Budget Gaming Desktop

[Nuzze]

Hey, I'm really new to choosing parts and would really appreciate any help. 

My little brother's birthday is coming up soon, being the oldest of the 3 I've been tasked with finding the best parts for the price range. We've got £700 to work with, however, we don't have a monitor or keyboard since he is currently using a laptop. 

Heres what I've came up with :-

 

DREVO D1 M.2 2280 240GB - £68.99

 

Crucial 4GB DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) x2  - £82.68

 

Asus Prime B350-PLUS AMD DDR4 S-ATA 600 ATX Motherboard - £81.96

 

Ryzen 3 1300X CPU - £109.97

 

Logitech G213 Prodigy Gaming Keyboard - £45

 

Zotac GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4 GB - £139

 

ASUS VS248HR 24 inch Gaming Monitor - £113.97

 

Corsair CP-9020049-UK VS Series ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Power Supply Unit, 450 W - £33.82

Total comes to around £675.47

 

Any help would be amazing.

[CyberFern0]

2 minutes ago, Nuzze said:

Hey, I'm really new to choosing parts and would really appreciate any help. 

My little brother's birthday is coming up soon, being the oldest of the 3 I've been tasked with finding the best parts for the price range. We've got £700 to work with, however, we don't have a monitor or keyboard since he is currently using a laptop. 

Heres what I've came up with :-

 

DREVO D1 M.2 2280 240GB - £68.99

 

Crucial 4GB DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) x2  - £82.68

 

Asus Prime B350-PLUS AMD DDR4 S-ATA 600 ATX Motherboard - £81.96

 

Ryzen 3 1300X CPU - £109.97

 

Logitech G213 Prodigy Gaming Keyboard - £45

 

Zotac GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4 GB - £139

 

ASUS VS248HR 24 inch Gaming Monitor - £113.97

 

Corsair CP-9020049-UK VS Series ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Power Supply Unit, 450 W - £33.82

Total comes to around £675.47

 

Any help would be amazing.

Can you put that into a pcpartpicker please?

[Nuzze]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Dm4nsJ

 

[Unimaginative Name]

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/hJskGf
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/hJskGf/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£89.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350M-D3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£60.26 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£60.17 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£46.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: *Palit - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB StormX Video Card  (£137.99 @ Aria PC) 
Case: Fractal Design - Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£33.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£62.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Monitor: Dell - SE2216H 21.5" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor  (£104.98 @ PC World Business) 
Keyboard: Cooler Master - CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£39.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £673.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-09 02:06 GMT+0000

 

Check out this build, I squeezed out 8gb of RAM and added 1TB of additional storage. Also added a better power supply.

I swapped the 1300x for the 1200. You can manually overclock the 1200, it becomes a better value. There is also a mouse and keyboard bundle and you have some room to work with on the peripherals.

[LienusLateTips]

4 minutes ago, Unimaginative Name said:

Power Supply: EVGA - 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£62.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Just as bad.

 

OP: Get this build (on UK PCPartPicker), and change the PSU to a CX450M or Pure Power 10, and change the motherboard to something ASUS or ASRock.

[Nuzze]

Thanks for the help, just curious about the performance differences between the 1200 and the 1300x

 

[bleedblue]

5 minutes ago, Nuzze said:

Thanks for the help, just curious about the performance differences between the 1200 and the 1300x

 

1300x just comes with a higher out of the box clockspeed, overclock them to the same speed and there is literally no difference.

 

Edit: Also, Ryzen 2 is coming out this April, you may want to wait for that.

Edited January 9, 2018 by bleedblue
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[CapitalistVN]

I personally wouldn't use an M.2 SSD, better use SATA ones, reserve that M.2 slot for future.

P/S: When is your brother birthday? Ryzen APUs/Ryzen 2 is coming soon enough.

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Nuzze said:

Thanks for the help, just curious about the performance differences between the 1200 and the 1300x

 

1300x does seem to overclock better than 1200, but it's still not worth the price by that small margin in clock speed headroom

 

For cheaper builds, just use a SATA SSD. M.2 ones are more expensive and dont bring much benefits. Not to mention the MX 300 you picked is a SATA drive in M.2 form factor, not the faster NVMe.

[Nuzze]

 

3rd of February

[Nuzze]

Thanks for all the help.

[dizmo]

Welcome to the forum!

A touch over budget, but this is what I'd do:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£89.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£104.95 @ AWD-IT)
Memory: Kingston - FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (£94.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: ADATA - XPG SX6000 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£47.94 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB SSC GAMING ACX 3.0 Video Card  (£157.17 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Case  (£51.50 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£48.99 @ AWD-IT)
Monitor: AOC - E2270SWHN 21.5" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor  (£68.99 @ Ebuyer)
Keyboard: GAMDIAS - HERMES Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£50.83 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £752.85

 

This has a mechanical keyboard with Cherry switches, an NVME drive, nice motherboard.

If you really can't go over 700, there's a cheaper 1050Ti that'll save 18, an mATX motherboard would save another ~10, if you got the single channel RAM suggested that'd save another 30 pound, but you do lose a bit of performance, and you're already taking a hit by dropping to 2400...

 

54 minutes ago, Unimaginative Name said:

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/hJskGf
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/hJskGf/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£89.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350M-D3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£60.26 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£60.17 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£46.95 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.50 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: *Palit - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB StormX Video Card  (£137.99 @ Aria PC) 
Case: Fractal Design - Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£33.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£62.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Monitor: Dell - SE2216H 21.5" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor  (£104.98 @ PC World Business) 
Keyboard: Cooler Master - CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£39.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £673.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-09 02:06 GMT+0000

 

Check out this build, I squeezed out 8gb of RAM and added 1TB of additional storage. Also added a better power supply.

I swapped the 1300x for the 1200. You can manually overclock the 1200, it becomes a better value. There is also a mouse and keyboard bundle and you have some room to work with on the peripherals.

Ryzen takes a pretty big performance hit with single channel RAM, and it's already going to suffer with 2400mhz. Good build though.

44 minutes ago, CapitalistVN said:

I personally wouldn't use an M.2 SSD, better use SATA ones, reserve that M.2 slot for future.

P/S: When is your brother birthday? Ryzen APUs/Ryzen 2 is coming soon enough.

5 months is a pretty long wait

42 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

1300x does seem to overclock better than 1200, but it's still not worth the price by that small margin in clock speed headroom

 

For cheaper builds, just use a SATA SSD. M.2 ones are more expensive and dont bring much benefits. Not to mention the MX 300 you picked is a SATA drive in M.2 form factor, not the faster NVMe.

Sometimes they're cheaper. M.2 isn't always more expensive.