My girl has decided she wants to move from her laptop onto a built pc after my latest build, usually I have no issue in building as its for myself and know what I need but looking to get some other perspectives on what would be a good system for her whilst not breaking the bank.
Use case will be gaming, a mix of titles:
Minecraft (vanilla & modded)
House Flipper 1 & 2
Crime Scene Cleaner
Call of duty
So a mixture of above and similiar titles.
Monitor wont be needed.
GPU wont be needed she can have my 1660, 3080 or 4070 Super as I am aiming for a 5090 for AI things (yay)
She wants a white build so case and peripherals need to be wireless and white, preferably a mechanical keyboard.
I am not sure what to buy which wont be overkill or to out of date right now giving the choices, normally I would go Ryzen so there is an upgrade path in the future but she will likely want to stream so I thought Intel would be the way to go.
I am in the UK so pricing is in GBP - Ideally would like to do this on a budget £500 max if possible.
Well, I explained at length the $700 and $1400 value builds late last year, I think the reasoning for those still hold quite a bit of water:
For the UK, a 5700X or 12400K build is the way I think. Here is one example courtesy of PCPP, unfortunately AM4 are all out of cheap white motherboards at this point, but even with a regular motherboard it is £50 above budget due to the white build requirement. I hope that is o.k.
I do not consider those worth it just to make it look super pretty, but hey, if your girl is allergic to parts of the wrong color in a build, what can you do right? Feel free to take as much inspiration from the above builds as you want.
Wow - love this, thank you, will go over it tomorrow after some sleep and see what I can put together, if anything is majorly cheaper internal wise I may just say white was out of stock only kidding, thanks again.
Thanks for the addition, agree on the pricing companies just change the currency symbol not the actual price and the board looks good with the splashes of white.
I havent gotten around to getting the parts yet as I was to busy being a part of the 5090 dissapointment yesterday
I went AM5 and used the above posts as inspiartion, ended up with below:
Montech X3 Mesh
Gigabyte B650M
Ryzen 5 7600X
Integral 512GB NVME Boot Drive
2 TB Sata SSD (Storage)
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB White CPU Air Cooler
White Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit
Logitech G203 White Mouse
Qisan Mechanical Blue Switch White & Pink Backlit Keyboard
She can upgrade the m&k over time to proper RGB if she wishes.
She is getting my PSU out of my current system since I have just bought a 1200w one to power my RTX5090 when I eventually get one.
She also has a choice of my current RTX4070 Super in the same machine as my PSU above or an FTW 3080 in another system or even a GTX1660.