Building my first PC

jimbo18 · February 2, 2024

Budget (including currency):

£1500

Country:

UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:

Basic gaming like war thunder and dayz but will mainly be used to run CAD programmes like SOLIDWORKS.

Other details:

I currently have a GPU, Motherboard, PSU, Case.

GPU: Nvidia 3060 mase buy Asus

Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 DS3H DDR4 13th gen

PSU: Corsair 700w gold

Case: Corsair Airflow 7000D

Current cost: £518 (may have shopped some sales over the Xmas period:))

I am currently a bit stuck on what to do for Ram and a CPU. I was hoping to go with i9 for a CPU but that is open for change (probably not less than i7 realistically)

I am wanting to play in 2k or higher but I have no particulars on refresh rate.

I was thinking water cooled at first but the more I think about it the worse of an idea it sounds for a first build.

Also I am trying to avoid RGB inside the pc as I am trying build it a s a bit of a sleeper (probably a bad idea)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MT

Jamie

Tan3l6 · February 2, 2024

4 minutes ago, jimbo18 said:

I am currently a bit stuck on what to do for Ram and a CPU. I was hoping to go with i9 for a CPU but that is open for change (probably not less than i7 realistically)

I am wanting to play in 2k or higher but I have no particulars on refresh rate.

At 1440p even i5 13600K would suffice in my opinion. Your gaming performance would be GPU limited.

And it could be cooled by Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE surely.

Why_Me · February 2, 2024

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i5-13500 2.5 GHz 14-Core Processor (£231.97 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: *Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£33.29 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£62.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *ADATA Legend 800 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£110.48 @ NeoComputers)
Video Card: *MSI VENTUS 2X OC GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB Video Card (£769.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£110.89 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1319.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-02-02 08:15 GMT+0000

filpo · February 2, 2024

1 hour ago, jimbo18 said:

GPU: Nvidia 3060 mase buy Asus

Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 DS3H DDR4 13th gen

PSU: Corsair 700w gold

Case: Corsair Airflow 7000D

can you return any of these? If so return them and try this

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor (£379.00 @ Computer Orbit)
CPU Cooler: *Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£33.29 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: *MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard (£159.00 @ Computer Orbit)
Memory: *ADATA XPG Lancer Blade 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (£105.10 @ NeoComputers)
Storage: *Western Digital Blue SN580 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£94.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: *Palit Dual GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card (£582.98 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: *Deepcool CC560 ATX Mid Tower Case (£74.26 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: *Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 - V2 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£99.99 @ AWD-IT)
Total: £1528.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-02-02 09:14 GMT+0000