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I posted a thread yesterday but I used competitors prices so it was removed, I'm looking for a build in this price range, any suggestions would be appreciated, I currently have a okay PC but I'm not looking to salvage any parts as Im going to give it to my GF as she needs a new one badly, I prefer AMD products if that helps with anything, I also have a AOC g2460pf 144HZ monitor with amd free sync if that helps. I know I could probably get some parts during black Friday/cyber Monday but im just not sure what to keep and eye out for as im not sure which parts could go with other parts etc, The case I want to build it around is an NZXT H510 and im going for a white and black theme so if there's options for white RAM or a white GPU etc but not essential, Thank you.
 
You are building to a theme - good luck with pricing.

anything other than black components will cost you a lot more!

for instance motherboard with white theme or accent is around £300-£500 mark.

white ram is crazy expensive

white graphic card - good luck finding any.

white Fans always cost more than black ones.

I would suggest you look for another more reasonable case to build into. That case is pretty but you gonna need some cash to realise that look

ryzen 3600 - £180
3200MHz ram - £70
B550 Prime-P - £150
5700XT - £350
RM650 - £80

that’s about it. You will need to source SSD somewhere else or reuse one of your own currently.
 
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You are building to a theme - good luck with pricing.

anything other than black components will cost you a lot more!

for instance motherboard with white theme or accent is around £300-£500 mark.

white ram is crazy expensive

white graphic card - good luck finding any.

white Fans always cost more than black ones.

I would suggest you look for another more reasonable case to build into. That case is pretty but you gonna need some cash to realise that look

ryzen 3600 - £180
3200MHz ram - £70
B550 Prime-P - £150
5700XT - £350
RM650 - £80

that’s about it. You will need to source SSD somewhere else or reuse one of your own currently.

I quickly priced one up and most of these comps were the same, is there any new gpu/cpu's coming out which may lower the price of some of these items? Also will that case be future proof?
 
I quickly priced one up and most of these comps were the same, is there any new gpu/cpu's coming out which may lower the price of some of these items?
Nope, 5700XT is the best value.

If you want you can get 5700 non XT and bios flash to 5700XT. But only some 5700 cards can do that as they got much better cooler and better VRM. You can save another £100 off that GPU which you can use for SSD.

Alternatively you can buy B450 tomahawk motherboard which will save you £40 off the B550
 
Nope, 5700XT is the best value.

If you want you can get 5700 non XT and bios flash to 5700XT. But only some 5700 cards can do that as they got much better cooler and better VRM. You can save another £100 off that GPU which you can use for SSD.

Alternatively you can buy B450 tomahawk motherboard which will save you £40 off the B550

Is there much difference in teh b450 and the b550? would it be better just to get the 550?
 
A 10400F is currently much better value over a ryzen 5 3600 and outperforms it in games infact it's only 17% behind a 5950X in games at 1080p with a £1500 GPU and probably 2% behind with GPUs in the price range your looking at.

If your dead set on ryzen the picking up a used/second hand 3600 as people who are upgrading to 5000 are offloading these and cheap A520 motherboard should allow for more cash to be put into the all important GPU while staying within budget.
 
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Don’t buy that 10400f. No one buys that part. It’s locked multiplier and if you buy any of the intel B or H boards you even loose ram XMP support and end up running 2133MHz or 2666MHz ram. so you have to go with z boards.

intel z490 boards are stupid prices.
 
Don’t buy that 10400f. No one buys that part. It’s locked multiplier and if you buy any of the intel B or H boards you even loose ram XMP support and end up running 2133MHz or 2666MHz ram. so you have to go with z boards.

intel z490 boards are stupid prices.
No one buys it? guess that's why it's just sold out on OCUK.

This is the best budget gaming CPU out there right now and price to performance can't be beat.

2666 ram speed makes no difference to fps when gaming with a low end / mid range GPU.
 
No one buys it? guess that's why it's just sold out on OCUK.

This is the best budget gaming CPU out there right now and price to performance can't be beat.

2666 ram speed makes no difference to fps when gaming with a low end / mid range GPU.
Out of stock doesn’t mean it is popular or had plenty inventory to start off with.

Ryzen 1600AF costing only £85 is out of stock

Ryzen 3300x costing only £120 is out of stock

just checked in on a site that sells CPU and mobo bundle, ryzen 3600 with a reasonable B450 motherboard can be had for £260. That’s pretty decent value. Can’t say the same about intel 10400F.

while 10400F at 2666Mz ram it is down against ryzen 3600 with not even 1800MHz IF clock by upto 10% in some games. That CPU needs Z board to realise its full potential. But any intel low end CPU with a Z board is mad as you can’t overclock and only can run faster ram and the cost is not justifiable.

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while 10400F at 2666Mz ram it is down against ryzen 3600 with not even 1800MHz IF clock by upto 10% in some games. That CPU needs Z board to realise its full potential. But any intel low end CPU with a Z board is mad as you can overclock and only can run faster ram and the cost is not justifiable.
Yeah memory speed does matter with a £800 GPU but with a £300 GPU there will be no difference.

A 10400F + MB for £200 then the extra £60 on a GPU will give more performance infact it will be £80 if you want to buy 3600hmz memory too.
 
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Yeah memory speed does matter with a £800 GPU but with a £300 GPU there will be no difference.

A 10400F + MB for £200 then the extra £60 on a GPU will give more performance infact it will be £80 if you want to buy 3600hmz memory too.

i am running a 2070super it is not a £800 GPU, it is just a bit faster than 5700XT. i am getting more than those 144Hz FPS @ 1080P like the OP.

so at those res (as OP's monitor is 1080p) CPU bottle neck will be showing. upto 20fps in some games makes a bit of difference tho.

anyway with Ryzen 3600 there will be much more room to slot in a zen3 chip should you wish in a years time (hopefully AMD would have got a cheaper part by then)
 
If I was bulding a PC for my kid primarily to run an Oculus Rift VR headset will that change anything about the builds discussed above ? I'm not sure where the bottlenecks are with VR.
 
If I was bulding a PC for my kid primarily to run an Oculus Rift VR headset will that change anything about the builds discussed above ? I'm not sure where the bottlenecks are with VR.
whichever gets you the fastest GPU as thats where the bottleneck will be.
 
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