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Murphy99

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Tom_P

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A few headline items:

- can you repost with the editable link?
- 1920x1080p you'd only need a GTX 1660 Super GPU.
- AMD processors are generally recommended - Intel are very much on the back foot for Desktop processors at the moment.
- NVidia are part way through releasing the rtx 30-series graphics cards. If you can wait for releases and stock to smooth out (a few months) you'd be best waiting and getting a 30-series - 3070 would definitely work for this, 3060 is probably good as well (although that hasn't been officially announced yet). 3070 releases in the next few weeks, 3060 is likely January.
- You've got a decent budget - stretch to an RMx or TXm power supply. Minimum 750W given current 30-series GPU requirements - 850W better if you want extra headroom.
- Do you specifically need a small form factor case? Mid-tower would be better if you have that space.
- If gaming only, 16GB RAM is enough (2x8GB). If you need more in future it's easy to add.

There's various other tweaks that would be needed as well probably, however no need to get into those details until the above key parts have been looked at I don't think.

With your budget, if you can wait a few months for the RTX 30-series GPU supplies to smooth out you could probably get a decent 1440p monitor and desktop (£1500 tower, £500 display) depending on how prices end up (we've got AMD GPUs coming out soon as well which might shake up the market a bit). Honestly, I'd suggest that's the best way forward unless you need it now.
 
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Murphy99

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Tom_P said:
A few headline items:

- can you repost with the editable link?
- 1920x1080p you'd only need a GTX 1660 Super GPU.
- AMD processors are generally recommended - Intel are very much on the back foot for Desktop processors at the moment.
- NVidia are part way through releasing the rtx 30-series graphics cards. If you can wait for releases and stock to smooth out (a few months) you'd be best waiting and getting a 30-series - 3070 would definitely work for this, 3060 is probably good as well (although that hasn't been officially announced yet). 3070 releases in the next few weeks, 3060 is likely January.
- You've got a decent budget - stretch to an RMx or TXm power supply. Minimum 750W given current 30-series GPU requirements - 850W better if you want extra headroom.
- Do you specifically need a small form factor case? Mid-tower would be better if you have that space.
- If gaming only, 16GB RAM is enough (2x8GB). If you need more in future it's easy to add.

There's various other tweaks that would be needed as well probably, however no need to get into those details until the above key parts have been looked at I don't think.

With your budget, if you can wait a few months for the RTX 30-series GPU supplies to smooth out you could probably get a decent 1440p monitor and desktop (£1500 tower, £500 display) depending on how prices end up (we've got AMD GPUs coming out soon as well which might shake up the market a bit). Honestly, I'd suggest that's the best way forward unless you need it now.
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that’s the link I think? Thank you for your time I don’t necessarily need it now but I would prefer to have something sooner than next year. And I have a good bit of space I can have any tower really just others looked a bit pricey. And I was aware of the new series of graphics cards on the way I intend to upgrade probably later next year
 
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Tom_P

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Ah ok - I'd suggest you start configuring in here:

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/computers/amd-am4-gen3-pc/

That should give you a much better set of options for an AMD base - much larger case selection with mid- and full-towers. If you're on a budget, the Corsair 275R is probably your best bet case-wise. You can find a similar configurator for Intel builds as well - but as I mentioned, AMD are preferred at the moment. I wouldn't add extra case fans - the standard ones with a decent case should be fine for most uses.

If you're looking to upgrade next year, then I'd suggest configuring something for the relevant 3070 series GPU now, then just swap the GPU to a 1660 Super (or similar) before you buy - although keep in mind that you'll basically lose the money spent on that placeholder GPU. I think AMD are due to release new CPUs (and potentially motherboards) over the next few weeks as well - so if you buy now you'll miss out on those as well. Although we don't know what those are going to be yet - they've been pretty tight-lipped.
 
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Settled with this build plan on getting a 4k monitor and a VR setup in the near future so I’m hoping I’ve future proofed this build, in the meantime I’ve a 144hz 1920x1080 ASUS gaming monitor so I’m pretty happy with the build just looking for some thoughts
 
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