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Cerastes.
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Budget (including currency): $AUD1,500

Country: Australia 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After 20 years of using a Laptop for everything, moving back to a desktop as I now have the space for one. 

 Will be using it for work, along with my laptop so no real strain there.

Would like to get back into some gaming, World of Tanks, Mount Blade 2, Wolcen and Call of Duty will be the main time burners. Though may pull out some oldies.

Other details; Will be using existing monitor, wireless keyboard and trackball. Which I am currently using on the laptop. I do have a windows home licence which I will be using as well. 

  

Below are what I am thinking of getting as it just fits into my budget and what I think may be up to the task.

 

Any advice would be grateful as it has been a while (Late 90s) since I've built a PC.

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

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It might be worth looking into Ryzen or the 10th gen unlocked core i5s, I can attest for the i5-9600KF, but you might appreciate the added threads that Intel has finally decided to add on the mid range CPUs in future

Desktop - i5-9600KF @4.8GHz all core, MSI Z390-A PRO, 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz, MSI GTX 1660S OC 6GB, WD Blue 500GB M.2 SSD, Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD

Laptop - ASUS ZenBook 14 with ScreenPad, i7-1165G7, Xe iGPU 96EU, 16GB Octa-Channel 4200MHz, MX450 2GB, 512GB SSD with 32GB Optane

 

Old Laptop 1 - HP Pavilion 15, A10-9600P, R5 iGPU, 8GB, R8 M445DX, 2TB HDD

Old Laptop 2 - HP Pavilion 15 TouchSmart, i3-3217U, Intel HD 4000, 4GB, 1TB HDD

 

iPad 2018 - 128GB

iPhone XR - 128GB

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Getting something like this would be better. Also do consider getting NVME SSD instead og HDD and sata SSD, like shown here in this build:

Edited for AUD and parts available:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $299.00 @ Austin Computers
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler $65.00 @ Umart
Motherboard MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $119.00 @ Mwave Australia
Memory G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $121.00 @ Newegg Australia
Storage Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $218.00 @ Mwave Australia
Video Card EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XC BLACK GAMING Video Card $499.40 @ Newegg Australia
Case Phanteks P300 ATX Mid Tower Case $99.00 @ PCCaseGear
Power Supply EVGA 550 W ATX Power Supply $100.10 @ Newegg Australia
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1520.50
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-20 01:23 AEST+1000  

 

Gaming PC:

CPU: Ryzen 5800X3D | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 Elite V2 | RAM: Crucial 2x16gb, 3200  JEDEC. | PSU: EVGA SuperNova 750 G3 | Monitor: LG 27GL850-B , Samsung C27HG70 | 
GPU: Asus Prime RTX 5070ti OC| Sound: Odac + Fiio E09K | Case: Fractal Design R6 TG Blackout |Storage: Kingston Renegade 2TB and Corsair MP510 960gb | Cooling: CPU: Alphacool ST30 420mm rad, Alphacool CPU and GPU Core LT and Core blocks, D5 pump and res combo 

 

Linux PC:

CPU: Ryzen 7700| Motherboard: Asus A620M-CSM | RAM: Crucial Pro 2x48gb, 5600  JEDEC. | PSU: Corsair CX750 | Monitor: LG 27GL850-B , Samsung C27HG70 | 
GPU: MSI Gaming X RTX 3090 | Case: Lian Li Dan Cases A3-mATX black |Storage: SN7100 2TB + Samsung 860 EVO 512gb | Cooling: CPU: Thermalright Peerless Assassin Mini Fan(s): Noctua 1x NF-A14x25 Chromax

 

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $299.00 @ Austin Computers
Motherboard MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $119.00 @ Mwave Australia
Memory Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $135.75 @ Amazon Australia
Storage Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $199.00 @ Austin Computers
Video Card Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 8 GB PULSE Video Card $622.40 @ Device Deal
Case Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.00 @ Computer Alliance
Power Supply Silverstone Essential 550 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $94.00 @ Umart
Case Fan Silverstone FN121-P 58.47 CFM 120 mm Fan $7.00 @ Umart
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1545.15
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-20 01:58 AEST+1000  

try this.

the gpu is much better than 1660 ti, it is as good as 2060 super.

 

I Use my knowledge as business owner and self taught technician aswell as an AI to help people. AI might be controversial but it actually works pretty well 90% of the time.

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On 5/19/2020 at 11:58 PM, SavageNeo said:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $299.00 @ Austin Computers
Motherboard MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $119.00 @ Mwave Australia
Memory Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $135.75 @ Amazon Australia
Storage Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $199.00 @ Austin Computers
Video Card Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 8 GB PULSE Video Card $622.40 @ Device Deal
Case Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.00 @ Computer Alliance
Power Supply Silverstone Essential 550 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $94.00 @ Umart
Case Fan Silverstone FN121-P 58.47 CFM 120 mm Fan $7.00 @ Umart
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1545.15
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-20 01:58 AEST+1000  

try this.

the gpu is much better than 1660 ti, it is as good as 2060 super.

 

 

On 5/19/2020 at 10:58 PM, Cerastes. said:

Budget (including currency): $AUD1,500

Country: Australia 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: After 20 years of using a Laptop for everything, moving back to a desktop as I now have the space for one. 

 Will be using it for work, along with my laptop so no real strain there.

Would like to get back into some gaming, World of Tanks, Mount Blade 2, Wolcen and Call of Duty will be the main time burners. Though may pull out some oldies.

Other details; Will be using existing monitor, wireless keyboard and trackball. Which I am currently using on the laptop. I do have a windows home licence which I will be using as well. 

  

Below are what I am thinking of getting as it just fits into my budget and what I think may be up to the task.

 

Any advice would be grateful as it has been a while (Late 90s) since I've built a PC.

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

Thank you for the info, good to see I was on the right path of sorts. Will do some more home work then get to the fun part of building :)

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