Hi,
I used to build PC's a lot for myself and friends, I used to be up on all the latest hardware etc., but now, well life gets in the way, other things take priority, and now I don't have a clue what's out there!
A mate at work has asked if I could build him and his family (wife and son) a PC for his son to game on and everyone else to use for everyday PC stuff.
His budget is £1000, and for that we wants everything apart from a keyboard and mouse, which he already has.
I've been reading up about processors, and kind of decided on the Ryzen 5 3600. For the motherboard, and as my friend may want to upgrade to something faster in 3 years or so, I wondered if an X570 would do? The low end ones seem pretty all over the place from what I've read. I did *almost* settle on the MSI Gaming Edge Wifi, then read some pretty poor reviews. And also, it needs another 12V power connector apparently? I can't seem to find a psu in his budget with two 12v power connectors, unless they're called something else?
He wants 16GB of RAM, a 24" monitor, a graphics card good enough to play games on at half-decent frame rates (I'm not expecting miracles), Wifi (a card or onboard), a case with a window (his son will love that).
Anyway, if anyone could help out and spec me something suitable I'd be very pleased!
Cheers,
Gray
I used to build PC's a lot for myself and friends, I used to be up on all the latest hardware etc., but now, well life gets in the way, other things take priority, and now I don't have a clue what's out there!
A mate at work has asked if I could build him and his family (wife and son) a PC for his son to game on and everyone else to use for everyday PC stuff.
His budget is £1000, and for that we wants everything apart from a keyboard and mouse, which he already has.
I've been reading up about processors, and kind of decided on the Ryzen 5 3600. For the motherboard, and as my friend may want to upgrade to something faster in 3 years or so, I wondered if an X570 would do? The low end ones seem pretty all over the place from what I've read. I did *almost* settle on the MSI Gaming Edge Wifi, then read some pretty poor reviews. And also, it needs another 12V power connector apparently? I can't seem to find a psu in his budget with two 12v power connectors, unless they're called something else?
He wants 16GB of RAM, a 24" monitor, a graphics card good enough to play games on at half-decent frame rates (I'm not expecting miracles), Wifi (a card or onboard), a case with a window (his son will love that).
Anyway, if anyone could help out and spec me something suitable I'd be very pleased!
Cheers,
Gray
