Is this a good build? Newbie would appreciate your view....

ntreacy · 12 Dec 2017 at 02:36

Hi everyone. Having trawled all the sites and customised to death...I just found Overclockers. Site looks the real deal so I input my requirements (A starter gaming PC. Nothing too powerful needed as I mainly play war strategy games and a little bit of video editing.

My budget is tight at £750 but I Would really appreciate educated views of my choice:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1300X 3.70GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4
CPU Cooler: Alpenfohn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler for Ryzen
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit DVD
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
Case: Kolink Luminosity Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black
Power Supply: Kolink KL-500 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
SSD: 1Kingston A400 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive
Hard Drive: 1Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
Graphics Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1050Ti StormX 4096MB PCI-Express GDDR5 Graphics Card

£747.85 inc vat

I would really appreciate any feedback here.

southernorth · 12 Dec 2017 at 03:05

ntreacy said:
Hi everyone. Having trawled all the sites and customised to death...I just found Overclockers. Site looks the real deal so I input my requirements (A starter gaming PC. Nothing too powerful needed as I mainly play war strategy games and a little bit of video editing.

My budget is tight at £750 but I Would really appreciate educated views of my choice:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1300X 3.70GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4
CPU Cooler: Alpenfohn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler for Ryzen
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit DVD
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
Case: Kolink Luminosity Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black
Power Supply: Kolink KL-500 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
SSD: 1Kingston A400 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive
Hard Drive: 1Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
Graphics Card: Palit GeForce GTX 1050Ti StormX 4096MB PCI-Express GDDR5 Graphics Card

£747.85 inc vat

I would really appreciate any feedback here.

Due to a much better GPU, case and CPU (in some games) I would choose this system instead:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x OcUK Gaming Vision VR Gaming PC - Intel 8th Generation 3.6GHz Quad Core = £748.99
- Processor:*Build Promo* Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Quad Core Processor
- Memory:*Build Stock* Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz - Grey
- Graphics Card:Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Solid State Drive:Hynix SL308 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS120G32TND-N1A0A)
- CPU Cooler:Unwanted
- Casehanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Black Window
- WIFI:Unwanted

Total: £763.09 (includes shipping: £14.10)

ntreacy · 12 Dec 2017 at 03:15

southernorth Thanks for that. Yes that looks interesting. I will check it out now. Greatly appreciated.

ntreacy · 12 Dec 2017 at 04:14

Had a good look over the system you recommended. Just placed order. Yes, the GPU much better and CPU comparable if not a little better as I was not keen to overclock!. THANK YOU for the great advice.

Saffy · 12 Dec 2017 at 11:20

For gaming, the i3 walks all over the Ryzen 3. So you've made the right call.

orbitalwalsh · 12 Dec 2017 at 12:19

Make sure you get another stick of ram in their asap, all call them to change it to 2x4gb . Single channel with skylake/kaby and coffeelake makes frame rates spike a bit .
Quad channel doesn't do much for gaming but dual does . Even if it costs an extra £10