New Build £1500 incl. Monitor

[Mulder]

Hi all, I'm currently running a c.5 year old i5 4460 system with a GTX970 and 16gb of 1600mhz ram. It's been running more slowly recently and Arma 3 in particular takes ages to load.

Looking to upgrade to a new rig and ideally a 27"+ monitor mainly for Arma 3, GTA 5 and RTS games.

I'm a bit out of date but it looks like the Ryzen 3000 series CPU and an AMD 5700 XTGPU is a good bet and can had for a sub £1.5k system.

Does the above sound sensible, or is it best to wait a bit for new cards to come out? Any build ideas for the budget would be great. Won't be using it for anything other than office and the games above. Thanks

 

[Plec]

Quick example, over budget but gives you an idea - needs tweaking.

Memory is place holder for Crucial Ballistix Sport LT

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £106.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £319.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £89.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P350X Glass Digital RGB Midi Tower Case - Black= £64.99
• 1 x DELL S2719DGF 27" 2560x1440 TN 1ms 144Hz FreeSync LED Backlit Gaming Monitor= £399.95
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £379.99
• 1 x Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND Sata PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive= £119.99

Total: £1,571.88 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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[orbitalwalsh]

Think Arma is still heavily in Intel's pockets being CPU bound .
Speed and power above core count.
AIB XT card hard to not list , specially with cheaper Freesync monitors

Ryzen 3600x and 9600k clock for clock, intel edges out with GTA5 and BFV with arma getting better ground once you've cracked it to 5ghz .

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x **B Grade** Intel Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z390 UD Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £439.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM650 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020194-UK)= £89.99
• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox MB520 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £64.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 1TB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £109.99
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99
• 1 x AOC CQ32G1 32" 2560x1440 VA QHD 1ms 144Hz FreeSync Curved Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £339.95

Total: £1,462.09 (includes shipping: £17.22)


Ryzen , dropped to 3600 but stepped up from blower XT to custom AIB

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £439.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM650 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020194-UK)= £89.99
• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox MB520 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £64.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 1TB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £109.99
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99
• 1 x AOC CQ32G1 32" 2560x1440 VA QHD 1ms 144Hz FreeSync Curved Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £339.95
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £106.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £89.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £188.99

Total: £1,478.99 (includes shipping: £18.12)​

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[Mulder]

Thanks all for the suggestions.

From looking at a bunch of reviews it seems like the 5700XT anniversary is the best option and cheaper than some of the alternatives?

Also is an M2 drive worth getting so load times are as quick as possible?

On freesync, do I have to make sure the monitor supports this given the 5700 does?

The Ryzen 5 3600 does seem the best choice, for some reason it benchmarks higher than the Ryzen 7s.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

@Mulder

heads up, Gigabyte Gaming one of two vendors to do 3 year warranty on the XT cards, rest is two which is a bit shocking when £150 cards come with 3 years ....

the Anniversary is a blower style card, 2 year warranty, hot and loud

m.2 sata 3 is the same as 2.5" sata 3.

m.2 NVMe on paper is quicker , but for gaming there is no difference

this is at 1080p so with 1440p, gap should almost be equal- bare in mind they have clocked Intel at 4.3ghz to match Ryzen, not 4.8ghz +

if your paying for a 1440p 144hz card, get a freesync monitor to mate it with!!!

27" instead of 31.5"

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...al-gaming-space-saving-monitor-mo-23v-sa.html

 

[Mulder]

Ok thanks. What did you mean by the below?

this is at 1080p so with 1440p, gap should almost be equal- bare in mind they have clocked Intel at 4.3ghz to match Ryzen, not 4.8ghz +

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Ok thanks. What did you mean by the below?

intel still king of 1080p gaming with high FPS- think esports and 240hz monitors ! but your going after 1440p - this places more workload on GPU then CPU so ryzen matches and can equal or in some games overtake ryzen despite its slower clock speed.