Friend looking for a gaming rig

[ChrisD.]

A friend of mine has asked me to build him a gaming rig with a budget of £8-900. I have 16GB of Hyper X RAM I will sell him for cheap and he has a fairly new monitor (1080p).

So he needs a mobo, CPU, GPU, PSU, case and keyboard/mouse. Actually I have an unused mouse I can sell him cheaply.

I don't game at 1080p, am I right in saying it needs more CPU grunt? I would suggest Ryzen 3 but with prices for the motherboards looking quite expensive I'm thinking perhaps second hand Intel/Ryzen2?

What's about for new that would do fine?

I'm trying to get a list of games from him.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

ryzen 3600 and B450 .

rzen 3600 roughly - $252 - covert to $ is £198 then add 20% VAT - looking at roughly £230-40 - slightly more then ryzen 2600x which has been dropping in price but single core and all core speed is much faster which is needed for 1080p gaming ! - although if they dont have a 144hz screen - should get away with it to be honest !

i5 9600 is a place holder for ryzen 3600/X
Vega 56 is place hold for Navi RX 5700 Pro


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-9600 3.10GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £218.99
• 1 x MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £119.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B32= £79.99
• 1 x Asrock Radeon RX VEGA 56 Phantom Gaming X 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £269.99
• 1 x Super Flower Platinum King 550W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply - Black= £74.99
• 1 x Zalman i3 Midi-Tower Case - Black Window= £42.95

Total: £819.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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[dfour]

Ryzen build

Even squeezed a keybaord in as well. You havent stated if you need any storage though.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD 50 Bundle - Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite & AMD Ryzen 5 2600= £216.98
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX VEGA 56 Red Dragon 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x Silverstone Essential 650W 80 Plus Gold Semi-Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011138-WW)= £52.99
• 1 x Corsair Gaming STRAFE RGB Cherry MX SILENT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000121-UK)= £79.99

Total: £722.14 (includes shipping: £13.20)​

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[Danny75]

I have 16GB of Hyper X RAM I will sell him for cheap

Decent speed for Ryzen? Otherwise could sell it to someone else for a bit more.

 

[dfour]

Decent speed for Ryzen? Otherwise could sell it to someone else for a bit more.

Looking at ChrisD's rig I doubt he bought cheap stuff

 

[EsaT]

Ryzen build

Even squeezed a keybaord in as well. You havent stated if you need any storage though.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD 50 Bundle - Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite & AMD Ryzen 5 2600= £216.98
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX VEGA 56 Red Dragon 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x Silverstone Essential 650W 80 Plus Gold Semi-Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011138-WW)= £52.99
• 1 x Corsair Gaming STRAFE RGB Cherry MX SILENT Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000121-UK)= £79.99

Total: £722.14 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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Without knowing if user has any experience from mechanical switches very light linear switch might be bad choise.
And that Silverstone has pretty minimal 3 year warranty, so suspects quality of insides isn't that high.

 

[dfour]

As long as your not going to be typing essays etc they are easy to get used to and if its primarily for gaming as the OP said it is...

With the money saved he could always hit it up to a

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x EVGA Supernova P2 650W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply= £94.99

Total: £105.49 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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for an extra £15 and still be under his budget.

 

[ChrisD.]

Bump for this now Zen 2 is out, looking at the 3600 or the 3600X.

No RAM required.

 

[dfour]

Ok with nice new RX 5700 GPU and CPU inc a different keyboard as the other one was sold out.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x EVGA Supernova P2 650W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-05 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011138-WW)= £52.99
• 1 x ASUS TUF Gaming K7 Keyboard Opto Mechanical Gaming Keyboard UK Layout (90MP0191-B0EA00)= £97.49
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £338.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £188.99
• 1 x ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £109.99

Total: £901.60 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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