Yet another building a PC for my son thread

[Marine18]

Hi all,

I'm looking for some advice me and my partner have saved £1000.00 to build a computer for our son looking for a tower and monitor setup for this price. He primarily plays fortnite non-competitive with family, friends etc. Im thinking these are the options available

AM4 playing at 1440p decent settings
AM4 playing at 1080p with great performance
AM5 playing at 1080p but might handle 1440p lowered settings

Some input from me , only needs 512gb NVME, 27inch monitor preferred 75 mhz+ is fine, only new parts

he currently HOGS my system so he is used to Ryzen 7 5800X3D with a Radeon RX 6750 XT Red Devil 12GB

any help is appreciated

 

[Tetras]

Graphics card is difficult for this budget, personally I'd prefer a 7600 XT 16GB or 6700 XT 12GB (as close to £300 as possible), but the 4060 does have decent power consumption if you'd rather nvidia.

Having the 12400 is better if you can afford it, since it gives a graphics card is the main one dies, which can at least be used for e.g. school/college work.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AR-IN) = £154.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-5C0-GI) = £114.98
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £59.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-39A-MS) = £299.98
• 1 x Lexar NM790 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-LEX-01452) = £59.99
• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K6 ARGB Micro-ATX Case - Black (SKU: CA-047-KK) = £29.99
• 1 x Phanteks AMP 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-09Q-PT) = £89.99

• 1 x MSI 27" PRO MP273QP 2560x1440 IPS 75Hz 1ms FreeSync Widescreen Gaming Monitor (SKU: MO-02A-MS) = £188.99

Total: £998.90 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[dfour]

I have gone the Am4 route.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Asus Prime B550-Plus (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6F6-AS) = £119.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Six Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3D2-AM) = £128.99
• 1 x Lexar Hades 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (SKU: MY-019-LE) = £37.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN580 500GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00539) = £39.95
• 1 x Kolink Observatory HF Mesh ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-07R-KK) = £49.99
• 1 x Cooler Master 27" GA271 2560x1440 VA 100Hz A-Sync Widescreen Gaming Monitor (SKU: MO-007-CM) = £139.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPR-01589) = £349.99
• 1 x CORSAIR RM Series RM650 Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply (SKU: POW-CRS-01425) = £74.99

Total: £941.88 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

You could 'upgrade' to 32 gig of ram but in general its pointless for gaming.

All the items that are pre-order are in stock at other places and 1 is even cheaper than OCUK.

Just add a peerless assassin for about £30 (which is overkill for a 5600) as it will easily cope with any upgrades later on and will fit in the case.

Peerless Assassin – Thermalright

www.thermalright.com

 

[dfour]

You could go AM5 but you will either need to up your budget £100 or down grade the gpu

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x WD Blue SN580 500GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00539) = £39.95
• 1 x Kolink Observatory HF Mesh ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-07R-KK) = £49.99
• 1 x Cooler Master 27" GA271 2560x1440 VA 100Hz A-Sync Widescreen Gaming Monitor (SKU: MO-007-CM) = £139.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPR-01589) = £349.99
• 1 x CORSAIR RM Series RM650 Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply (SKU: POW-CRS-01425) = £74.99
• 1 x Asus Prime B650-Plus (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K4-AS) = £135.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Six Core 5.10GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DW-AM) = £194.98
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B2-TG) = £99.95

Total: £1,085.83 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

assuming the use of the stock cooler here.

 

[Rob_B]

dfour - Any reason you've gone B550 instead of B450?

On the other recent thread the Ryzen 7600 build seemed sensible, go with a cheaper GPU for now and when upgrade time comes around do graphics first then you also have the luxury of almost every other AM5 chip to choose from.

 

[dfour]

dfour - Any reason you've gone B550 instead of B450?

On the other recent thread the Ryzen 7600 build seemed sensible, go with a cheaper GPU for now and when upgrade time comes around do graphics first then you also have the luxury of almost every other AM5 chip to choose from.

On the am4 b550 are more readily avalable, you probably wont save much from b450 to b550 and you would lose pcie 4 on the b450 boards

 

[Quartz]

any help is appreciated

Does he need a keyboard? Mouse? Speakers / soundbar / headset? Webcam?

You may find this thread of interest.

 

[Marine18]

Thanks all don't need the accessories just tower and monitor AM5 looks like it might be worth the squeeze