Got a new (to me) gaming PC!
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This is nothing short of a post exclaiming my delight of finally having a gaming PC back in my life. Specs:
Mobo: Asus B350 Plus Prime
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU: Vega 56 8GB
Ram: 48GB of 3200MHz DDR4
SSD: 1TB M.2
All for the princely sum of £205.
It plays what I'm really interested in pretty well (Assetto Corsa Competizione, plus some older games that I missed out over the last decade). I'll be updating the CPU soon to a Ryzen 7 5700X (maybe 5800X) and potentially a newer (used) GPU later down the line, but otherwise, I'm absolutely over the moon. Thought I'd never be getting a PC again due to the inflated costs of everything these days...
Mobo: Asus B350 Plus Prime
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU: Vega 56 8GB
Ram: 48GB of 3200MHz DDR4
SSD: 1TB M.2
All for the princely sum of £205.
It plays what I'm really interested in pretty well (Assetto Corsa Competizione, plus some older games that I missed out over the last decade). I'll be updating the CPU soon to a Ryzen 7 5700X (maybe 5800X) and potentially a newer (used) GPU later down the line, but otherwise, I'm absolutely over the moon. Thought I'd never be getting a PC again due to the inflated costs of everything these days...
No. A good friend just had some old bits laying around after upgrading to an AM5 system and 4070Ti a while back, and offered it up for effectively peanuts. I've not had a PC worthy of gaming since around 2014. Being mid 30s with a family, mortgage and various other financial commitments put pay to splashing cash on selfish things...
ChrisSMorris said:
Sounds like you're in profit already!
Congratulations
Congratulations
Xenoous said:
This is nothing short of a post exclaiming my delight of finally having a gaming PC back in my life. Specs:
Mobo: Asus B350 Plus Prime
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU: Vega 56 8GB
Ram: 48GB of 3200MHz DDR4
SSD: 1TB M.2
All for the princely sum of £205.
It plays what I'm really interested in pretty well (Assetto Corsa Competizione, plus some older games that I missed out over the last decade). I'll be updating the CPU soon to a Ryzen 7 5700X (maybe 5800X) and potentially a newer (used) GPU later down the line, but otherwise, I'm absolutely over the moon. Thought I'd never be getting a PC again due to the inflated costs of everything these days...
Wouldn't bother upgrading the cpu, that cpu can be overclocked quite effectively, and your mo-board has decent bios tweaker for very small voltage control. I'd rather spend half the cost of a Ryzen 7 5700 on a decent cooling setup and tweak away!Mobo: Asus B350 Plus Prime
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU: Vega 56 8GB
Ram: 48GB of 3200MHz DDR4
SSD: 1TB M.2
All for the princely sum of £205.
It plays what I'm really interested in pretty well (Assetto Corsa Competizione, plus some older games that I missed out over the last decade). I'll be updating the CPU soon to a Ryzen 7 5700X (maybe 5800X) and potentially a newer (used) GPU later down the line, but otherwise, I'm absolutely over the moon. Thought I'd never be getting a PC again due to the inflated costs of everything these days...
OldPal said:
Welcome back to the slippery slope, I built mine in September just before the prices went mad. Used systems seem to be the only reasonably priced way to play just now.
What else are you playing
You got lucky for sure. Currently it's Assetto Corsa & Competizione, Titanfall 2 and some others off my Steam library that I collected and never actually played from way back when. I do plan on getting into Le Mans Ultimate, if I can run it. 1080p is all I really care about. Gameplay is more important than knocking the graphics up to max.What else are you playing
Nicks90 said:
Wouldn't bother upgrading the cpu, that cpu can be overclocked quite effectively, and your mo-board has decent bios tweaker for very small voltage control. I'd rather spend half the cost of a Ryzen 7 5700 on a decent cooling setup and tweak away!
Yes I did think about having a play with this. I might give it a go tonight, see if I can squeeze 4Ghz out of it. My primary reason for upgrading the CPU would be that they've stopped producing AM4 chips, so getting one shortly should protect me for a while. The 5700X or even 5800X will be perfectly good for years to come.That being said, I'm keen not to splash money on it, as much as I want to...
