Help with a 1440p new build/pre-built

moug

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Hey,

Looking for some advice on a fresh build please. Got advice from here around 6 years ago which was helpful so came back.

Been looking at the pre-built for convenience but would rather build it myself. Is there much difference between pre-built vs building myself?

Wanting to move up to 1440p with a budget around £1500, need a monitor too but not counting that in this budget.

Used mostly for gaming Civ6, halo infinite god of war mix of games really.

Thanks in advance
 
My general view is you can tailor every part with a self build where pre-build may have some component maybe the PSU or motherboard that's cut back to a minimum spec. to support the headline parts such as the CPU or GPU so they can make a profit etc.

Doesn't mean they are bad builds just not every part will be a special edition or highly rated feature packed example. PSU could be a non-modular plain part with ugly wires. RAM could be slower than desired with no XMP profile support stuff like that.
 
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You can buy a pre-build and get most parts as you want and a good builder will also be able to swap parts out that arent normally offered in that rig but they might charge you for that privilidge. You also get a warrenty overall if that means much to you.

Looking at building yourself. I have stuck to items in stock and a few items I would normally use are not available atm :(

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,486.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​



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There is a better cooler that I would prefer but OCUK dont stock it so you would ned to purchase elsewhere.

Peerless Assassin 120 SE – Thermalright

thermalright.com thermalright.com

Also the corsair rm 750x. Its more expensive but offers a 10 year warrenty vs 7 years on the E model.
 
Intel and nvidia build.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,496.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​



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My only issue is the 3060ti only has 8 gb of ram on baord and I feel that will be a potential bottleneck in a few years. A second hand 3080 10gb would be a good buy and would smash 1440p.
 
bimbleuk said:
My general view is you can tailor every part with a self build where pre-build may have some component maybe the PSU or motherboard that's cut back to a minimum spec. to support the headline parts such as the CPU or GPU so they can make a profit etc.

Doesn't mean they are bad builds just not every part will be a special edition or highly rated feature packed example. PSU could be a non-modular plain part with ugly wires. RAM could be slower than desired with no XMP profile support stuff like that.
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Makes sense from a profit point of view, had pre-builts before not had a problem with them.

Cheers for clearing that up
 
dfour said:
Intel and nvidia build.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,496.92 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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My only issue is the 3060ti only has 8 gb of ram on baord and I feel that will be a potential bottleneck in a few years. A second hand 3080 10gb would be a good buy and would smash 1440p.
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Thanks for taking the time to put these 2 builds together and under budget. I kept configuring builds and ending up way over budget.

out of the 2 which would be more future proof? planning on upgrading parts over the years.

Just looking at the intel build its got DDR4 motherboard but DDR5 RAM, is that ok together? trying to figure out how all these parts fit together.

Thanks again.
 
moug said:
Wanting to move up to 1440p with a budget around £1500, need a monitor too but not counting that in this budget.
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I made a mistake by spec ATX board with M-ATX case, but swap for Asus (or MSI) B760M-A WIFI, which is actually a bit cheaper.

Super Flower Leadex III 850W 80 PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply - Black - £112.99
Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case Black - £69.95
Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 AIO CPU Cooler - 240mm - £62.99

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT Pulse 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £589.99
AMD Radeon™ Raise The Game Bundle - Dead Island 2 & The Callisto Project - £0.00

* Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - OEM - £260.00 (* swap for i5-13500)
Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £199.99
TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) - £139.99

WD Black SN770 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0E) - £82.99

Grand Total: £1,531.19 (includes delivery charge)
 
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moug said:
Thanks for taking the time to put these 2 builds together and under budget. I kept configuring builds and ending up way over budget.

out of the 2 which would be more future proof? planning on upgrading parts over the years.

Just looking at the intel build its got DDR4 motherboard but DDR5 RAM, is that ok together? trying to figure out how all these parts fit together.

Thanks again.
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No it must be a ddr5 board. My bad. DDR5 boards are about another £50+ over the ddr4 board price.

The most 'future proof' will be tbe am5 build as AMD have said they will support it for several years with other cpu's.
 
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