Building the best gaming pc for around 1.400 USD

[LeoLore]

Hey guys, 

I want to build a new computer, will be used  for gaming (and Crypto mining) . I have saved around 1200€ which is around 1400$. 

I came up with the idea to use a AMD Ryzen 5 2600X (overclocking it a bit), one MSI GeForce GTX 1060, one Asus Prime X470-Pro Mother-/Mainboard and a 600 watt powersupply from Thermaltake. 

I still have to find a pc case that looks good to me. 

If there is something to improve or to change, but still staying in the budget, would be very nice if you could post it beneath. 

 

Thx Lennox

 

[Firewrath9]

I can make one, the ryzen 7 1800x is really cheap rn, only 225$. consider that, do you need a monitor? what games will you be playing?

 

note: you need a better gpu. where are you in Europe? ill assume Germany/france

[Firewrath9]

PCPartPicker part list: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/g74pr6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/g74pr6/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1800X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  (€248.84 @ Mindfactory)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U12S SE-AM4 CPU Cooler  (€59.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: MSI - X370 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€79.00 @ Caseking)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (€144.31 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Kingston - A400 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€84.89 @ Alternate)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card  (€441.04 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Corsair - 270R ATX Mid Tower Case  (€55.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€95.84 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €1209.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 16:39 CEST+0200

 

 

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[Sernefarian]

Let me know what you think of this build.

 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  (£196.22 @ More Computers) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£149.96 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Team - T-Force Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£149.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£56.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£23.99 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (£448.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Cougar - MX310 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£39.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £1196.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 17:10 BST+0100

 

 

So the board has 3 case fan headers, yet you can in all likelihood use some of the other headers for the remaining fans so that you have a full compliment. I would have tossed you the Cryorig H7 instead of the 212, but figured that getting the case fanned up would probably result in greater cooling overall than just using the 1 preinstalled fan along with the cryorig.

Edited July 17, 2018 by Sernefarian
Slightly different choices inside the 1200 Pound budget. Higher Airflow fan choice made, with similar sound profile. Also infos.

[forregacc02]

Build 1: On Budget

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3GHz 8-Core Processor  (£188.40 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£61.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£134.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Team - L5 LITE 3D 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£23.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£23.99 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC Black Edition Video Card  (£659.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 3.1 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£74.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1203.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 16:37 BST+0100

 

Build 2: Suggested

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  (£150.37 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - H310M PRO-M2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£134.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£161.99 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC Black Edition Video Card  (£659.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 3.1 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£74.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1266.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 16:41 BST+0100

[LeoLore]

1 hour ago, Firewrath9 said:

I can make one, the ryzen 7 1800x is really cheap rn, only 225$. consider that, do you need a monitor? what games will you be playing?

 

note: you need a better gpu. where are you in Europe? ill assume Germany/france

Germany was right 

The German seller Alternate.de is selling it for 324€ and it's one of the cheapest shops in Germany and this little performance difference isn't worth the money 

 

 

[Sernefarian]

1 hour ago, Sernefarian said:

Let me know what you think of this build.

 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  (£196.22 @ More Computers) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£149.96 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Team - T-Force Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£149.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£56.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£23.99 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (£448.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Cougar - MX310 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£39.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-BV12LED 72.7 CFM  120mm Fan  (£4.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £1196.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 17:10 BST+0100

 

 

So the board has 3 case fan headers, yet you can in all likelihood use some of the other headers for the remaining fans so that you have a full compliment. I would have tossed you the Cryorig H7 instead of the 212, but figured that getting the case fanned up would probably result in greater cooling overall than just using the 1 preinstalled fan along with the cryorig.

Crap... read Pounds but it was Euros. ... uggggghhhh.

[Sernefarian]

okay. Revised Euro Build using German vendors.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  (€215.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€29.85 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (€5.49 @ Caseking) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€77.74 @ Mindfactory) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€152.74 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€38.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€39.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (€504.99 @ Alternate) 
Case: Cougar - MX310 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€44.90 @ Caseking) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€82.12 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€3.89 @ Aquatuning) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€3.89 @ Aquatuning) 
Total: €1199.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 18:41 CEST+0200

 

Here is another using Italian Vendors.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor  (€220.61 @ Amazon Italia) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€44.98 @ Alternate Italia) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (€9.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€71.70 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€147.20 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€39.97 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba - 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€39.10 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (€523.49 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: Cougar - MX300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€40.90 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: Xilence - Performance A+ 630W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€55.41 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€4.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €1198.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 18:52 CEST+0200

Edited July 17, 2018 by Sernefarian
Additional Build

[Firewrath9]

1 hour ago, LeoLore said:

Germany was right 

The German seller Alternate.de is selling it for 324€ and it's one of the cheapest shops in Germany and this little performance difference isn't worth the money 

 

 

its 250 euros at mindfactory,

[Sernefarian]

Build using French PCPP

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  (€189.99 @ Cdiscount) 
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  (€44.48 @ Amazon France) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (€10.22 @ Amazon France) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€77.95 @ Amazon France) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€172.89 @ Alternate) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU650 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€36.95 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES.2 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€26.71 @ Amazon France) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  (€509.90 @ Amazon France) 
Case: Cougar - MX310 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€55.44 @ Amazon France) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€69.89 @ Alternate) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€4.90 @ Amazon France) 
Total: €1199.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 19:44 CEST+0200

[LeoLore]

18 hours ago, Sernefarian said:

okay. Revised Euro Build using German vendors.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  (€215.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€29.85 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (€5.49 @ Caseking) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€77.74 @ Mindfactory) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€152.74 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€38.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€39.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (€504.99 @ Alternate) 
Case: Cougar - MX310 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€44.90 @ Caseking) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€82.12 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€3.89 @ Aquatuning) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€3.89 @ Aquatuning) 
Total: €1199.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 18:41 CEST+0200

 

Here is another using Italian Vendors.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor  (€220.61 @ Amazon Italia) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (€44.98 @ Alternate Italia) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut 1g 1g Thermal Paste  (€9.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€71.70 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€147.20 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€39.97 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba - 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€39.10 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card  (€523.49 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: Cougar - MX300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€40.90 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: Xilence - Performance A+ 630W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€55.41 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC - Arctic F12 74.0 CFM  120mm Fan  (€4.99 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €1198.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-17 18:52 CEST+0200

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