Advice on a build.

[jordow47]

I'm helping my friend build a gaming system as he has no clue on pc building etc. His budget is £600 and will need an entire system and a monitor. For now I am sorting out the pc components and will aim for roughly £500-550, and he will buy a monitor if it goes over the budget.

I haven't fully kept up with the latest components etc, but I think I have solid build that can do decent gaming, as well as some basic 3D rendering and design work.

Here's what I have so far:

CPU: AMD FX 8350
GPU: GTX 980
PSU: Corsair VS650 650 W
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
HDD: 1TB Seagate
CASE: (Any basic case)
RAM: 16GB DDR3 Hyperx Fury

This is the best I could find for his budget, I have been torn between the AMD FX 8350 as it's old and people don't like the FX series, to the budget Ryzen chips, but peoples comparisons show that it doesn't really match up to the FX 8350's speed.

If anyone has any improvements, or changes I would really appreciate it, especially if people can keep the rig in the £500ish region?

Thanks in advance!

 

[zyh1987]

Which country are you buying it from?

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

The FX CPUs are really behind honestly. Even a ryzen quad core would probably do better.

 

[jordow47]

Which country are you buying it from?

I'm buying it all from the UK, im going to source some parts such as the GPU secondhand off of ebay etc to save money.

 

[jordow47]

The FX CPUs are really behind honestly. Even a ryzen quad core would probably do better.

Yeah, some people said that it would be better to get a newer architecture cpu, but because of the speed comparisons they don't match up well. Have any Ryzen recommendations that are cheap?

 

[g-unit1111]

The FX CPUs are really behind honestly. Even a ryzen quad core would probably do better.

Yeah, some people said that it would be better to get a newer architecture cpu, but because of the speed comparisons they don't match up well. Have any Ryzen recommendations that are cheap?

If you want a solid build that can do decent gaming, you're not getting that with an AMD FX processor. I'd go with a 1st gen Ryzen or a Ryzen 2600. There's no reason to spend any kind of money on an FX series CPU at this point. This is a bit more than the proposed setup but will be infinitely better:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor (£130.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.07 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£74.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£75.19 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB GAMING Video Card (£198.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.09 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£57.62 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £662.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-28 18:37 GMT+0000

 

[zyh1987]

The FX CPUs are really behind honestly. Even a ryzen quad core would probably do better.

Yeah, some people said that it would be better to get a newer architecture cpu, but because of the speed comparisons they don't match up well. Have any Ryzen recommendations that are cheap?

with 2600 and a rx570 8gb, you can have a decent gaming system.
if you are willing to put in 150 more, you can get a system a rtx 2060.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor (£142.50 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£73.85 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£99.49 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Patriot - Burst 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£51.94 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 570 8 GB Video Card (£159.99 @ Box Limited)
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case (£29.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£57.62 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £615.38
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-28 18:36 GMT+0000

 

[logainofhades]

Close to budget, with monitor.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor (£130.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£73.85 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£59.99 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£58.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PowerColor - Radeon RX 570 4 GB Red Devil Video Card (£143.99 @ AWD-IT)
Case: RIOTORO - CR488 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.21 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX - XT 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.93 @ CCL Computers)
Monitor: AOC - E2270SWHN 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor (£68.24 @ PC World Business)
Total: £604.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-28 19:06 GMT+0000

 

[jordow47]

Thanks guys for all of your help, I did a bit more research and came up with a much better system than my initial build!

 

[sizzling]

Hopefully what you came up with wasn’t an FX cpu, those things are obsolete with no upgrade path.

 

[scubasteve28666]

im running an fx 8350 on an msi board with an rx460 4gb i havent had any issues playing games at 1080p like none plays em all atleast 60fps on ultra but yh ill be upgrading in next few months had this comp for a lil over a yr now

 

[sizzling]

It will depend on the game but FX was struggling in many games 3 years ago. Zero point in investing in an obsolete platform with no upgrade path.

Here is just 1 example from 2015