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HERAK
Dec 1, 2004
What country are you in?
UK (now based in London for what that's worth)

What are you using the system for?

A mix of gaming, light office tasks, web browsing and watching netflix/youtube etc. So quiet at idle would be nice, I quite like gaming with headphones now. I was really looking forward to playing cyberpunk 2077 and watch dogs legion
What's your budget? around ~£950

I've recently acquired a 4k monitor with freesync. maxes out at 60hz iirc I'm not looking for all games at ultra 120hz happy with a stable 60 even if i need to drop the quality down, or just us upscaling.

This is what I've got so far, anything I can cut down on. Most of my media etc is now on the cloud or an external drive (perks of traveling for the last few years). I've picked a mini itx system because I don't have a lot of space and I expect to be moving again in the next 12 months. Any suggestions on a case?

I've also been considering buying a cpu with integrated graphics the ryzen 5 3400g and not getting a dedicated GPU for a couple of months maybe waiting to see if /when amd release a new high end gpu ( rx 5800/ rx 59000).


Here's what I've got so far.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£151.50 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard (£199.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: *Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£70.63 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£99.41 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card (£338.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Silverstone SG13 Mini ITX Tower Case (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 CM 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£60.60 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £961.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-14 15:08 GMT+0000

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HERAK
Dec 1, 2004
I nearly bought a new PC in march to replace my "gaming" laptop gtx 1050 but have held off. I now realise that what I actually want is something like the intel ghost canyon nuc but with a ryzen processor I can buy now, and then drop a 3070 or what ever new AMD equivalent is announced in a few week, once the reviews for cyberpunk are out. Am I mad? Or should I just wait for the amd announcement and build a ryzen 4000 series something?

HERAK
Dec 1, 2004
At this point I'm seriously considering something built around a apu to get through until stock becomes available, then putting in a decent card and upgrading the processor at the end of the year.

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