My first ever PC

[Robsticle]

I am building my first ever PC and I am lucky enough to have friends that have donated some old parts to get started off with. Here is what I already have. I am not looking for the biggest and fanciest I just want to be able to run blender and some games. 

 

Budget (including currency): £500

Country: United Kingdom 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Adobe suite, DOS2, Unreal Engine

Other details: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qtK9Ls , I am happy to look at second hand options for parts as well. I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already so I don’t need the peripherals. 

 

Thank you for any help :) 

 

[Gokul_P]

2 minutes ago, Robsticle said:

I am building my first ever PC and I am lucky enough to have friends that have donated some old parts to get started off with. Here is what I already have. I am not looking for the biggest and fanciest I just want to be able to run blender and some games. 

 

Budget (including currency): £500

Country: United Kingdom 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Adobe suite, DOS2, Unreal Engine

Other details: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qtK9Ls , I am happy to look at second hand options for parts as well. I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already so I don’t need the peripherals. 

 

Thank you for any help

 

I think you should go a much newer platform abd get a 2nd hand Gpu 

[JimTheBeet]

I think it’s reasonable to use these parts as a starting point. You’ll definitely want to upgrade at some point (they’re already showing their age), but if you toss them in a case with a 6700 xt or 3060 ti or something, you can have a quite performant system using mostly parts you already have. I’d probably buy a ssd (nvme if the motherboard has slots) to modernize it a bit as well.

[Gokul_P]

27 minutes ago, Robsticle said:

I am building my first ever PC and I am lucky enough to have friends that have donated some old parts to get started off with. Here is what I already have. I am not looking for the biggest and fanciest I just want to be able to run blender and some games. 

 

Budget (including currency): £500

Country: United Kingdom 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Adobe suite, DOS2, Unreal Engine

Other details: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qtK9Ls , I am happy to look at second hand options for parts as well. I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already so I don’t need the peripherals. 

 

Thank you for any help

 

it is a bit over budget But going to be much better than 6th gen 6th gen isnt going to cut it anymore for new builds. and you can go second hand ram,Gpu,Case.  if the ram is more than 50 the new one the newer ones with 3600Mhz 32Gb is 80$. 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pmJXtn

CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($166.99 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($47.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: *Thermaltake Smart BM2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
CASE: Pick Your Case (personal preference)  ($60.00)
GPU: NEW 6600/ Used 1080  ($200.00)
RAM :Corsair Vengeance used Ram ($50.00)

Total: $689.96, 573.02£
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-12-27 08:04 EST-0500

[jamie.three]

6 hours ago, Gokul_P said:

it is a bit over budget But going to be much better than 6th gen 6th gen isnt going to cut it anymore for new builds. and you can go second hand ram,Gpu,Case.  if the ram is more than 50 the new one the newer ones with 3600Mhz 32Gb is 80$. 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pmJXtn

CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($166.99 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P2 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($47.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: *Thermaltake Smart BM2 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
CASE: Pick Your Case (personal preference)  ($60.00)
GPU: NEW 6600/ Used 1080  ($200.00)
RAM :Corsair Vengeance used Ram ($50.00)

Total: $689.96, 573.02£
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-12-27 08:04 EST-0500

This actually comes out at about £700 if you look at prices in the UK rather than US.

Here is an alternative that is barely over the OPs budget https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mnTTTn

I dont know if the NH-L9i will have the correct mounting parts for AM4 but if it dosen't then the included box cooler should be fine.

If the OP can get a rx 6600 or equivalent second hand for a resonable price then that should bring the build down to under £500 (1070ti or higher, 2060 or higher, 3050 or higher, or an rx 6600 or higher)