Getting back into Gaming…is £1000 budget possible?

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Hi all…been ages since I was last on here posting!

Got rid of my old system a couple of years ago.

Will be playing battlefield, maybe new cod and is Team Fortress still going? Haha.

Anyway need a wife budget friendly pc…is 1080p still acceptable or is 1440 the go to?

Anyway for a budget of £1000 maybe £1200 can a system be build including monitor? Even less would be better.

Happy to build myself.

I want longevity 5+ years till I really need to upgrade.

I want to play at high fps at ideally high graphic settings.

Never had 1440p so this is a nice to have?

Thanks all much appreciated!
 
Full platform on AM5 (minus GPU) with something like a 7800X3D can be had for £800/£900 leaving you with a reasonable, but not huge GPU budget. Monitor would be extra but half decent budget 1440p models do exist

Depends on your usage I guess, you can shave off a bit by going for something like a 7600/7700 instead of the X3D but given what you'd have left to spend on a GPU it'd probably still be reasonably balanced.

Lots of build threads on here that tend to suggest the same rough specs as people are avoiding 13/14th gen Intel and the 9000 series AMD chips are a bit underwhelming.
 
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GinG said:
Anyway for a budget of £1000 maybe £1200 can a system be build including monitor? Even less would be better.
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Yup.

CPU cooler is in CPU box.

My basket at OcUK:

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GinG said:
I want longevity 5+ years till I really need to upgrade.

I want to play at high fps at ideally high graphic settings.

Never had 1440p so this is a nice to have?
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CPU above should be fine for 5+ years, but not sure how the 7800 XT will be coping with AAA games in 5 years time, probably be overdue an upgrade to both the CPU and GPU in 4-5 years as you're likely to be using FSR/medium settings by that point.
 
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Wow thanks @Tetras didn’t think it would be possible.

How is the road map looking for the socket in that time?

Im not adverse to spending another bit of ££ on gpu or cpu after say 5 years.

What sort of fps should I see with this?

Also does this overclock?
 
GinG said:
Also does this overclock?
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Not really.

GinG said:
How is the road map looking for the socket in that time?
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AMD have said AM5 will be supported through 2027, but we don't know if that means genuinely new CPUs, or just a respin like AM4 is getting now. I think it is likely AM5 will have at least one new architecture, perhaps 2, but even a 9800X3D should be a nice upgrade on a 7600, when the time comes.

GinG said:
What sort of fps should I see with this?
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If you look at the 1440p section of the average FPS page it has a little bar graph that includes figures for specific games in their test bench. These figures are at the highest settings available, with no upscaling or ray tracing.
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Tetras said:
Not really.


AMD have said AM5 will be supported through 2027, but we don't know if that means genuinely new CPUs, or just a respin like AM4 is getting now. I think it is likely AM5 will have at least one new architecture, perhaps 2, but even a 9800X3D should be a nice upgrade on a 7600, when the time comes.


If you look at the 1440p section of the average FPS page it has a little bar graph that includes figures for specific games in their test bench. These figures are at the highest settings available, with no upscaling or ray tracing.
www.techpowerup.com

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Review

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www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
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Thanks mate…is there an alternative cpu to look at and overclock or is that not really a thing now? Like I said with the Ryzen you could get some decent performance increase going for the cheaper cpu.
 
GinG said:
Thanks mate…is there an alternative cpu to look at and overclock or is that not really a thing now? Like I said with the Ryzen you could get some decent performance increase going for the cheaper cpu.
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Overclocking is not much of a thing anymore. These days it is more about undervolting.

You can still overclock. But not by much. Not worth it.
 
The 7600 is the lowest end chip (bar the oem 7500f which is a 7600 with no igpu) it's roughly equivalent to a 5800x3d, as its the low end you can always get a faster chip in the future.

The current best GAMING CPU is the 7800X3D which is twice the price but damn fast, will it make much difference if you use a 7800xt? A little, but debatable.
Again it depends on your usage needs but you'd likely need a GPU upgrade before you'd need a CPU upgrade if you went for the X3D
 
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Is an Intel option. Cheaper, too, which could lead you into the 7900 GRE. It should be overclockable, though don't hold me to that as I don't know for sure. I run Z690, which is.

You will also need a cooler, but if you look up Thermalright AIOs that should be very easy for not a lot of coin.

I also would have thought that due to the E cores and etc it will be better overall for everything but gaming. And will still be more than fast enough for gaming.
 
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GinG said:
Thanks mate…is there an alternative cpu to look at and overclock or is that not really a thing now?
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I don't recommend it. I'd buy a performance level you're happy with "out of the box".

ALXAndy said:
It should be overclockable, though don't hold me to that as I don't know for sure. I run Z690, which is.
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B760 doesn't let you, but you can change the power limits. Memory overclocking (& XMP) is possible, but I believe you can't get so high (because of limits applied to voltages).
 
Rob_B said:
The 7600 is the lowest end chip (bar the oem 7500f which is a 7600 with no igpu) it's roughly equivalent to a 5800x3d, as its the low end you can always get a faster chip in the future.

The current best GAMING CPU is the 7800X3D which is twice the price but damn fast, will it make much difference if you use a 7800xt? A little, but debatable.
Again it depends on your usage needs but you'd likely need a GPU upgrade before you'd need a CPU upgrade if you went for the X3D
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Sounds like a perfect spec for me. It’s been ages since I bought a full new pc. Last time I just got new cpu mobo and ram and used the GTx 480…so it’s a little less wife friendly when I need a complete new system!

Prices have come down somewhat from Covid days so happy with the spec which has been posted I think.
 
GinG said:
Any thoughts on this screen instead of the one posted?
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I don't keep track of monitors, but I've seen comments about cheap VA panels having a blurry/smeary effect for gaming, so that's why I pick an IPS one if I include a monitor in a spec.
 
My poor decision was because I wanted a 32" curved ultrawide, and VA was the only real budget option. I'd have gone for a smaller flat IPS for the same price if I'd have known :(
 
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