Getting back into PC gaming

lloydchughes

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Hi All,

looking for some advise, not been PC gaming for awhile but started to play a few games again on my older PC.

The Spec is as follows;

CPU - AMD FX 8320 black edition
Mobo - ASUS M5A97 Evo r2.0
Graphics Card - GTX 1050 Ti
RAM - 16Gb DDR3 (can't remember the speed the now as I'm not at home)
HDD - Standard WD 7200 HD

Im not sure what I will look to upgraded but if anyone has any advise on where to upgrade? Should i look at changing chip away from AMD or just got to the best FX chip out the now and will it be good enough?

Also guessing first thing to replace is most likely the hard drive with an SDD?

I have a budget of £500-700 but if i upgrade over time can be more..
 

ExoMale

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Ryzen 1400 or 1500 with compatible board and ram and a ssd to add with the hdd should do?

What is your power supply? The 1050ti should be enough, but even for the rest you would need a decent psu still
 

laddy

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i would go for the 1600 and your psu, that's like a power station, no problems there. Get the B350/board. Look at my build. Then again do you want micro or atx? My build is working super duper. The only thing i did was use 1 stick of my memory as windows would not load. Then I downloaded the f4 bios, after flash, I then put my other stick in.

AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz £210

GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 AMD B350 £92

Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz £129 you can go better on memory but is it realy worth it?

You need to chuck in as much as you can on your gpu - that's my opinion if you want to game at a reasonable fps at 1080p

Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card £219 That card is a steal at that price, tempted myself




 
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ExoMale

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The performance of the 1500 & 1600 are not that much different, going for the 1500 is like choosing Ryzen over intel, similar sort of performance, but for less money and the 1400 is the same however the 1400 is a 4c8t where as the 1500/1600 is like 6c12t and the 1700/1800 8c16t and given all Ryzen overclock and all pretty much capable of 4ghz or close to it the 1400 is a good saving at £158, but it depends if you want an affordable 4c8t compared the higher prices intel versions even from haswell and put the saved money elsewhere in the build or you do in fact want more cores.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £692.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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Put the 1070 in I case you need more than what the new 1050ti offers, but if you happy with the 1050 then the gpu can be replaced with a £158 500gb ssd and would look like this

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £471.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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Or you could actually get the 1600x which would look like this

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £561.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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I noticed this mobo/cpu bundle

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £685.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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I don't know how much better a 1060 would be over the 1050ti other than higher vram otherwise you could get one of those with the 1500/1600 cpu unless you'd be interested in rx480
 
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