Building a PC

[Ollievrthecool]

Heyaa. I'm starting to buy computer parts for a PC that i shall be building within the next 2 months. I'm not the best with PC building and dont know much about parts. I have devised a list of computer parts and am trying to keep within my budget of £800. If you could help and give your opinion, that would be lovely.

CPU: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009O7YUF6/ ... VM27M5HO4J
GPU: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JGQBMB4/ ... 8K79H29M77
Memory: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FMRV7OY/ ... 5LQ6&psc=1
MOBO: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01DAK8EEA/ ... TPD5&psc=1
Case: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/9g2/Corsair- ... 37740&sr=1
Power Supply: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008RJZR40/ ... HB4V&psc=1
Hard Drive: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008FXHKVQ/ ... MG6U&psc=1

Some recommendations i have had so far is to go for a Ryzen CPU which would be close to an I7 but for half the price and have liquid cooling in i am not happy with the default cooling.
Thanks guys.

[Calypto]

Do you really need an 8GB video card?

[iZumo]

I'd definitely not recommend going with old AMD CPU right now, especially since Ryzen is out. Generally, you're not going to have use for 8 cores, a 4 core CPU is just fine and you're not going to need liquid cooling. Otherwise, if you need to build now, I'd go with i5-7xxx / H270 board for budget options but if you can wait for next quater, wait until the remaining Ryzen CPUs are out (price of the 8 cores starts at $329 and Ryzen has performance problems with gaming). I'd generally recommend to wait here.

GPU seems to be a good pick for the price, although 8 GB memory is a bit unneeded.

RAM - 8 GB should be enough.

HDD - spend extra 30 pounds for this drive: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST2000 ... drive+2+TB

Also, you don't need 750W power supply. 600W should be more than enough.

[ZioFede]

the RX 470 should have a better performance/price ratio as far as I know if you want to shave some moonies

8 GB RAM are becoming the minimum required these days, more and more games are starting to recommend 16 GB...

that CPU , even the latest pentium is better than that ... wait for ryzen 6/4 cores and BIOS/Windows updates to assess the kind of permormance you can get with AMD processors...

and pl0x add an SSD...

[iRobot]

Why spend £800 on a pc when you could just get a console

[Den]

I'd definitely not recommend going with old AMD CPU right now, I'd go with i5-7xxx / H270 board for budget options

Don't listen to Izumo, he works in Intel, he is a biased, he is not allowed to write nice things about AMD.

But about GPU and RAM he is 100% right.

Also for such PC you should not use classic HDD. Better use SSD for OS, pagefile and some demanding applications. So SSHD is really better than HDD but SSD+HDD or SSD+SSHD would be the best solution.

AMD stock cooling is shit, you also don't need liquid. I use Noctua, price is adequate, very silent and cooling perfectly. https://www.amazon.co.uk/noctua-NH-D15- ... B00L7UZMAK

Sure 600W power supply will be enough for this configuration, but if install more hardware in future then probably not. I'd prefer 750W for such PC

And buy UPS. https://www.amazon.co.uk/APC-Back-UPS-7 ... B002RXED6A

[Calypto]

SSDs are a meme, it can be bought later if necessary

[Den]

SSD is for OS, easier to buy hdd later if necessary for storage so you will not have to move or reinstall OS

[iZumo]

Sure 600W power supply will be enough for this configuration, but if install more hardware in future then probably not. I'd prefer 750W for such PC

And buy UPS. https://www.amazon.co.uk/APC-Back-UPS-7 ... B002RXED6A

He's good with 600W even if he adds a 2nd GPU (it's 150W card). And in good countries you don't need UPS

[Den]

With 750W you don't think about it when connecting 2nd graphic card, 4th HDD, 10th fan and over 9000 USB devices which are powered only from USB.

Everywhere can be problens with electricity, not only in Russia