Gaming/Work PC £2000 budget

ed.d.grout

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Hi All,

As you may be able to see from my post history my 4 year old GPU blew and believe its probably a good time to rebuild.

Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as possible really, coffee lake don't seem to be in-stock in many places within the UK at the moment, so that's the only factor really delaying the build.

Budget Range: Around £2000, slightly over isn't really an issue.

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Heavy gaming from AAA's, WoW, and other random assortment of titles. Also work as an Junior Engineer which requires a lot of CAD work, having a decent spec computer allows me to work from home occasionally. (Mostly 2D CAD, but occasionally Civ3d and Revit) PC should be more gaming oriented as the working from home isn't very often.

Are you buying a monitor: Yes, plus using my old Benq 27" monitor as an off-screen, thus would love the monitor to be 27" too.


Parts to Upgrade: Everything exlcuding HDD's and SSD's.

Do you need to buy OS: Yes, have windows 7 premium, but would like to upgrade to Win10

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Never been done wrong by Ebuyer, so preferably through them.

Location: London, UK

Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU (Unless AMD really is the best route)

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe (If the budget allows I guess)

Your Monitor Resolution: Current screen is 1080p 27" 60hz monitor, which will be used for watching twitch while gaming etc. New Screen preferably be 1440p 144hz 27"

Additional Comments: Case window would be cool, also a new Keyboard. Will be keeping old mouse though.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Build is OLD, would rather spend now rather than keep repairing old PC.

What I was thinking so far:
Ebuyer shopping card

Excludes the monitor and case as I have no real clue on these

Any help appreciated, understand you guys must get hundreds.


 
Solution
If coffee lake not available, this Ryzen build is pretty good:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£136.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£129.24 @ More Computers)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£153.54 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (£714.88 @ More Computers)
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Case (£51.95 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£84.11 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£82.74 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Asus - MG278Q 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor (£455.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Keyboard: SteelSeries - APEX Wired Gaming Keyboard (£93.50 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1901.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-05 17:46 GMT+0000

Leave some room for shipping cost.
 
Solution
If coffee lake is available, get this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£299.99 @ Box Limited)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£34.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£109.97 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£153.54 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (£714.88 @ More Computers)
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Case (£51.95 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£84.11 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£82.74 @ Aria PC)
Monitor: Asus - MG278Q 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor (£455.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Keyboard: Cooler Master - MasterSet MS120 (UK) Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£62.82 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £2050.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-05 17:52 GMT+0000
 
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It depends on what your build will be and if you want custom power cables or not but by my own experience the Corsair CX650M is a pretty good PSU.