New PC Build Help

[Shaktar]

Hi

So im looking to build a new PC around the £1600 price range, including monitor. I havent had a new pc for about 15 years now so dont realy know what to get, not sure what raod to go down intel or ryzen. Mainly looking to use it for gaming and a little bit of Photoshop.

Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[Quartz]

How little is 'a little bit of Photoshop'? Because the choice of monitor becomes critical. Although you could have two monitors, one for gaming and one for Photoshop.

 

[Shaktar]

Im building arcades so using Photoshop to draw the artwork. Nothing major.

 

[Spankme]

£1600 u could easily go ryzen 5 1600 with a gtx1080ti in a sweeeet build

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hi

So im looking to build a new PC around the £1600 price range, including monitor. I havent had a new pc for about 15 years now so dont realy know what to get, not sure what raod to go down intel or ryzen. Mainly looking to use it for gaming and a little bit of Photoshop.

Any help would be most appreciated.

I went for higher tier components that have the most discount on , that screen is 45% off and VA panel along with G-sync and high refresh rate , that 1440p would have been nicer for photo shop


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £269.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £169.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £269.99
• 1 x Team Group Xtreem T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-30000C18 3733MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TXD416G37= £169.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 600 Midi Tower Case - Orange Window= £74.99
• 1 x be quiet! Silent Loop Superior Liquid CPU Cooler - 280mm= £109.99
• 1 x be quiet! Straight Power 10 500W '80 Plus Gold'' Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £139.99
• 1 x Acer Predator Z271Tbmiphzx 27" 1920x1080 VA G-Sync 144Hz Eye Tracking Curved Gaming Widescreen LED M= £389.99

Total: £1,684.61 (includes shipping: £14.70)​

​

 

[Shaktar]

Thanks for the build, liking the look if it.
The monitor is out of stock atm though. Is there much reason to try and get a 1070 or 1080 in there ?

 

[lee32uk]

If you don't mind a non G-Sync screen.

You can claim a couple of games with the Asus board/cpu bundle.

http://promotion.asus.com/en/uk/Ryzen

BB CODE
My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P300 Glass Midi Tower Case - Black= £54.95
• 1 x Asus B350 Motherboard & Ryzen 3/5 Processor Gaming Bundle **WITH FREE GAMES** = £297.94
  • CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
  • Motherboard:Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £149.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £79.99
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)= £59.99
• 1 x BenQ GW2765H 27" 2560x1440 IPS Widescreen LED Gaming Flicker FREE Monitor - Black= £269.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8= £518.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £94.99

Total: £1,542.73 (includes shipping: £15.90)
​

 

[orbitalwalsh]

As Lee has mentioned, this is a solid Ryzen build ! Not even going to compete with a Ryzen build as it's solid and makes sense!

Redone the Intel platform and went with Vega 56 , which is faster the. Gtx 1070 , and slower then 1080 , but Freesync screens are cheaper !

1440p 32" 75hz VA panel for £300!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 550W Fully Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply - Black= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Xtreem T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-30000C18 3733MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TXD416G37= £169.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 600 Midi Tower Case - Orange Window= £74.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £139.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £169.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £218.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Rock Slim CPU Cooler= £24.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX VEGA 56 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card - STAND ALONE= £449.99
• 1 x AOC Q3279VWF 32" 2560x1440 VA 75Hz FREESYNC WideScreen LED Monitor= £299.99

Total: £1,634.73 (includes shipping: £15.90)​

​

Also i5 8400 can match any Ryzen chip , just platform isn't upgradable , unless you slap in a 8700k in a few years .
When coffeelake first came out, it went unnoticed and then suddenly people realised it was the best performance to value ratio out of the line up, shot up in price and went out of stock
All 6 cores boost to 3.8Ghz in games, have one k. Testing myself against Ryzen 1600 .
Only. Few games Ryzen takes the lead , but again, has future to expand and free games .
Maybe a blend of Ryzen platform and Vega Freesync ?

 

[Shaktar]

Oh nice. Thanks for the help, so I'm liking the sound of the ryzen then as it's more future proof then atm?
Team group a good male of ram too then as I had a friend say he has not heard and to stick with populate brands. Also is there no need for watercoold radiator with the ryzen or was that just to keep down cost.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Oh nice. Thanks for the help, so I'm liking the sound of the ryzen then as it's more future proof then atm?
Team group a good male of ram too then as I had a friend say he has not heard and to stick with populate brands. Also is there no need for watercoold radiator with the ryzen or was that just to keep down cost.

