Help/Advice with budget gaming build

[Gederika]

Hello!

I want to build gaming PC under £600 for casual gaming. Games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Planet Crafter, Hogwarts Legacy, No Man's Sky, upcoming Starfield etc.
I am not a hardcore gamer so don't really care for highest graphics settings, just want to have smooth gameplay at medium settings.

I already have Kolink Citadel Mesh case with case fans and 850w power supply.
I need motherboard, cpu, gpu, memory and storage and my budget is £600.

I already had a look and came up with this:

• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2x8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMK16GX4M2Z3600C18) (SKU: MY-4BW-CS) = £44.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 6600 Dual 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-47K-AS) = £209.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 4500 Six Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3D4-AM) = £74.98
• 1 x MSI B550M PRO-VDH WiFi (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-358-MS) = £119.99
• 1 x WD Green SN350 240GB SSD SATA M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS240G2G0C) (SKU: HD-597-WD) = £15.95
• 1 x Crucial P3 PLUS 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-07A-CR) = £47.99

What do you think? Advice would be highly appreciated!

 

[Gederika]

What resolution do you game at? If it's more than 1080 then that GPU might struggle with Hogwarts and maybe Starfield when it comes out.

I am fine with 1080p gaming but I do have a 34" UltraWide so resolution is a little higher.

 

[Gederika]

I seem to remember the 4500 got apsolutely slammed in reviews as a'terrible' cpu when it came out and really crimped the performance in some games. If you really want to go pc route I'd go intel 12100F when you can get on preorder for £74.99 on OCuk. It's a better cpu by far and costs the same.

Am overbudget at the mo, but can be reduced
the strix b660-a is on offer reduced from £215. When tested, it was up there with the best motherboards for performance, but cost meant something like the MSI B660M was a better buy at time. Now it's down at £133 you're gettinga top notch board with excellent vrm so you can upgrade to a 13700k down the line(bios update required) without having to worry whether the board is good enough to handle it...there's also a £25 cashback on it at the mo with asus promotion, so you can get additional money off(so with cashback the board comes down to £108.29)
rather than a boot drive and a 1tb nvme, just put in a 2tb firecuda gen4 in. Again you can go cheaper such as the crucial p3 for £75 (so with asus promotion and this saving close to £50), but the cheaper drives have a 440TBW(so can write 440 tb before drive fails), whereas the firecuda had a 1200TBW endurance, so drive should last you a good while longer before it starts to fail, and comes with a 5yrs warranty...these are items you can take with you when upgrading down the line....but of course could just swap out for 1tb drive and use that saving money, but games take up a fair amount of space nowadays, and drives do slow down a bit when they fill up. personally, wouldn't bother with a sata drive. its slower than nvme and might as well have your boot drive nvme...you can always partition the nvme drive if you want to see 2 seperate drives in windows
For gpu, the radeon sapphire 7600 pulse is on offer(thank nvidia 4060for that) so actually cheaper than the 6600 which you have, which it replaces

so just an idea, but with board cashback, your down to £645, swap to 2tb p3plus and you're down to £622.50...drop to 1tb drive you're below £600


My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i3-12100F 3.30GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AS-IN) = £74.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B660-A Gaming WIFI D4 - Intel B660 DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6HR-AS) = £133.29
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-29200C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2D3600C18) (SKU: MY-4A5-CS) = £41.66
• 1 x Seagate FireCuda 520 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP2000GV3A012) (SKU: HD-3EX-SE) = £97.49
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-02Y-AM) = £207.49

Total: £669.91 (includes delivery: £114.99)​

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edit, as @gjbf1 states, this is really a 1080p gaming experience, though below 15 game av at 1440 it did manage to get 61fps whereas the 6600 got 49fps(so 7600 is a 26.5% uplift in fps over the 6600), so 1440 is doable ...if you want better, for the price, you really can't beat an XSX or PS5 at the price, but at least with pc, you have upgradeability​

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edit, had a quick look and you can buy 16gb (2x8) Corsair veangence rgb RT 3600c18 for £43.99 away also, which is nicer looking ram imho​

Thank you, really appreciate the help.
Looks great! Will the graphics card you recommended be ok for 1080p gaming on an ultrawide monitor?

 

[Gederika]

@Quartz what do you think of the basket that @Craig_d1 suggested above?