new build New Build Parts List - Recommendations/Opinions?

GeoHandle · November 16, 2019

So i'm a complete newbie and i've decided to build my own pc. Any advice/tips/opinions anyone is willing to share would be welcome. The pc will be used mainly for gaming, call of duty, borderlands etc, the budget started out at around £1000, and i'm hoping to keep it near there, though going slightly above that is fine. This is what i've got so far and what i'm considering:

Parts I already have:

RAM - Steel Series, Patriot Viper 16GB (2 x 8GB) 3733MHz - Saw this for £80 on Amazon and thought it was a good deal

Power Supply - Corsair RM850x - Got this a while ago, probably more than I need but since I already have it I might as well use it. £110

SSD - Sabrent 512GB Rocket NVME PCIe M.2 SSD - Also saw this on Amazon, for £45 pounds I thought this was a good deal and so bought it.

£235 spent, so around £765 still to spend.

What I need/am considering:

CPU - AMD Ryzen 3600 or AMD Ryzen 2700x - i'm leaning more towards the 3600 since its newer and has pcie 4 while i'm pretty sure the 2700x only has pcie 3?, With black friday coming up I might be able to get something better, like the 3600x, but i'll have to check the deals available.

Graphics Card - Radeon Rx 5700 Xt or Geforce RTX 2060 Super - AMD seems like better value for money but the 2060 super has better spec i believe. I have no idea how black friday deals will effect prices for graphics cards, so I might or might not be able to get something better?

Motherboard - MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX - Currently £89.99 on amazon, seems like a good price, also the only motherboard around that price i've found that supports the speed of the RAM I already have.

Case - I have absolutely no idea, any advice would be welcome.

The monitor I currently have is 1080p, I can't recall the refresh rate off the top of my head but I used to use it for gaming and can't really afford to splash out after paying so much for the PC, so i'm just going to say its sufficient. Having said that, I do intend to upgrade it eventually, probably before I end up having to upgrade this PC, so i'm hoping this PC should be able to perform well at 1440p and possible on two monitors. I do have a 4k TV i could hook it up to, but since that's not really built with gaming in mind and a PC that could perform well at 4K is significantly more expensive i'm not sure if that's a good idea. Any advice on that would also be welcome.

I also have a 'gaming' keyboard, something madcatz i think, it's a few years old but as with the monitor since it still works and i'm not really willing to spend much more I will use this and potentially upgrade at a later date.

Mouse is in the same situation as the keyboard.

I am looking to get a new gaming headset (or a non-gaming headset that I can use for gaming), though the budget for that is seperate from this. My current headset is a first-gen Astro A50 headset, and since the headband snapped I decided it's time for an upgrade. The budget for this is £300 as i'll be receiving it as a christmas present. As it is a present I might be able to get some of that budget to use towards the PC instead, but I do want the best headset I could possibly get, so using the full £300 is fine too.

I current use a PS4 Pro for my gaming and don't want to just abandon all the games I play on there, so I'd like the headset I buy to be compatible with that as well.

Apart from the PC and the Headset I currently sit on a beanbag chair when i'm gaming (or anything else that involves sitting down really), which i'm sure isn't good for my back, so if anyone could point me too/recommend a good chair that's reasonably priced (the cheaper the better really) to use as well i'd appreciate it.

Edit: I could also use a cpu cooler, depending on if one comes with the cpu/if the one that comes with the cpu is insufficient. I am open to both air and water cooling, though as i've never even built a pc myself before, let alone dealt with water cooling, AIO is probably the only type of water cooling that's really feasible.

Also while RGB lighting would be cool, if it saves me money, i'm totally fine with no RGB.

Edit 2: The Build on PC Part Picker, https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/GeoHandle/saved/4DQrVn

Edited November 16, 2019 by GeoHandle
Added PCPartPicker build

dizmo · November 16, 2019

Looks like you have a pretty good game plan so far. I'd get some kind of cooler for the CPU though. Also, make sure you don't get a reference AMD card.

Welcome to the forum!

United_Chi · November 16, 2019

Use pcpartpicker.com to put your computer together for everyone to see. Include the parts you've already purchased and just make a note when you post it which parts you already have, so people don't recommend changing them. For future, I would decide on cpu/motherboard first because that pretty much decides other things for you like what ram is compatible, etc.