Xenoous said:
My primary reason for upgrading the CPU would be that they've stopped producing AM4 chips, so getting one shortly should protect me for a while.
That may be becoming less of a worry https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/am...xeny said:
That may be becoming less of a worry https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/am...
Music to my ears that! Thanks for the link.Well, I ordered a 5800XT with prism cooler for £178. It's an OK price I guess! Just didn't want to risk not getting an AM4 chip as they're selling out pretty quickly. Should do me for a good number of years. Excited to get it in and consider it a complete build for now!
Monitor next...
Monitor next...
When you get the 5800XT running keep an eye on temps. I have a 5800X which did not come with a cooler as its a hot chip and a stock cooler struggles.
I believe the XT is the only 5000 series 8+ core CPU that comes with a cooler in the box. You can undervolt each core in the BIOS but you may need an upgraded cooler if it's too hot or noisy for your liking.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PcBuildHelp/comments/1i96...
I believe the XT is the only 5000 series 8+ core CPU that comes with a cooler in the box. You can undervolt each core in the BIOS but you may need an upgraded cooler if it's too hot or noisy for your liking.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PcBuildHelp/comments/1i96...
Thank you. Yes I've done a little looking into this and plan on running a small undervolt with stock core speeds, perhaps reducing by 100Mhz or so if needed to get package power down, in tern temps down to acceptable limits. I'll be using the stock cooler for now as well. See how I get on! I'll update...
Get yourself a GOG account, Steam account and Epic games account (just for the free games alone). If you have amazon prime then you can also get free games (mainly GOG codes or linked your to Epic Games account) on amazon prime gaming (you don't have to use the luna service - though can if your internet speed is up to it).
You'll rarely have to spend much if anything to have plenty of games to play on your "new" PC - "family" can even share their Steam collections with you....
You'll rarely have to spend much if anything to have plenty of games to play on your "new" PC - "family" can even share their Steam collections with you....
Well the results are in. Firstly, I installed the new CPU with stock prism cooler using the pre applied paste and the idle temps were 65°c plus. Seething obviously wrong there.
Applied some new arctic paste and temps down to 50°c. Then I stressed it using cinebench and temps hit a sustained 91°c.
Then enabled DOCP, and set a negative 0.15v. Max clock is now 4.9Ghz (over 4.7Ghz on the previous run) and idle temps of as low as 35°c with stress temps of 82°c. Plus lower power consumption. Happy days. Not played anything on it yet, but will be tonight.
I'm absolutely over the moon with this build now.
As for games, yes I have everything listed. Used to spend far too many hours gaming, but not really done anything in the last 8 years. Got access to all of my old steam, EA, epic etc.
Left is pre upgrade (1600x). Right is post upgrade (5800XT).
Applied some new arctic paste and temps down to 50°c. Then I stressed it using cinebench and temps hit a sustained 91°c.
Then enabled DOCP, and set a negative 0.15v. Max clock is now 4.9Ghz (over 4.7Ghz on the previous run) and idle temps of as low as 35°c with stress temps of 82°c. Plus lower power consumption. Happy days. Not played anything on it yet, but will be tonight.
I'm absolutely over the moon with this build now.
As for games, yes I have everything listed. Used to spend far too many hours gaming, but not really done anything in the last 8 years. Got access to all of my old steam, EA, epic etc.
Left is pre upgrade (1600x). Right is post upgrade (5800XT).
Edited by Xenoous on Saturday 17th January 12:18
Interesting thread.
I'm in the market for a mid spec gaming PC for my son.
We are taking mid spec here, he's not looking for 60fps at 3840x2160.
Who can point me towards a decent reseller?
Or maybe suggest a mid spec graphics card to build it around.
Id be perfectly happy to put it together myself.
Or take something second hand.
Budget sub 750, like I say it doesn't need to be a monster system.
