Which system for gaming.

[jjhiggy]

Hi all,

I have been shopping on OC for a little while now and have come across the Khopesh system but wanted to get the communities opinion. Worth the 2k or is there a better alternative?

Budget is around £2000 I can stretch further if needed. It might also be worth noting that I chose to upgrade the GPU to the TUF version, is this something you would recommend? Looked like a no brained for £100

Thank you in advance,
Josh

 

[Tetras]

I haven't priced a 2K system lately, so I can't comment on that, but a few things I notice in the base spec:

- The X3D is a better gaming CPU than the 5900X, but if you have a secondary workstation/production use then fair enough.
- Just 16GB memory looks poor for a high-end system like this, for the £35 extra I'd take the 32GB.
- 500GB is a bit of a waste of an M.2 slot nowadays, with games being so large. I'd spend the extra £29 on upgrading it to 1TB.
- Bit confused why the second drive has to be SATA in the configurator, most boards have two M.2 slots nowadays, but eh.

 

[jjhiggy]

Thanks for your reply!

All points taken on board. Will upgrade RAM and M2.5 I may even remove the SSD for £89 and use this for a larger M2.5.

 

[Tetras]

Thanks for your reply!

All points taken on board. Will upgrade RAM and M2.5 I may even remove the SSD for £89 and use this for a larger M2.5.

Here's an equivalently priced self-build for your comparison (I used the graphics card forum code on the 6900 XT).

I think I picked the same case.

Lian Li LANCOOL 215 Mid-Tower aRGB Tempered Glass Black - £89.99
Lian-Li GALAHAD AIO 360mm High Performance RGB CPU Water Cooler - Black - £149.98
Phanteks AMP 1000W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - £149.99

WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) - £139.99

Intel Core i5-13600K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail - £339.95
Asus Prime Z790-P (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £249.94
TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) - £230.00

Asrock Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £649.98
AMD Radeon™ Raise The Game Bundle - Dead Island 2 & The Callisto Project - £0.00

Grand Total: £2,013.02

 

[jjhiggy]

Man that’s a killer build!!

So much more bang for the buck, how did you do this? I tried doing this through scan and came out considerably more expensive to self build.

Love that it’s DDR5 comparable and future proofed as much as possible. ANY MORE SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!

 

[Tranceyman]

Man that’s a killer build!!

So much more bang for the buck, how did you do this? I tried doing this through scan and came out considerably more expensive to self build.

Love that it’s DDR5 comparable and future proofed as much as possible. ANY MORE SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!

You will mostly always get more for your money with self builds tbh. I would personally never buy a pre-built pc ever. And what @Tetras put there is pretty good for the money to be fair

 

[jjhiggy]

Thanks mate!! I’ll try get back in the game and build one will give me something to do haha - just hope I don’t mess it up.

The new issues is wait for the new AMD offering or buy 6900xt whilst on offer