time to upgrade.

[jamster0212]

currently rocking my trusty 970/ 4790k i7 build but i feel its time to upgrade.

budget is £1600 max.

i have monitors / peripherals so budget is just for the tower.


ive made a basket but not sure how to post it in the thread.

any help is muchly appreciated

Corsair TX850M 850W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020130-UK)
SKU CA-236-CS
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£99.95

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
SKU HD-23Y-SA
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£124.99

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card
SKU GX-1DW-GI
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£699.95

Kolink Observatory Lite ARGB Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black
SKU CA-04R-KK
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£59.99

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - Asus TUF X570-Plus WIFI Bundle
SKU BU-07U-AS
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[jamster0212]

currently rocking my trusty 970/ 4790k i7 build but i feel its time to upgrade.

budget is £1600 max.

i have monitors / peripherals so budget is just for the tower.


ive made a basket but not sure how to post it in the thread.

any help is muchly appreciated

just to note. I don’t upgrade very often as you can probably tell by my current set up so I really wanna try future proof for as long as possible as long as it’s not crazy out of my budget so let’s say it’s £50 over budget but gives a lot more future proofing then I’d love to hear any help.

thanks guys.

 

[Haz123]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Kolink Observatory Lite ARGB Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CA-04R-KK) = £59.99
  
• 1 x Corsair TX850M 850W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020130-UK) (SKU: CA-236-CS) = £99.95
  
• 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-23Y-SA) = £124.99
  
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1DW-GI) = £699.95
  
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - Asus TUF X570-Plus WIFI Bundle (SKU: BU-07U-AS) = £576.92

Total: £1,573.50 (includes delivery: £11.70)​

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I put your choices into a basket to make it easier. When on the cart look down for the BBCODE tab, click it and copy paste the text into here and it shows up like the above.

 

[Haz123]

Alternative Intel Build.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-36B-MS) = £229.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - OEM (SKU: CP-6A7-IN) = £269.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C8K) (SKU: MY-104-PA) = £59.99
• 1 x CORSAIR RM Series RM850 Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise ATX Power Supply - White (SKU: CA-26J-CS) = £109.99
• 1 x Kolink Observatory Lite ARGB Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CA-04R-KK) = £59.99
• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer II High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 240mm (SKU: HS-07B-AR) = £69.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Vision OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1DZ-GI) = £699.94

Total: £1,512.44 (includes delivery: £12.60)​

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Would most likely want to go for Win11 with the above build so that needs to be taken into account.

 

[jamster0212]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Kolink Observatory Lite ARGB Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CA-04R-KK) = £59.99
  
• 1 x Corsair TX850M 850W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020130-UK) (SKU: CA-236-CS) = £99.95
  
• 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-23Y-SA) = £124.99
  
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1DW-GI) = £699.95
  
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - Asus TUF X570-Plus WIFI Bundle (SKU: BU-07U-AS) = £576.92

Total: £1,573.50 (includes delivery: £11.70)​

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I put your choices into a basket to make it easier. When on the cart look down for the BBCODE tab, click it and copy paste the text into here and it shows up like the above.

Thanks so much for sorting that. I couldn’t fro the life of me figure it out. I clicked bb code and pasted but it just posted a load of code so wasn’t sure. Do I need to put anything I front of the code etc? Also any critic of the above mentioned build or is it okay to go? Thanks

 

[jamster0212]

Alternative Intel Build.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WIFI DDR4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-36B-MS) = £229.99
  
• 1 x Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - OEM (SKU: CP-6A7-IN) = £269.99
  
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C8K) (SKU: MY-104-PA) = £59.99
  
• 1 x CORSAIR RM Series RM850 Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise ATX Power Supply - White (SKU: CA-26J-CS) = £109.99
  
• 1 x Kolink Observatory Lite ARGB Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CA-04R-KK) = £59.99
  
• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer II High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 240mm (SKU: HS-07B-AR) = £69.95
  
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Vision OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1DZ-GI) = £699.94

Total: £1,512.44 (includes delivery: £12.60)​

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Would most likely want to go for Win11 with the above build so that needs to be taken into account.

Thanks for the alternate build. I’m way out the loop. The last pc I built was for a friend and he has a 2700x. Is there much difference between amd/intel anymore? I’m really looking for bang for buck. I don’t need insane timings or frames etc. i just can’t afford much more than £1600 realistically without being on beans on toast for a while haha. Thanks again.

 

[Haz123]

I would wait a bit on your build. The mobo/chip/ram bundle looks expensive.

AMD and Intel are close enough that performance is not the only metric you want to look at, you also have to look for value. If you really are looking for good value then the 12400F is the current part to go for with a sensibly priced Z690 or B660 mobo.

You do not need to do anything with the BBCODE , just cut and paste all in the window. It looks a bit funky but once you post the reply the forum sorts it out.

 

[jamster0212]

I would wait a bit on your build. The mobo/chip/ram bundle looks expensive.

AMD and Intel are close enough that performance is not the only metric you want to look at, you also have to look for value. If you really are looking for good value then the 12400F is the current part to go for with a sensibly priced Z690 or B660 mobo.

You do not need to do anything with the BBCODE , just cut and paste all in the window. It looks a bit funky but once you post the reply the forum sorts it out.

Thanks for the reply/ info. What’s been putting me off probably for the last 12/18 months is gpu prices. Do you happen to know how the market is looking now adays things are going back to normal abit? Should I wait abit longer or are they low atm?

 

[Haz123]

GPU prices have stabilized and are around the expected price. We would all like them lower but it is not insane like it was 12 months ago. New gpus due out towards the end of the year, they are rumoured to be extremely power hungry and likely to be very expensive. This is not that bad a time to buy in comparison to the past 18months or so.

A more budget friendly build.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI Pro B660M-A WIFI DDR4 - Intel B660 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-36L-MS) = £129.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £164.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AK-TG) = £49.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 3060Ti Twin X2 LHR 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-07U-IN) = £479.99
• 1 x CORSAIR RM Series RM850 Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise ATX Power Supply - White (SKU: CA-26J-CS) = £109.99
• 1 x Crucial P2 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-070-CR) = £88.79
• 1 x Arctic Freezer i35 Intel CPU Cooler (SKU: HS-080-AR) = £29.98
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black (SKU: CA-051-KK) = £53.00

Total: £1,118.38 (includes delivery: £11.70)​

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You can easily put a 3070ti into that build instead of a 3060ti. You are paying around 40% more for approx 20% better fps so the 3060ti is better value at the moment. 12400F is best value cpu at moment but gone out of stock at OCUK.

You can always pay more and buy faster components but the best way to future proof is to buy sensibly priced parts and upgrade when you need to.

 

[JollyJamma]

Good advice above.

rather get the Best GPU you can afford.

you could get a 3080 and an 850 watt psu and see if that works for you in your current rig but that’s a bit of an imbalanced system.

 

[lee32uk]

Is this just a gaming pc ? and if so what resolution are you gaming at ?