Would this be a good budget entry level gaming pc build?

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Would this be a good budget entry level gaming pc setup:

Ryzen 3 1200 cpu

GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming 3

Ballistix Sport LT 8GB DDR4 2666 MT/s

Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 PH-GTX1050TI-4G 4 GB

WD 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive

EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, Power Supply
 
So is it fine as it is or is there any way I can improve it without adding much to the price? somebody told me that I should change the PSU for a Corsair CX or CXM would that be better
 
The Corsair CX with grey label not green, yes.

It's decent for 1080p if that's a 1050Ti. Just depends which games and what settings you expect. I'm currently playing Fortnite fine at 1080p on low/high settings on a GTX 750 1GB, while I wait for new Nvidia cards to replace my dead GTX 970. It doesn't do so good in GTA V lol.


T-gaming said:
So is it fine as it is or is there any way I can improve it without adding much to the price?
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What is the price and what's your max budget? CPU could be worth looking into. The Ryzens are already cheap enough that it's pretty pointless to get anything less than a 1600 for a gaming PC, imo.
 
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T-gaming said:
Would this be a good budget entry level gaming pc setup:

Ryzen 3 1200 cpu

GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming 3

Ballistix Sport LT 8GB DDR4 2666 MT/s

Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 PH-GTX1050TI-4G 4 GB

WD 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive

EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, Power Supply
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dual channel 8gb (2x4gb) 3000/3200hz ram - team group here for £98
better psu unit

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £555.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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T-gaming said:
Is it the corsair cx550 with the gray label I should get or the cx450
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450W would be fine for 1050Ti or 1060, even probably 1070 if you don't overclock anything. Get 550W if you have plans to upgrade to something more powerful in future. If you can find the 550W for under £50 as usual, then it's a no brainer for a budget build, unless there's a very special offer on a decent Gold unit.
 
T-gaming said:
Would this be a good budget entry level gaming pc setup:

Ryzen 3 1200 cpu
GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming 3
Ballistix Sport LT 8GB DDR4 2666 MT/s
Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 PH-GTX1050TI-4G 4 GB
WD 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive
EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, Power Supply
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Yes this would be a good entry level gaming set up. you would play most game on 1080 mid setting
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
Just saw the leaked benchmarks of Intel Vega CPU package... Damn that's impressive, shame that NUC will cost more the a gtx 1060 build..
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very random info but thank for that look into your world. look at the vaga ryzen chips there poo. intel will be the same.
your look at the NUC this not an intel chip with integrated amd igpu.. it as an onboard amd gpu
 
So is there anything else to change or is that about it. I’m thinking of going with the Ryzen 3 1300x cpu would that make the setup better?
 
T-gaming said:
So is there anything else to change or is that about it. I’m thinking of going with the Ryzen 3 1300x cpu would that make the setup better?
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nope buy 1200 or 1400 or 1600
1200 4core 4 thread
1400 4 core 8thread
1600 6core 12 thread

all the ones in the middle are a waist of money, buy a better motherboard and overclock if you have extra to spend

if i was you i would buy a 1050ti and a ryzen 1400, that is a good start on a very good system, if you have more to spend upgrade GPU.
 
P4Clock said:
very random info but thank for that look into your world. look at the vaga ryzen chips there poo. intel will be the same.
your look at the NUC this not an intel chip with integrated amd igpu.. it as an onboard amd gpu
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Depends on your outlook of poor, if they are making people a lot of money from mining, I wouldn't call that poor haha

Only poor thing about the chip is the sheer power draw from the thing. Surveys a lot of AMD users looking to upgrade and take advantage of freesync monitors before the rise of it becoming a mining card. Though yes Nvidia **r*** will absolutely smash amd in *u**

It's just another possibility for a cheap system, well - knowing Intel it won't be which is a same
And yes I know it's two chips not a single one, everyone understands the concept of what I said.
 
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