New Gaming PC

thedarkknight228 · 11-05-2023 4:18pm #1

Looking at building a new Gaming PC for my son.

We will be building it ourselves.

Our budget is about €1000

He will be playing most games on steam, recording videos with his Elgato and then editing the videos

Just looking for some advice on a tower case and everything that will go into it.

Case: Looking for Midi size with good air flow, he is asking for one that he can see into from the side

CPU: Would like to go with AMD instead of Intel

GPU: Looking at Nvidia for this

RAM: Would 16GB be enough or would I need 32GB?

Storage: Would I get away with SSD or would I need to purchase NVME?

Power Supply: Not sure about this, how do you work out how much watt you need?

Fan: Will standard AMD CPU cooler work?

Motherboard: Not sure on what to get here

Operating System: Windows

Any help would be greatly appreciated

K.O.Kiki · 13-05-2023 5:37pm

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/fD3Ztn

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor (£126.97 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£95.91 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£65.98 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Kingston NV2 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Zotac GAMING Twin Edge GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card (£318.45 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (£94.97 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA 650 GQ 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£75.00)

Custom: Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE (£20.00)

Total: £877.26

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-05-13 17:30 BST+0100

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Build notes:

32 GB RAM is cheap enough now that you can (and should) get that instead of 16.
NVMe drives are as cheap as SATA now; and game install sizes are ever-increasing. Start with a 2TB for sure.
AMD boxed cooler is fine but Thermalright sells 120mm coolers with RGB for less than 25eur.
Make sure the GPU you choose is RTX 3060 12 GB and not RTX 3060 "8 GB".
There seems to be a dearth of good cases on AmazonUK. Would have loved to recommend the Fractal Design Pop Air or Focus 2. Cougar MX410 Mesh RGB is a decent budget choice.

Icyseanfitz · 14-05-2023 8:46am

Might be worth waiting on the gpu side as AMD are about to release their lower end GPUs, rx 7600, rx 7600xt

delusiondestroyer · 14-05-2023 9:00am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058296084/new-gaming-pc

I bought mine off PC specialist you can select the parts and they build it for you, i priced the parts myself and to build it myself and what i was saving wasnt worth it, considering you get it built delivered and all your warranties in one place, the pc worked flawlessly and the delievery time was fast along with them updating you on each stage of the build.

Would highly recommend them i used hardwareverstand for my other pc 12 years ago had 0 issues with that too.

Good option if you dont mind not building it yourself.

cornholio509 · 17-05-2023 4:14pm

Looking at the build K.O.KIKI put up . I would recomend extra storage in the form of sata SSD'd or high capcity HDD . Video editing and recording takes up a lot of storage space . As K.Okiki said games are starting to take up a lot of space with some been 100+gb . If he is recording gampe play and editing it early you could easily see 15 gb an hour or more depending on resolution and the codecs . You can get a 4tb hdd for about €80 .

You wont be long filling up 2tb on hte pc just from the screen captures .

On the GPU front i would wait a few weeks b4 ordering anything . NVIDIA and AMD are launching their low end / mid range gpus . THat means the rtx 3060 and the RX 6700 gpus will have deals going on .