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25 minutes ago, boggy77 said:
 

a bit over budget, if too much, let me know and we can look at cutting down.

Thank you for the suggestions, I can pickup a used 2600 for £90 so that saves £20 and takes it down to £500. But I then have to ask, is a 590 is a little much for what we're after? Don't get me wrong, more performance is better, however, can +20%~ performance justify the +£60 when we're trying to make it budget? Maybe it'd be better to get a slightly better motherboard with +£30? 

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1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Thank you for the suggestions, I can pickup a used 2600 for £90 so that saves £20 and takes it down to £500. But I then have to ask, is a 590 is a little much for what we're after? Don't get me wrong, more performance is better, however, can +20%~ performance justify the +£60 when we're trying to make it budget? Maybe it'd be better to get a slightly better motherboard with +£30? 

the motherboard is good for the 2600. I'd go for a second hand rx580 instead, you can find a good one for £100. just make sure it's the 8GB one

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1 hour ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Thank you for the suggestions, I can pickup a used 2600 for £90 so that saves £20 and takes it down to £500. But I then have to ask, is a 590 is a little much for what we're after? Don't get me wrong, more performance is better, however, can +20%~ performance justify the +£60 when we're trying to make it budget? Maybe it'd be better to get a slightly better motherboard with +£30? 

The Bazooka is plenty of MOBO for a 2600.

I am always keen on the MX-330 for a budget case. It checks all boxes you want a case to check (minus inclusion of intake fans, but even most high end cases have that problem.)

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Try finding something like this...

  1. Ryzen 5 2600 for around £100.
  2. A decent b450 Mobo for around £40.
  3. 16gb ddr4 3000/3200mhz for around £40.
  4. I'll recommend you to buy a brand new SSD, preferably a 500gb model.
  5. Vega 56/GTX 1070 for around £180-200.
  6. A decent case for around £30-40.
  7. A decent unit belonging to tier A+/A/B+/B in the PSU tier list for around £40. 

SSD TIER LIST

 

 

CPU - Ryzen 7 3700X

Mobo - ASRock X470 Taichi

Memory - G.Skill Trident Z RGB (8x2 3200MHz) 

Storage - Sabrent Rocket 1TB - Seagate Barracuda 2TBWD Black 1TB

GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti LIGHTNING

CaseFractal Design Meshify C

PSUSuper Flower Leadex II Gold 650W

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