Spend my £500 for me!

FlamBango · Monday at 13:03

need to update my archaic pc. I have £500 to spend, ive already got 32Gigs of DDR4 ram(corsair vengeance lpx) and a small NVMe drive to put the OS on. I have an NVidia GForce 2060 Super which tbh runs things fine at the moment in 1080p so i will keep that and upgrade it in a few months time when i can save some more money. Appreciate that it will be a bottleneck now but thats ok. I really just want a MB and CPU. Was looking at a Ryzen 5 5600 but think i can push the boat out a little more with a bigger budget if its worth it. I just dont know much about motherboards.

What say ye?

Tetras · Monday at 15:20

For gaming, get the 5700X3D, there's nothing better for an AM4 PC (except for the 5800X3D, but that's vaporware and usually not worth the added ££).

jamesdourish · Monday at 19:46

I did try to post you some ideas, but was deleted for some ridiculous reason

ED209 · Monday at 19:53

jamesdourish said:
I did try to post you some ideas, but was deleted for some ridiculous reason

Normally its down to people posting links to sites that sell PC parts that OCUK sell.

It's in the rules that you cannot link to competitor sites. (unsure if this was the reason as I never saw what you posted)

jamesdourish · Monday at 20:23

Ahh, I'm so used to generic forums, apologies

ED209 · Monday at 20:32

jamesdourish said:
Ahh, I'm so used to generic forums, apologies

No problem, it happens.

Craig_d1 · Monday at 21:37

seeing as you need a mobo as well, I'd be tempted to sell the 32gb of ddr4 ram and just go am5. £500 is more than enough for a mobo, 7600x, 32gb ddr5 6000c30 and a cooler

below is 50 game average of the 7600x vs the 5800x3d..at 1080p the 5800x3d is 4% slower than the 7600x, and that's faster than the 5700x3d. Also with the am5, you've got a future upgrade path..if buying a am4 mobo and then the 5700x3d, you're basically done..nothing to upgrade to in the futre without getting another mobo

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs. Ryzen 5 7600X: 50+ Game Benchmark

We take fan favorite Ryzen 7 5800X3D and compare it head to head with the new Ryzen 5 7600X in over 50 games. Yes, the 5800X3D is...

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selling the ddr4 ram gives you a bit more cash to either put with the £20 left to go towards your future gpu upgrade down the line or get a better mobo(though nothing wrong with the eagle, can run a 7950x so wont have a problem running a 7800x3d/9800x3d in the future etc

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03573) = £149.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02786) = £89.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DG-AM) = £209.98
1 x Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02418) = £29.99

Total: £479.95 (includes delivery: £0.00)

thebandit · Monday at 21:48

I think in long term investment terms the above AM5 advice is sound, might be a bit overkill for your 2060 right now, but its gives you plently or options going forward. If you shop around you can get the same or similar above for around £40 less, which would leave you budget for a 1tb nvme (as you mention above the one you have is small).