€850 Build - Are these parts good choices for the budget?

james998964

Hi,

I have wanted to do a build for a while and think I might do so soon due to some good sale on at the minute. I have done some research and come up with the below build, sourcing most from amazon and the graphics card from the states. I would appreciate if anyone had some advice or knowledge to input, I think it looks good value myself but just want to be certain all parts make sense together or if there are better/essential changes to be made for similar money. I found choosing the motherboard difficult due to so much choice and nuance and am not entirely confident in that pick or the SSD, cooler and RAM.

CPU: i5-12600KF £160 (€185)

GPU: Intel Arc A750 $210 (€200)

Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 DS3H AX DDR4 ATX £118 (€135)

Ram: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM 16GB (2X8GB) 3600MHz £37.50 (€43)

SSD: WD_BLACK SN850X 1TB M.2 2280, PCIe Gen4 NVMe 7300 MB/s £65 (€75)

PSU: Corsair RM750e 2023 £82 (€95)

Cooler: DeepCool AK400 ZERO DARK PLUS CPU Air Cooler 220w £37.50 (€43)

Case: MSI MAG FORGE 112R Mid-Tower PC Case £56 (€65)

Total: €841

Thanks

K.O.Kiki

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/3W4hKX

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor (£119.99 @ Amazon UK)

CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X Refined SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£16.98 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI B450M-A PRO MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Klevv BOLT X 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£33.18 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: MSI SPATIUM M371 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£45.58 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB Video Card (£273.99 @ Amazon UK)

Case: NZXT H5 Flow ATX Mid Tower Case (£71.00 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £695.69

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-11-22 12:09 GMT+0000

Some Black Friday sales prices in this one, but this build would be a fair bit faster & you can buy everything from AmazonUK.

*GPU: RX 6700 seems to have disappeared so changing recommendation to RTX 4060.

Homelander

The build above is light years better balanced, I would definitely go with that.

Richiepmulhall

Hi thank you for the above information this is very helpful as my son us looking to build his 1st gaming pc, would you recommend a monitor to go with this please,

Thanks in advance.

MRTULES

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/73X4BL

sorry to hijack the thread but I'm after something similar myself and pricing has already changed a bit.

Just a couple of questions on this linked build.

1, is there a clear winner between this i5 and mobo vs a 5600x + mobo as only a tenner in the difference?

2, I understand that the rx6600 is a big step down from the 4060 build above but there is more than €100 price difference. Its hard to say what games this will be used for as it's a first pc but Call of duty/fortnite are probably a good bet for starters and it will all be 1080p. Is there a middle of the road card like rx6650 or something I should be looking at?

3, Any other parts I am overlooking that should be considered?

4, Do you still just download a bootable Windows iso and buy a key online

Unfortunately budget is being eaten up by all things RGB (case, ram and cooler) so the gpu is taking the hit. But these are non negotiable and we're much better discounted last week.

Lastly, I've tried to spec the same build from various eu amazon's but the delivery charge outweighs the import tax fom co.uk.

Thanks in advance

K.O.Kiki

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121439384#Comment_121439384

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/pP3hmD

CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor (£125.97 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI PRO H610M-G DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Klevv CRAS X RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£43.26 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£60.86 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7600 8 GB Video Card (£254.78 @ Amazon UK)

Case: MSI MAG FORGE 100R ATX Mid Tower Case (£67.68 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 10 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£66.95 @ Amazon UK)

Custom: Thermalright Assassin X120 Refined SE ARGB (£15.79)

Total: £715.27

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-12-01 01:02 GMT+0000

Don't buy a liquid cooler (AIO) for such a low-power chip. Drop cooler down to basic & get cheaper RGB RAM. This leaves budget for RX 7600 which is a generation newer & around 30% faster. Also found a 750W Bronze PSU for the same price.

james998964

Above build is very similar to what I went with in the end. I wanted to go intel so picked the below during sales.

CPU:i5-12400f £127 (€145)

GPU: Intel Arc A750 $210  (€209)

Motherboard: ASUS Prime H610M-K D4 £82 (€95)

Ram: Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz (€36)

SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Internal SSD £41 (€47)

PSU: Corsair RM750e 2023 £82 (€95)

Case: MSI MAG FORGE M100R Mini-Tower  £56 (€65)

Total: €683

irishproduce

Are these builds hard to do? Son has asked for a gaming pc (Xmas) as his friends all have them. On his list is a veno scorp but they only ship to UK so I figure I can get parts and build one with him for the experience of it. Is the OS a seperate thing, have to buy that on top is it?

Budget will be the same as the posters here above - 600 - 800 area. Not looking for the best here, just enough to play teenager games

rob808

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121456864#Comment_121456864

Well if your worried about building a PC you can buy a pre built from place like GGmachines.

If you do decide to do a build look at YouTube there plenty of channels that walk you through plus they tell you were to windows 11 for less than what Microsoft will charge you.

irishproduce

Thank you. I think we'll build it for the bonding and experience of it. Can you recommend a YouTuber and I'll have a look. Thanks

rob808

Paul's hardware there also pc centric,pc Builder and many more

Aodhan5000

@irishproduce Don't buy a full priced windows key. Microsoft have a media creation tool that will create an installation media, usually a USB stick (16GB or more last time I did it) which you can use to install windows on your PC.

All this is free with no key necessary. There will just be a small watermark saying "windows unactivated". If you want to get rid of that just pick up a windows key for a few quid (15ish) off adverts. Will save you a good few quid that you can put towards better parts or a few beers as ye work away

irishproduce

Thanks for that