Gaming desktop PC advice

[Jibsy]

Hello,

I'm looking to buy my first gaming PC, either as a pre-built or to build. My budget is £1000.00, I already have a keyboard, mouse and monitor.

A few of the games I'm looking to play are

Valheim
V Rising
Grounded
Enshrouded
Steambuild World

I also enjoy cosy games like Stardew Valley and Core Keeper.

I would appreciate any advice you have to offer to help me with finding the right set up.

If you need any more details, please let me know.

Many thanks,

James

 

[radderfire]

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I would think about an AMD Ryzen system.

 

[Tetras]

Something like this is a good base for 1080p:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x OcUK Gaming Mach 1 - Ryzen 5600, RTX 4060 Pre-Built Gaming PC (SKU: FS-PB06-EP) = £749.99

Total: £749.99 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

DIY, you could go AM5 (CPU cooler included in CPU box):

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £179.99
• 1 x Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K6-AS) = £129.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B2-TG) = £89.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-374-MS) = £248.99
• 1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £109.99
• 1 x Antec CX500M RGB M-ATX Mini Tower - Black (SKU: CAS-ATC-02734) = £54.95
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95

Total: £898.85 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[Craig_d1]

just regarding grounded here as playing a lot of it
If you go to a 1440p monitor(sorry, @Jibsy , you didn't specify your monitor, but if spending £1k, I'd try and aim for 1440p gaming), you'll want more than a 3060 to pay grounded..you'll be getting 50fps...might as well buy an XSX instead. it'll play better..will at 1080 too. Sorry, play a lot of grounded, on xsx and pc. with pc, admittedly it's 4k, but i'm averaging around 72fps(just checked now from quick run around my base (as generally not looking at fps), and that's with 3070ti running at 100%. once you get into the game and you go to areas with lots of stuff lying around( apple bits in red ant hill for example, or if cutting down a lot of grass for building base etc, or just have massive base etc), you're going to start to struggle also.
@Tetras ...actually found a game that uses a lot of ram and I play it..and I didn't realise, but had a fair few tabs open, also yt checking 3060 grounded 1440 (where it was sub 50fps), and low and behold it was 26gb+ ram useage..even closing everything down I was 22gb+...though i am 540hrs into it with a lot of building etc..but anyway, pipped FS2020 for ram useage

If going atx maybe look at the gigabyte B650 gaming x ax for £149.99..it's a better board than the asus prime,esp if you want to upgrade the cpu down the line
Alternative to the teamgroup ram, saw corsair vengeance 6000c36 for £89 away, or rgb version for £95. it's dual xmp/expo so agnostic
look at the 12gb 6750xt for £300. on av is 41% faster than the 3060 also with same vram

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Specs

NVIDIA GA106, 1777 MHz, 3584 Cores, 112 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 12288 MB GDDR6, 1875 MHz, 192 bit

www.techpowerup.com

below is the mobo, and a few cases also
My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Antec C3 ARGB Midi Tower - Black (SKU: CAS-ATC-02727) = £79.99
• 1 x Montech AIR 903 Max Midi-Tower Tempered Glass - Black (SKU: CAS-MON-01229) = £59.99
• 1 x Phanteks XT Pro Ultra ATX Case Tempered Glass Window, Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-01443) = £74.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BF-GI) = £149.99

Total: £384.95 (includes delivery: £19.99)​

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[Craig_d1]

k quick scout I'd get below

mobo gigabyte gaming x ax £150
RAM corsair 32x 6000c36 rgb £96
7600 cpu £176 (use stock cooler to start)..a36 freezer dual fan rgb £30 as cooler..or peerless assassin
ssd 1tb sn770 £60 (105 for 2tb)
psu 750w nzxt x750v2 £70 (or msi mpg A850G 100)
case montech air 903 max midi rgb £60
£612 total for 1tb, 750w, stock cooler etc
gpu 7800xt £450...choice of saphire pulse/powercolor xt fighter.speedster 319(£448)
xfx speedster swft 210 £430

so £1042 with speedster gpu..1st upgrade would be doubling ssd storage to 2tb for £45 more and the cooler. Case is subjective, feel free to choose own look, just check some reviews..put that in as £60 as a decent quality 'value' case

7800xt has 16gb vram and step up again, being 97% faster than the 3060 and 40% faster than the 6750xt (look at same comparison table above)...it's a decent current gen card offering very good performance(beats my 3070ti and on par with the 3080 which cost £650 back in the day) with 16gb vram...you'll have to go 4070tisuper for same ammount vram on nvidia...you do miss out of dlss and poor ray tracing, but it costs less, and you're still getting decent performance

google where you can get windows as don't pay £100+ for it when available for less than £20

 

[Jibsy]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions, given me lots to think about!