New PC £600

[citizenx13]

Greetings and salutations

I hope you are all keeping safe and doing well.

I was wondering if I could ask you PC build pros for some advice

My brother has £600 and I would like to help him build a new PC, we are after a MB, CPU, RAM, PSU and M2 SSD. Cooling can be air or "all in one water". I'd like to build him a good back bone and will be loaning him my old 1060 but eventually we will be upgrading to run a 2K monitor

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

CitizenX

 

[bagel]

3600 comes with an air cooler

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £79.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £86.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Toshiba Kioxia RC500 Pro 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £68.99
• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case - Black Window= £44.99

Total: £583.24 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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[citizenx13]

@bagel Thank you very much

 

[bagel]

No worries

 

[citizenx13]

Hello all


I hope you are well, sorry for rekindling this thread but i am ready to pull the trigger


Below is what i have put together, my brother would like some RGB hence the MB , the last thing is a M.2 SSD, preferably 1TB and that uses PCIE4 with the X570.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Quantum RGB Midi Tower Case - Black= £47.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Asus Prime X570-P (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £179.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX432C16FB3K2/8)= £44.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 500W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £64.99

Total: £517.95 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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Just a Sanity check before i hit the buy button

Many thanks
CitizenX

 

[bagel]

It's not worth getting a mobo for the tiny light on it at the expense of not having 16gb ram. The mortar b450 also has RGB support anyway!

You should get a cheaper mobo and 16gb of RGB ram instead.

If he's just gaming you're not going to see any difference between pcie 3 and 4 SSDs, let alone vs a sata SSD. This could potentially change in a few years with next gen consoles using faster storage but if this happens it would be better to just upgrade then, when prices are likely to have fallen

 

[Matt_West_Mids]

I'd agree go for a b450 board like the tomahawk / mortar max mobo's use the money saved to get 16gb of 3600 MHz ram if possible.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-29200C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black= £89.99
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £129.95

Total: £319.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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[citizenx13]

Thanks guys, i will run it by him.

As always appreciate the help

Best
CitizenX

 

[bagel]

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...al-channel-kit-rgb-black-tf1d4-my-08m-tg.html

This has the same effective latency as the Corsair (C18 v C16)