My turn for new build

Duckieus · 2025-12-29T22:24:27+0000

Hi all back again after you all helped me get my daughters first build last Xmas, she had a great time building it herself with a little instruction from me and loving it, she now studying HNC computing but now it's my turn for an upgrade

Have a budget of £1200-1600
Will be using it for some gaming like World of tanks and World of warships type games but looking to start playing more AAA games, will also be doing some photo editing, nothing heavy.

Will be reusing
Corsair 570x case
H150i elite capellix 360mm aio
2x 2tb ssd
Currently have a 1080 and a 4k monitor which I can upgrade at a later time, just need to beat this ram madness first

Any suggestions appreciated just after best bang for buck especially the ram lol

tamzzy · 2025-12-29T22:25:59+0000

are you reusing your psu too?
if you are, what is it and how old is it?

tamzzy · 2025-12-29T22:30:19+0000

top end of your budget. if you don't need the psu then remove it

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £399.95
1 x MSI B850 Gaming Plus WIFI6E (AMD AM5) B850 DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-05941) = £149.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance XMP/EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-06389) = £349.99
1 x Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPR-03983) = £559.99
1 x MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 UK PSU 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-00Y-MS) = £104.99

Total: £1,564.91 (includes delivery: £0.00)

Duckieus · 2025-12-29T23:02:44+0000

tamzzy said:
are you reusing your psu too?
if you are, what is it and how old is it?

Wasn't planning on reusing on new build it's about 13yrs old now and I think it's 550w lol

tamzzy · 2025-12-29T23:03:33+0000

fair enough, then the above spec as it stands, would be my recommendation

Duckieus · 2025-12-29T23:06:29+0000

tamzzy said:
fair enough, then the above spec as it stands, would be my recommendation

Cheers, I'm assuming all cables I need would come with the parts, never used a modular psu before, also what's a good thermal paste these days

tamzzy · 2025-12-29T23:08:22+0000

Duckieus said:
Cheers, I'm assuming all cables I need would come with the parts, never used a modular psu before

correct

Duckieus said:
also what's a good thermal paste these days

arctic mx-4 or mx-6 would be my go-to, whichever is cheaper on the day

Tetras · 2025-12-29T23:29:31+0000

Duckieus said:
Any suggestions appreciated just after best bang for buck especially the ram lol

Definitely don't be wedded to C30, or even 6000. It does help, but you're unlikely to notice 5600, or even 5200 if you're playing at 4K. Obviously if 6000 C36 was £350 and 5200 was £340, you wouldn't bother, but if the saving is large (like £100+) I'd take the slower memory every time. If you're not getting a X3D CPU then the calculations can change, because the RAM makes a bigger difference if you got say.. a 9700X.

Duckieus · 2025-12-29T23:38:32+0000

Tetras said:
Definitely don't be wedded to C30, or even 6000. It does help, but you're unlikely to notice 5600, or even 5200 if you're playing at 4K. Obviously if 6000 C36 was £350 and 5200 was £340, you wouldn't bother, but if the saving is large (like £100+) I'd take the slower memory every time. If you're not getting a X3D CPU then the calculations can change, because the RAM makes a bigger difference if you got say.. a 9700X.

Lol see this is why I'm asking you gurus as I've not got a clue about ram speeds, I've got my budget and when I seen that ram prices shot up I thought best get this done now before it gets worse lol

tamzzy · 2025-12-29T23:50:21+0000

Tetras said:
Definitely don't be wedded to C30, or even 6000. It does help, but you're unlikely to notice 5600, or even 5200 if you're playing at 4K. Obviously if 6000 C36 was £350 and 5200 was £340, you wouldn't bother, but if the saving is large (like £100+) I'd take the slower memory every time. If you're not getting a X3D CPU then the calculations can change, because the RAM makes a bigger difference if you got say.. a 9700X.

Duckieus said:
Lol see this is why I'm asking you gurus as I've not got a clue about ram speeds, I've got my budget and when I seen that ram prices shot up I thought best get this done now before it gets worse lol

at ocuk, 5600mhz ram and 6000mhz are at price parity, so there's no reason to get slower ram