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Johnatron 101
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Recently I built a gaming PC for one of my mums students who wanted the best performing all new pc for his budget (roughly £500). The PC I managed to build consisted of the following specs:

AMD Ryzen 3 3100

Gigabyte A320M-S2H

16gb (2x8) Adata XPG Gammix 3200MHz (only £60 at ccl computers)

PowerColor RX580 8GB

Corsair CV450

Patriot Burst 120GB SSD

Toshiba 1TB HDD

Cougar MG120-G

Would be incredibly interested in what other people have built on a similar budget!

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bit overbudget but here is what i would do with a 500-ish pound budget

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor £101.47 @ Scan.co.uk
Motherboard ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £68.79 @ CCL Computers
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £59.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Kingston A2000 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £36.51 @ BT Shop
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £33.97 @ Amazon UK
Video Card XFX Radeon RX 580 8 GB GTS XXX ED Video Card £157.99 @ CCL Computers
Case Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case £38.89 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply be quiet! System Power 9 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply £47.33 @ Amazon UK
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £544.94
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-28 18:44 BST+0100  

 

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

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i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

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Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

Peripherals:

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Keyboard:

Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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2 minutes ago, Oswin said:

Video Card XFX Radeon RX 580 8 GB GTS XXX ED Video Card £157.99 @ CCL Computers

10 minutes ago, Johnatron 101 said:

PowerColor RX580 8GB

 

You may be able to save a bit on the GPU if you go for a used AMD RX 570/580/590 instead of a new one and put the extra money towards upgrading other essential components (ex. CPU, RAM).

Hope this information post was helpful  ?,

        @Boomwebsearch 

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1 minute ago, Oswin said:

bit overbudget but here is what i would do with a 500-ish pound budget

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor £101.47 @ Scan.co.uk
Motherboard ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £68.79 @ CCL Computers
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £59.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Kingston A2000 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £36.51 @ BT Shop
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £33.97 @ Amazon UK
Video Card XFX Radeon RX 580 8 GB GTS XXX ED Video Card £157.99 @ CCL Computers
Case Cougar MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case £38.89 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply be quiet! System Power 9 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply £47.33 @ Amazon UK
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £544.94
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-28 18:44 BST+0100  

 

I would actually say that that's actually a a fair bit better than what I built but one change I would make is that I would swap out the xfx card for something like a gigabyte, PowerColor, sapphire or msi card as that specific model is known for overheating and failing early in life.

 

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Just now, Boomwebsearch said:

 

You may be able to save a bit on the GPU if you go for a used AMD RX 570/580/590 instead of a new one and put the extra money towards upgrading other essential components (ex. CPU, RAM).

that is a pretty good way to save money, though the list i made was to show what you can get new for 500ish pounds

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

Spoiler

i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

Spoiler

Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

Peripherals:

Spoiler

Keyboard:

Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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Just now, Johnatron 101 said:

I would actually say that that's actually a a fair bit better than what I built but one change I would make is that I would swap out the xfx card for something like a gigabyte, PowerColor, sapphire or msi card as that specific model is known for overheating and failing early in life.

 

tbh, i would ditch the a320 from that build, and get the pro4 rather than spending more on the GPU.

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

Spoiler

i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

Spoiler

Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

Peripherals:

Spoiler

Keyboard:

Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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Just now, Oswin said:

tbh, i would ditch the a320 from that build, and get the pro4 rather than spending more on the GPU.

I probs would have done that but I was aiming more for the most performance for the very tight budget I was working on

 

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10 hours ago, Johnatron 101 said:

Gigabyte A320M-S2H

nothing wrong with the board, it's just for that budget, you can easily fit a pro 4 which will be a lot better.

 

10 hours ago, Johnatron 101 said:

Corsair CV450

meh group reg unit sadly, a system power 9 400w/cx450w would have been a lot better.

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

nothing wrong with the board, it's just for that budget, you can easily fit a pro 4 which will be a lot better.

 

meh group reg unit sadly, a system power 9 400w/cx450w would have been a lot better.

I was Initially aiming for a cx unit but power supplys were really hard to come by at the time and the Corsair unit only cost 35 quid and it does the job nicely enough

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10 hours ago, Johnatron 101 said:

 and it does the job nicely enough

yea, but still not the best, overall should do the job i guess..

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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