Go too hardware right now.

Wing-Man · 30 Dec 2021 at 13:10

My PC need updating and I'm wanting to know what's the good too gear to use right now.

Just 1440p gaming, systems used for nothing else.

Right now I have i7 7700k, Rx 580.

Grimley · 30 Dec 2021 at 18:41

Hello

How much do you want to spend? Then the rest of us here can give you list of hardware to buy. The most expensive bit would be the Graphics card as they are pretty scarce to buy new at the moment, prices have more or less doubled since the start of last year due to things like cryptocurrency mining, shortages & demand caused by a certain bug etc.

Wing-Man · 31 Dec 2021 at 01:14

Grimley said:
Hello

How much do you want to spend? Then the rest of us here can give you list of hardware to buy. The most expensive bit would be the Graphics card as they are pretty scarce to buy new at the moment, prices have more or less doubled since the start of last year due to things like cryptocurrency mining, shortages & demand caused by a certain bug etc.

It's not about budget. If I said 10k you would all
Spec top tear items that not really needed for gaming.
Am just asking what's the go too items right now what's classed as the sweet spot..

Grimley · 31 Dec 2021 at 19:50

This will give you some idea. I picked the GFX card as a placebo. Buy what you can afford.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS432G360C8K)= £89.99
1 x WD Blue SN570 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0C)= £83.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM850 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020196-UK)= £96.95
1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer II A-RGB High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 240mm= £79.99
1 x Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh Performance Midi-Tower Case - Black= £76.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £539.99
1 x Asus Prime Z690-P WIFI D4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £219.95
1 x Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail= £375.00

Total: £1,578.75 (includes shipping: £15.90)

Wing-Man · 1 Jan 2022 at 19:10

Is the extra £100 for the i7 over the i5 good value for gaming at this time.

I ordered the ram and ssd today. I think for the time I would just use me rx580. I know a lad with a rx6600 and he paid 380 new before prices went nuts.
The market is getting better, cpus and getting stocked back up and think gpus will be OK within 6 to 9 months the PC will be built spending 300 each payday so am OK to grab the gpu last

Joxeon · 1 Jan 2022 at 19:33

If you want really good value then wait a month or so till the 12400F + B660 combo is out as that should come in under £280 for both then you could put more the towards a stronger GPU.

Wing-Man · 1 Jan 2022 at 20:01

Joxeon said:
If you want really good value then wait a month or so till the 12400F + B660 combo is out as that should come in under £280 for both then you could put more the towards a stronger GPU.

Thats the info I was wanting.