Family PC Build for £1000

[meusli]

Hello,

Building a new PC for a family friend, they have about £1000 to spend. This is a complete build so they need the lot. My first pick is below, but I am aware of the new AMD CPUs releasing very soon. With that in mind I may swop out the CPU for the newer one if possible but need to know if this motherboard is able to do this or is it part of the next wave of updates?


Cheers



My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Acer KA270H 27" 1920x1080 VA 60Hz 4ms Widescreen LED Backlit Gaming Monitor - Black= £129.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT Six Core 4.5GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (100-100000281BOX)= £229.99
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.98
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21600C18 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £55.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010)= £36.95
• 1 x Corsair Carbide SPEC-05 Mid-Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011138-WW)= £49.99
• 1 x Corsair CV Series CV450 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020209-UK)= £39.95
• 1 x Kingston A400 480GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/480G)= £46.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Dragon RX 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x Logitech MK120 Keyboard and Mouse Desktop Set (920-002552)= £17.99

Total: £1,006.39 (includes shipping: £19.62)​

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[4K8KW10]

The old school mechanical hard drive will ruin the performance of the whole system.
I'd suggest upgrade to 8-core Ryzen 7, get DDR4-3600, get better power supply and a faster NVME PCIe SSD.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £289.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C7K)= £74.99
• 1 x Logitech MK120 Keyboard and Mouse Desktop Set (920-002552)= £17.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Dragon RX 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £69.95
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.98
• 1 x Acer KA270H 27" 1920x1080 VA 60Hz 4ms Widescreen LED Backlit Gaming Monitor - Black= £129.95
• 1 x Corsair Carbide SPEC-05 Mid-Tower Gaming Case - Black (CC-9011138-WW)= £49.99
• 1 x TeamGroup MP34 512GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive= £79.99

Total: £1,111.44 (includes shipping: £19.62)​

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[Joxeon]

What will be PC be used for?

 

[dfour]

A few more tweaks to the above builds

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT Pulse 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £299.99
• 1 x MSI Optix G241VC 24" 1920x1080 VA 75Hz FreeSync 1ms Curved Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £129.95
• 1 x TeamGroup MP34 512GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive= £79.99
• 1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.98
• 1 x Logitech MK120 Keyboard and Mouse Desktop Set (920-002552)= £17.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £69.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £218.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £64.99
• 1 x Jonsbo CR-1000 120mm RGB CPU Cooler - Black= £20.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P300 Air Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £49.99

Total: £1,067.51 (includes shipping: £14.70)​

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Gone back to the 3600 to save money and it can be bought elsewhere cheaper. (cmon OC drop the price to a competative one again)
If your going to buy a 5600xt buy the best one. The pulse is out of stock at OC but can be bought elsewhere again cheaper.
If your going AMD why not have a freesynch monitor? I know curved are a marmite thing but I love my curved one now. Most people will also agree that 24" is the peak size for 1080p for monitors.
Better cooler with RGB to keep the kids entertained which also meant I needed to change the case.​

 

[Chaos666]

curved 24" 1080p? not a fan...
i would go with the Acer mentioned by the OP

 

[dfour]

curved 24" 1080p? not a fan...
i would go with the Acer mentioned by the OP

As I said curved monitors are marmite. Acer isnt freesync either I beleive

 

[Chaos666]

I guess its a preference thing.. but I prefer flat panels.
curve starts to make sense with larger ultrawides.. but only for gaming

 

[meusli]

Cheers for the input guys, some good info on here. Do you think I shgould wait until November and the new CPUs though?

What will be PC be used for?

Just family usage, a bit of gaming, internet and a small amount of office work.

 

[Joxeon]

Cheers for the input guys, some good info on here. Do you think I shgould wait until November and the new CPUs though?

I would stick with Zen 2 or intel as even the cheapest zen 3 chip would take up almost a 3rd of your budget.

 

[mickyflinn]

Cheers for the input guys, some good info on here. Do you think I shgould wait until November and the new CPUs though?


Just family usage, a bit of gaming, internet and a small amount of office work.

Makes sense to wait till November for cpu choice.

A 1660 super is cheaper the 5600xt at £300 Is expensive for the performance gained.

I would get a 1tb ssd modern games can soon use up a lot of storage.

 

[Joxeon]

The Msi motherboard and i5 also comes with a £27 cashback offer so maybe put that towards an RTX 2060 instead of a 5600XT or a better cooler.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/news...-purchase-selected-hardware-from-msi-548.html

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI MAG B460M BAZOOKA (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £99.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-10400F 2.90GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail= £139.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £56.99
• 1 x Corsair CV Series CV550 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020210-UK)= £44.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £109.99
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT Dragon RX 6144MB 14GBPS GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £278.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Mesh Micro-ATX Case - Black= £44.99
• 1 x AOC Gaming 27G2U 27" 1920x1080 IPS 144Hz 1ms FreeSync Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £214.99

Total: £1,005.58 (includes shipping: £14.70)


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 OC Rev2 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £299.99
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm= £29.99

Total: £339.88 (includes shipping: £9.90)
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[george1976]

I would stick with Zen 2 as even the cheapest zen 3 chip would take up almost a 3rd of your budget.

You definitely should wait for black friday, even if you don't buy the new processors the older ones will be discounted.

 

[dfour]

If its only going to be be light gaming change the 5600xt and the msi monitor on my build to :


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Lenovo 24" G24-10 1920x1080 TN 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible LED Widescreen Gaming Monitor= £179.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £209.99

Total: £401.68 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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Saves another £40. Drop the cooler and thats onother £20. Would bring my build to just over £1K

 

[Chaos666]

You definitely should wait for black friday, even if you don't buy the new processors the older ones will be discounted.

this..

I advise everybody who is building now to wait...

 

[meusli]

this..

I advise everybody who is building now to wait...

I think this may be to much of a wait for them, but it's their decision. Are we expecting big discounts this year?

 

[Chaos666]

not so much of a discount.. its more about having a full picture of what is coming and make better decision..
also if he is not afraid buying second hand there will definitely be a lot of used 3000 series cpu and GPU if people decide to change their hardware