Ryzen is more future proof in the fact AMD have said two more generation will be released on that socket . Of course there will be new boards with every generation release that has newer features, but in 5 years time should be able to drop a 2 year old 3rd gen Ryzen CPU in there, which should in theory a lot lot stronger "zen2"
The stock cooler is quite good with AMD, should be able to hit 3.7ghz just fine. AIO unit will help push 3.8/9 GHz and keep temps and sound down . Plus they do look awesome and is on sale !
Ryzen and Vega plus freesync monitor makes such a good combo for pricing...

 

[Shaktar]

Hmmm not not sure what way to go now. They both seem to be good and have positives. What about vr possibility I would proberly end up getting a HTC one day would I'm the Intel system be a better choice then to go for if that's what I was also after.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hmmm not not sure what way to go now. They both seem to be good and have positives. What about vr possibility I would proberly end up getting a HTC one day would I'm the Intel system be a better choice then to go for if that's what I was also after.

I still think VR for PCs is GPU bound , the stronger the GPU the better . Not sure how Vega fares though

 

[Shaktar]

I was doing some reading and also checking out more items. Thinking I'm going to go with this list.
Going to ignore the monitor for now too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - RGB Black (TF1D4= £179.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £79.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8= £518.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £94.99
• 1 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black/Red= £84.95
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X62 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm= £119.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
• 2 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99

Total: £1,832.91 (includes shipping: £14.10)
​

 

[orbitalwalsh]

£30 and £50 off but no free games

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming 5 AMD X370 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £149.99

Total: £248.08 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

​

Either way, lovely system !

 

[southernorth]

I was doing some reading and also checking out more items. Thinking I'm going to go with this list.
Going to ignore the monitor for now too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - RGB Black (TF1D4= £179.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £79.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8= £518.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £94.99
• 1 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black/Red= £84.95
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X62 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm= £119.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
• 2 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99

Total: £1,832.91 (includes shipping: £14.10)
​

If you're doing more gaming than photoshop, I'd go for Intel over Ryzen. 8600k or 8700k.

 

[stulid]

I was doing some reading and also checking out more items. Thinking I'm going to go with this list.
Going to ignore the monitor for now too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - RGB Black (TF1D4= £179.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £79.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8= £518.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £94.99
• 1 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black/Red= £84.95
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X62 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm= £119.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
• 2 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99

Total: £1,832.91 (includes shipping: £14.10)
​

Youve got 2 cpus listed.

Oh and two SSDs? one m.2 and a SATA one?

 

[Shaktar]

Ah yeh whoops lol

How about this then.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Night Hawk RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - RGB Black (TF1D4= £179.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080G1 GAMING-8= £518.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £94.99
• 1 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x NZXT Source 340 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black/Red= £84.95
• 1 x NZXT Kraken X62 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 280mm= £119.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming 5 AMD X370 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £149.99

Total: £1,554.97 (includes shipping: £14.10)
​

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Beastly, have you seen Phanteks halo RGB fan cover? Nice if you like RGB

Poor shot

Spoiler: RGB fan cover

.

Only £20 more then your current storage (ignore shipping )solution but offers 500gb of NVMe over current 256GB, WD Black is slower then Samsung's but still double the speed of sata SSD


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x WD Blue 500GB M.2 SSD + 1TB HDD Bundle= £181.94

Total: £190.64 (includes shipping: £8.70)
​

Though not sure if you order, when. It would be in stock

Also, on sale and same price as the NZXT 280mm


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x be quiet! Silent Loop Superior Liquid CPU Cooler - 360mm= £119.99

Total: £119.99 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

​

Basically silent

Should fit in the top of that case with the 3 front fans

 

[lee32uk]

Only £20 more then your current storage (ignore shipping )solution but offers 500gb of NVMe over current 256GB, WD Black is slower then Samsung's but still double the speed of sata SSD


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x WD Blue 500GB M.2 SSD + 1TB HDD Bundle= £181.94

Total: £190.64 (includes shipping: £8.70)
​

Though not sure if you order, when. It would be in stock

That is the WD Blue The WD Black 512GB SSD and 1TB bundle is more expensive. The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is on offer at the minute for £139.99 so it works out a coupe of quid cheaper when paired with a 1TB Seagate.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £139.99
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £39.95

Total: £188.64 (includes shipping: £8.70)
​

 

[orbitalwalsh]

That is the WD Blue The WD Black 512GB SSD and 1TB bundle is more expensive. The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is on offer at the minute for £139.99 so it works out a coupe of quid cheaper when paired with a 1TB Seagate.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £139.99
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £39.95

Total: £188.64 (includes shipping: £8.70)
​

Khaaaaaaan! Thought it was black !
But yeah , push 500GB even if you ditch the HDD, they aren't going up in prices like SSDs!

You get a 256GB drive, slap it into the PC and windows detects it at 246GB odd or lower , then you install windows and fall update back and that's 40GB gone , you can delete older versions now to claw back space.