doing a bit of rgb asmy son likes the look, and so do his friends...so maybe yours does too..
1) Shop around..prices fluctuate wildly from place to place, as put above
For AMD my choice
CPU 5600X for £169 or 5600 for £139.99...on OCuk both but 5600 on preorder only as no stock left
cooler arctic a35 argb
Mobo Asus Tuf Gaming b550 plus wifi II...on offer away for £149.99
Ram corsair 32gb vengeance rgb rs black 3200c16 £112.99 or veangeance rgb pro 3600c18 for £118.99 away (same place as mobo)..with later you can actually get 2 sticks of rgb ram without the actual ram inside to populte motherboard to fill out all 4 sticks(just completes look..for £30..side note that, not recommendation to buy it)
psu OCuk got rm750 for £99 in white which is good price. Away, but free delivery seen the RM750X in black for £102
Case subjective, and think the corsair 4000D or X are great if price is right..x comes with 3 sp elite fans in front and if you don't like the glass you can buy the airflow front for £8 from corsair, but elite fans are £54 seperately..phanteks p400a on offer here for £72.99 also with vertical gpu riser which think is good deal also..corsair more modern clean line look though, but depends on price..at mo think corsair at £110(D) and £134(X) too high..4000x was £99 recently..prob go down there again for black fri my guess, just have to keep watching price
SSD(nvme) gen3 1tb SN570 for £75 on ocuk ..seen gen4 crucial P3P for £90 and the P5P for £98 away
I put the rm750x in build below, but remember can be had for £102 away, and the asus mobo, again away for £149.99, so saving £57..also you can save £70 on the ssd, just saw 2tb sn770 on offer down at £145, thought not bad for a gen4 drive..as gaming the drive will be doing reading mostly, not writing, so s/b more than good enough...doing large transfer files is where this drive suffers a little..but downloading games will be via internet so not extactly going to be held back there either..games are large..my son uses my pc and have a 2tb drive in mine..he's fast filling it up
For gpu, depends when you want to buy..the 3060tife would be my preferred choice at £369, but
@Tetras pointed out just gone out of stock(was in stock yesterday)..last time went out of stock, was restocked within a couple of weeks..i see the 3070ti went out of stock also, and that's been stocked for last couple months..wonder what's going on..maybe holding back and releasing another load when amd annouce their new gpu's? sneaky if they did, or might be holding back for stock for black fri, when people buy pc parts
My basket at OcUK:
so £727 with most expensive ram, mobo and psu buying away and 1tb SN570, leaving £273 for gpu for £1k budget
Total: £840.76 (includes delivery: £0.00)
if wanting to buy everything from OCUK
cut to 5600, changed board to the aorus elite(i chose a board with wifi in it to make like little easier so less constricted to pc placement for your son)..psu 650w but still a good unit with 10yrs warranty..leaves £330 for gpy..would still try 3060tife...you have to go to nvidia website for that card..will like to there distributor(they only used 1 for the fe cards in Uk for 3000 series)
b]My basket at
OcUK:[/b]
Total: £671.83 (includes delivery: £0.00)
The Sapphire GFX card is £50 cheaper than the powercolor card (I paid £380 for latter card) The Gaming plus has 4 more usb ports than the Tomahawk & I own the latter board. The Lian-li case & Corsair PSU bundle deal is good if you are not too fussed about case airflow. I forgot slotting in a SSD in the 2nd build. SN570 seems to be a Forum Choice and I did buy one earlier in the year to fit in the Other nephews rig. MSI AM4 boards are on the whole pretty good.
