Gaming PC upgrade, AMD or Intel?

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Hi all,

So, decided to get the ball rolling with my upgrade this week. Just bought my monitor, LG 27GL850-B. So aiming for 1440p gaming, single monitor. Primarily ACC/Dirt Rally 2.0 et al, then photo and video editing my secondary tasks.

Budget is around £1500. I'd like to build it around something like a 3060/3060Ti, I doubt I need a 3070? I'm none the wiser when it comes to CPUs, so who is punching well these days?

Also, pre-built, or wait some more for the GPU arrivals?

Thanks,
Col
 
Thanks. I can possibly stretch to this, although it is a pre-build. I've never built a PC before so I'd be vary nervous of messing it up.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...zen-5-5600x-geforce-rtx-3060ti-fs-1bz-og.html

On this build, a few people I know have said the RAM isn't great, nor the motherboard?

I second this option, it's actually a pretty god deal right now! At this point if you want/need the upgrade now going prebuilt seems to actually be the way to go and you will actually be able to pick up a good card at solid prices.
 
Thanks. I can possibly stretch to this, although it is a pre-build. I've never built a PC before so I'd be vary nervous of messing it up.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...zen-5-5600x-geforce-rtx-3060ti-fs-1bz-og.html

On this build, a few people I know have said the RAM isn't great, nor the motherboard?
5600X is very frugal CPU and lot bigger issue is PSUs being Kolink garbage... In both prebuilts.
Something like Seasonic Core would be sensible starting point for that budget PC.

And like usual drive choises make little sense.
First of all 1TB WD Blue SN550 isn't much any more than that small ½TB SN750 of 3060 Ti built.
Then that 3070 Ti built not even having NVMe SSD, but just SATA SSD along with "spinning rust".

And besides having short warranty those slim small radiator waterpipe coolers struggle against high end heatpipe coolers in continuous cooling per noise.
They simply don't have that much surface area for dissipating heat into air and absorpting short laod spikes is their only advantage.
 
I would go for the second option (3070ti pc) but delete the Seagate HDD and SSD and choose a 2TB WD Blue SN550 instead. Final price is the same.
My reason for this is that when Windows 11 is released and you can take advantage of Direct Storage (or whatever it’s called) you can then buy a PCIe4 M2 as your OS main drive and use the SN550 as your ‘everything else’ drive.
 
Thanks for the replies. The 2TB SN550 doesn't look to be in stock though (red dot).

Will ponder over my options a bit more. I'm reading the 3070ti isn't the best bang for buck though? How much more do you pay for GPUs with pre-builds?
 
Thanks for the replies. The 2TB SN550 doesn't look to be in stock though (red dot).

Will ponder over my options a bit more. I'm reading the 3070ti isn't the best bang for buck though? How much more do you pay for GPUs with pre-builds?
Your getting a 3070ti in a build when you were looking at a 3060ti for simmlar money.
 
Very true. I'm overthinking it. Doesn't give me an option to change PSU, just noting what was said above about Kolink.
 
Gotcha. Thought as wasn't actually linking to a sale of any kind, only a redemption would be ok( and OCuk in the list), but have removed. Cheers
Just a heads up my friend ,.

Just realised i need to edit my respone above cus i quoted you, how ironic that is ,lol. :D
 
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