Returning gamer need advice, £1k(ish) build advice.

JAW_Jontain

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JAW_Jontain

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Evening gents,

Has been a while since I've been on the forum, so long that I needed to recreate my account! As such I'm not very up to speed with what's what in the latest hardware race or even that familiar with the new types of tech such as m.2/ssd HD etc (SATA was relatively new when I last built a rig).

I'm wanting to spend about £1k, give or take a hundred, on a gaming rig for a mix of games. Mainly looking for stable fps on the more recent games but something that will be as future proof as can be. I have no restrictions to do with monitor setup as mine is about as basic as it gets and will need updating in the future along with the possibility of a HTC Vive.

So what would be your preference with that kind of budget? Intel or AMD? I'm guessing Nvida over ATI? I would prefer a Corsair case and PSU if possible, always had confidence in ASUS, Gigabyte and Corsair for hardware but can be dissuaded if there is a much better bang for buck option.

Sorry to rattle on, my last questions to finish on would be:-

1. Can I reuse my current windows 10 key I bought for my current machine?

2. Is watercooling necessary these days for a decent mid/high range gaming rig?

3. Am I looking to buy just before any know tech releases that could shake up prices in he next couple of months?

I think that's it for now. I know it's a long post and a £1k machine isn't at the pinnacle for most on here but I've always had really solid advice from this forum in the past.

Any help or advice you can offer is much appreciated.
 
EsaT said:
While Intel has slight advantage in most games AMD is going to use current AM4 socket to 2020.
That gives upgrade path to improved architecture CPUs made on new manufacturing process.
So you could keep AMD platform current longer.
When ever it actually comes you can be sure Intel is going to demand buying new motherboard for actually improved architecture CPU.
(Intel's 10nm node seems to be total mess)

For PSU Seasonic Focus Plus serie has others beaten in quality/performance per price.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-05p-ss.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-05q-ss.html


Water cooling has never been necessary.
In fact for getting same cooling per noise than in good heat pipe cooler you need to pay many times more from water (pipe) cooler.
Compact/slim radiators simply don't have any more surface area to dissipate heat to air while having pump as additional noise source.
Sure biggest heat pipe coolers have issues with DIMM/PCI-e slot clearance.
But something like Scythe Mugen 5 avoids those issues while still beating lots of water coolers in cooling per noise.
And is very affordably priced unlike big hype brands:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/scythe-scmg-5100-mugen-5-cpu-cooler-hs-046-sy.html
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The is for the reply, for some reason I couldn't get the PSU's linked in the spec, overclockers doesn't list them I'm the options?

Good to hear about the water cooling, fan and heat sink it is.

Many thanks for your reply.
 
Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies and sorry for going quiet, life got in the way but looking to get back to planning.

The budget has crept up to 1.5k whilst I've been playing around but would really like to keep it under that. Also I'm leaning toward assembling the rig myself as it's been quiet a few years since I last built one, I'm no expert mind!

Based on that I have been looking at the Ryzen 7 bundle with the 16gb team force RAM, 1080 card, m2 drive for os.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/checkout/deleteArticle/sDelete/19653586/sTargetAction/cart

Not sure if the above link works but that is what I have been looking at, any advise on the build? Things to be aware of? Or any changes you would make?

As always your help is greatly apprichiated.
 
EsaT said:
That link to shopping cart would work only from your PC.
When in shopping cart there's bbcode button, which gives you content to copy&paste into message.
Click to expand...

Ah many thanks for the tip, let's try this again:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,453.98 (includes shipping: £14.10)​
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Thanks for the reply, I think your right the 650 should be ample and will save a bit off the total.

In terms of quiet I don't mind but planned to use the standard cooler to begin with and then maybe fit an all in one cpu cooler system further down the line.

I have a 1tb mechanical drive in my current build that I would be moving over purely for media. The m2 would be os and ssd for games.
 
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