My First build

[TheBrokenTree]

Budget (including currency):  maximum £1400

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, CSGO2, Baldur’s Gate and web browsing and YouTube.

Other details: Current Part list (no peripherals needed but I need a monitor):

 

GPU: RX 7800XT

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x

RAM: Crucial DDR5 CL46 5600mhz

CASE: Montech MX3

MOBO and PSU: need recommendations for my budget…

CPU COOLER: Deepcool AG400

MONITER: Need recommendations (a gaming monitor, 24inch curved and at least 150hz)

STORAGE: Crucial 3rd gen 1 tb

 

Any help for my build would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks so much…

[GOTSpectrum]

When are you planning to buy? If you don't need it right now, wait for the black Friday and cyber Monday sales that will be coming up soon 

[TheBrokenTree]

Probably some time after that unfortunately so make the budget a little higher as prices will hopefully go down..

[Guille.R]

Seems pretty good. I've a few recomendations aniway, there is a web called PcPartPicker wich searches among most well knwon stores to find for u the best deals and also let u organaize ur build and it checks most compatibility issues. I've made a list with your components, with a few changes. Am5 platform works a lot better with low latency memory, if it fits in ur budget 6000Mhz CL30 if not 5600Mhz CL28, both of em are more or less same price so it just depends on where u find a best offer. There are really little curved +150Hz 24" monitors so i would stronly recomend u getting a flat one. Here i've made a list with my recomendations:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/3H68QP

It's the same CPU and a pretty apropiate and cheap cooler, same GPU and  same Case. I've chosen the cheaper (reliable brand) 1Tb ssd but that may change a lot depending on the day u look. I've put a CL30 memory, and about the mobo i've put a mATX (they are the sweetspot between the cost of fiting everything on a small form factor and the cost of the materials), it isn't the cheapest mobo but i've chosen this one because it has a B650 instead of an A520 chipset and has decent I/O with even an USB-C, althought if u want to really cheap out without downgrading CPU or GPU mobo could be a place to cut. On the PSU side i've chosen a more than sufficient wattage high efficiency Tier B power supply, wich is pretty cheap but if u can find them cheaper ALWAYS looking at PSU Tier List, the efficiency and if u can a review. On the monitor it's one of the cheapest 165Hz 1080p 24.5" and it's from ASUS so it's a pretty good deal. Right now the build would be at 1480£ so a little over budget, if prices don't go down for black fraiday i woul suggest changing CPU to an intel i5 wich can work with DDR4  or, what i'd probably do, sticking with AMD but last gen, also u maybe  prefer to continue with this one and cut on psu and mobo. 

[venomtail]

at 1080p you'll be very reliant on CPU performance. GPU performance less dependent. Let's guarantee no CPU bottleneck:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£369.62 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin King SE ARGB 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (£32.53 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock A620M Pro RS WiFi Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  (£134.62 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-5600 CL36 Memory  (£66.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (£49.81 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB Video Card  (£436.06 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Thermaltake S100 Snow Edition MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£45.96 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Silverstone Essential 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£84.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: ASRock PG27FF1A 27.0" 1920 x 1080 165 Hz Monitor  (£177.94 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1398.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-23 12:24 BST+0100

 

I hated curved monitors at such a small size a curved monitor is pointless. You're buying into the marketing. 32:9 or other extremely wide aspect ratios only benefit from being curved.

[The Hope]

Although it is now two generations old I would say the Intel 12600KF is still a good performer that is sufficiently powerful and future proof for your type of use case.

 

 

If I were to use RAM @8000 MHz (instead of @6000 MHz) and give the CPU an overclock I would actually match an i9-14900K @6000 MHz:

My advice is to choose the Intel 12600KF and pair it with RAM @7200 MHz or higher which is currently cheap.

[venomtail]

1 hour ago, The Hope said:

Although it is now two generations old I would say the Intel 12600KF is still a good performer that is sufficiently powerful and future proof for your type of use case.

 

 

If I were to use RAM @8000 MHz (instead of @6000 MHz) and give the CPU an overclock I would actually match an i9-14900K @6000 MHz:

My advice is to choose the Intel 12600KF and pair it with RAM @7200 MHz or higher which is currently cheap.

For 97% of the people the 12600KF is redundant thank to the 13400F outside of severely budget capped builds where even 50 cents matter (cause 12600KF right now is $5 cheaper than the 13400F). A hotter, less efficient chip that 9/10 times is met with the 13400F in the exact same FPS.

 

I'd rather pay the $5 more on the 13400F and then save $20 on the lesser cooling it requires and then in the long-term save even more money on electricity not used.

 

Have a look

 

Dude is also mostly considering gaming where even an i9 get smoked by the 3D chips while using half the power and doesn't require insane watercooling.