Long time PC Guy - First time building my own rig.

[Deathshead747]

Budget (including currency): $1600-1750 AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly gaming and general media consumption like browsing, movies etc. Would like to play AAA titles, at least for the near future.

Other details: Keeping my Samsung Evo 970+ 1TB SSD for now. Aiming for 1080p gaming at 100++ FPS.

 

Hi Guys,

 

I would like to pick your brain and need some help choosing between Team Red or Team Blue. Here in Australia, AMD is more competitively priced, and we can score a decent MOBO for at least $70-100 less than Intel, even though intel's CPU is a bit cheaper on its own. I have watched a ton of reviews/comparisons and TBH there is not much separating the 5600 from the 12400F, apart from the possible forward-facing compatibility scenarios, but I think that I will have to change the mobo for it anyway, down the line, since both DDR4 and 5 are not supported on the same board (same goes with PCI5 but I could be wrong).

 

Do you think it is worth the price difference to go for Intel and what other parts would you replace to hit the sweet spot and stay within budget. I have included my Notion list of parts with certain prices that I could not find through PCPartPicker but have included both.

 

Points to consider:

• For Intel many suggest to go for a MSI PRO B660M-A which ranges from $219 (Standard) ~ $269 (Wi-FI).
• In the same price as the baseline Gigabyte B660M I have selected, I can get a pretty solid MSI Mobo with Wi-Fi included.
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600 is down to $266 only for tonight.

Thank You in advance, can't wait to get started. P.S got the case already

[Jeppes]

Looks decent. I would get the 100$ cheaper gigabyte 3070 and invest a bit more on cpu and cpu cooler.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($377.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer i35 A-RGB CPU Cooler  ($49.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M GAMING DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($159.00 @ Scorptec)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($98.00 @ Amazon Australia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 LHR 8 GB VISION OC Rev 2.0 Video Card  ($799.00 @ JW Computers)
Case: Silverstone FARA R1 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.00 @ Umart)
Power Supply: MSI MPG A-GF 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.00 @ Centre Com)
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($11.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($11.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Total: $1682.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-30 19:26 AEST+1000

 

 

[Deathshead747]

1 hour ago, Jeppes said:

Looks decent. I would get the 100$ cheaper gigabyte 3070 and invest a bit more on cpu and cpu cooler.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($377.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer i35 A-RGB CPU Cooler  ($49.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M GAMING DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($159.00 @ Scorptec)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($98.00 @ Amazon Australia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 LHR 8 GB VISION OC Rev 2.0 Video Card  ($799.00 @ JW Computers)
Case: Silverstone FARA R1 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.00 @ Umart)
Power Supply: MSI MPG A-GF 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.00 @ Centre Com)
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($11.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($11.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Total: $1682.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-30 19:26 AEST+1000

 

 

That is a wonderful alternate build list. However, even I was kind of conned by that Gigabyte Graphic Card, that's actually an RTX 3060Ti unfortunately. But overall the suggestion is amazing.