Worst luck/timing every time...

[drewl5799]

Hi all. I have promised my PC to my nephew, thinking it was time for me to build a new one for myself as mine is about 4/5 years old. From the other threads I take it now is a bad time to be doing this...

Last time when i was building my current PC it was graphics cards price skyrocketing, now its RAM.

Can I get a decent gaming spec PC for around £2000 or should I wait this out? I mainly play games like Tarkov/BF6/COD etc

 

[JollyJamma]

Hi all. I have promised my PC to my nephew, thinking it was time for me to build a new one for myself as mine is about 4/5 years old. From the other threads I take it now is a bad time to be doing this...

Last time when i was building my current PC it was graphics cards price skyrocketing, now its RAM.

Can I get a decent gaming spec PC for around £2000 or should I wait this out? I mainly play games like Tarkov/BF6/COD etc

It’s not amazing timing but considering GPUs will go up in price and they haven’t, it’s not the worst.

Others can tweak my below spec

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x MSI MAG B850M MORTAR WIFI (AMD AM5) B850 micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-05547) = £209.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus GX-750 ATX 3.1 750W 80 Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-SSC-03150) = £119.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-49600C38 6200MHz Dual Channel Kit - White (SKU: MY-0AX-TG) = £349.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Elite 502 Mid-Tower Case - White Tempered Glass (SKU: CAS-CLM-06382) = £69.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-GIG-06380) = £599.98
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Eight Core 5.50GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02676) = £269.99

Total: £1,631.88 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

 

[Tetras]

Can I get a decent gaming spec PC for around £2000 or should I wait this out?

Yes, £2000 is enough to absorb the high RAM/SSD prices.

If you have 64GB in your current build, you could pull half of it and re-use, though that would limit you to DDR4 which is not ideal.

 

[Gray2233]

It'll depend on what you're upgrading from to a point, but £2000 should easily do you well for those games.

M-ATX variant as that's my preference:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPR-03983) = £559.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Delta RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-51200C40 6400MHz Dual Channel Ki (SKU: MY-0AV-TG) = £349.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £179.99
• 1 x PHANTEKS XT M3 Micro-ATX Case, includes 3x 120mm Fans - Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-05735) = £52.90
• 1 x MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 UK PSU 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-00Y-MS) = £104.99
• 1 x Sapphire Nitro+ B850M WiFi (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05690) = £139.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £399.95
• 1 x Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 Black ARGB V3 All In One CPU Cooler (SKU: COO-TLR-03256) = £49.99

Total: £1,849.78 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

- Both Tarkov and CoD love a powerful CPU and benefit from the extra L3 in the X3D chips, I believe BF6 does also but I'm not 100%.
- 360MM AiO is unnecessary, more of an aesthetic thing in honesty but given it's only £40 it's not a bad buy, that said a £30 Thermalright Peerless Assassin or Phantom Spirit would be ample for that CPU.
- 9070XT absolutely blows Nvidia (the direct competitor being the much more expensive 5070ti) away in CoD, I believe it's fairly competitive vs the 5070ti in both Tarkov and BF6.

If you'd rather a standard ATX build you could put one together for roughly the same money.

 

[Defy Belief]

It’s very much a sellers market at the moment, if you’re after value pc gaming is not that right now.

You can buy a brand new slim ps5 disc for about £50 less than the cheapest available ddr5 kit!

But, that is a healthy budget that can easily cover and do what you need it to with the above!