Build for a friend

Robinsony · August 14, 2017

My friend has asked me to put together a build for around £700 (excluding monitor and speakers). He wants to mainly do day-day tasks but also does a little bit of video editing and gaming aswell.

I've put this together : https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Dw3Hyf

I chose the Ryzen 5 1500X as I wanted him to have the 4c/8t aspect and (atleast in the UK) there is a £10 difference between the 1400 and 1500X.

I added the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo as I want the system to stay cooler than stock and, in the future, be able to have an overclock if neccecary.

The Asus Prime B350 Plus isn't anything special but I wanted him to have an ATX board and it gets decent reviews.

I put 16GB of HyperX Fury Black (2x8GB) in because I feel that is the most suitable amount of Memory for systems of this day and age to have.

Storage wise there is a 120GB HyperX 3K SATA SSD for the OS and programs, something I see as a necessity with the lowering cost of them. There is also a 1TB WD Caviar Blue for Mass Storage and Games.

The Video Card I chose is an EVGA 1050Ti which should pack enough punch for 1080p gaming and light video editing.

For the case I found the Fractal Design Core 2300, a reasonably priced and reasonably good looking case. I definetly wanted something windowless as (especially with the PSU cables) the finished product won't be the nicest looking thing you've laid your eyes on.

The PSU is the EVGA 500B, again nothing special but is reasonably priced, gives us 500W and is from a reputable brand. The cables though...

Finally, Keyboard and Mouse was a hard choice. I use a G810 and a G502 but they were out of the question. The other set I used to use were the 'CM Storm Devastator' bundle. They felt alright to use, looked decent and were quite cheap so I threw them in.

If anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it as I've got a few months before this will be built.

Sir Asvald · August 14, 2017

4 minutes ago, Sdvf said:

Replace the 1500x by the 1600. Extra cores

mastermickle · August 14, 2017

The build looks solid with a clear upgrade path for the GPU, that would definitely be the spot that would need an upgrade around the 2 year mark to keep up with newer games. I agree with the 1600 option, as that is some more future proofing. Any current GPU used with that CPU will have no bottleneck.