PC dying, building a new one, nothing fancy £550-650

Dain

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My current system is on the way out so I need to get something together fairly quickly. I am looking at a budget of £550-650 but open to a little more if it would make a noticeable difference.

My PC is mainly used for playing MMO's; Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Secret World Legends. I often have Netflix, DVD's, multiple browser tabs open on my other monitor as I game.

I will be incorporating my existing HDD, optical drive and Audigy FX soundcard.
Would a CPU cooler be necessary or is the stock one good enough?

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks for your time. Here is what I have come up with so far:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £639.15 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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a little bit more but switch a few parts for you i,e 3200 speed ram, 3600 ryzen so more cores and threads, a phanteks case, motheboard is b grade but with gigabyte get uk support, a 5500xt gpu or par with 1650 super

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £651.90 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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Go with 1600AF CPU to save youself £40-£50 quid and the B450 tomahawk MAX. your budget was like mine (imanaged to pull the below for just over £500) but I didn't have to buy a CPU cooler or PSU as I used existing ones. However I needed additional NVME drives and I had the following

CPU - 1600AF
RAM - 32GB 3200Mhz C16 Crucial Ballistix
MB - B450m Mortar Max (I choose mATX for space)
SSD1 - Corsair MP510 512GB NVMe
SSD2 - Seagate BarraCuda 510 512GB NVMe
GPU - GTX 1660 Super 6GB
Case - Thermaltake H18 (this is a mATX case - for ATX I would recommend you have a look at CiT C100 Mid Tower Gaming Case)
 
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If you can stretch your budget a little:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £716.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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If not substitute the 3600 for a 1600 AF/2600, maybe look second hand.

The 3300X is a poor buy at £140 imo, given you can get the 3600 for £40 more.
 
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pc-guy said:
Go with 1600AF CPU to save youself £40-£50 quid and the B450 tomahawk MAX. your budget was like mine (imanaged to pull the below for just over £500) but I didn't have to buy a CPU cooler or PSU as I used existing ones. However I needed additional NVME drives and I had the following

CPU - 1600AF
RAM - 32GB 3200Mhz C16 Crucial Ballistix
MB - B450m Mortar Max (I choose mATX for space)
SSD1 - Corsair MP510 512GB NVMe
SSD2 - Seagate BarraCuda 510 512GB NVMe
GPU - GTX 1660 Super 8GB
Case - Thermaltake H18 (this is a mATX case - for ATX I would recommend you have a look at CiT C100 Mid Tower Gaming Case)
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Not sure when you did your build but prices have risen quite considerably of late.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £828.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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Joxeon said:
Not sure when you did your build but prices have risen quite considerably of late.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £828.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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I never said I bought all my parts from OCUK.

My bits were sourced from all over the web and utilising cash back.

CPU - £84
MB - £72
RAM -£99
GPU - £182 (Pallite GPU)
SSD1 - £65
SSD2 -£62
Case - £34

apologies, it was just over £600 total. Although I bought the second SSD a month later due to a good deal. Thus original build cost was around £530 as priced in Feb 2020.

absolutely that everything has gone up in prices.

if I had build my system 1 month or 2 earlier during the pre-Christmas sales, I reckon it could have been another 50quid cheaper. But there was no 1600AF then. I would have to be content with 1600 as 2600 were still a bit more than I liked.
 
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