Building a PC for £750, any suggestions?

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Rafalex

Rafalex

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I am going to build a pc for around £750, Its mainly going to be used for gaming. I will be using my spare PSU which is 650 watts. I do not need an ssd. I do need an OS. I own all the peripherals. Any suggestions of what parts i should use?
 
Hello Rafalex,

Can I ask what the brand and model name or number details of the present PSU are, 650W sounds great but certain brands are complete junk.

Will you need a new case and DVD drive.
 
phillpower2 said:
Hello Rafalex,

Can I ask what the brand and model name or number details of the present PSU are, 650W sounds great but certain brands are complete junk.

Will you need a new case and DVD drive.
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The brand of the Psu is OCZ and the model is OCZ ZS650W. I will need a case but not a DVD drive
 
Not a bad PSU when new 6+ years ago but is three years out of warranty so should also be replaced.

Done a quick list here, over your budget and being realistic unless you do an AMD build you will not get everything for £750, the only room for manoeuvre would be to downgrade the CPU and MB, take a look and see if you can tweak the list to suit for yourself.
 
You may save £50 on Windows now but don`t forget support for Windows 7 ends in a couple of years so it may well end up costing you a lot more.

Lets see what we can do with an AMD build, their new Ryzen processors are well rated.
 
Not heard back from you Rafalex, do you still require assistance, an update would be appreciated.
 
Yes, I would still like some assistance, been looking into ryzen myself. What do you thinkg would be a good combo for a ryzen build ? Sorry for not responding for a while
 
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Sorry for not responding for a while
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Not a major problem but when members visit the forums but do not update their threads I like to check in with them just in case.

Here you go, Raf2

NB: Please keep in mind what I said about your present PSU, spend an additional £50 or so now rather than risk blowing all of the new hardware with a 6+ year old power supply.
 
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Yep, I am probably going to buy a new PSU since as you said, its not worth the risk.
 
Looks good, what do you think about getting a cheaper motherboard for the first build you did?
 
Depends on the particular PSU, cheap 600W brands are often not capable of putting out even 500W, let us know what you are looking at but a word to the wise don`t go cheap and make sure that anything you consider is at least Bronze efficiency rated.
 
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phillpower2 said:
Depends on the particular PSU, cheap 600W brands are often not capable of putting out even 500W, let us know what you are looking at but a word to the wise don`t go cheap and make sure that anything you consider is at least Bronze efficiency rated.
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Alrighty.
 
Would work and for around the same price AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600X

Benchmarks

In case you are not aware, having six cores sounds great but if only for gaming they will not be utilised and the same for all four cores on a quad, only three cores are normally used but the more demanding that games are now getting the latter will definitely change to all four cores being utilised.
 
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