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[Endative]

Budget (including currency): £700 ($960.83) 

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Planet Coaster, FL Studio, War Thunder, Need For Speed, etc. Also will be used for VR if I manage to get my hands on a headset.

Other details: I am upgrading from an old Intel Pentium HP laptop which has no real graphics card and 4gb of RAM. If possible I would like to go down from what I have in the list in price while still maintaining a PC at this sort of decency but if it's not possible then this sort of price will do. I'm still pretty new to tech. I have the basic understanding but if you could be extra clear then that would be appreciated. I am not looking to buy in the next couple of months. I would just like to get an idea of what to get first. I would like to run most games at at least 60 fps. I haven't checked user benchmark yet so I don't know what sort of fps it will have but that will influence the monitor I will be getting (whether it is 70 hertz or 144).

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	£150.00 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI A320M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£41.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	£78.98 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Crucial BX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£75.27 @ BT Shop
Video Card	MSI GeForce GTX 1650 G5 4 GB GT LP OC Video Card	£232.06 @ Amazon UK
Case	Deepcool MACUBE 110 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£45.46 @ Scan.co.uk
Power Supply	SeaSonic CORE GM 500 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	£62.29 @ CCL Computers
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£686.05
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-07 20:52 BST+0100

 

[curiousmind34]

8 minutes ago, Endative said:

Budget (including currency): £700 ($960.83) 

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Planet Coaster, FL Studio, War Thunder, Need For Speed, etc. Also will be used for VR if I manage to get my hands on a headset.

Other details: I am upgrading from an old Intel Pentium HP laptop which has no real graphics card and 4gb of RAM. If possible I would like to go down from what I have in the list in price while still maintaining a PC at this sort of decency but if it's not possible then this sort of price will do. I'm still pretty new to tech. I have the basic understanding but if you could be extra clear then that would be appreciated. I am not looking to buy in the next couple of months. I would just like to get an idea of what to get first. I would like to run most games at at least 60 fps. I haven't checked user benchmark yet so I don't know what sort of fps it will have but that will influence the monitor I will be getting (whether it is 70 hertz or 144).

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	£150.00 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI A320M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£41.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	£78.98 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Crucial BX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£75.27 @ BT Shop
Video Card	MSI GeForce GTX 1650 G5 4 GB GT LP OC Video Card	£232.06 @ Amazon UK
Case	Deepcool MACUBE 110 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	£45.46 @ Scan.co.uk
Power Supply	SeaSonic CORE GM 500 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	£62.29 @ CCL Computers
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£686.05
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-07 20:52 BST+0100

 

Your motherboard is very weak compared to the rest of your system. Also, assuming you don’t have a spare graphics card, intel would be better value.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/33bxK3

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£147.59 @ Newegg UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£64.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£78.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£87.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1650 G5 4 GB GT LP OC Video Card  (£232.06 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Deepcool MACUBE 110 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£45.46 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£40.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £697.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-07 21:04 BST+0100

If you have a little extra budget I would allocate it to the power supply. Also got you a faster NVME SSD

[Endative]

2 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

Your motherboard is very weak compared to the rest of your system. Also, assuming you don’t have a spare graphics card, intel would be better value.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/33bxK3

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£147.59 @ Newegg UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£64.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£78.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£87.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1650 G5 4 GB GT LP OC Video Card  (£232.06 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Deepcool MACUBE 110 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£45.46 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£40.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £697.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-07 21:04 BST+0100

If you have a little extra budget I would allocate it to the power supply. Also got you a faster NVME SSD

Thank you so much for your fast response

My only concern is the power supply so I will have a look into some maybe more reliable ones at a higher price

Other than that, going Intel is probably a good idea so I will keep that in mind

Thanks for the faster ssd too and keeping it at a similar price

[curiousmind34]

3 minutes ago, Endative said:

Thank you so much for your fast response

My only concern is the power supply so I will have a look into some maybe more reliable ones at a higher price

Other than that, going Intel is probably a good idea so I will keep that in mind

Thanks for the faster ssd too and keeping it at a similar price

yeah, if you need a decent cheap power supply I would go for this one https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/3hkwrH/corsair-power-supply-cp9020102na 

[Endative]

2 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

yeah, if you need a decent cheap power supply I would go for this one https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/3hkwrH/corsair-power-supply-cp9020102na 

i might just do that

thanks again for your help

[curiousmind34]

Just now, Endative said:

i might just do that

thanks again for your help

no problem

[curiousmind34]

3 minutes ago, Endative said:

i might just do that

thanks again for your help

If you are getting your graphics card right now though, you are probably better off going AMD. The whole intel value proposition is that you are waiting for msrp, so if you don’t wait you are better off getting a 3600

[Endative]

Just now, curiousmind34 said:

If you are getting your graphics card right now though, you are probably better off going AMD.

how come?