Need a new pc under £850

[Wheatley]

Hi all

I am currently saving up to build a new pc I currently have 16gb of ram and a 600w corsair psu from my old build but no gpu and need a new casr. I would like to get pretty much a entire new build apart from the ram and psu. I will be using it for Photoshop with photo editing and digital drawing. I will also be playing rts games such as the total war series and aaa games at 1080p my max budget will be around £900 I have windows 10 but will be buying two monitors for a dual set up

Any help/advice will be appreciated

 

[Wheatley]

DDR3 or DD4?

Sorry DDR4

 

[Wheatley]

Are the 2 monitors to be part of the £900 budget? What resolution + refresh rate do you need?

It would be better if it was but probably not possible to include I guess 60hz would do 1080p. Sorry forgot to mention..

 

[Wheatley]

Photoshop still favours intel over ryzen - non K version and B board to keep costs down, 6 core count and all 6 cores will boost to 3.8ghz when gaming .
16GB of ram for working and gtx 1060 to run games at max at 1080p 60hz


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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £149.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B360M Aorus Gaming 3 Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £76.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £139.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WindForce OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £289.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £98.99
• 1 x Toshiba 1TB P300 Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £34.99
• 1 x In-Win 301 Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £64.99
• 1 x Alpenfohn Ben Nevis CPU Cooler - 120mm= £17.99

Total: £885.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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if you need monitors added to the budget. switch to gtx 1050ti to free up case.

any 1080p 60hz TN panel would be good for gaming, with your digital work... 10 Bit panel! costly but worth it- dont really need to explain to an artist why having a bigger colour range is better - IPS or VA panel if you can to

sure someone will spec ryzen which is damn good value for money!

Thank you very much. All the parts you added look good to me may I ask why mini atx? Is cheaper to go that route ? And thanks for the advice on the monitors!

 

[Wheatley]

cost- itx and atx boards are more expensive -

itx is for me two small as cant use more dimm slots or storage - atx is to big as days of multicards are shrinking

matx cases now are just as nice as their bigger brothers

Ah I see, at least a mini atx will fit on my desk. Thanks again.