AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Starting things off with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. As this is a gaming PC aimed at 1440p and 4K gaming, we wanted to make sure that our PC wasn’t being held back by the CPU and thanks to the 3D V-cache technology, our framerates will be as high as possible. This CPU is currently considered as the fastest gaming processor in the world, so it’s the perfect foundation for a top-tier build like this one.
Sadly, AMD doesn’t really do the whole “Black Friday” thing, so at £399.95, this is a pretty typical price for this processor, and while it has seen some small variation in price here and there, it’s generally regarded as an amazing value for money CPU.
MAG CORELIQUID A13 360 WHITE
Getting the best performance from the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D often comes down to one thing, cooling. If you can keep the temperatures down, modern CPUs will be able to hit their boost clocks with ease and greatly improve your performance. Handling the cooling duties, we have the MSI MAG CORELIQUID A13 360 White, a powerful 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler, with ARGB lighting, and a stunning white design (although it’s also available in black too).
This cooler is usually a bargain at its MSRP, costing just £69.99, but thanks to Black Friday, you can save a little more, as it’s down to just £58.99, making it a great way to keep your Ryzen 9800X3D cool without breaking the bank.
MPG B850 EDGE TI WIFI
CPU performance is often fairly uniform across many different motherboards these days, but it’s still important to make the right investment here. With the MPG B850 EDGE TI WIFI, you’re not only getting a great price, but also a competitive range of connectivity, with lots of USB ports, high-speed Type-C, 5Gbps LAN, and even the latest WiFi 7 technology. With additional heatsinks and power technologies, it can ensure your processor, memory, storage and graphics card are all able to reach their full potential. Plus, in this stunning silver/white design, it’s going to look its best paired with that CORELIQUID AIO.
Black Friday has taken this already competitively priced motherboard from just £239.99, down to a wallet-friendly £199.99, meaning even more cash to invest elsewhere in your system, or to keep in your wallet.
32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6000MHZ CL30 KLEVV CRAS V RGB RAM White
When it comes to memory, faster can often be better, but when it comes to AMD, there’s a sweet spot between pure speed (MHz), and faster access times via latency (CL timings). At 6000MHz and with CL30 timings, the KLEVV CRAS V ticks both boxes and will ensure you can get the very best from your AM5 motherboard and Ryzen processor, thanks to AMD EXPO support. Being 6000MHz also means that it allows the Infinity Fabric clock, memory controller clock and memory clock all to run in a synchronous ratio for the very best performance.
Again, coming in white and with stylish-looking RGB lighting, it’s going to complement the rest of the build perfectly.
Unfortunately, memory prices are climbing day by day right now, due to outlandish supply and demand issues, but we managed to find this kit for £199.
Spatium M470 PRO 2TB
MSI is known to make many of the best and most popular graphics cards and motherboards on the market today, but did you know they also make some of the fastest storage devices too? The MSI SPATIUM M470 Pro offers lightning-fast loading times thanks to its PCIe 4.0 interface, delivering around 6000Mbps read speeds and 5000Mbps write speeds. While you could go for PCIe 5.0 drives that are faster still, we think Gen4 drives are a sweet spot in terms of extreme speeds and surprisingly affordable prices.
Despite being incredibly fast and offering up 2TB of capacity, the SPATIUM is available for around £130, making it a solid choice for any system builder who wants to install a good selection of games on their system for instant access.
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G EXPERT OC
When it comes to graphics cards, MSI are a top-tier brand and one of the latest iterations to their lineup is the RTX 5070 Ti 16G EXPERT OC, which is an incredibly powerful card, leveraging all of the latest Nvidia technologies, such as Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Frame Generation. However, thanks to the stunning high-performance Flow Frozr 2 cooler design, this card can boost to 2580 MHz, and comes with plenty of that tasty VRAM, ensuring there’s no games on the market today that you can’t play, even at 4K in some cases.
While it doesn’t quite match the white aesthetic we’re going for, its stylish bare metal finish is going to look great in any system theme you’re trying to achieve, and it’s going to pair up nicely with the brushed aluminium of our memory and the silver highlights on our motherboard of choice.
While a high-end graphics card is obviously a big investment, pairing this with our high-end AMD Ryzen 9800X3D is a no-brainer and will give the system a longer life span in terms of performance. At £869.99 MSRP, it’s far from the most expensive card on the market, but thanks to Black Friday deals, you can now snap one up for just £749.99.
MPG VELOX 300R AIRFLOW PZ WHITE
MSI has a great range of PC cases to choose from, so this wasn’t easy, but with the white/silver aesthetic, the VELOX 300R AIRFLOW PZ White is a great choice. Plus, as the name suggests, it has a strong focus on airflow, with powerful 160mm ARGB dual-layer blade fans in the front, and room for your 360mm AIO cooler in the top, ensuring you can get all the cooling and airflow you need to get the very best performance from that graphics card and processor combination. With plenty of premium features, tempered glass, ARGB lighting, and durable construction, the VELOX ticks all the right boxes.
While this case is already competitively priced at just £124.99, Black Friday deals have made it even more appealing by dropping that price to just £99.99.
MSI MAG A850GL WHITE PCIE5 Power Supply Unit
Then finishing things off, and putting stability and a long life span at the forefront of our build, we need to talk about the all-important power supply. With the MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 White, as the name suggests, you get the latest PCIe 5 support, ensuring a native 12V 2×6 connector, providing support and future proofing for the latest graphics card standards. It’s also ATX 3.0 compliant, fully modular, and even comes with an 80 Plus Gold-rated efficiency, reducing the operating costs of your whole system.
With its stylish white aesthetics, fully modular white and flat cables, and a competitive 7-year warranty, you get a lot of premium features, and most importantly, peace of mind. I was already a fan of this power supply at £139.99, but the Black Friday deals have made this impossible to ignore, dropping the price to just £94.99.
