Help Choosing parts for £1400 PC+Monitor for Gaming and School.

_lucalink · January 26, 2021

Budget (including currency): £1400

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Single player games like RDR2, Witcher and fallen order as well as multiplayers like Battlefront 2, CoD, CSGO, etc, school work.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

I am planning my new gaming/ school work setup and could use a little help. I have already chosen Mouse, Keyboard and headset so in the £1400 budget I just need the PC and Monitor. As stated above I will be playing a fairly balanced mix of Single and multiplayer games and will most likely end up spending about the same amount of time in each genre. I would like to play all games at high/ultra settings at 60fps or more. I can use a wired ethernet connection for internet but will need bluetooth connection but I imagine a cheap USB dongle will be the cheapest way to do that. I don't really mind which platform (AMD or Intel) the build is on because as far as I can see the next generation of ryzen is likely to be a different socket anyway and thats likely to be the soonest I upgrade the CPU, so whichever brand gives me the best performance for my money. I am happy with any motherboard form factor as I really only need the single pcie slot for the GPU but would like a good quality case that fairly easy to cable manage. For the monitor, I don't know a massive amount about them so I'm not sure what would be best but I would like good colour accuracy, decent build quality and a fully adjustable stand ( if not included then i will have to add one to the cost). I am not sure what resolution would be best, so just add one that you think the PC will be able to achieve the settings I want. I will probably be around 45-50cm from the monitor for reference. An ultrawide monitor would be preferable but I know that they are expensive so if one cant fit in the budget thats fine. Going £10-20 over budget is fine but I would rather not go anymore than that.

Sorry for the long piece of writing but I wanted to make sure I covered as many of the details as possible.

Downkey · January 26, 2021

8 minutes ago, _lucalink said:

Budget (including currency): £1400

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Single player games like RDR2, Witcher and fallen order as well as multiplayers like Battlefront 2, CoD, CSGO, etc, school work.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

I am planning my new gaming/ school work setup and could use a little help. I have already chosen Mouse, Keyboard and headset so in the £1400 budget I just need the PC and Monitor. As stated above I will be playing a fairly balanced mix of Single and multiplayer games and will most likely end up spending about the same amount of time in each genre. I would like to play all games at high/ultra settings at 60fps or more. I can use a wired ethernet connection for internet but will need bluetooth connection but I imagine a cheap USB dongle will be the cheapest way to do that. I don't really mind which platform (AMD or Intel) the build is on because as far as I can see the next generation of ryzen is likely to be a different socket anyway and thats likely to be the soonest I upgrade the CPU, so whichever brand gives me the best performance for my money. I am happy with any motherboard form factor as I really only need the single pcie slot for the GPU but would like a good quality case that fairly easy to cable manage. For the monitor, I don't know a massive amount about them so I'm not sure what would be best but I would like good colour accuracy, decent build quality and a fully adjustable stand ( if not included then i will have to add one to the cost). I am not sure what resolution would be best, so just add one that you think the PC will be able to achieve the settings I want. I will probably be around 45-50cm from the monitor for reference. An ultrawide monitor would be preferable but I know that they are expensive so if one cant fit in the budget thats fine. Going £10-20 over budget is fine but I would rather not go anymore than that.

Sorry for the long piece of writing but I wanted to make sure I covered as many of the details as possible.

1080p 144hz list -

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	£301.98 @ Aria PC
Motherboard	ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£100.72 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	£79.98 @ Aria PC
Storage	Western Digital Blue SN550 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£51.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Twin Edge Video Card	£492.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case	£79.99 @ AWD-IT
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	£76.98 @ Amazon UK
Monitor	MSI Optix G241 23.8" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor	£200.49 @ Scan.co.uk
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£1385.08
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-26 14:24 GMT+0000

1440p 75hzlist -

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	£184.97 @ CCL Computers
Motherboard	ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£100.72 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	£79.98 @ Aria PC
Storage	Western Digital Blue SN550 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£51.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB VENTUS 2X OC Video Card	£572.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case	£79.99 @ AWD-IT
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£104.78 @ Amazon UK
Monitor	Lenovo L24q-30 23.8" 2560x1440 75 Hz Monitor	£199.99 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£1375.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-26 14:26 GMT+0000

the 1st one is amazing for esports titles (and anything at 1080p), but if your mostly playing AAA games and are just aiming for 60fps at 1440p then the 2nd one would be better.