New build [Budget £1500 - £2000]

SnowmanIntegers

SnowmanIntegers

SnowmanIntegers

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Budget: £1500 - £2000


Good morning all,

Decided it’s time for a new gaming PC, however, I’ve not kept up with industry developments and therefore have no idea what’s actually worth using now.

I have a 1080p monitor I’m looking to keep (I’d rather have more frames more often than increase the resolution) and don’t need any other peripherals, just a mid tower and the stuff to go in it.

Specific things I’m after are; M.2 (500GB) for W10 (also needed), frequently used applications and a game or two. SSD (1TB). An AiO cooler (less weight = less of a ball ache when taking it to a LAN).

I overclocked my current CPU and I’m prepared to overclock again. Really don’t want any RGB on/in this at all and I’d like it to run as quietly as possible, if that means upgrading from stock fans, no problem.

Whilst I don’t have any brand loyalties, one of the games I’m planning to play on this is destiny 2, which doesn’t currently run on the Ryzen 3000. As I mentioned earlier, I’m more interested in higher frame rates at high graphical settings (excluding stuff like ray tracing which just tanks frame rate) than increasing the resolution beyond 1080p.

Whilst my upper end is £2000; I don’t HAVE to spend that, nor do I want to if the gains are becoming disproportionately marginal, I would however like this to not need upgrading till after cyberpunk.

Just a side note; the other “frequently used applications” are photoshop and illustrator, whilst the PC is mainly for gaming these programs will be used multiple times a week.


Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
 
@SnowmanIntegers

What's your monitor make/model ? Guessing it's 144hz ?

Also at 1080p fast Gaming, intel still wins - and as you mentioned, ryzen has issues with your game.
Also higher GPU, higher the frames :)

Also, want Lan... ITX !

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@orbitalwash

Thanks for the quick reply,

Monitor is a Samsung S23A700D (120Hz), it will be getting upgraded in the not too distance future to 144 or something that can be OC’d if the PC is running games reliably at frame rates higher than those.

As for ITX; I don’t attend enough LANs to want something with a form factor that small and the possible shortcomings it may bring, I just remember when I swapped from a more traditional heat sink to the AiO in my current PC, it was noticeable lighter and was thankful for that when carrying the PC from vehicles to the LAN site.

Thanks again.
 
Surprisingly , ITX has changed a bit. Most have dual M.2 design and VRMs have been greatly increase. Take Aorus AM4 ITX and it has 70amp units and a lot of them to handle 16+ cores .

CLC tend to be lighter then Air coolers as they are aluminium design. Yes air coolers air to with copper heat pipes, and often shows why they perform better then more expensive CLC units .

See your monitor isn't sync tech of any sort so you may think yourself upgrading

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,918.39 (includes shipping: £19.62)


believe @tamzzy is rocking ryzen 3700x and gtx 1080ti in his . Will be using 2700x and Aorus 2080 rtx in my RVZ03 case :D

in theory if you wanted two, 4000hz ram would work in the mobo long with dual nvme m.2 in raid​
 
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