Overwhelmed and need advice please on a new build

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Ashes404

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Greetings everyone - I've used Overclockers maybe 11 years ago to build my old gaming PC, I used to be really techie and I built it myself.
Many years have passed, I'm old now haha and been gaming on a laptop foor the past 5 years or so since my old computer died.
I had such a great experience with Overclockers in the past, Id like to use them again and do a new build PC from scratch

I've watched the stickied videos in this thread on how to build a PC from scratch, but find myself a bit overwhelmed by the choices.
I would like it to be as much of a beast as possible for gaming, able to run things like Rust, Minecraft and Baldurs gate smoothly.
I also would like it to be upgradeable as time goes on if possible.
My budget is £1500-£2000

There's so many options for motherboard, graphics cards and CPU's. Trying to research and figure out which ones work well together is super difficult.
I looked at a prebuilt - the Refract gaming Jade model... The problem is once I look at reviews for the components themselves, lots of people saying they aren't good.
I also read that intel are having instability problems with 13th and 14th gen...

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out a sort of basic baseline of a few options of motherboard, a few options of GPU and a few options of CPU along with any requirements such as (If you were to pick this one you would need a certain power supply/cooling)
It's really hard to know if what I'm selecting is good for the money, bad for the money, known for being unreliable or powerful etc....

I'm leaning towards maybe just buying a prebuilt -
Any issues with this one?
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Thank you in advance for any advice you folks can give! I appreciate your time
 
RT123 said:
With the budget, I’d be looking at doing an AM5 build (£1299 for an AM4 based build, even if it’s an X3D, isn’t a great deal)

I’d suggest waiting until we know more about the new GPU launches (both AMD and NVIDIA are announcing the new GPUs on the 6th/7th) - I’d also suggest going the request a custom build quote route from Overclockers if you don’t want to build (it’s what I’ve done, since I can’t build - it actually ended up cheaper than their prebuilt options)

As a general idea, something like a 4070Super or 7800XT requires a minimum of 750W PSU (though I would suggest an 850W PSU)

If you decide to wait, come back after the new GPUs have been announced and someone can help with a parts list.

The information Gray has asked for would be useful.
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Thank you for your reply! I will perhaps wait until the new GPU launches. Will this bring down the price of previous gen ones?
 
Oh, I see! So it's not that the old gen will be cheaper particularly, but that the new gen will be better hardware for a similar price, at least initially?
I'll keep an eye out for the 5070 Ti
 
I bought a PC!

Asus TUF Gaming 850W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply£74.991£74.99
Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel£74.991£74.99
WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E)£87.491£87.49
Asrock B650M PG Riptide (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard£129.161£129.16
Aerocool Dryft v2 Midi-Tower ATX Case£49.991£49.99
Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card£524.991£524.99
Thermalright Aqua Elite 240 Black ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler£33.291£33.29
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail£157.491£157.49
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Kind of impulsive I know, but I figured I can always upgrade it down the line when the new cards have been out a while! Thank you so much for your build advice. After researching all of the parts, I was really happy with all of them
 
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