Pre-built/Custom Intel & 4090 build

[y2_dyc]

Hi All,

I'm comtemplating waiting until Black Friday and see if there's any worthy deals for pre-built 4090 builds such as Germanium. Or would it be cheaper, and have a better spec by messaging OCUK customer service to custom build.

My budget is around that mark of £3.5k, the base Germanium is currently £3699.95, but with an i7. I'd love to spec in an i9 ideally, but finding it a bit tedious to get all my components for that budget.

I'm only using the PC for gaming, but figured i'd future proof it with a fairly decent spec.

Thanks all for the help.

 

[Tetras]

I'm only using the PC for gaming, but figured i'd future proof it with a fairly decent spec.

FYI: Getting an i9 for future proofing games doesn't appear to work. E.g. the i9-10900K is slower than a 5600/i5-12400 in TPU's gaming charts here. The reason why, is that most games don't/can't compensate for slower cores by using more cores, so only the cache helps the i9 be faster than other competitive CPUs of the same generation (and not enough to save it versus newer CPUs, I'm afraid).

I'm comtemplating waiting until Black Friday and see if there's any worthy deals for pre-built 4090 builds such as Germanium. Or would it be cheaper, and have a better spec by messaging OCUK customer service to custom build.

My budget is around that mark of £3.5k, the base Germanium is currently £3699.95, but with an i7. I'd love to spec in an i9 ideally, but finding it a bit tedious to get all my components for that budget.

If it helps, I copied the spec as best I could, but some components (brand/model) aren't mentioned (e.g. SSDs, PSU and AIO):

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-14700KF (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-00801) = £398.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5BK-GI) = £329.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) (SKU: MY-0BB-TG) = £99.94
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1FC-GI) = £1,799.99
• 1 x NVIDIA - Alan Wake 2 Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-NVI-01056) = £0.00
• 1 x Samsung 980 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-24E-SA) = £38.00
• 1 x WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00540) = £56.98

• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital Midi Tower Glass Gaming Case - Galaxy Silver (SKU: CA-080-PT) = £214.99
• 1 x MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 UK PSU 1000W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-00W-MS) = £169.98
• 1 x Fractal Lumen S36 v2 AIO CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: HS-00Q-FD) = £129.94

• 1 x Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-Bit DVD - OEM (KW9-00632) (SKU: SW-18J-MS) = £110.00

Total: £3,360.79 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

The last I saw posted, OCUK charge £150 + 4% of the build, so my assumption is that this would be around £300.