<£800 Gaming Build

[vK 3 1 RON]

Hi guys, you've been very helpful putting this together so far as always. Just catching up with the forum for opinons on this current list, needs the tower (gaming, six siege 1080p 60fps preferably medium/high details), mouse and monitor No keyboard needed, I'm going to give my friend my K70 until he gets the money to buy himself a keyboard. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	£106.38 @ Aria PC
Motherboard	MSI X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	£113.44 @ Ebuyer
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	£64.98 @ Amazon UK
Storage	ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£54.12 @ CCL Computers
Video Card	Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB NITRO+ Video Card	£173.47 @ Ebuyer
Case	Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 ATX Mid Tower Case	£44.95 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	£63.97 @ Amazon UK
Monitor	LG 24GL600F-B 23.6" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor	£139.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Mouse	Logitech G402 Wired Optical Mouse	£37.99 @ Amazon UK
Custom	Windows 10 Key	£7.49
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£806.78
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-11 15:13 GMT+0000

£800 is a very harsh limit, he's quite the hoarder for money haha

His response to this was, "I guess I could spunk out an extra £6." So I'm not sure he wants to spend more than 800 heh.

I was a bit torn on which GPU to get, the monitor is hopefully gonna last him a few years, hence why I went 144Hz 1080p instead of a 60-75Hz monitor for cheaper

Note: I did not include a HDD cause this is only meant to keep him going til February, when he gets more money, he should buy a HDD. 

[SolarNova]

@vK 3 1 RON

Unnecessarily expensive motherboard.

Grab a B450 board.

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, SolarNova said:

Unnecessarily expensive motherboard.

Grab a B450 board.

okee, thank you

[vK 3 1 RON]

@SolarNova 

What would you think to a Gigabyte Aorus or MSI Tomahawk? 

Or perhaps something even cheaper like an ASRock B450 Pro4? (£77.42) 

 

Edit: Tomahawk is still pretty expensive

[Oalei]

This is a perfectly fine motherboard https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/c8K2FT/gigabyte-b450m-gaming-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450m-gaming

if you need 8 ports https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WcjJ7P/gigabyte-b450-aorus-m-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450-aorus-m

[SolarNova]

5 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

@SolarNova 

What would you think to a Gigabyte Aorus or MSI Tomahawk? 

Or perhaps something even cheaper like an ASRock B450 Pro4? (£77.42) 

 

Edit: Tomahawk is still pretty expensive

The Gigabyte B450 Gaming X can be had for £80 atm.

 

if ur ok going with a m-atx board there are cheaper options.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

@SolarNova 

What would you think to a Gigabyte Aorus or MSI Tomahawk? 

Or perhaps something even cheaper like an ASRock B450 Pro4? (£77.42) 

 

Edit: Tomahawk is still pretty expensive

The ASRock would be fine, or the one below if you want a cheaper MSI.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/XJbCmG/msi-b450-a-pro-max-atx-am4-motherboard-b450-a-pro-max

[vK 3 1 RON]

2 minutes ago, Oalei said:

This is a perfectly fine motherboard https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/c8K2FT/gigabyte-b450m-gaming-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450m-gaming

if you need 8 ports https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WcjJ7P/gigabyte-b450-aorus-m-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450-aorus-m

Thanks, I'll consider the latter option for the switchout 

[vK 3 1 RON]

2 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

The Gigabyte B450 Gaming X can be had for £80 atm.

 

4 minutes ago, Oalei said:

if you need 8 ports https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/WcjJ7P/gigabyte-b450-aorus-m-micro-atx-am4-motherboard-b450-aorus-m

I'd say I'm pretty tied between these two right now. I have an in-explainable phobia of micro-atx, but I'll be fine. Hopefully I won't have an allergic reaction and die

 

[SolarNova]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

 

I'd say I'm pretty tied between these two right now. I have an in-explainable phobia of micro-atx, but I'll be fine. Hopefully I won't have an allergic reaction and die

 

Nothing wrong at all with m-atx tbh. i mainly bring it up due to the chosen case. it may aesthetically look a little odd having a small m-ATX board in it.

