first time My First Build Idea!

IrishGamer34 · October 15, 2019

Hi all! I'm looking into making a PC. This will be my first time stepping into the PC gaming world and I want to get a good starting point! With the help of videos and one of my more tech savvy friends I've put together a list of parts that I think should work together! But just to be safe thought there would be no harm posting it here to get loads of other opinions and thought! So I'm UK based, building it to mainly game (so long as I get decent experience on new AAA titles I'm happy starting here) I will be looking at future updates as needed.

Component		Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor	£217.98	Buy
Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard	£218.47	Buy
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	£69.98	Buy
Storage	Seagate Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£56.99	Buy
Storage	Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£27.64	Buy
Video Card	PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card	£360.79	Buy
Case	Silverstone RL06 ATX Mid Tower Case	£69.98	Buy
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£84.98	Buy
Monitor	Acer XF240H 24.0" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor	£179.97	Buy
Total:		£1286.78

I do have a preference to AMD and the radeon GPU as the monitor is apparently more compatible with it ? I may be wrong but it's also cheaper and lowers the cost by a bit. I'm spreading it over 2 months getting most of the cheaper parts in November and then the GPU PSU HDD and motherboard in December. Any reassurance that this will work once put together would be mega or if you see any fault in the plan the even better!!

Thanks for reading this time and bearing with an idiot!

IrishGamer34

* Edits

Motherboard: After going back over and checking with the motherboard I saw that the one I originally put in wasn't compatible with 3rd Gen Ryzen so I had to swap it out in favour for the one that's now in there. This will also allow for more room to upgrade in the future though to a better CPU

* After looking up some reviews on it I found a comparison between this MoBo and 4 others and this did the worst so I now gone with the best resulting one at a slightly higher price but still offering a better upgrade path and cooler overall PC

Case: I changed the case as it's a slightly better model, just in white, and it's cheaper by about £30 as well

Monitor: There was some false information on amazon for the monitor about it being 144hz so I now changed it to the current Acer listed

Edited October 16, 2019 by IrishGamer34
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