Yet another spec me a PC for a friend thread

[Vidar]

I have a friend who wants the best bang for buck gaming PC he can get for his flexible budget of £1500.

He only needs the tower and has everything else including the monitor etc. He's coming from an old 6000 series i5 and 1070 TI.

Only requirement is the ability to play modern AAA games

 

[Gray2233]

What monitor is he running? Resolution/refresh, does it have Freesync or G-sync etc?

 

[Tetras]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £349.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Ryzen Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01185) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K0-AS) = £169.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C36BBEK2-32) (SKU: MY-29U-KS) = £100.00
• 1 x SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture (SKU: GRA-SPR-00764) = £518.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Radeon Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01186) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 3D NAND NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-075-CR) = £114.95
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £89.98
• 1 x Seasonic Focus GX-750 750W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-06U-SS) = £110.00

Total: £1,453.90 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Cooler: this.

 

[sx_turbo]

Just need to add a CPU cooler to the above list

 

[Shadz]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £349.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Ryzen Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01185) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K0-AS) = £169.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C36BBEK2-32) (SKU: MY-29U-KS) = £100.00
• 1 x SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture (SKU: GRA-SPR-00764) = £518.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Radeon Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01186) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 3D NAND NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-075-CR) = £114.95
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £89.98
• 1 x Seasonic Focus GX-750 750W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-06U-SS) = £110.00

Total: £1,453.90 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Cooler: this.

This is a pretty banging spec that should last for a few years to come for sure.

 

[Vidar]

Thanks gents, but he's now decided to up his budget to around £2.5k

@Tetras that's a stonking build mate, what would you do with a higher budget?

 

[Tetras]

what would you do with a higher budget?

Something like this:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £349.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Ryzen Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01185) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JX-AS) = £229.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK64GX5M2B5600Z40) (SKU: MY-4DL-CS) = £179.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4080 Trinity 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-13H-ZT) = £1,099.99
• 1 x NVIDIA - PC Game Pass and Geforce Now Bundle (SKU: DIG-NVI-01340) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 3D NAND NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: HD-075-CR) = £114.95
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool III Full Tower PC Case - Black (SKU: CA-7AW-LL) = £149.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus GX-1000 ATX 3.0 1000W 80 Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-08L-SS) = £169.99

Total: £2,294.89 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Same CPU cooler as suggested above.

Change 4080 to 7900 XTX depending on AMD/nvidia preference and importance of ray tracing or VR.

 

[Craig_d1]

Sticking with 216 case as excellent airflow and designed to take long gpu's(4090)..didn't see @Tetras last bit about 7900xtx till typing now, though could go a bit more adventurous if wanted to make it visual like the o11 vision etc

put the b650e-e rather than the f..gives 1 more nvme slot, slightly beefier vrm's and a led error code display
6000c30 ram best for 7800x3d, put rgb in for a bit of visuals
rm1000x shift on offer at mo..can get away for £146 with additional discount..side plugs makes it very easy to wire
nvme 7300/7000k read/write and 2000tbw endurance
7900xtx..this ones on offer
air cooler.. can change, was at a price where swapping wouldn't alter price.

b]My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JW-AS) = £254.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £349.99
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Ryzen Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01185) = £0.00
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-01124) = £134.99
• 1 x Corsair RM1000x Shift ATX 3.0 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (CP-9020253-UK) (SKU: CA-27A-CS) = £159.99
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7B8-LL) = £110.00
• 1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SFYRS/2000G) (SKU: STO-KNG-01330) = £119.98
• 1 x AMD - Avatar Radeon Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-01186) = £0.00
• 1 x Asrock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming OC 24GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-013-AK) = £899.99
• 1 x Arctic Freezer A35 ARGB AM4/AM5 CPU Cooler (SKU: HS-07X-AR) = £43.99

Total: £2,081.92 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

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[Craig_d1]

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Could get the tuf b650e gaming wifi..still on offer away for £150, know another £100 of cost, but this is decent rig, so put a top b650 board in. tuf will work fine though.less io ports on back, loose a nvme slot, weaker vrm but still more than capable of driving a 7950x, loose the pcie5 gpu to pcie4, but that's about it​