting but just doesn't have time to build one. I said I don't mind at all so there should be no issue.....hopefully lol

 

[KromaZone]

Ok i have managed to pull the price down a bit as well as include the psu that was missing lol

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WIFI II (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASU-01398) = £349.99
• 1 x Intel Core i9-14900K (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-00798) = £439.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4080 Super Trinity OC White 16Gb Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-01495) = £989.99
• 2 x Crucial P3 PLUS 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-07B-CR) = £100.99
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool III RGB Full Tower PC Case - White (SKU: CA-7AZ-LL) = £159.95
• 1 x Intel Holiday Bundle - Assassin's Creed Shadows + Ubisoft Plus (SKU: DIG-INT-03637) = £0.00
• 1 x NVIDIA - Star Wars: Outlaws Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-NVI-03030) = £0.00
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 1000W 80PLUS Platinum ATX Power Supply Modular - White (SKU: POW-PHK-02522) = £138.95
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Ki (SKU: MEM-KNG-02958) = £115.00
• 1 x NZXT Kraken 280 White RGB AIO CPU Water Cooler - 280mm (SKU: HS-02J-NX) = £139.99

Total: £2,535.84 (includes delivery: £0.00)​