Spec me a pc please

[Dexys]

My last PC was built around start of 2018 and lasted until an incident with a cat and a glass of water.. it was running most things on high back then and still managed RE9 Requiem and other new/newish games at medium (though not close to a stable 60FPS).

Ideally looking to spend around £1400 for a new PC (have all the peripherals, some nice SSD's, monitors to be upgraded later) that can run new games at High-Ultra settings with a good, stable FPS. Looking to get something that will last a long time, though understandably settings will have to drop down in the future.. so either solid parts now that will last (as in my old build) or with scope for upgrades in future.

Is this realistic or will I have to be flexible somewhere? Thanks in advance!


Purchase Timeframe: Ideally ASAP

Budget: £1400~

Usage: Gaming (TW:WH3, Darktide, BG3, RE9

Preferences: AMD - Heard good things about a paired Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Sapphire Pulse RX 9070 CT?

Current Hardware: Fried (AMD Ryzen 1700, Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 Nitro+ 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express, Antec EarthWatts Gold Pro 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply, GIGABYTE K5 GA-AX370-Gaming Motherboard, 32GB DDR4 RAM)

Peripherals: N/A

Special Needs/Requirements (inc Wi-Fi): WiFi not essential as I have a wired connection, but would be nice. I have 4 4tb Samsung SSD's that I got on a great offer, would like to be able to port all of those over.

 

[Tetras]

Current Hardware: Fried (AMD Ryzen 1700, Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 Nitro+ 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express, Antec EarthWatts Gold Pro 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply, GIGABYTE K5 GA-AX370-Gaming Motherboard, 32GB DDR4 RAM)

Is none of it salvageable? Normally it wouldn't matter, but £1400 isn't that big a budget with the high RAM/SSD prices

I have 4 4tb Samsung SSD's that I got on a great offer, would like to be able to port all of those over.

Are these SATA or M.2?

Will one be your boot drive?

If they are not SATA then this build would work, but over budget due to selecting a board with 4x M.2 slots.

Peerless assassin/phantom spirit for cooler if you need a new one (AM4 coolers are usually AM5 compatible) and you're happy with air. Costs ~£30.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £299.99
• 1 x MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI (AMD AM5) B850 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03993) = £219.95
• 1 x ADATA XPG LANCER BLADE 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (SKU: MEM-ADA-07164) = £329.98
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 9070 Prime OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASU-04157) = £530.00
• 1 x Kolink Unity Lateral ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-07P-KK) = £29.98
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming EVO 750W ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ASU-07629) = £80.00

Total: £1,502.89 (includes delivery: £12.99)​

Intel alternative to get everything under budget (again going for 4x M.2 slots):

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-07479) = £209.99
• 1 x Intel Spring Bundle - Lego Batman - Legend of the Dark Knight (SKU: DIG-INT-08034) = £0.00
• 1 x Asrock Z890 Pro-A (LGA 1851) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03365) = £166.99
• 1 x Intel Z890/B860 Bundle - Dying Light The Beast or Civilization VII or Hitma (SKU: DIG-INT-08583) = £0.00
• 1 x ADATA XPG LANCER BLADE 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (SKU: MEM-ADA-07164) = £329.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 9070 Prime OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASU-04157) = £529.99
• 1 x Kolink Unity Lateral ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-07P-KK) = £29.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming EVO 750W ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ASU-07629) = £79.99
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black Dual Tower CPU Air Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03280) = £32.99

Total: £1,392.92 (includes delivery: £12.99)​

 

[Dexys]

Is none of it salvageable? Normally it wouldn't matter, but £1400 isn't that big a budget with the high RAM/SSD prices


Are these SATA or M.2?

Will one be your boot drive?

If they are not SATA then this build would work, but over budget due to selecting a board with 4x M.2 slots.

Ahh interesting, I had been hoping to put off an upgrade until next year but I was already thinking it was overdue. I think with that, not considering that any of it might be compatible with new parts, reaching the limits of my hardware knowledge, and just being a bit fed up with the situation and heat today I wrote it all off!

Realistically I think the graphics card was the only thing that took any damage. I've cleaned it up, dried it out and tried it again with no luck. Everything else runs/starts up, code on the motherboard says that it has booted, I just don't have any output. I've tried to see if my monitors will connect via onboard graphics with no luck - I get an 0d error code on the motherboard when trying to enter BIOS to switch to onboard graphics. Advice has led me to reseat RAM and clear CMOS with no effect, checked and reseated CPU but need to grab some thermal paste and reconnect the cooler before switching it on to check.

