Got a new (to me) gaming PC!

[Xenoous]

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...

[ChrisSMorris]

Xenoous said:

...Ram: 48GB of 3200MHz DDR4...

...£205...

Sounds like you're in profit already!

Congratulations

[bmwmike]

wow bargain - ebay?

[Xenoous]

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

[OldPal]

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

[Nicks90]

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!

[Xenoous]

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.

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...

[xeny]

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...

[Xenoous]

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.