New Gaming Build

[simonlodge]

Hello, I'm from the UK and I'm looking into building a new gaming rig, I currently have at the moment...

AMD fx6300, asus motherboard, 8gb ddr3 1600mhz memory, GTX 970, 1TB HD, 120GB SSD

I am looking to keep both storage drives and the GPU, so I'm looking for help for which new cpu, motherboard and memory (i know prices are high at the moment) and a psu to get, I was thinking of going for the new Ryzen cpu's but i'm not sure which one would be best to be pair with my old gtx 970, I am thinking of upgrading to a new gpu sometime in 2018 but i'm waiting on nvidia's Volta line of gpu's first to see if that would be a worthy upgrade, I have been looking at gtx 1060 and 1070 but if Volta is not too off for release I might wait it out longer, I mainly just game on my computer, mostly multiplayer games ie. Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, Star Wars, Call Of Duty, PUBG, CounterStrike, Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks, Kind regards, Simon.

 

[DRagor]

Budget for those 4 components?

 

[simonlodge]

cpu £120
motherboard £65
psu £50
memory £130-150

 

[Hellfire13]

Something like this should be pretty good...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£175.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B350 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard (£109.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£181.23 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.41 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.96 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £577.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-11 20:53 GMT+0000

The 1600 is a great gaming chip and if you overclock it moderately, you can get very good performance out of it.

Alternately...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£73.91 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£90.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.96 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £360.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-11 20:56 GMT+0000

 

[quilciri]

If you're planning on overclocking, my humble suggestion:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£131.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£59.47 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£142.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£64.79 @ Alza)

Total: £399.18
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-11 21:00 GMT+0000

If you're not overclocking, I would suggest waiting for prices on the I7 7700 (non-k) to come down or save up a bit more.

Cheers!

 

[DRagor]

Well, at that price range, Intel currently has nothing to offer that would definitely beat out Ryzen build. Hellfire second build is probably way to go.

 

[simonlodge]

Thanks for all the replies, I just been looking myself and came up with this build... all parts are from ebuyer accept the ram which is amazon..

Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Red LED Mid-Tower Gaming Case £48.99
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X AM4 Retail Boxed Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler £111.98
MSI AMD A320M Grenade Ryzen AM4 Micro ATX Motherboard £62.45
CX Series CX450 450 Watt 80 PLUS £41.27
HyperX FURY 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) 2133 MHz DDR4 CL14 DIMM Memory Kit (Skylake Compatible) £82.99

Total: £347

 

[quilciri]

Just want to make sure you're aware of a few things there:

The Ryzen 3's don't have multi-threading, and we're at a point in gaming where it's important to be able to process more than 4 threads.

The A320 chipset doesn't support overclocking.

Ryzen performance is more heavily impacted by memory speed than Intel.

One more thing actually...make sure that the PSU is the *new* version of the CX (grey label) and not the old version (green label)

 

[simonlodge]

Oh yeah i see what you mean there, Thanks for the tips Well looks like I'm going to settle for this I think..

https://www.ebuyer.com/784315-amd-ryzen-5-1600-6-core-am4-cpu-processor-with-wraith-spire-95w-yd1600bbaebox
https://www.ebuyer.com/781523-msi-amd-b350m-gaming-pro-am4-matx-motherboard-b350m-gaming-pro
https://www.ebuyer.com/730191-evga-650-gq-modular-gold-rated-80-power-supply-210-gq-0650-v3
https://www.ebuyer.com/632826-corsair-carbide-series-spec-01-red-led-mid-tower-gaming-case-cc-9011050-ww
https://www.amazon.co.uk/G-SKILL-Ripjaws-F4-2800C16D-8GRR-DDR4-Memory/dp/B011SMOVS0/ref=sr_1_18?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1513029965&sr=1-18&keywords=ddr4+8gb

Total: £445

Also quick question will I be able to overclock this memory on my chosen motherboard?

Thanks.

 

[quilciri]

Yup, you can overclock the memory on a b350. You *may* run into a little bit of a thermal issue on a micro ATX board, but nothing to really worry about...nothing that a CM 212 evo couldn't solve, anyway (CM has AM4 adapters for it)

 

[Hellfire13]

Change the board to the below list... https://us.hardware.info/comparisontable/products/386371-386380

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£175.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£73.91 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£94.62 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.41 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.96 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £455.09
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-11 22:23 GMT+0000

 

[simonlodge]

OK thanks for all the replies, can i ask why you ask to change to this motherboard?

Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£73.91 @ More Computers)

 

[quilciri]

Nice find! For one, the Asrock has 4 DIMM slots. Also has a second full size PCI-e, albeit ver. 2.0.

 

[Hellfire13]

More DIMM slots, more power phases for better overclocking, better sound codec, and ATX form factor should provide better air flow when you install more peripherals.

 

[simonlodge]

Thanks for all the advice much appreciated, I will go with Hellfire13's recommendation

 

[simonlodge]

Prob will add a GTX 1060 or 1080 to the build once I got enough funds haha I game at 1440p 60fps and i like my gfx on high/ultra!