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LouiseAR

LouiseAR

LouiseAR

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I'm pretty clueless but I need a PC for my daughter. She plays / streams fortnite, sims, gta 5 and uses editing software like after effects. I've looked at prebuilts for around £1000 with RTX 3060 but the reviews seem to say cooling is an issue.

Budget is £1000 but can stretch a few hundred if its really important. Already have everything else including 2 monitors. I wanted to have it ready for her birthday on Friday but it's all gone to pot.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
LouiseAR said:
I'm pretty clueless but I need a PC for my daughter. She plays / streams fortnite, sims, gta 5 and uses editing software like after effects. I've looked at prebuilts for around £1000 with RTX 3060 but the reviews seem to say cooling is an issue.

Budget is £1000 but can stretch a few hundred if its really important. Already have everything else including 2 monitors. I wanted to have it ready for her birthday on Friday but it's all gone to pot.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Below is a build with everything in stock. Put in a AMD 6600XT which is more powerful than a 3060 but below a 3060ti. They do have a 3060ti on order priced at £515(put at the bottom, which is an asus card £100 less than everything else...this will be new stock they managed to get cheaper as prices start coming down, not that it's worse than the others) which will add £100 compared to 6600XT, but you'll have to wait for it
The mobo isn't the cheapest b550 board out there but is a good quality one with good vrm's, wifi and can handle a 5950X, so if you want to put in a more heavy duty cpu in future, the board can handle it. Can go cheaper if you don't want wifi, don't ever think you'll upgrade cpu etc, but this mobo runs cool
5600X is a great gaming cpu and price has been reduced to compete with intels new cpu's. cheapest of the newest generation until rumoured 5600/5500 etc get released
Power supply is a gold rated with 10yrs warranty. it's 650W, more than enough for a 3060ti/6600xt, but if in 4yrs you think you may want to put a 3080 or equivalent new gen gpu at the time, you may want to up that. If you don't mind buying away, seen the white RM850 for £93(2021 version)...not needed for your build as overkill, only trying to futureproof a bit, the RM750 in black for £82..white version more expensive than the rm850. whatever psu you choose, get from a good brand, modular with 10yrs warranty . if go with white psu, cables are white, which might look better with white case..still looking to see if can get a white psu close to the phanteks price
Put in 16gb 3600c18 corsair ram...if you want slightly faster 3600C16, I'd go crucial 3600C16 for £75..price is the same for non rgb/rgb sticks...that would be the best at the mo, but is reality, you wont really notice difference unless benchmarking
Case is a 4000X 'b' grade...normally means box is damaged/has a small scratch/been returned if someone openned it and changed their mind...white case is on offer anyway for £95 new if you prefer, though seen it new for £90 away. I have the 5000X case which is deeper..allows more fans to be added down side, more air inside and for future if you rebuild room for a 360mm aio in roof(4000 series is a 240mm max)...seen that in white for £115 away incl next day free delivery...will put pic below



My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,122.48 (includes delivery: £12.60)​










My basket at OcUK:

Total: £524.89 (includes delivery: £9.90)






Seen below for £115 incl delivery
My basket at OcUK:

Total: £162.59 (includes delivery: £12.60)


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Building a pc looks really daunting, but isn't that hard in reality, and can be extremely fun and something you can do with your daughter. Plenty of people here more than happy to help if you get stuck, just ask here, or start a thread in the project logs too. I created an imgur account, uploaded my photo's to that as one way of posting pics etc to forum
 
The 6600xt is a fantastic card for gaming and I would normally recommend it very highly, specially at this price. But the NVidia 3060 is worth considering for its much better video encoder. Kind of becomes a bit of a trade off compared to the 6600xt. Worse general gaming performance, but better looking stream. Also fortnite specifically tends to prefer nvidia GPUs so if they are mostly playing that they wouldn't really see a performance difference.

That said personally when I used to stream I used an AMD graphics card and just used the CPU to encode the stream. Which is more resource heavy but can look better than either brand of GPU encoder. And in truth there aren't really bad options, just slightly better options than others... well, except for the 6500xt, that one doesn't have an encoder. So definitely bad for streaming.
 
LouiseAR said:
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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LouiseAR said:
I wanted to have it ready for her birthday on Friday but it's all gone to pot.
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You want it built by Friday?

One of two solutions, you either buy something off the shelf (Can you maybe call OCUK see what they have in stock that fits your needs?) or you get the parts ordered today and build it tomorrow/Thursday. If you don't want to build it yourself, then I could help you but I'm not really that close to your location, more than happy to offer though. Good luck. :)
 
This is going a little off topic, but I think building it between you might be fun, and you know whats better than opening one big box on your birthday? opening 9 big boxes
 
StarShock said:
The 6600xt is a fantastic card for gaming and I would normally recommend it very highly, specially at this price. But the NVidia 3060 is worth considering for its much better video encoder. Kind of becomes a bit of a trade off compared to the 6600xt. Worse general gaming performance, but better looking stream. Also fortnite specifically tends to prefer nvidia GPUs so if they are mostly playing that they wouldn't really see a performance difference.

That said personally when I used to stream I used an AMD graphics card and just used the CPU to encode the stream. Which is more resource heavy but can look better than either brand of GPU encoder. And in truth there aren't really bad options, just slightly better options than others... well, except for the 6500xt, that one doesn't have an encoder. So definitely bad for streaming.
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Good point, I was focusing on the gaming aspect rather than streaming, and the 6600Xt is better than the 3060 in that respect...my pref is the 3060ti, which is close to 30% faster than the 3060 and a step up in gaming performance..couple that with the dlss and the fact that fSR2 is meant to be good and will work with these cards, think it will last a long time. the asus card is a fantastic price(if you can call it that, compared to the other cards, but £514 is £145 over the msrp of the fe card, and aib cards are always more expensive than those, so must be the closest I've seen to true msrp for this generation) but as on order and OP wants it all for fri, time is a factor...I've just had a look and just found it at another store, available for delivery tomorrow, but price is £563.99, so £40 more for the quick delivery

most of the 3060's are £499 unless you want a single fan option, which I guess is only asthetics, but I can't help but think they look a bit wee and puny if you have them on view in your build:cry:...guess I'm a gpu snob. They have the asus dual fan option (smaller brother to the 3060ti above) on order too for £439, but again, hasn't arrived yet


Think I'd be tempted to ring and see when the 3060ti is expected to arrive
My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,815.06 (includes delivery: £11.10)​






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LouiseAR said:
I've looked at prebuilts for around £1000 with RTX 3060 but the reviews seem to say cooling is an issue.
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With regard to GPUs, get Telegram, sign up for FE PartAlert, and be quick when FE cards drop (they go in minutes). Note that the links will go to a competitor of OCUK and you will need to create an account there - it's best if you do that beforehand.
 
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