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Jennsyman

Jennsyman

Jennsyman

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Hi all, new to the site, a friend recommended it to me .
I was hoping I could get some advice from people that know what their talking about as I havent got a clue yet lol.
A chap has offered to build a PC for me just the tower, all new parts. He seems nice and I havent any reason to doubt him but it doesnt hurt to shop around and see if i could more for my money. Please could you tell me if this is a good price.
Ryzen 5 1400
A320 motherboard
8gb ram
1tb hdd
gtx1050 ti
AVP Black mamba case
£600.

Its for my daughter She starts A lvl course in media so has to be reasonable enough to run the odd game and video editing software.
Any advice would greatly appreciated.
 
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Or ask him to drop it to a gtx 1050 so you can get the core to a ryze 1600.
Also board above's chipset is B350 which always to core to be overclocked and run faster ram which is key to Ryzen performance, a320 doesn't .
Pay for an all you can eat buffet ... Your damn well gonna try to shove as much on that plate as you can :D​
 
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The price for that seems very reasonable, especially if Windows included in the £600 figure, and if the PSU is at least a 450W from a well-known brand. So that's that question answered.

What you also need to consider is whether it's worth spending £600 on those parts, or whether spending £650-700 would be more worthwhile, know what I mean?

Thinking of an SSD (solid state drive) like in Orbital's spec which would make her experience using the machine so much more pleasant (lot snappier than a hard disk drive). Change processor to Ryzen 1600 (the price difference is minimal), and ask him to include a motherboard with four memory slots, so that she can add more RAM when needed.
 
@orbitalwalsh I would avoid that teamgroup SSD currently. No reviews and spec sheet doesn't list the controller/nand. Likely to be el-cheapo. Also reviews on Newegg doesn't look too glowing either. Lots failing early or being slow. (think JMicron controllers from 2007 :D)
 
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@orbitalwalsh I would avoid that teamgroup SSD currently. No reviews and spec sheet doesn't list the controller/nand. Likely to be el-cheapo. Also reviews on Newegg doesn't look too glowing either. Lots failing early or being slow. (think JMicron controllers from 2007 :D)
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I'll ask Team Group today :D

but yeah can see were your coming from, its new and out the blue and gibbo has slapped such a could sale on it, its screaming to go into a basket without judgement
 
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@Jennsyman i would tend to agree with this statement here:

Danny75 said:
What you also need to consider is whether it's worth spending £600 on those parts, or whether spending £650-700 would be more worthwhile, know what I mean?
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penny wise, pound foolish.

depends on how long your kid intends to keep the system etc. only you can advise us on that (and your budget)
 
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