Bang for buck build for the other half

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I am not sure what to buy which wont be overkill or to out of date right now giving the choices, normally I would go Ryzen so there is an upgrade path in the future but she will likely want to stream so I thought Intel would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.

If you have any thoughts let me know.

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.

PCPartPicker Part List

If you want AM5, a 7600X build will cost you another £200 roughly, here are the replacement parts:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7600X £188.50
Motherboard ASRock X870 Pro RS WiFi £219.99
Memory Kingston FURY Beast 2x16 GB DDR5-6000 CL30 £97.55
Total £506.04

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. :slight_smile:

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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 :crazy_face: only kidding, thanks again.

Really solid build recommendations!

This B550m Pro 4 mobo isn’t white, but could go with a better looking theme. Just picked one up for $90 USD. I’m partial to ASRock.

… UK prices are criminal.

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Thanks for the addition, agree on the pricing companies just change the currency symbol not the actual price :frowning: 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 :smiley:

I would at the very least go for a WiFi variant. If the Pro4 is your jam, perhaps the ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming a/c?

Sadly this is out of print and stock, otherwise that would have been my recommendation:

Thanks all for the input.

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.

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