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Ok, after a little more homework i came up with this PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler £30.17 @ Amazon UK Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste £6.19 @ Amazon UK Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX Z590-A GAMING WIFI ATX LGA1200 Motherboard £294.98 @ Scan.co.uk Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £90.34 @ Ebuyer Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case Corsair iCUE 465X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case £104.96 @ Laptops Direct Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £114.98 @ Amazon UK Case Fan Corsair LL120 63 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack £81.99 @ AWD-IT Custom rtx 3070 £500.00 Custom i7 11700k £310.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1533.61 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-05 11:36 GMT+0000 see the bottom for GPU/CPU as they arent exactly available right now. Could you tell me what you think? Thanks.

Hi thanks a lot for the help. I suppose this really leaves me with two options, wait and save up and go for some really expensive ddr5, rtx 40/50 series or 60 series PC with every imagineable top spec part in a few years from now or in realtivly close future buy this. On the topic of buying one sooner and going for the cheaper option.... how does that i7 and motherboard look? although i dont want to spend much more really as budget is 1400-1500 tops is there anything else i could go for? is it worth bumping up the GPU budget to 500£ and seeing what 30 series i can have? Thanks. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i7-10700K 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor £297.99 @ Amazon UK CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler £28.80 @ Amazon UK Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste £6.19 @ Amazon UK Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX Z490-A GAMING ATX LGA1200 Motherboard £251.97 @ Aria PC Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £80.25 @ Ebuyer Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case Corsair iCUE 465X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case £104.96 @ Laptops Direct Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £114.98 @ Amazon UK Case Fan Corsair LL120 63 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack £76.98 @ Amazon UK Custom rtx 3060ti £400.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1362.12 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-04 09:35 GMT+0000

Ok, how about this then ? PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor £201.91 @ Currys PC World Business CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler £28.80 @ Amazon UK Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste £6.19 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1200 Motherboard £163.48 @ Ebuyer Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £80.25 @ Ebuyer Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case Corsair iCUE 465X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case £104.96 @ Laptops Direct Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £114.98 @ Amazon UK Case Fan Corsair LL120 63 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack £76.98 @ Amazon UK Custom rtx 3060ti £400.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1177.55 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-03 20:03 GMT+0000 If im honest my budget could go a significantly bit higher if its worth upgrading some parts, providing it really will make a big difference, for example the cpu, if going for a i7 instead of i5 for another 100£ or so will make a big difference i am more than willing to do it, so in that case is there anything youd recommend? Also one more question i have is how long do you think this PC would last me before it gets to where mine is now, being that its almost un-upgradable and just isnt going to cut it for games anymore? My hope is at least 4 years if not 5 or 6, this is taking into account internal upgrades such as putting a 40 series card in it in/if a few years time to help push it back into the more uptodate catergory. Becouse what i want out of this is something that granted with a few upgrades in years to come will last me a long time before it becomes what my PC is now, meaning its no longer worth just putting in faster ram or a new GPU or somthing esle to make it relevant; thats why my budget could grow a bit if we are going to see good pereformance gains and a longer lifetime. Many thanks

Taking your advice on the computer build how does this look? PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor £201.91 @ Currys PC World Business CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition 57.3 CFM CPU Cooler £36.56 @ Amazon UK Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste £6.19 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1200 Motherboard £163.48 @ Ebuyer Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £80.25 @ Ebuyer Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case £65.97 @ CCL Computers Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £107.99 @ Corsair UK Case Fan Corsair LL120 63 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack £76.98 @ Amazon UK Custom rtx 3060ti £400.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1139.33 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-03 11:42 GMT+0000

Hi there, Thank you for your response, i completly understand everything you are saying and agree, although i was under the illusion that the 3060 and below e.g. 3050/ti wont need supplamentory power connectors ? as per image from Nvidia website. Also when you say i dont think the card will fit on your motherboard, by this do you mean physically? or in terms of pcie generations i.e it requiring gen 4 and mine being gen 3 or something? Thanks very much.

Ok, so i have 2 storage devices 1 1tb hdd and 1 1tb ssd and alot of usb devices and my PSU is what ever came with the PC so the stock z230 PSU. Also if wanted to be safe i could drop down to a 3050/ti right? Many thanks.

Ok, so i have 2 storage devices 1 1tb hdd and 1 1tb ssd and alot of usb devices and my PSU is what ever came with the PC so the stock z230 PSU. Also if wanted to be safe i could drop down to a 3050/ti right? Many thanks.

Hi, I currently have an HP z230 with an i7 4770, 32gb ddr3, and a 1050ti apart from the extra ram and the 1050ti this PC is bone stock. I really want to upgrade the graphics card as the 1050ti ain't gonna cut it anymore. I don't want any 20 series card only 30 series, so I suppose my options are 3060 or 3050/3050ti if the leaks are correct/when they come out. I would just like to know some thoughts, am I being completely mad thinking I would have a chance running any of these? or is it in the realms of possibilty.

ok, I will, but what kind of level graphics card could I go to without it bottlenecking? I've got my friends telling me not to get high power graphics cards because of it.

i have a HP z230, i7 4770, gtx 1050ti, 16gb ram. I am wondering what I could get in terms of more powerful graphics cards without my CPU bottlenecking it.

how do you enable XMP?

In task manger it says 1600 as Speed, and it’s a ddr3 machine not ddr4

this is slightly over budget but an extremely good chair. https://www.amazon.com/GTRACING-Ergonomic-Backrest-Adjustment-Computer/dp/B01N2RJ0HI

Hello, I have an HP z230 with 16gb micron ram, gtx 1050ti and i74770. I recently ran a user benchmark benchmark, everything was good apart from the ram, where it said "Performing below potential (32nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled" I am not familiar with what this is telling me, I am not sure whether its some I have to do physically to fix or something on the computer. Any help or info will be much appreciated. Thanks