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What is your budget and currency?
£1600
What will you use the PC for?
Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects , Blender, Entertainment
Do you need a monitor? If not, what monitor(s) will you be using?
No I've got a 27inch ASUS Pro Art
Do you need a keyboard, mouse, or other peripherals?
No
Do you need an operating system?
Yes
Will you overclock?
Not sure what that means complete newbie
Anything else we should know?
Been looking at CPU and GPUs
AMD Ryzen 3950X?, AMD Ryzen 3900X,
Bit confused by everything... pls help!
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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor (£420.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler (£58.81 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard (£224.40 @ Alza)
Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£100.43 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£169.89 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case (£69.99 @ AWD-IT)
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£64.68 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £1108.20

If you can get an R9 5900X when they come back in stock closer to £500, then that's well worth the extra 100 quid over the 3900XT.

Add an RTX 3060Ti for £400.
Add whatever capacity 7200RPM HDD you want/need.


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summeradditional5050 wrote
Bit confused by everything... pls help!


Seems the guys on this board are pretty hard core and advanced. My gut tells me the deal around here is you do your own research on a PC build (TONS and tons of website, videos, and other research materials on the web), THEN return w/ specific questions. No judgement, no anger, no criticizing, that's just how this board seems to operates. No one's gonna hold your hand, and I rather like that.


So DIVE in! I absolutely LOVE researching and learning new stuff. From the bit I know, here's what I'd recommend as a fellow newbie:

1. Be able to know what each individual component of the build does and why it's important. Example: start w/ learning the three type of motherboard configurations available, and how that impacts your build.

2. Lear how each component of the build interacts w/ the other components.

Then take off from there. Start a notebook, take notes. Start bookmarking websites in a specific folder for easy access. Watch your build tutorial videos. NOW you can formulate your plan of attack. There's a few methods for a build, i.e. what goes in first, and those will be become apparent as you research further.

Currently, I'm exploring the different CPU size configurations, as this determined the CPU cooler you purchase.
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