What should be the allocation?

[devdeep]

Approximately what percentages should one aim for a new build for NON-gaming use please? If possible, need a full tower and the new Ryzen 3000 with X570 Motherboard. Budget around £1800-2000.

[Herman Mcpootis]

what are you doing with the rig? need os/monitor/peripherals?
 

[brob]

8 minutes ago, devdeep said:

Approximately what percentages should one aim for a new build for NON-gaming use please? If possible, need a full tower and the new Ryzen 3000 with X570 Motherboard. Budget around £1800-2000.

 

Are peripherals included in that budget figure?

 

Is RGB wanted / not wanted?

 

Why "full tower"?

 

What non-gaming uses?

[devdeep]

No RGB

 

Full tower - I am very comfortable with the space in it. Have always had full towers.

 

Home video Streaming, some home office work, browsing etc..

 

I have the Hard drives for storage. Need a NVME though. I also need a 1440 resolution monitor and do not need OS (Windows).

 

Percentage of the budget for each part. i.e. 20% to CPU / £300 to CPU etc...

[brob]

There really are no rules of thumb for allocating budget to different components. Generally one picks a cpu that will satisfy requirements and builds around that choice based on the use case.

 

Edit:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£217.98 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£78.26 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus PRIME X570-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£235.98 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£86.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£97.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB PULSE Video Card  (£209.80 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£109.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.00 @ AWD-IT) 
Monitor: Asus PA328Q 32.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor  (£924.54 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £2040.50
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-24 17:38 BST+0100

[VEXICUS]

1 hour ago, brob said:

There really are no rules of thumb for allocating budget to different components. Generally one picks a cpu that will satisfy requirements and builds around that choice based on the use case.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£217.98 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£78.26 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus PRIME X570-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£235.98 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£86.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£97.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB PULSE Video Card  (£202.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify S2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£109.99 @ Box Limited) 
Monitor: Asus PA328Q 32.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor  (£924.54 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £1954.19
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-24 16:12 BST+0100

He'll definitely need a power supply

[VEXICUS]

Maybe something like this..

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£319.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£189.38 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Predator 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£83.75 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£97.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Palit GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GamingPro Video Card  (£1000.00 @ Box Limited) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£73.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£249.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £2094.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-24 17:35 BST+0100

[brob]

6 minutes ago, VEXICUS said:

He'll definitely need a power supply

 

Thanks for catching that. I don't know what happened, there was a psu in the build at one point. I've corrected the post.

[A. Cole]

if your going for a media/streaming server, I don't think x570 will be needed. Even Flac and WAV files would boot fast enough using AMD store MI without need of a gen4 m.2 (the only real reason to get an x570 board atm) and if your not overclocking you could properly save a load of money switching to a B450 board (X series have more chokes and capacitors, on top of other features) and with the money you save an a B450 board you could get a dedicated internal or external sound card or streaming card. WARNING 3rd gen ryzen will need a bios update to run on non X570 boards, but this you can supposedly do via a usb.
If your not wanting a flashy system there's still a few good non windowed cases. 
If your not gaming at all you could even forgoe a GPU and get a APU processor instead.
Based of the above, I mocked a base unit (and since everyone is going fractal I thought lets go be quite)
Also this system would be easy to upgrade in the future.


CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£136.99 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler  (£54.78 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF B450-PLUS GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£87.95 @ Box Limited) 
Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: be quiet! Silent Base 601 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£98.24 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 600 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£73.90 @ More Computers) 
Total: £531.85