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How about something pretty basic like this? Would upgrade the RAM.
I'm not a hardcore gamer so don't need a super expensive graphics card. On the upgrades are the RADEON or NVIDIA "better"? don't want to spend over £150 on the graphics card really. Or the least possible.
I'm not an FPS PC gamer, more like strategy games etc.
Turns out it's quite hard to find any graphics card reviews with benchmarks on strategy games. Guess it's a bit like looking for Nurburgring laptimes for a Chrysler PT Cruiser.
TBH I think you'd be happy with anything given your very modest requirements. AMD RX570 (£110 on cyberpower) is a nice price point as it's more than twice as fast as the cheapest cards available but not twice the price. It will get 45 to 60 FPS on most FPS and driving games at 1080p on medium/high settings if you ever wanted to pursue that. Assume that means it will absolutely wipe the floor with any strategy game but maybe you know of some forums you can look on?
It's almost tempting to ask what you have now, and suggest that you just put an SSD and graphics card in it for barely £200 and spend the change on something else?
Everything above that is a variation on diminishing returns. RX 580 is sort of 15% faster for 30% more money. 590 is another 10% quicker for 10% more on top of that. GTX 1650 is completely pointless. GTX 1650 super (£153) is barely any faster than the 570 but is a much newer card so will probably be quieter, consume less electricity and perhaps have better driver support for newer games. Forget VR and perhaps forget streaming?
If you did go with the linked system then 16GB of RAM with the free upgrade to 3000MHz is a good shout. Default motherboard only has 2 slots so a future upgrade would be disproportionately expensive, £20 for an extra 8GB is an absolute steal, and Ryzen loves fast memory so the default 2400MHz is probably a bit restrictive.
3200g and 3400g have stupid misleading names. Both are slower than the recently released 4 core/8 thread Ryzen 3 3100 and 3300X, which have both been getting excellent reviews for gaming. If you do any video editing or want a bit more future proofing now then maybe consider a 6 core/12 thread Ryzen 5 3600.
Motherboards are a bit awkward at the moment as there's big question marks whether A320/B450 will support next generation of AMD processors should you want a future upgrade. Some of the B450s have 4 slots for RAM if you want to keep future RAM options a bit wider. Otherwise even the default A320 has surround sound, M2, loads of USB etc, but forget overclocking.
240GB SSD will seem loads now even after putting a few programmes & games on, but will quickly get full with a few years of windows updates. Consider a bigger one depending on how big the programmes/games you have/use are, or be prepared to keep/migrate them to the 1TB drive. If you get a bigger hard drive don;t get a 5400rpm model.
I'm a DIY person not a pre-built person so not sure on value, but Novatech, Overclockers, Scan (3XS?), Ibuypower (are they US only?) are popular.
