New PC - possibly for VR in future

jamesy505

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Hey, looking to buy a pre-built PC for my son as my build skills are severely lacking.

He is interested in VR but that will be further down the line.

I was looking at the Doom Eternal PC here...

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...rnal-amd-ryzen-5-amd-radeon-rx-fs-1cy-og.html

Can any let me know if this will be good enough and if there are any upgrades I should be adding?

Max budget is £1k. I also need a monitor but that cost is not included in budget.

Cheers
 
Pretty solid option for a gaming PC. I'd probably opt to get the 5700 over the 5500XT however for the extra £100. Obviously with your budget you could get a lot more from building a PC, so I'd maybe have a look into seeing if that's possible before buying a prebuilt!
 
jamesy505 said:
Can any let me know if this will be good enough and if there are any upgrades I should be adding?
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Yes, just decide on a spec yourself then ask for a build quote. That way you can get a better PSU and motherboard in for future upgrades, and faster RAM and a larger SSD and ditch the HDD. Example:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £926.22 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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You get free shipping. Build fee should be about £100 but the exact figure is up to OcUK when you ask.

The cheap SSD can be relegated to games drive in future when/if you add a faster NVME. NVME prices aren't great just now.

Can also save money by installing Windows yourself. That would make the difference between RTX 2060 and a 5700 XT for example.
 
Danny75 said:
Yes, just decide on a spec yourself then ask for a build quote. That way you can get a better PSU and motherboard in for future upgrades, and faster RAM and a larger SSD and ditch the HDD. Example:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £926.22 (includes shipping: £12.30)
​

You get free shipping. Build fee should be about £100 but the exact figure is up to OcUK when you ask.

The cheap SSD can be relegated to games drive in future when/if you add a faster NVME. NVME prices aren't great just now.

Can also save money by installing Windows yourself. That would make the difference between RTX 2060 and a 5700 XT for example.
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I have been messing around with the configuration tool and came up with a couple of options:-

The Doom Eternal PC with added AMD Ryzen 3700X and upgrading the GPU to the RX 5700XT OR

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...7-2700x-geforce-rtx-2070-super-fs-1dw-og.html

Thoughts?

I wasnt aware OC built to spec, so thats interesting. Your build above, would that work with a RTX 2070 ?
 
jamesy505 said:
I have been messing around with the configuration tool and came up with a couple of options:-

The Doom Eternal PC with added AMD Ryzen 3700X and upgrading the GPU to the RX 5700XT OR

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...7-2700x-geforce-rtx-2070-super-fs-1dw-og.html

Thoughts?
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Personally I balk at anything nearing £1000 with a sub-par PSU that's not even Bronze, an unspecified Gigabyte B450 mobo when the MSI B450s are better (especially for 8 core Ryzens or higher) and less than 3200MHz C16 RAM for a Ryzen. And that spec is £1,369 with the Ryzen 3700X instead of 2700X.


jamesy505 said:
I wasnt aware OC built to spec, so thats interesting. Your build above, would that work with a RTX 2070 ?
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Yes, no problems. It would work with a good quality 450W as well. Good quality 550W for 5700 XT.

The way things are going with games and how large they are getting, it's so much better to have them on SSD these days due to there being more to load and time saved. Hence would recommend a bigger 1TB SSD to begin with (especially since the budget is quite healthy). Then you can add a 2TB/whatever SSD in future for more games space if needed. HDD still fine for movies, pics, docs.

If you change CPU to 3700X I would add a cooler. The Alpenfohn Brocken Eco in that pre-built is fine for 3700X. So are the Arctic Freezer34/dual fan edition.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £133.66 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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Danny75 said:
Personally I balk at anything nearing £1000 with a sub-par PSU that's not even Bronze, an unspecified Gigabyte B450 mobo when the MSI B450s are better (especially for 8 core Ryzens or higher) and less than 3200MHz C16 RAM for a Ryzen. And that spec is £1,369 with the Ryzen 3700X instead of 2700X.




Yes, no problems. It would work with a good quality 450W as well. Good quality 550W for 5700 XT.

The way things are going with games and how large they are getting, it's so much better to have them on SSD these days due to there being more to load and time saved. Hence would recommend a bigger 1TB SSD to begin with (especially since the budget is quite healthy). Then you can add a 2TB/whatever SSD in future for more games space if needed. HDD still fine for movies, pics, docs.

If you change CPU to 3700X I would add a cooler. The Alpenfohn Brocken Eco in that pre-built is fine for 3700X. So are the Arctic Freezer34/dual fan edition.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £133.66 (includes shipping: £8.70)
​
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Thanks for the reply.

So if I had a budget of say £1400, that needs to include a monitor, could you spec a pc?

Price would need to include an estimate for the OC build.
 
@jamesy505

For £1400 what I'd do is keep that same spec from before (change case if you like), keep the Ryzen 3600 and use stock cooler - can upgrade to an 8 or 12 core Ryzen 4000 series later on, so that £1000 goes on all that (subject to build quote) and the remaining £400 can go on a Pixio PX7P 27" 2560x1440 165Hz IPS monitor which you can find elsewhere. And use the provided Display Port cable to enable Gsync/Freesync (and enable Gsync in Nvidia control panel). That's a great monitor you won't need to upgrade for years except on a whim. And so the system will only need upgrading with more powerful CPU and GPU as games get more demanding, and more storage if needed.

RTX 2060 still not a bad card for that res and refresh rate. I'm getting by with a slower GTX 1070 and can still get decent fps in Doom Eternal with all Ultra (strictly speaking Doom has a few even higher settings than Ultra but it looks fantastic the way it is). The Doom in-game HDR is working well on my BenQ EX2780Q (same panel as the Pixio PX7P but lower overclock). So it should be fine on the Pixio as well. There's only a slight issue with the game's HDR which is that if I exit the game with HDR enabled, the next time I load the game the screen flickers. But if I remember to disable HDR before exiting, and just enable HDR after loading, it works fine all the time.

P.S. If you can install Windows yourself, as I said earlier, then you have another £100 to play with.
 
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