Which build is better.

Clairvoyant · 2 Oct 2018 at 10:20

I'm looking for a mid range gaming pc for my son.

I have seen these 2 build's.

Ryzen build £250
Intel £500

Which is better and last longer.

pastymuncher · 2 Oct 2018 at 11:48

The Intel build is much stronger for a gaming and all round pc. That 7600k is overclockable in that Z270 motherboard which will give it a nice boost over stock speeds. The 1050ti is much more powerful than the RX550 in the AMD build which is I believe around GT1030 performance. The downside is that it's a dead platform and the only upgrade would be to drop a 7700k in it. The AMD AM4 platform can take any cpu they launch until 2020 if I remember right.

Journey · 2 Oct 2018 at 12:11

Buy the AMD system, sell the RX550, and the 1300X, buy and install an R5 2600 and Radeon RX580 for the same total cost as the Intel system.

Lokken86 · 2 Oct 2018 at 18:29

Yea the Intel one is better but its on a redundant platform. The Ryzen platform is going to provide upgrade options in the future.

As said above you could sell the cpu and gpu to upgrade the Ryzen system. Personally I would just drop a 570 into it as it is since the 1300x actually holds up alright in gaming. Performance is similar to a skylake i5 6600k
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_3_1200_and_1300x_review,23.html
just overclock it a bit if you want but these benchmarks are with a much stronger gpu: with the 570 the results for all the processors would have been much closer together.

This would be cheaper and much faster overall for games (up to 50%+).

Jamin280672 · 2 Oct 2018 at 18:45

Id say get the AMD platform too, for half the price at £250 its a steal, then do as @Journey said, sell the GPU and the CPU, but update the bios first before removing those parts, it will make sure a 2600 is supported then, and then buy a 2600 and an RX570 mid range GPU or RX580 high end GPU, you'll have a rocking system then.

Clairvoyant · 2 Oct 2018 at 22:08

thank you all.

alex crossland · 9 Oct 2018 at 18:52

Lokken86 said:
Yea the Intel one is better but its on a redundant platform. The Ryzen platform is going to provide upgrade options in the future.

As said above you could sell the cpu and gpu to upgrade the Ryzen system. Personally I would just drop a 570 into it as it is since the 1300x actually holds up alright in gaming. Performance is similar to a skylake i5 6600k
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_3_1200_and_1300x_review,23.html
just overclock it a bit if you want but these benchmarks are with a much stronger gpu: with the 570 the results for all the processors would have been much closer together.

This would be cheaper and much faster overall for games (up to 50%+).

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