Building A Gaming PC - Parts Advice Needed

Just bought a custom build off eBay for £515. I don't know a massive amount about the latest parts etc, I was toying with building one, but couldn't be bothered with the grief especially in this climate. So spotted this and had to take it there and then. It's a trusted PC builder on there, loads of good reviews - 1 year full warranty on all parts. I'll be happy if it runs indies and CRPGs decently. Got an XboxsX for latest AAAs etc. It's a total budget build, which is what I'd have aimed for anyway. If I try and buy all the bits separate it seems to be more costly than what I've paid.


11th Gen Intel Core i5 11400 2.6GHz 6 Core
16GB Crucial Ballistix 3000MHz DDR4 XMP RAM 2 x 8GB
ASRock B560M-HDV Socket LGA 1200 mATX Motherboard
1TB Crucial BX500 2.5" SATA SSD (Brand New)
Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit (Installed and Activated)
PALIT GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
Fractal Design Meshify C Mid Tower Case High Airflow with a 600w PSU


Please re-assure me I haven't done a stupid. It arrives Thursday.

The PSU is an

EVGA W1 600W 80 PLUS White ATX Power Supply


Thanks so much for the reply. I'll definitely be swapping the GPU at some point, but no rush. I reckon I'll be limited in what it can actually be, but the rest of it should do me for quite some time. I'm not depending on it being a great gaming rig, but to be able to run older PC stuff I missed will be of great benefit to me.

It will be a limited gpu but keep it to 1920x1080 and most games will run still, won't get the hardcore crowd erect but hit low on settings and bump things up or use GeForce exerience, steam do refunds for under 2 hours played auto.

My 3080Ti arrived yesterday, so I finished my first build since 2007 last night. Did a Bios update using the special USB port on the motherboard before turning it on, then plugged it into my TV and it POSTed first time! God, BIOS screens a bit more graphically exciting than when I used to build PCs. Windows installed in about 3 minutes flat onto my NVME and then I had a bit of faffing about because none of the LAN/Wi-fi drivers worked, so had to copy them over from my iMac.

I've got a 38" LG ultrawide coming tomorrow, a shiny RGB keyboard should arrive today then I'll get stuck into my first proper PC gaming session for over a decade – can't wait!

If anyone's interested this was my build:

• Coolermaster NR200 case in white (tiny form factor, looks lovely, feels super sturdy, easy to build in)
• Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming motherboard (I've still no idea how such a small motherboard can hold so many things)
• AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
• Some RAM (32GB of 3600Mhz stuff with fairy lights on it)
• Coolermaster V750 SFX Gold
• Scythe Fuma 2 air cooler which looks like an industrial mandoline for slicing carrots
• Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB SSD which seems to be much faster than 5,400rpm 300GB hard drive
• Gigabyte 3080Ti which just about fits in the case
• LG 38WN95C-W monitor which is a refurb from ebay and should arrive tomorrow.

I've been playing Forza Horizon 5 for the past week and am keen to see how much better it looks on PC compared to the Series X. And once I've done that I'll fire up Cannon Fodder 2 and really put it to the test...

Horizon’s pretty efficient so expect it to be very smooth. The Series X is around a 2080 level so combined with the slightly lower monitor resolution as a rule you can expect 60+ fps at the equivalent of the Xbox 4K30 mode. You should be able to get it to monitor max refresh with a bit of tweaking (or just getting the in game dynamic detail to do it for you).

Good job on the 38 - hopefully it’ll be ok resolution-wise for your video editing as well but you’ll definitely notice the work space. It’s hard to go back.

I had a very similar experience earlier this year having had a 16yr pc build gap. The fact that BIOS now have a proper UI and Windows doesn't need half an hour to install absolutely caught me off guard. The latter was so fast I thought something had gone wrong!

I think I'm the only person in the world who can't be bothered with more than three buttons (including the wheel).

My brother gave me a gaming mouse as a present last year, and I've never used the other buttons. I do enjoy being able to change the sensitivity on the fly, but that's it.

It's funny, back in the PS1/PS2 days, consoles were always seen as inferior to PCs in terms of how many things you could do with a controller. Nowadays I find that it's hard to get a keyboard to do the same thing as a controller, unless you are an octopus.

Why did it take devs so long to discover that they could map button combos (like say, LB + face buttons) anyway?

I've been using Razer Mamba mice for the last 10 or so years. Perfect shape mouse in my opinion. Used to have the Wireless one but replace it with a corded one and I think I'll probably replace this one with a wireless one again next year or so.

Logitech G502 is what I have been happily using.

Two button mouse in not meeting requirement for six button mouse shocker. Movie at eleven. ;-)

Also, Black Friday coming end of month, coupled with Warehouse offers and you can get some ridiculous bargains, at like 50% off usual prices. Usually the time of year when I upgrade accessories and such.

I have a razar one, DeathAdder iirc. I bought it cos it felt really comfortable to use and it lit up nice with razar keyboard. Its about 3 years old now so don't even think you can get it but it's still solid.

Hardware wise its quite basic really, L&R, wheel, 2 side buttons and then refresh rate switcher the extra functionality comes with bloatware suite but I don't use it much beyond changing the mouse wheel to left clicks in ARPGs

My only real experience with wireless kit was waaaay back when they first came out and they had stupid amounts of latency so I went wired.

SteelSeries Sensei is still the best mouse, IMO.

I had a Razer Naga at some point because it was recommended to me on the WOW forums for MMOs, but I hated having a damned numpad where my thumb lies. I'd always inadvertently press 1 or something while just browsing on the PC.