Long story short, I think it's just the graphics card but can't confirm that to be the case just yet! Apologies if I went too far off topic.

Tell me about it, this really wasn't in the budget for this year, especially not with those RAM prices!

Should have mentioned, those are SATA and I can make one the boot drive.

With that in mind, how does that impact the build/outlook?

 

[Tetras]

Realistically I think the graphics card was the only thing that took any damage.

For maximum saving, it would be to just upgrade the CPU and graphics card.

From a 1700, a 5600 variant or a 5700X/5800X would be a great upgrade and you can get a 5600 around £120.

The best gaming CPU on the socket is a 5800X3D, which rivals the newer AM5 CPUs on the lower-end and can pair with any high-end card.

Less saving, if the motherboard is broken, keep the DDR4 and either go AM4 again or switch platforms (to 1700). Normally I would not suggest doing that, but it would save you ~£300 on DDR5.

Least saving, just keep the case and PSU.

Everything else runs/starts up, code on the motherboard says that it has booted, I just don't have any output. I've tried to see if my monitors will connect via onboard graphics with no luck - I get an 0d error code on the motherboard when trying to enter BIOS to switch to onboard graphics. Advice has led me to reseat RAM and clear CMOS with no effect, checked and reseated CPU but need to grab some thermal paste and reconnect the cooler before switching it on to check.

The onboard graphics is actually only the display ports, in other words: it doesn't have any. You would need a compatible CPU and the 1700 doesn't have the hardware.

Should have mentioned, those are SATA and I can make one the boot drive.

The main benefit of them not being M.2, is that you have a much wider choice of motherboards. 4x SATA ports is common, 4x M.2 slots is not (at least, not with midrange boards). Though, you do need to check that there's not lane sharing going on that disables one or more SATA ports.

 

[Craig_d1]

conversely ddr4 ram is quite pricey now as well ...i was just looking at the thread gibbo put up with the 10th anniversary 5800x3d...so that's £300 and 32gbddr4 ram is over £200 (8gb sdingle sticks were £60). OP could seel the ddr4 ram...£120-140 should be more than achievable and invest in a more budget 7600x (which is on a par with the 5800x3d averaged out..some games of course that like x3d will win by a margin) for £140, the difference between a 5800x3d and the 7600x £160 and selling the ddr4 ram pretty much covers most of the ram cost going ddr5, so you're looking at a motherboard...msi b850 gaming plus wifi for £120 at mo has 4x sata..or was about to suggest the sapphire b850m nitro+ at £120 but see that's out of stock but preorder faily quick i think (but in stock elsewhere for same price)
then at least OP on new platform which gives him upgradeability down the line


just an alternative below. used a 360mm aio as alternative to air that @Tetras put above. I've just built in the vector case and is a nice case..used a msi b850m mortar...hat to move 1 standoff (lower middle down 1 place) to align with the board standoff screw positions, but otherwise was a easy case to build in(had to remove the rear fan to make installing the top aio easier also
went with the 9070xt as more powerful than the 9070 non xt...as it's the most expensive part of the build, max'd the gpu performance (higher res the game with more eye candy turned on you go from cpu bottleneck to gpu bottleck). upgrading the cpu is cheaper than gpu...downside is the ram only has timings of 46 which isn't great...could either fine a 2nd hand 7800x3d rather than a new 7600x or go with a new 7500x3d which would be prefereable to paying up to get better timings on the ram

went 850W psu to give a little headroom for upgrading down the line also (again just an alternative)...£70 over your £1400 but then selling the ddr4 you have covers the difference with room to spare...enought to bump to 7500x3d or close to a 2nd hand 7800x3d

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Sapphire Nitro+ B850M WiFi (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05690) = £119.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DG-AM) = £139.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 9070 XT Prime OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ASU-04155) = £629.99
• 1 x ADATA XPG LANCER BLADE 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (SKU: MEM-ADA-07164) = £329.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming Gold EVO 850W ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ASU-07627) = £129.94
• 1 x Lian Li Vector V100R Mini ARGB mATX Tower Case - Black (SKU: CAS-LIA-06780) = £56.99
• 1 x Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 Black ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03256) = £49.99

Total: £1,469.88 (includes delivery: £12.99)

shop around, shops seem to have discount and sales on parts at different times.​

 

[Gray2233]

OP got permabanned guys.

 

[freddie64]

permabanned already.

Was gonna sugest a 7500X3D and a 9070 GE to go with the build Tetras suggested earlier to bring it under budget.