I'm in the market for a mid spec gaming PC for my son.
We are taking mid spec here, he's not looking for 60fps at 3840x2160.
Who can point me towards a decent reseller?
Or maybe suggest a mid spec graphics card to build it around.
Id be perfectly happy to put it together myself.
Or take something second hand.
Budget sub 750, like I say it doesn't need to be a monster system.
The_Doc said:
Interesting thread.
I'm in the market for a mid spec gaming PC for my son.
We are taking mid spec here, he's not looking for 60fps at 3840x2160.
Who can point me towards a decent reseller?
Or maybe suggest a mid spec graphics card to build it around.
Id be perfectly happy to put it together myself.
Or take something second hand.
Budget sub 750, like I say it doesn't need to be a monster system.
Probably looking at an AM4 system. Memory will now be the issue as prices are still sky high. If I was to build a budget system, this is my choice of componentsI'm in the market for a mid spec gaming PC for my son.
We are taking mid spec here, he's not looking for 60fps at 3840x2160.
Who can point me towards a decent reseller?
Or maybe suggest a mid spec graphics card to build it around.
Id be perfectly happy to put it together myself.
Or take something second hand.
Budget sub 750, like I say it doesn't need to be a monster system.
RTX 5060 ~£325
Ryzen 5 5600XT ~£130
32gb of DDR4 £200+ from a quick look on Box. Potentially 16gb might see you by.
B550 Motherboard - £90
650w PSU - $60
Case - £50
That's of course if you buy new. That'd be a pretty decent system that will see you with a bit of room for a CPU/GPU upgrade in the future.
Xenoous said:
Probably looking at an AM4 system. Memory will now be the issue as prices are still sky high. If I was to build a budget system, this is my choice of components
RTX 5060 ~£325
Ryzen 5 5600XT ~£130
32gb of DDR4 £200+ from a quick look on Box. Potentially 16gb might see you by.
B550 Motherboard - £90
650w PSU - $60
Case - £50
That's of course if you buy new. That'd be a pretty decent system that will see you with a bit of room for a CPU/GPU upgrade in the future.
That's really useful, thanksRTX 5060 ~£325
Ryzen 5 5600XT ~£130
32gb of DDR4 £200+ from a quick look on Box. Potentially 16gb might see you by.
B550 Motherboard - £90
650w PSU - $60
Case - £50
That's of course if you buy new. That'd be a pretty decent system that will see you with a bit of room for a CPU/GPU upgrade in the future.
I think we'll shave a few 10ths off that spec and do Ryzen 5500 and RTX5050 with 16 of RAM, with a view to upgrading RAM I the future.
512 SSD is the win as I have a 6TB NAS for storage
When I read the specs out loud to myself yesterday (after a longish day at work) I felt I was missing something, drive! When going budget, I'd say a 2.5" SSD is probably the way to go cost effectiveness wise. Still plenty fast enough.
Seems like you've got it covered there. If you can stretch to the 5600xt or even 5700x I personally would. AM4 production has ended, and although it's rumoured to be coming back due to demand, currently there's no official news from AMD to state it definitely is, other than an interview where they said they are looking at options.
Seems like you've got it covered there. If you can stretch to the 5600xt or even 5700x I personally would. AM4 production has ended, and although it's rumoured to be coming back due to demand, currently there's no official news from AMD to state it definitely is, other than an interview where they said they are looking at options.
The_Doc said:
That's really useful, thanks
I think we'll shave a few 10ths off that spec and do Ryzen 5500 and RTX5050 with 16 of RAM, with a view to upgrading RAM I the future.
512 SSD is the win as I have a 6TB NAS for storage
Keep in mind the 5500 has half the L3 of the 5600 as it is a GPUless 5600G, so more of a performance difference than you might naively expect. How does a 5600T compare price wise?I think we'll shave a few 10ths off that spec and do Ryzen 5500 and RTX5050 with 16 of RAM, with a view to upgrading RAM I the future.
512 SSD is the win as I have a 6TB NAS for storage
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