Help – I'm buying a PC

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Very helpful gents. This is what I'm talking about.

Once we've sorted our mortgage application I'll be buying a PC. You should see me on the server in the next few months hopefully.

If you're not gonna be getting one for a while it's likely best to check again when you're about to buy it, as currently stock and pricing change a lot and something that's a good deal today may not be tomorrow.

Generally though (right now), you'd likely have to go for prebuilt and try keep these in mind:

• AMD 5000 series CPU, at your budget at least Ryzen 5800x
  
• RTX 3000 series GPU, at your budget at least RTX 3070
  
• Try go for pure SSD storage, HDDs are quickly becoming obsolete and especially at your budget. Decent M.2 drives are best and should fit fine within your budget.
  
• RAM on AMD matters at lot, make sure the speed of your RAM is at minimum 3200mhz. Quantity doesn't matter as much but 16GB of it should be what you get at minimum.
  
• You need to decide on how much you care about aesthetics, if you don't care at all it's easy to save a bit but you can easily get a really nice looking build that also has great performance at your budget.
  
• Power supply matters, higher numbers and rating doesn't always mean better. Generally try stick to reputable brands (e.g Corsair).
  

If you'd much rather just prefer a list of things you should get or just a link to a good prebuilt PC, I'm sure many of us will be more than happy to provide it closer to when you buy it. Just right now it's hard due to what I said earlier.