First build

ANME-Rimuru · April 12, 2021

Budget (including currency): $1200-1300

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: league of legends, cold war, minecraft mods, terraria mods

Other details:

I have a mouse and keyboard currently,ill be upgrading later on aswell so id like an upgrade friendly build too and thats about it i think?

thanks to anyone who helps much appreciated

Moz-LJP · April 12, 2021

Hi, whilst I understand that you're probably eager to get into building a PC, unfortunately now might be one of the worst times to actually be trying to do so. GPU's are basically impossible to come by currently at any semi-reasonable price point meaning buying one for reasonable money is incredibly hard.

Building the rest of your PC may not be so bad, most other components have not really suffered too much and still have reasonable pricing for you to follow.

Anyhow, with your price point you will not be looking for the best of the best but can still get a good pc and easily accomplish your goals.

Whilst i'm not going to push any specific suggestions, i'd be looking at the following:

- An AMD Ryzen CPU as AMD seems to be leading in the CPU market these days with Intel struggling more and more to keep up. AMD also can sometimes offer cheaper bang for the buck performance.

- A motherboard with a good upgrade path, that is to say a motherboard that supports PCIE gen 4 and has good RAM capabilities.

- A powerful power supply (1000+W) to ensure that you can upgrade components later on - at the moment it may be a good idea to pick up a cheaper, previous gen GPU from a site like ebay where you might get a 970 for £100 (UK) and then upgrade later on. A 970 will run almost any game, you'll just need to crank down the settings a fair amount on games like cold war. The modern Nvidia graphics cards are pretty power hungry.

- 16-32GB of RAM (3200mhz+) which you can achieve for between £100-250

Like I said, it is the worst time to be building a PC due to the current price of GPUs but either way I wish you the best of luck and I hope you manage to get what you're after.

SignatureSigner · April 12, 2021

3 minutes ago, Moz-LJP said:

Hi, whilst I understand that you're probably eager to get into building a PC, unfortunately now might be one of the worst times to actually be trying to do so. GPU's are basically impossible to come by currently at any semi-reasonable price point meaning buying one for reasonable money is incredibly hard.

Building the rest of your PC may not be so bad, most other components have not really suffered too much and still have reasonable pricing for you to follow.

Anyhow, with your price point you will not be looking for the best of the best but can still get a good pc and easily accomplish your goals.

Whilst i'm not going to push any specific suggestions, i'd be looking at the following:

- An AMD Ryzen CPU as AMD seems to be leading in the CPU market these days with Intel struggling more and more to keep up. AMD also can sometimes offer cheaper bang for the buck performance.

- A motherboard with a good upgrade path, that is to say a motherboard that supports PCIE gen 4 and has good RAM capabilities.

- A powerful power supply (1000+W) to ensure that you can upgrade components later on - at the moment it may be a good idea to pick up a cheaper, previous gen GPU from a site like ebay where you might get a 970 for £100 (UK) and then upgrade later on. A 970 will run almost any game, you'll just need to crank down the settings a fair amount on games like cold war. The modern Nvidia graphics cards are pretty power hungry.

- 16-32GB of RAM (3200mhz+) which you can achieve for between £100-250

Like I said, it is the worst time to be building a PC due to the current price of GPUs but either way I wish you the best of luck and I hope you manage to get what you're after.

a 1000watt power supply???? Maybe for a rtx 3090 build but here nah m8. If a power supply upgrade is needed they can get one down the line but I would recommend a good quality 80+ Gold 750-850watt PSU as they are the sweet spot only costing around 120-130$

Make sure its from a reputable company.

Omar.B · April 12, 2021

45 minutes ago, ANME-Rimuru said:

Budget (including currency): $1200-1300

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: league of legends, cold war, minecraft mods, terraria mods

Other details:

I have a mouse and keyboard currently,ill be upgrading later on aswell so id like an upgrade friendly build too and thats about it i think?

thanks to anyone who helps much appreciated

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor	$209.00 @ Centre Com
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO V2 62 CFM CPU Cooler	$61.60 @ Newegg Australia
Motherboard	ASRock B460 Steel Legend ATX LGA1200 Motherboard	$179.00 @ Centre Com
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$129.00 @ Scorptec
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$134.00 @ Centre Com
Video Card	Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GAMING Twin Edge OC Video Card	$400.00
Case	Deepcool MATREXX55-MESH-AR-4F ATX Mid Tower Case	$19.00 @ Amazon Australia
Power Supply	Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$117.00 @ Skycomp Technology
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1248.60
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-13 01:41 AEST+1000

The GPU could be the only problem so you might go with the I5 10400 no f ,if you are gonna wait for the GPU prices come back to normal + the PSU and that's it, tell me if I'm wrong or something ,happy to help! ")