PC Spec needed please

dunn2010

dunn2010

dunn2010

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Afternoon ladies and gents of OCUK,

once again looking to you for help for a build.

A friend of mine would like to upgrade from their 8 year old rig.

they have just bought a new gfx card GTX 1060
Don't need hard drives (just bought a crucial mx300 SSD) and have other HDD's they can use,

they do not need an OS, monitor or any accessories either.

Case they would like is NZXT H440

other than that need advice on a budget build that can run PUBG and will be VR capable (they want to get a VR headset in a few months)

Motherboard, CPU, RAM, PSU needed

Price, if you could keep it between £600-800 please if possible?

The PC as you've probably guessed will mainly be used for gaming.

thanks for your help!

Dunn
 
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £849.14 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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intel system - can spec a cheaper mobo/use a cheaper cooler, if required to bring down the cost

for pubg, intel is better for frame rates, but it is a 6c6t processor compared to the amd's 6c12t processor

 
Cheers tamzzy,

how do the ryzen chips match up to intel? I know a few years ago, everyone just spec'd Intel every time. is the Ryzen just the cheaper option? is it still better to get intel over AMD if you can afford?
 
dunn2010 said:
ryzen chips match up to intel?
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bang for buck-wise, ryzen all day long. amd's stock cooler is also pretty decent and good enough for a mild overclock and they're supporting the platform until 2020 at least, whereas intel's socket changes with every cpu iteration - ie on a dead-end socket.
for outright gaming though, intel still has the speed and ipc advantage. but for properly multithreaded stuff, amd wins.
personally, i don't feel that the 8600k is good value at all, and out of the 2 specs above, i'd probably go amd ryzen (£200 cheaper and, for all intents and purposes, nearly just as good).
i'd personally only recommend the 8700k, but your budget doesn't allow for that, unfortunately.

on your £600-800 budget, and if you do lots of multithreaded stuff like photo/video editing, then getting a 8c16t processor (ryzen 1700) for the price of a 8600k platform - that's a no brainer.
 
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