So my friend is looking to get into PC gaming and is after a gaming PC for around £1350. His whole budget is £1500 but that includes a monitor.
The monitor he's looking to get is a "MSI Optix G241 Esports Gaming IPS monitor", its 1080p, 144hz, 1ms response time, 23.8inch, 16:9 which costs £149.
He will be using this PC solely for gaming, no video editing, no streaming, no work related tasks purely gaming. He will be playing a multitude of games not constricted to one genre, but some games he would definitely play are, DayZ, GTA, Squad, CSGO, Valorant, Fifa, Escape From Tarkov. Like I said he will play multiple genres and a large selection of games.
He is not expecting a beast of a PC and understands he's on a tight budget, he just wants reliability and smooth gameplay even if it may be sacrificed for graphics in certain titles.
I'd like to know peoples opinions on this build and where it can be improved within its £1350 budget, as I don't have the best understanding of building PC's and have selected parts purely on what I have seen people recommend before and whats in my PC that im happy with. The keys parts I'm not sure on is; motherboard, CPU cooler, PSU and I don't know if the GPU and CPU are a good match at all. I would highly appreciate anyone's opinions on it.
I'd also like to note it would be nice if there was room for improvement later on down the line without having to change too many key components, but this isn't required, would just be handy thats all.
Thanks.
Case
CORSAIR iCUE 465X RGB GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.2GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
256GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 100 RGB V3 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
LED Lighting
50cm RGB LED Strip
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/tRB2prWbSz/
The monitor he's looking to get is a "MSI Optix G241 Esports Gaming IPS monitor", its 1080p, 144hz, 1ms response time, 23.8inch, 16:9 which costs £149.
He will be using this PC solely for gaming, no video editing, no streaming, no work related tasks purely gaming. He will be playing a multitude of games not constricted to one genre, but some games he would definitely play are, DayZ, GTA, Squad, CSGO, Valorant, Fifa, Escape From Tarkov. Like I said he will play multiple genres and a large selection of games.
He is not expecting a beast of a PC and understands he's on a tight budget, he just wants reliability and smooth gameplay even if it may be sacrificed for graphics in certain titles.
I'd like to know peoples opinions on this build and where it can be improved within its £1350 budget, as I don't have the best understanding of building PC's and have selected parts purely on what I have seen people recommend before and whats in my PC that im happy with. The keys parts I'm not sure on is; motherboard, CPU cooler, PSU and I don't know if the GPU and CPU are a good match at all. I would highly appreciate anyone's opinions on it.
I'd also like to note it would be nice if there was room for improvement later on down the line without having to change too many key components, but this isn't required, would just be handy thats all.
Thanks.
Case
CORSAIR iCUE 465X RGB GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.2GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
256GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 100 RGB V3 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
LED Lighting
50cm RGB LED Strip
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/tRB2prWbSz/
