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ImJohnGuys

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Please check if this PC is compatible. If there's any way I can get it closer to £1000 while keeping the aesthetics the same. I play Apex, FIFA, Football Manager, and occasionally dabble in Microsoft Flight Simulator. I play at 1080p. I Have Windows and PSU which is only around 8 months old.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,367.90 (includes delivery: £11.98)​



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Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard
MB-6K6-AS
£115 (incl. VAT)
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
CP-3DG-AM
£240 (incl. VAT)
£170 (incl. VAT)
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Kolink Core Adept Braided Cable Extension Kit - Brilliant White/Neon Blue/Pure Pink
CM-00R-KK
£35 (incl. VAT)
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Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case White
CA-7B3-LL
£75 (incl. VAT)
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Personally I'd forget about going white and get come better components for your money instead.

Better case + motherboard, double the NVME storage, faster ram and a much better GPU with 12gb VRAM. grab a thermalright peerless assassin or phantom spirit air cooler for around £35 and you've got a substantially better system for around the same money.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,325.84 (includes delivery: £7.99)​



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Joxeon said:
Personally I'd forget about going white and get come better components for your money instead.

Better case + motherboard, double the NVME storage, faster ram and a much better GPU with 12gb VRAM. grab a thermalright peerless assassin or phantom spirit air cooler for around £35 and you've got a substantially better system for around the same money.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,325.84 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

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Thanks for the suggestions. It makes sense, but for about 3 years, I've been wanting a white build. Sick of my old school black and red build.

Is the 4060Ti not worth it? (Or is this simply because of the money saved you picked the 4070)

What about Gen 5 M2 they not worth it?
 
ImJohnGuys said:
Thanks for the suggestions. It makes sense, but for about 3 years, I've been wanting a white build. Sick of my old school black and red build.

Is the 4060Ti not worth it? (Or is this simply because of the money saved you picked the 4070)

What about Gen 5 M2 they not worth it?
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For general use and gaming a gen 5 nvme will be indistinguishable from a gen 4 , you’ll notice an extra tb of storage though.

4060ti is a pretty underwhelming card at £400 in terms of performance and having just 8gb VRAM in 2023 means it’ll be struggling even at 1080p before too long, it even loses to the 3060ti in some games due to the 128bit memory bus.

I would get either a 6700XT for a bit cheaper or step up to a 6800/6800XT/4070 for a bit more.
 
ImJohnGuys said:
Inno3D GeForce RTX 4060Ti Twin X2 OC White 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics C (SKU: GX-091-IN) = £419.99
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Don't get this. 8 GB is not going to be enough VRAM going forward. Indeed, it's already not enough in many games.

Joxeon said:
I would get either a 6700XT for a bit cheaper or step up to a 6800/6800XT/4070 for a bit more.
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Rumour has it that the 7700 XT is going to be released next month.

ImJohnGuys said:
What about Gen 5 M2 they not worth it?
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Not for your use case. They also run very hot. They really shine in intensive data processing applications - lots of reads and writes.
 
ImJohnGuys said:
Please check if this PC is compatible. If there's any way I can get it closer to £1000 while keeping the aesthetics the same. I play Apex, FIFA, Football Manager, and occasionally dabble in Microsoft Flight Simulator. I play at 1080p. I Have Windows and PSU which is only around 8 months old.
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For the same money I would switch to:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,323.91 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

Cooler: this, in white (under £50).

Reasons:
- Downgraded the SSD because the storage is very rarely a bottleneck in games, so I'd rather have more that's a bit slower.
- Downgraded the CPU because there's not much in it and it saves money while getting you a spare cooler.
- Downgraded the CPU cooler because an AIO isn't necessary.
- Upgraded the graphics card, because that's where most of your performance will come from.

Getting closer to £1000:

(You can get the Corsair memory in white, but OCUK don't sell it)

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,150.92 (includes delivery: £11.98)​
 
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
CP-3DW-AM
£219 (incl. VAT)
£161 (incl. VAT)
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Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard
MB-6K6-AS
£115 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-51200C40 6400MHz Dual Channel Kit - White
MY-0AW-TG
£140 (incl. VAT)
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Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case White
CA-7B3-LL
£75 (incl. VAT)
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Kolink Core Adept Braided Cable Extension Kit - Brilliant White/Neon Blue/Pure Pink
CM-00R-KK
£35 (incl. VAT)
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Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
CP-6AR-IN
£125 (incl. VAT)
£99 (incl. VAT)
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Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMW32GX4M2D3600C18)
MY-4D4-CS
£180 (incl. VAT)
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Quartz said:
Don't get this. 8 GB is not going to be enough VRAM going forward. Indeed, it's already not enough in many games.



Rumour has it that the 7700 XT is going to be released next month.



