Gaming tower £600 budget

theedarkhorse

theedarkhorse

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Tried my hand at ************.co.uk
Ended up with a £900 tower. Without Windows.
Advice please? I'm happy to order from various sites if necessary.

Genuinely thankful for any help. I used to know my stuff. It's more complex now.
I dont know what power i need, or what card goes with what motherboard. Intel or Amd?
I've read that intel is better but AMD is better value. Theres so much. It's overwhelming.
Radeon rx590 a good budget card?

Thankyou
 
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theedarkhorse said:
Tried my hand at ************.co.uk
Ended up with a £900 tower. Without Windows.
Advice please? I'm happy to order from various sites if necessary.

Genuinely thankful for any help. I used to know my stuff. It's more complex now.
I dont know what power i need, or what card goes with what motherboard. Intel or Amd?
I've read that intel is better but AMD is better value. Theres so much. It's overwhelming.
Radeon rx590 a good budget card?

Thankyou
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AMD is very competitive now with Intel compared to previous years... The RX590 is at a steal of a price at the moment... I build all my Pc's without Windows, I find saving £££'s and downloading the creation tool from Microsofts website then buy a key is best...

Will you be building it yourself?
 
Is it just the system that you need or do you need peripherals and monitor aswell?

Windows cost less than a tenner generally.

There's been a few "budget" threads posted recently in this section. Worth taking a look through them to see what components are recommended.

Personally I think AMD>intel for.price to performance. More cores more threads and lower prices. Literally no reason to look an intel.
 
Thankyou Joel. I have a monitor. Will buy speakers/keyboard separately. Just a tower. I'm checking out your recent overclockers basket post. Edit: Do you use the sdd for windows? and then install stuff on the mechanical drive?
 
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Here you go.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Storage: Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6 GB StormX Video Card
Case: NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Total: ~£650.00

Swap the case to whatever you like the look of that will support the full size ATX board, and the PSU is a place holder but is decent.

Drop the graphics down to a Radeon RX 590 8GB to save another £45.
 
You can get a Superflower Leadex III for the same price as that ancient Seasonic PSU, I wouldn't use the S12II in any modern system. The Leadex III is a vastly superior option.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £59.99 (includes shipping: £0.00)


Full build idea:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £636.93 (includes shipping: £0.00)


1. B grade case to keep costs down.
2. 3600 is superior to the 2600 in gaming.
3. Leadex III PSU, as mentioned the best in its price point right now.
4. 480GB SSD, you might want to consider spending more on a 1TB drive or buying an extra drive for additional storage down the line.​
 
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theedarkhorse said:
Thankyou Joel. I have a monitor. Will buy speakers/keyboard separately. Just a tower. I'm checking out your recent overclockers basket post. Edit: Do you use the sdd for windows? and then install stuff on the mechanical drive?
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I do generally yes. In my personal rig I have a 120gb purely for Windows, a 500gb ssd for apps/games I'm currently playing and a 2tb drive for files and games I play on occasions. Everyone is different though. Done people prefer a bigger ssd and have everything on it. I re install windows every 3 months so like to segregate without partitions.
 
Cheers. I'm considering that. SSD prices have dropped. Is that 1660 comparable to the radeon 590? Im sure i read the 1660 was vr 'compatible', elsewhere.
Also, is PCI vs AGP still a thing?
Thanks Journey, Gray2233 for your detailed, considered posts. Great price for 16 gigs of RAM. Love the back and forth. Its informative. I'm researching everything posted.
The fact that even PSU's are important, in this community, is awesome :]
 
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Cheers. I'm considering that. SSD prices have dropped. Is that 1660 comparable to the radeon 590? Im sure i read the 1660 was vr 'compatible', elsewhere.
Also, is PCI vs AGP still a thing?
Thanks Journey, Gray2233. Love the back and forth. Its informative. Im researching everything posted
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Wow, AGP vs. PCI you haven't built in a while have you :p

What Gray says about the PSU is relevant if a bit over-dramatic, not a lot has changed in AC-DC power supplies for a good while, but the Leadex is a good price so there is no reason to not buy it. Also as stated the Seasonic was a place holder. :)

GTX 1660 Super is great value for money at ~£199, and is faster than the RX 590 but draw a lot less power from the wall.

Act fast if you want that cheap £16.00 case there is only one in stock, they are horrid to build in and weigh about as much as a paper plane but will do the job to keep the dust off your components.
 
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£16 case? I read a review of the 1660 super. I've never had a GeForce. Budget willing, i'll buy it. Is AGP still around? I thought that was king.
Checking this out
https://www.pcmag.com/compare/367099/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-vs-amd-radeon-rx-590-which-mainstr

Geforce has it beat. But 2 gigs less RAM..
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That's the standard version as well, not he 1660 Super which is faster again. :)

AGP hasn't been a thing for ~13 years!

Gray recommended a B-grade case for £16.99, as it is B-Grade there is only one at that price.
 
Oh i didnt see the link. Good price for a semi-transperent case.
Thankyou everyone for everything. I have more than enough to work with.
I love this community. I was in the CGI community over a decade ago. Not dissimilar to this.
Nice to see nothings changed
Helpful as ever. Stay cool you crazy cats.

i'll update the thread with my build once purchased
 
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What Gray says about the PSU is relevant if a bit over-dramatic, not a lot has changed in AC-DC power supplies for a good while, but the Leadex is a good price so there is no reason to not buy it. Also as stated the Seasonic was a place holder.
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The Seasonic unit is 10 years old at this point mate, it lacks a bunch of important protections and doesn't stand up against more modern budget units. Stuff like the be Quiet! System Power 9, or CM MasterWatt (which are DC-DC, like all modern PSU's) are better solutions, but given the generally small cost gap between said budget units and very good higher end models such as the BitFenix Formula Gold, Superflower Leadex III etc they're rarely worth buying.

I'd not normally recommend that case, but honestly for £17 and given the tight budget it's worth considering.

@OP: Don't confuse the 1660 vanilla with the 1660S, easily done since they're more or less the same price, but the 1660S performs within a few FPS of the 1660ti.
 
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