Question Building £700 Gaming PC

[TP____]

Building a £700 gaming pc. So far i have come up with this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/dBPLzY Not sure if this can be improved in anyway but dont really want to go over £750

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Going with such a low end and overpriced cpu with a 1660 is going to cause some cpu limiting in most games.
Also a b365 motherboard limits your ram speed to 2666, making your 3200 kit unnecessary.

 

[AngelTech]

If you don't mind the small differences you can get a Ryzen chip as they are cheaper so you can get a more powerful CPU but still not use too much more money

 

[NightHawkRMX]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor | £114.95 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard | ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard | £76.33 @ CCL Computers
Memory | G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | £83.07 @ Amazon UK
Storage | Crucial - MX500 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | £36.78 @ Aria PC
Storage | Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | £36.18 @ Aria PC
Video Card | Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB GAMING OC Video Card | £219.13 @ Amazon UK
Case | Phanteks - Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case | £59.81 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply | Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | £64.97 @ Amazon UK
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | £691.22
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-06-19 12:50 BST+0100 |
This gets rid of the CPU issue and cost about the same.

 

[TP____]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor | £114.95 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard | ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard | £76.33 @ CCL Computers
Memory | G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | £83.07 @ Amazon UK
Storage | Crucial - MX500 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | £36.78 @ Aria PC
Storage | Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | £36.18 @ Aria PC
Video Card | Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB GAMING OC Video Card | £219.13 @ Amazon UK
Case | Phanteks - Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case | £59.81 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply | Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | £64.97 @ Amazon UK
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | £691.22
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-06-19 12:50 BST+0100 |
This gets rid of the CPU issue and cost about the same.

Or is there a better build i can do for £750 then my proposed one. Not bothered about a cheap and nasty case

 

[NightHawkRMX]

This is about as much performance that you can get for this budget.
PCPartPicker Part List

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor | £196.99 @ Aria PC
Motherboard | ASRock - B450M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard | £52.49 @ CCL Computers
Memory | Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory | £67.59 @ Amazon UK
Storage | Kingston - A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | £27.78 @ PC World Business
Storage | Seagate - BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | £34.96 @ PC World Business
Video Card | Palit - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB StormX Video Card | £293.58 @ Aria PC
Case | CiT - F3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case | £25.98 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply | Corsair - TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | £59.04 @ CCL Computers
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | £758.41
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-06-19 13:06 BST+0100 |
Cheapest compatable case. Cheapest decent SSD and HDD combo. Cheapest compatable motherboard.
For this budget, you get a Ryzen 7 2700 with 8 cores and 16 threads with a max turbo of 4.1ghz. You also get an RTX 2060 which is great for 1080 or 1440p gaming. 16gb ddr4 3000mhz since it is cheaper than 3200 stuff.

 

[sizzling]

When exactly are you building? Although I like the Ryzen 7 build above we are literally a few weeks away from the 3000 series which is looking very promising.

 

[TP____]

When exactly are you building? Although I like the Ryzen 7 build above we are literally a few weeks away from the 3000 series which is looking very promising.

This time next month i will be ordering the parts

 

[sizzling]

This time next month i will be ordering the parts

Ok by that time the newer 3000 series should be available and could easily change the recommendations.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Well then wait until ryzen 3000 launches. You may be able to get better CPU performance for the same budget.
The above B450 will work with Ryzen 3000, but I'm not sure it would be up to a high tdp CPU. The 8 core and below should be fine.

 

[TP____]

So this would be better then the 2700 ryzen 7?
Ryzen 5 3600X – 6-cores, 12-threads | 4.4GHz boost, 3.8GHz base | 95W

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Not sure right now. For gaming, the Ryzen 5 3600x should beat the Ryzen 7 2700 due to the significantly improved cache sizes, IPC gains, and higher clock speeds caused by the all new Zen2 architecture.

 

[robinjoo17]

Going with such a low end and overpriced cpu with a 1660 is going to cause some cpu limiting in most games.
Also a b365 motherboard limits your ram speed to 2666, making your 3200 kit unnecessary.

ehh my b350 mobo runs fine on +3000Mhz mem

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Yes, but that motherboard is B365, not B350.
B365 is an Intel chipset artificially limited to 2666mhz.


My b350 board runs 3400mhz fine, but this isnt b350