New PCBuild

[EdwardH21]

Budget (including currency): Under £1500

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light gaming/video editing

Other details 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4kbqcT  I would like all parts to add up to under £1500.  I would also like all of the peripherals to stay the same including the mouse, keyboard and monitor.  I would also greatly appreciate it if anyone could fit a GPU in the budget but I do know about the current situation.  

[da na]

Welcome to the forums!

Looks like a decent well put together build. For a GPU, GTX 980 cards go on eBay for about $200

[OSBK]

I would actually recommend you only get 16GB of RAM, you rarely need 32GB! You can also save some money if you go for a 144hz monitor instead, pushing constant +240fps will require quite the GPU for modern titles (at least with respectable graphics settings).

 

For the GPU, just like @Mel0nMan recommended, a GTX980 or 980TI can be found for around 200-ish dollars and it'll do you wonders, if you can get a 1070/ti that'll be even better!

[Jonathan Lee]

Any reason you're going with an ITX board? It would look a very small in a full atx case.

 

Also I would go with a ssd with dram. The 980 is actually a budget dramless gen 3.0 drive from samsung (probably just to confuse consumers into thinking it's a gen 4 drive). There's actually better drives for around the same price:

ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro

 

Western Digital SN750

Silicon Power SP001TBP34A80M28

 

For 16 vs 32 GB ram, it depends. Are you using a single monitor only running one game? 16GB is fine. Multiple monitors, have discord running, chrome tabs hanging in background? 32GB is much nicer. Windows does compress ram if you don't have enough and do SSD swapping (reducing life of ssd) to mitigate a lack of ram. That's why sometimes it feels like 32 is not beneficial. Example: had 16GB of ram before was using 8-9GB of ram, upgraded to 48GB computer started using 10-12GB (sometimes 14) of ram.

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£259.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£99.98 @ Currys PC World Business) 
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£111.03 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£69.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Toshiba N300 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£87.02 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB Video Card  (£421.01 @ SmartTeck.co.uk) 
Case: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£68.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£199.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Keyboard: AOC GK500 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£58.51 @ Amazon UK) 
Mouse: Logitech G305 (Black) Wireless Optical Mouse  (£34.99 @ Currys PC World) 
Total: £1490.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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