First Build advice and analysis

[101Dominations]

Budget (including currency): £1400-1600

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Uni work (mainly essay-based) and gaming (mostly not too intensive, but would like to play more demanding games such as DiRT Rally 2, as well as generally having to worry less about downgrading the graphics of games)

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): Already have the CPU (after a drunken purchase early this year, still sealed so probably returnable to amazon). part list. Upgrading from a laptop 1050 w/ i5 7th gen and 16gb ram. I intend to buy the parts within the next week, and assemble the computer by the 21st of October.

 

Currently looking to finally bag myself a desktop and liberate myself from 5-year-old laptop gaming hell. I've spent the last couple of days going through various posts and videos on parts, as well as try and find my way through the GPU crisis. Understanding that I've probably made quite a few mistakes in choices of parts.

 

[BeastyB314]

What cpu do you have?

 

With your budget, Graphics card I would go with a 6700 XT or a 6800 if you can win an AMD Queue. Also 650+W is probably the best range for psu (still don't know CPU so don't quote me on that) Ram, Minimum 8GB, Max 32GB, so 16Gigs is best bet (over 3000 MHz of course) but 32 will not hurt if you have the budget. 

[101Dominations]

8 minutes ago, BeastyB314 said:

What cpu do you have?

 

With your budget, Graphics card I would go with a 6700 XT or a 6800 if you can win an AMD Queue. Also 650+W is probably the best range for psu (still don't know CPU so don't quote me on that) Ram, Minimum 8GB, Max 32GB, so 16Gigs is best bet (over 3000 MHz of course) but 32 will not hurt if you have the budget. 

the part list is hidden in the post, but here it is again: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/fY4Lz7

[BeastyB314]

19 hours ago, 101Dominations said:

the part list is hidden in the post, but here it is again: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/fY4Lz7

a 6600XT would run you about 375-400 pounds currently if you want to put that into your list.

You said that you would be doing non-intensive gaming, so the cooler should be fine, but if you decide to start gaming a bit more, i'd get a beefier air cooler or an AIO.