lordjaykay

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately used market on UK is just bonkers. People seem happy to pay a price within 5 to 10% of a brand new one. Ive been bidding on stuff but never successful e..g someone won an auction for 450£ for a 2070 super founders edition. 140 £ for 2700x which is 145 new and more nonsense which has just put me off ebay.

Hmmm. Thats another question Ive debated i.e. 2700x (145£) and the prism cooler can probably be sold for 10-20£ vs 3600 (165£). When they seem to have same-ish performance. But I figured the higher TDP in the 2700x meant more heat in a case that already struggles with air flow or is that going to be insignificant with my AIO ?(even if its 120mm). If i go 2700x , just leaves me with more money for the GPU. Thanks a lot for the reply!

Hi everyone, Im just getting back into pc building/gaming after maybe 10 years and ive spend the last month or two just catching up and decided on the following build: Parts already brought: Case : Phanteks shift PSU: Corsair SF600 modular platinum RAM: Corsair vengence RGB pro 16gb 3600mhz Storage: Sabrent m.2 nvme 512GB Cooling: Corsair H60 for cpu Casefan: Noctua 140mm Motherboard: b450i Asus Rog mITX (not bought but pretty much decided) Ive sort of accumulated these parts over the last month just grabbing hold of a deal as and when i could but im stuck with the most important bits i.e. CPU and graphics card. Now im just not in a position to be buying these together and will probably be getting a graphics card a few months down the line and from my research, will quite likely be settling on the 5700xt (equal to the 2070 in my understanding and about 100£ cheaper minus the Ray tracing). Usage : PC gaming, video streaming (netflix , youtube etc). Basically an entertainment only machine. No video/photo editing or graphics stuff of ny sort. So long story short im left with two options at the moment 1. Buy a ryzen 3400g (120£) and addon a 5700xt later. Will that processor be a significant bottleneck for the gpu? Will i need to be looking at upgrading my cpu to a 3600 later? 2. Buy a 3600 (165£)with a basic nvidia gt710 (35£) for now to have a pc up and running and addon a 5700xt later. (Ebay the gt710 later for what its worth) I can imagine this sounds like a stupid comparison between the 3600 vs the 3400g but what I cant figure out is if the 5700xt will be wasted with the 3400g? Apologies if this is way too basic a question, trying hard to catch up. Some comments on the parts chosen will be appreciated as well (Is there something I should absolutely get rid of?) Cheers!