Hi guys,
My wife was running an old Lenovo Ideapad Legion Y530, but it died on her last night and was badly needing replaced anyway, we had just been putting it off for a while. She uses her laptop for some programming/spreadsheet work, day to day browsing and gaming, so she needs to be able to do a bit of everything. Gaming wise she's happy playing at 1080p and won't need the bleeding edge parts, nor does she need to wait for the 40 series cards or new gen CPU's, she just needs a computer asap given her laptop has given up.
In terms of games she plays Valheim, Guild Wars 2, Divinity, Diablo but she has been severely limited by her laptop a) being fairly poor in general for gaming and b) degrading in performance as time went on. She's keen to play more games that she couldn't previously run on her laptop (She's excited for Stray, for example), but won't be needing to play Cyberpunk at 4k or anything crazy. She was playing these games on low settings and pulling 20fps at times, i have no idea how she managed to suffer through that experience.
I've put together a build with this in mind and hopefully the basket linking works below, but I'd also include a 3060TI FE, and we have a spare Phanteks P400 case to put it all in. Peripherals are not required.
My basket at OcUK:
My question is, is there anything here that is overkill or could be swapped out with something better? I'm loathe to spend the extra £100 on the 3070 FE given the type of gaming she does, so to me the 3060TI will be perfect to ensure she can play games for several years at 1080p without much issue. But i might be wrong!
Thanks guys.
My wife was running an old Lenovo Ideapad Legion Y530, but it died on her last night and was badly needing replaced anyway, we had just been putting it off for a while. She uses her laptop for some programming/spreadsheet work, day to day browsing and gaming, so she needs to be able to do a bit of everything. Gaming wise she's happy playing at 1080p and won't need the bleeding edge parts, nor does she need to wait for the 40 series cards or new gen CPU's, she just needs a computer asap given her laptop has given up.
In terms of games she plays Valheim, Guild Wars 2, Divinity, Diablo but she has been severely limited by her laptop a) being fairly poor in general for gaming and b) degrading in performance as time went on. She's keen to play more games that she couldn't previously run on her laptop (She's excited for Stray, for example), but won't be needing to play Cyberpunk at 4k or anything crazy. She was playing these games on low settings and pulling 20fps at times, i have no idea how she managed to suffer through that experience.
I've put together a build with this in mind and hopefully the basket linking works below, but I'd also include a 3060TI FE, and we have a spare Phanteks P400 case to put it all in. Peripherals are not required.
My basket at OcUK:
- 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-29200C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (SKU: MY-4A5-CS) = £74.99
- 1 x MSI MAG B660M Mortar WIFI DDR4 - Intel B660 DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-36G-MS) = £159.95
- 1 x Corsair RM Series RM850 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020196-UK) (SKU: CA-24T-CS) = £119.98
- 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Air Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-09F-PT) = £72.95
- 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £169.99
- 1 x WD Blue SN570 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0C) (SKU: HD-589-WD) = £86.99
- 1 x Arctic Freezer i35 CO Intel CPU Cooler (SKU: HS-082-AR) = £30.95
Total: £728.10 (includes delivery: £12.30)
My question is, is there anything here that is overkill or could be swapped out with something better? I'm loathe to spend the extra £100 on the 3070 FE given the type of gaming she does, so to me the 3060TI will be perfect to ensure she can play games for several years at 1080p without much issue. But i might be wrong!
Thanks guys.