amd Build for another friend!

[HippoPCBuilder]

Budget (including currency): £950GBP (can stretch to 1050)

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Valorant, Modded Minecraft, etc.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Playing at 1080p and 165Hz.

 

Any help would be appreciated. A platform swap is fine, no specific brand preferences etc. 

 

Existing PCPartPicker list:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£154.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M S2H Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  (£87.94 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (£55.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Video Card  (£399.95 @ AWD-IT) 
Case: MSI MAG FORGE M100R MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£54.95 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: NZXT C750 (2022) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£75.46 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - Download 64-bit  (£20.00) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11a/b/g/n PCIe x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£9.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Custom: TP-Link Nano USB Bluetooth 5.0 Adapter for Multiple Devices, Long Range Bluetooth Dongle/Receiver for Windows 10/8.1/8/7, Plug and Play (UB500)  (£9.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £959.24
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-09-13 18:55 BST+0100

[RONOTHAN##]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/nFnX6Q

 

This would be my picks. A better motherboard, better RAM, more storage, and as the motherboard picked has on-board WiFi there isn't a need for the WiFi adapters. The 9060 XT is a little bit slower than the 5060 Ti (5% on average), but it's also £80 cheaper that allows for those other quality of life improvements and to be under budget. 

[HippoPCBuilder]

20 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/nFnX6Q

 

This would be my picks. A better motherboard, better RAM, more storage, and as the motherboard picked has on-board WiFi there isn't a need for the WiFi adapters. The 9060 XT is a little bit slower than the 5060 Ti (5% on average), but it's also £80 cheaper that allows for those other quality of life improvements and to be under budget. 

I've taken the better mobo and RAM - currently my friend's existing PC only uses about 500GB of storage with everything installed, so he reckoned 1TB would be good enough, and he could always buy another SSD anyway?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/BCh2db

 

I don't think he's sure on the GPU downgrade though. Can you confirm that the FPS drop will be minimal?

[RONOTHAN##]

4 minutes ago, HippoPCBuilder said:

I don't think he's sure on the GPU downgrade though. Can you confirm that the FPS drop will be minimal?

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9060-xt-pulse-oc/33.html

 

4 minutes ago, HippoPCBuilder said:

so he reckoned 1TB would be good enough, and he could always buy another SSD anyway?

Probably, though 2TB drives are usually a bit better price per GB, and with how big games are getting nowadays, odds are you'll need it eventually and just getting a larger drive up front will save money in the long run. 

[HippoPCBuilder]

Ok: I've put together two builds, one AM4 and one AM5:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rX6yMC (AM4 - 5700G, 5070)

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/RyCg6Q (AM5 - 9600X, 9060XT)

 

I know at this point AM4 is a very old platform... but it does increase the GPU budget massively....

Is this option even worth considering, or for a new build should it be AM5? @RONOTHAN##

[RONOTHAN##]

14 hours ago, HippoPCBuilder said:

Is this option even worth considering, or for a new build should it be AM5?

I probably wouldn't. A lot games nowadays are becoming more and more CPU heavy, so I would really want to have that 9600X for performance in those games, especially in comparison to the 5700G. If you ware going to go AM4 to save money, at least get a 5700X and not a 5700G, that the -G version has much less cache and therefore in games much less performance (more similar ot the 3700X than the 5700X).