Help with new PC (£1000 budget excl. graphics card)

[Addminus1]

Hello,

I was just looking for some help with the spec for a new PC.

I have fortunately inherited a 4070 super so was hoping to build around that. I also have a 1440p monitor, so again don't need that.

I have a budget of about £1000 for the remaining components. The setup would mostly be for gaming.

I have had a look round the forums and it looks like a 7800x3d is recommended but quite overpriced at the moment. Would it be worth waiting for the AMD release of 9800x3d to see the impact on prices?

My current setup has died, so I don't want to wait too long before upgrading - Black Friday for example seems a while away, haha

Any advice would be great thanks!

 

[moppy89]

Absolutely wait for the 9800x3d release and embargo before committing to a build.

1k for a build without a GPU is a great budget

 

[Tetras]

I have had a look round the forums and it looks like a 7800x3d is recommended but quite overpriced at the moment. Would it be worth waiting for the AMD release of 9800x3d to see the impact on prices?

Ideally, yeah. The price of the 7800X3D is really high right now.

I have a budget of about £1000 for the remaining components. The setup would mostly be for gaming.

Do you care about PCI-E 5.0 and USB4? If you don't, there are much cheaper B650 motherboards that would work fine for this CPU.

Would you like a 'fishbowl' case like Antec's C5, or a regular case?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core 5.50GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02676) = £308.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen - Space Marine & Unknown 9 Awakening Games Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-02908) = £0.00
• 1 x Gigabyte X870 GAMING X WIFI6 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03347) = £199.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C40BBK2-64) (SKU: MY-29W-KS) = £158.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £133.99
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £89.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95

• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £22.99

Total: £1,011.88 (includes delivery: £11.98)​