New Build - £850 Budget

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Hi all,

My friend is after a new PC Build with a budget of £850.
He doesnt need Windows 10, a monitor, keyboard or mouse.

He'd like to play games on it mainly and be somewhat future proof.

 

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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £109.99
• 1 x WD Blue 250GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS250G1B0A)= £79.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £45.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £218.99
• 1 x Corsair CX550 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020121-UK)= £57.95
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GT OC Single Fan 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £87.95
• 1 x Aerocool QS-240 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £29.99

Total: £882.50
(includes shipping: £11.70)



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Bit over £850. Video card prices have gone up due to another mining craze, and it would be a pity to get lower level CPU or less RAM (for example) just to fit budget here.

Does he have anything he could re-use, like HDDs, case?

Which monitor does he have?

Is he building it himself?

He wants all new parts, I tried to persuade him to use his old HDD but he doesnt want to.
I'll be building it for him, I can put them together with no problem, just not sure what the best specs are these days.

He has said he can go to £900 is needed.

In terms of a monitor, its a 1080p one, nothing fancy there.

He's just after a machine that can put out 1080p with 60fps and decent graphic settings, that'll keep him going for a year or two before he upgrades different parts.

With that in mind, is there a decent set of parts or are the ones people posted in here pretty much the same bar a few differences?

Thank you all for replying as well, sorry for my delay, been hectic and the weathers not helped!

 

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One thing - for the RGB mode on that Coolermaster fan to work, you need the controller or a motherboard with RGB header. You could swap the motherboard for the MSI B350M Bazooka which has RGB header, if you want. The Bazooka has white led backlight as well, to match the two front fans.

Whichever of those two motherboards you go for, I've just noticed they have only 3 fan headers, so you'll need a splitter too:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-Cable Y-Splitter 2-Fan PWM (10cm)= £2.99

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Alternatively, get the MSI B350M Mortar, which has 4 fan headers (and RGB header), so no need for splitter:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B350M Mortar AMD 350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £88.99

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Perfect.
Thank you all for the advice.
I've let him know his options and he's going to decide!