Not for your use case. They also run very hot. They really shine in intensive data processing applications - lots of reads and writes.
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Interesting, I won't be buying anything for at least 3 months. I just started saving last week, so that's fine. I'll wait for the 7700 XT since Gen 5 isn't worth it, etc.

Would I be better off going for an AM4 build instead for the games I play? Since Gen 5 isn't worth it, etc.
 
Tetras said:
For the same money I would switch to:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,323.91 (includes delivery: £11.98)
Cooler: this, in white (under £50).
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that
 
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
CP-3DW-AM
£219 (incl. VAT)
£161 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard
MB-6K6-AS
£115 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-51200C40 6400MHz Dual Channel Kit - White
MY-0AW-TG
£140 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case White
CA-7B3-LL
£75 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
Kolink Core Adept Braided Cable Extension Kit - Brilliant White/Neon Blue/Pure Pink
CM-00R-KK
£35 (incl. VAT)
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Ok, so an update: taking on some of the advice given, I currently have a 1660 Super and 6GB is fine, at least for me; hence why I've kept the 4060Ti (saves me £150+).

Do people think this spec is better or the one I had above? I will get the cooler mentioned by @Tetras.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,157.92 (includes delivery: £11.98)​



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Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard
MB-6K6-AS
£115 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - White (FF4D532G6000HC30DC01)
MY-0B6-TG
£170 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
Kolink Core Adept Braided Cable Extension Kit - Brilliant White/Neon Blue/Pure Pink
CM-00R-KK
£35 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case White
CA-7B3-LL
£75 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail
CP-3DW-AM
£219 (incl. VAT)
£161 (incl. VAT)
Find out more
I wouldn't accept a 4060ti for free, it's a shameful release on behalf of Nvidia.

A 6700XT is a much better purchase, but I find it weird that you're talking about saving money while buying weaker components due to a white theme. I get that some people love aesthetics, but I'd feel like I was getting ripped off going that route.
 
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Tetras said:
I wouldn't pay £420 for an 8GB card, especially when the 3060 Ti can beat it.

If it had to be nvidia, then I would buy one of the Asus Dual White cards, the 3060 is ~£270, 3060 Ti is ~£330, or 4070 ~£630.
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I have a 4070 Asus Dual, I'ma AMD guy through and through, I thought I'd try something different, and got it because I wanted a super efficeint low power usage, compact, silent, cool 1080p-1440p card with a next gen set of features that'll allow me to squeeze a good 2-3 years out of it before retiring it into the sff 2nd build...

It's fan comes on by default at 65c which it never reaches, even in the hottest room in the house, literally next to an airing cupboard! It never goes above 53-57c even in the most demanding games/settings/rt/resolution, so is literally silent all the time!

Out of the box it does something stupid like 362mhz more than the Nvidia reference card on the boost clocks and if I wanted to it'll do 3-3.1ghz OC'ed on that... I currently have it undervolted and it only uses 105-145w max, and the latter being 4k native high/ultra with or without dlss3.0/framegen (game dependent) or 1440 native with RT on everything cranked to ultra...

My entire rig including the monitor/amp/speakers only uses 260-280w... Less than an undervolted 6950/7900xt on it's own excluding the rest of the system would use playing 4k native... Which would easily add up to 600w or more when you add a monitor/speakers/amp/the cpu, drives, fans, etc etc!

It costs me £18-22 a month to use it 6hours every evening for the entire month, vs over double that if I'd have gone for the 6950xt/7900xt I originally had planned, which means by the end of year 2 of owning it, it's cost me nothing with the money saved on not getting the 6950/7900xt, where as if I'd gone that route I'd have nothing to show for it and literally be throwing money away to run it!

The build quality is very impressive, and being able to use dlss3.0/framegen gives me a nice bit of headroom for the next few years - one thing I will say from experience is I seem to use 2gb less (actual usage not allocated) at the same settings/res as a 6800/6950/7900xt, wether this is because the game devs favour coding to Nvidia or Amd cards simply require more vram to do the same workload?
No idea... But means I should be still only using 11-12gb vram when they're using 13-14gb, and at worst I can always knock the settings down/use dlss3.0 in the future. FWIW TLOU/RESI4 etc etc at 4K ultra with dlss and RT on in resi only use 9.7gb max vram... A 6950XT etc seem to be using around 11.3+...

And I'll reiterate my point, I am an AMD guy, but as with cars/engines/anything I'm not narrow minded and will buy something based on if it does what I want reliably/efficiently, so I'd of bought this whoever made it.

So yeah TDLR I vouch for the Asus Dual, the 3 year warranty is a mega bonus too! Oh and I now will vouch for dlss3.0 being as good as the hype as with framegen! FWIW if it'd been crap I would have used the 14 day no questions asked and ran back to an AMD card with my tail between my legs!
 
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