NEW GAMING PC ADVICE ON A BUDGET

airrunner · 14 Apr 2017 at 09:51

Hi all,

Could you please advise on the best bang for buck gaming pc i could build through overclockers on a budget of £700.

There is only one requirement that the new setup does not have a graphics card as i have a hi end card which i bought last year. Otherwise the rest i am totally flexible with.

I would be really grateful if you experts out there could steer me in the right direction.

Thank you in advanced!

Danny75 · 15 Apr 2017 at 00:02

Hi,

Which video card? Can have a bearing on case and PSU recommendations.

Would Windows be required?

How much storage would you need to begin with? Would 250GB be ok or is absolutely more required?

airrunner · 15 Apr 2017 at 13:25

Danny75 said:
Hi,

Which video card? Can have a bearing on case and PSU recommendations.

Would Windows be required?

How much storage would you need to begin with? Would 250GB be ok or is absolutely more required?

The card i have is a gtx geforce 1060

Windows would be required

250gb ssd would be sufficient, i would likely wish to add on a 1tb secondary.

Be great to see you suggestions on build. Thanks for posting

mickyflinn · 15 Apr 2017 at 19:30

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £119.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £218.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £89.99
1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £45.95
1 x MSI B350M Gaming Pro AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £79.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Red Window= £36.95
1 x XFX XT Series 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99

Total: £732.10
(includes shipping: £12.30)

Danny75 · 15 Apr 2017 at 19:34

Cheers for the info, Air.

You're going to have OcUK build it, right? Otherwise the CPU and mobo won't work together (needs them to BIOS update first).

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £98.99
1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £55.99
1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £109.99
1 x Aerocool VS-1 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Window= £26.99
1 x Intel Core i5-7600 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £218.99

Total: £660.59
(includes shipping: £11.70)

I'd suggest posting the spec you decide on, in the Customer Service forum, and asking for a build quote. I've left a bit of room in the budget to help with that, or, if you weren't including that in the £700 budget, then that's about enough for an additional 1TB HDD.

If you could stretch for a Ryzen 5 1600 system like Micky's posted then great but build fee may take you close to £800.

mickyflinn · 15 Apr 2017 at 21:12

Danny75 said:
Cheers for the info, Air.

You're going to have OcUK build it, right? Otherwise the CPU and mobo won't work together (needs them to BIOS update first).

AM4 motherboards need a bios update to take ryzen 5 cpu's ?

Danny75 · 15 Apr 2017 at 22:19

mickyflinn said:
AM4 motherboards need a bios update to take ryzen 5 cpu's ?

H110 boards need one for Kaby. See my spec.

mickyflinn · 15 Apr 2017 at 22:37

Danny75 said:
H110 boards need one for Kaby. See my spec.

Thats doesnt answer the question with all due respect.

Does an AM4 motherboard need a bios update to take a ryzen 5 cpu ?

Hagar · 15 Apr 2017 at 23:16

mickyflinn said:
Thats doesnt answer the question with all due respect.

Does an AM4 motherboard need a bios update to take a ryzen 5 cpu ?

No, all ryzen supported on all AM4

Danny75 · 15 Apr 2017 at 23:17

mickyflinn said:
Thats doesnt answer the question with all due respect.

Well Micky, it seemed you thought I was referring to your spec, when I was referring to the H110/Kaby in mine. So I explained what I meant.

mickyflinn said:
Does an AM4 motherboard need a bios update to take a ryzen 5 cpu ?

AMD says no. But a few people have posted it needed the second BIOS update for their particular motherboard and they were unfortunate to have gotten one with the original. Not sure how credible that is at this point. Could be though.

mickyflinn · 15 Apr 2017 at 23:48

Danny75 said:
Well Micky, it seemed you thought I was referring to your spec, when I was referring to the H110/Kaby in mine. So I explained what I meant.

AMD says no. But a few people have posted it needed the second BIOS update for their particular motherboard and they were unfortunate to have gotten one with the original. Not sure how credible that is at this point. Could be though.

Yes i did think that , tx for clearing that up.

Danny75 · 15 Apr 2017 at 23:58

mickyflinn said:
Yes i did think that , tx for clearing that up.

No worries.

airrunner · 16 Apr 2017 at 10:23

mickyflinn said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £119.99

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £218.99

1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95

1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £89.99

1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £45.95

1 x MSI B350M Gaming Pro AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £79.99

1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Red Window= £36.95

1 x XFX XT Series 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99

Total: £732.10
(includes shipping: £12.30)

Hi Mickyflinn,

Appreciate your input on this. Have you ever had experience with theRyzen 1600? It has had excellent reviews particularly for it's multi threading capability.

Hand on heart it does give me slight caution, i suppose i have been in the mindset that an intel choice would be a better bet. This is more of a belief and looking at the facts the ryzen sounds like a very good choice.

I will put some more thought into this. Out of curiosity if you were to change the processor and m-board to an intel variant what would you go for?

airrunner · 16 Apr 2017 at 10:48

Danny75 said:
Cheers for the info, Air.

You're going to have OcUK build it, right? Otherwise the CPU and mobo won't work together (needs them to BIOS update first).

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95

1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £98.99

1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £55.99

1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £109.99

1 x Aerocool VS-1 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Window= £26.99

1 x Intel Core i5-7600 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £218.99

Total: £660.59
(includes shipping: £11.70)

I'd suggest posting the spec you decide on, in the Customer Service forum, and asking for a build quote. I've left a bit of room in the budget to help with that, or, if you weren't including that in the £700 budget, then that's about enough for an additional 1TB HDD.

If you could stretch for a Ryzen 5 1600 system like Micky's posted then great but build fee may take you close to £800.

Hi Danny

Appreciate you getting back to us and all your help so far.

I must admit with my limited understanding i did have thoughts on a kaby lake processor. This set-up you suggested, with a little more csah would you opt for the ryzen setup as suggested by Mickeyflin above or push for a better intel chip again ?

Thanks again

Danny75 · 16 Apr 2017 at 13:27

airrunner said:
Hi Danny

Appreciate you getting back to us and all your help so far.

I must admit with my limited understanding i did have thoughts on a kaby lake processor. This set-up you suggested, with a little more csah would you opt for the ryzen setup as suggested by Mickeyflin above or push for a better intel chip again ?

Thanks again

You're welcome.

I'd go with Ryzen 5 1600 if you can stretch.