First Gaming PC for my son

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Right, I'm trying to work out buying something that might have some longevity to it.

I'm tempted by an 8700G based system, with the thought process that at some point in the future a dedicated card could make an appearance.

Does anyone else have one of these?
 
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This might be of interest:

Personally, I wouldn't, because the graphics part is still fairly weak. Some discussion on that here:
 
Ok interesting, thank you.

My head is saying get a current gen (ie AM5) board and a low end AM5 CPU that we can upgrade later if needed, opposed to going AM4 and a 5700X3D...

What gfx would you suggest?
 
Ok interesting, thank you.

My head is saying get a current gen (ie AM5) board and a low end AM5 CPU that we can upgrade later if needed, opposed to going AM4 and a 5700X3D...

What gfx would you suggest?
Ignore what I said about the 8700g I got pricing wrong it's not worth it.

Give us a budget.
 
I'd say about 6-800 ish for the Base unit. Separate budget for monitor, keyboard, mouse.

I've got a 1TB SATA SSD I was going to put in it for games, so a small M2 of some sort would be ideal.
 
Ok interesting, thank you.

My head is saying get a current gen (ie AM5) board and a low end AM5 CPU that we can upgrade later if needed, opposed to going AM4 and a 5700X3D...

What gfx would you suggest?
Yeah, that's not a bad option. You could go for something like a RX 6600 (or 6650 XT if not much more) and pair that with a 7500F (if you're comfortable getting them... elsewhere). I think the 8400F is the cheapest AM5 option otherwise.
 
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£600 for CPU, mobo, RAM, storage, PSU, case? Very do-able.

Asrock HDV m.2 can be had for £105, low end AM5 chip as mentioned by Tetras with a 6600/6700 or maybe even Arc. Do you want it specced up or just looking for ideas?
 
£600 for CPU, mobo, RAM, storage, PSU, case? Very do-able.

Asrock HDV m.2 can be had for £105, low end AM5 chip as mentioned by Tetras with a 6600/6700 or maybe even Arc. Do you want it specced up or just looking for ideas?

I think I'm just looking at the art of the possible for now.

It is for when we move house, hopefully in the next couple of months. The "competition" is me getting some sort of £900 ish Gaming Laptop. Pros and Cons for both options, but I feel getting a proper Desktop PC is a better long term choice.

Based on the advice in this thread, and looking elsewhere, it looks like I could do something like:

- Cheap and Cheerful case
- XFX 6650XT Graphics Card
- AMD 8400F AM5 CPU
- Gigabyte B650M Motherboard
- Kingston Fury Beast 32GB DDR 5 6000Mhz RAM (who comes up with these names?)
- Corsair Modular Gold PSU 650W
- Crucial 1TB E100 M2 SSD

£703 Delivered.

That feels pretty punchy for a first gaming machine and 1080p?
 
That feels pretty punchy for a first gaming machine and 1080p?
Looks fine, yeah.

The endurance on the E100 is really bad though, FYI. E.g. 80 TB written for the 1TB model, whereas the 1TB T500 is 600 TB written :o

Don't pay too much for the 6650 XT either, otherwise I'd look into other options like the 7600, B580, 4060.
 
Might be worth keeping an eye out for a cheap 7500/7600, personally I'd prefer one of those. There isn't a huge difference in lots of games but the double L3 cache on the 7500/7600 will help.
 
I do, I guess I could just keep an eye on there.

so 6650xt fo £230..a 4060 is 2% faster for more

I'd look at MM..few people upgraded to 9070/9070xt. couple of 3080 for £325 ish which will is 167% (so 67% uplift) on a 6650xt...might be a bit over budget but a 3070 will be had in budget just with a 29% uplift...3070ti just over with a 38% uplift

I'd look at maybe importing a ryzen 7600... £120 at mo from a few places


8400f can be noticeably slower than a 7600, so think the 7600 worth the littlee extra, though in other games little diff, so maybe worth going thru the games and seeing which ones are relevant if you really stretched
 
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