I need help with making a PC

Blackfox2001

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So my friend recently asked if i could help make him a PC, since I've made my own and did so pretty well i thought I'd be fine making one. Boy was i wrong, All of the components i have that i know Were good in their time are all out of date.

He has an £800 budget and wants to use the PC mostly for gaming.

The only conditions are :
The Mobo has to be ATX
The graphics card has to be a GTX 1050Ti
There has to be 16Gb of RAM (one or two sticks, is ok)
It has to be able to run windows 10 64bit

That's all, I'd Really appreciate the help.
 
Someting like this would be decent:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£149.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (£85.97 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£136.13 @ More Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.76 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GAMING X 4G Video Card (£168.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£64.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £721.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-02 09:44 BST+0100

Doesn't include monitor or OS. That system would be a great performer, with only the mid range 1050ti holding it back. You can upgrade to new CPU's down the line for better performance too.
 
Solution
Something like this. Change pc enclosure, if you prefer a different one.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor (£169.66 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - B360 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£86.48 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£117.56 @ Technextday)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£52.79 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£52.19 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card (£138.60 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£65.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £742.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-02 09:52 BST+0100
 
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£149.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (£85.97 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£136.13 @ More Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.76 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - RX 570 570 ARMOR 8G (@ New egg. 190$)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£64.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£79.99 @
 
Not sure why you want to use a "weak" GPU when you have budget to get a better one, which will be far superior.
Philip above, put in a 570, and you could even get a 580 for about £220 now.

XFX - Radeon RX 580 8GB GTS XXX ED Video Card £219.00 A lot faster than 1050ti