 

Functionality wise M-ATX is fine, especialy if u get one with 4 DIMM slots for future RAM upgrades if necessary and a good number of Sata ports if u have many drives.

 

 

[martward]

Whatever motherboard you go with make sure to check the QVL whether your RAM will run at the advertised speed.

[vK 3 1 RON]

1 minute ago, SolarNova said:

Nothing wrong at all with m-atx tbh. i mainly bring it up due to the chosen case. it may aesthetically look a little odd having a small m-ATX board in it.

 

Functionality wise M-ATX is fine, especialy if u get one with 4 DIMM slots for future RAM upgrades if necessary and a good number of Sata ports if u have many drives.

Yeah, most cases I build in are Mid-towers so it's just habbit to avoid M-atx from the aesthetics point of view, I'm just looking through the case and mobos right now to try and visualise any problems with fan headers and stuff

[Oalei]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

I'd say I'm pretty tied between these two right now. I have an in-explainable phobia of micro-atx, but I'll be fine. Hopefully I won't have an allergic reaction and die

i would choose aorus M for some reasons it have more features

[vK 3 1 RON]

4 minutes ago, Oalei said:

i would choose aorus M for some reasons it have more features

Yeah I think I'll go for the M. While going through the specs, I noticed that the memory speed is limited to 2933MHz or something similar on the Atx board. 

 

Annoying part of the M is that there's only 2 sysfan headers so I'll have to get a splitter ahhhhhhhhhhhh... 1st world problems amirite?

[SolarNova]

Just now, vK 3 1 RON said:

Yeah I think I'll go for the M. While going through the specs, I noticed that the memory speed is limited to 2933MHz or something similar on the Atx board. 

dont worry about 'officially' support speeds. You can go above that with XMP profiles.

[Oalei]

2 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Yeah I think I'll go for the M. While going through the specs, I noticed that the memory speed is limited to 2933MHz or something similar on the Atx board. 

i dont want to download the QVL. micro atx probably better because its less

[vK 3 1 RON]

1 minute ago, SolarNova said:

dont worry about 'officially' support speeds. You can go above that with XMP profiles.

Oh wowzer I guess the spiral just keeps going huh? 

 

Yeah a'ight -- I know the M has more features, however, I doubt my friend will ever need them. There's a CPU Socket, NVMe, PCI-E lane for GPU, SATA connections. Basically sorted  

[vK 3 1 RON]

I think for ease, I might go with the ATX board. Although, if that board either goes out of stock and stops selling for that price or if it goes up in price, I'll grab the M-Atx and a fan head splitter

[SolarNova]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

I think for ease, I might go with the ATX board. Although, if that board either goes out of stock and stops selling for that price or if it goes up in price, I'll grab the M-Atx and a fan head splitter

sounds like a plan.

[Epimetheus]

Also check out the b450 pro4

[boggy77]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WC8QVCB/ref=asc_df_B07WC8QVCB1573473600000/?tag=pjuk-amazon.co.uk-21&creative=22374&creativeASIN=B07WC8QVCB&linkCode=df0&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

 

best cheapest board.

 

also, if you hunt on ebay you can get a used vega 56 for £190

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WC8QVCB/ref=asc_df_B07WC8QVCB1573473600000/?tag=pjuk-amazon.co.uk-21&creative=22374&creativeASIN=B07WC8QVCB&linkCode=df0&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

 

best cheapest board.

 

also, if you hunt on ebay you can get a used vega 56 for £190

Have to disagree on that board. The VRM looks woeful.

[boggy77]

9 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

Have to disagree on that board. The VRM looks woeful.

yeah, sorry, thought it was the full atx board which is actually decent, but a lot more expensive

[The Torrent]

Why are you paying 7.50 for Windows they only a quid on eBay

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

yeah, sorry, thought it was the full atx board which is actually decent, but a lot more expensive

Yeah the ATX version is much better as it has an actual heatsink  A bit more expensive though.