New Ryzen gaming pc

[mshargreaves]

Can anybody spec me a build based around the linked monitor, which is on offer at the moment?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-3...descreen-led-monitor-black-red-mo-14c-lg.html.
Budget about £1300-1400 inc monitor.
Moving from IMAC back to pc so will need mouse and keyboard + operating system.

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x LG 34UC79G 34" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC 144Hz Curved Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red= £488.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £104.99
• 1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £79.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TDGED416G300= £119.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600X 4.00GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £229.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £69.95
• 1 x Antec P8 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black Glass Window= £69.95
• 1 x Raijintek Leto White LED Slim 120mm CPU Cooler= £26.99
• 1 x Voucher= £-100.00

Total: £1,208.79
(includes shipping: £0.00)



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Monitor discount code:

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LG100

So, being a Freesync monitor, you'd want an AMD card preferably, unless you don't care too much about that and are buying the monitor for other reasons like size, curved, resolution, refresh rate. If you look around you'll find some £250-280 AMD 580 8GB cards in stock. Will take you a bit over budget, however you can also find Windows cheaper. If need be, a cheaper case etc. That one brings 3 x 120mm white led fans and the CPU cooler 1 x 120mm white led fan.

I don't know how much storage you're ok to begin with so selected a 250GB SSD for now.

There's still the issue of keyboard & mouse too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Cougar 200K Gaming Keyboard= £24.95
• 1 x Cougar 200M Optical Gaming Mouse - Orange= £14.99

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If you can stretch to £1510 for those and a £270 RX 580 8GB, great. There are Sapphire Pulse 580 8GB and Gigabyte Aorus 8GB for around that price. Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB slightly above that.

AMD have new Vega cards coming out in weeks (or should). But the price could be close to £400 for the "slower" of the two variants, as far as I'm aware.

 

[mshargreaves]

Thanks Danny,
Would like the AMD card to go with monitor, but all the 580's have been bitcoined, the few that are available are going for more like £350-£400.
Are they likely to release more 580's soon, or are they concentrating on getting the vega out?

 

[Minibiker]

I'm sure they will supply more GPU's but because of the current Mining situation its hard to get hold of most newer AMD cards..

 

[Danny75]

If you have the money, pre-order two or three different cards for around the price I mentioned, i.e. get the monitor, and spend the rest of the budget on RX 580 8GB pre-orders. When you finally receive one, cancel the rest and buy the rest of the system. Or, if they are still selling for crazy money, you could sell them yourself.

They have to do something about mining in the long-term. Make pure mining cards without gaming functions or something. This "bundle" nonsense they are planning is a lost opportunity to actually do something effective. All it does is ask you to spend on even more AMD products.

 

[MikeB]

Get the 1600 not the 1600x