Advice on gaming pc

Emcd

Emcd

Emcd

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Hi

I have joined this forum in the hope someone can me some advice/point me in the right direction. My son has asked for a gaming pc for christmas and there are so many different pcs with different specs I genuinely havent got a clue and don't want to end up buying something that is of no use to him. My budget is around £700 and this is for the whole bundle .. hard drive, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

He is an avid gamer and currently has a PS4, he is 12 years old and plays games like Call of Duty, Fortnite, GTA, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Seige, Rocket League, Watchdogs, Uncharted and Tomb Raider. So am guessing he will be needing a good graphics card with plenty storage space, and something that can cope without any lagging problems.

Also looking for something with good colours/led, something that looks pretty smart.

Hope someone can help me.
 
By Xmas , few more new Gen Nvidia cards will be out as well as intel 9th gen cores .

Consoles have caught up a lot with PCs, specially with some tech like Freesync in the Xbox One X so least making it slightly more powerful makes it worth while grabbing a PC at its extra costs

Cheapest option... Refurb Dell optiplex , i5 or i7 and slap in GtX 1050ti for around £400 for the unit
 
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Emcd said:
thanks orbitalwash for your reply. so do you think £700 budget isn't enough for what I might need?
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I tried to match Pre-builds on here at same price but with better components or better quality components.
Factor in £50 for OCUK to build , free 256GB SSD which can be linked to HDD to create a large hybrid drive for gaming ...
Mobo at the higher end of budget Chipset but AMD confirmed CPUs made in 2020 will work with the board so future upgrades and prolong the life of the core system etc

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £642.59 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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But doesn't included monitor, keyboard etc .

You can build for under , but then starts to be under the performance of an Xbox one X etc .

Quite. Few would recommend refurb dell unit method . But for £900/1k then you'd be looking at a Good system that will smash a console etc
 
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thanks very much for your help orbitalwash, you have been helpful, I will wait another month or so to see what deals are available. Thank you
 
tut on letting your 12yr old play GTA....

anyways boom!, probably the best you going to get thats a pre-built which i assume you will want and isnt of a ryzen chip:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Kinetic Z1 - Intel Z370 Configurable Coffee Lake Gaming PC = £675.97
    • CPU:*Build Promo* Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Quad Core Processor
    • Memory:*Build Stock* Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz - Grey
    • Case:Kolink Pitch Midi Tower Case - Black
    • Graphics Card:Palit GeForce GTX 1050Ti StormX 4096MB PCI-Express GDDR5 Graphics Card
    • Secondary Storage Drive:Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - *System Stock*
    • Optical Drive:OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Security Software:Bullguard Anti-Virus 2017 - 1 PC 1 Year **Offer Price**
    • Primary Storage Drive:TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive
    • Lighting:Unwanted
Total: £690.07 (includes shipping: £14.10)​
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480gb ssd for boot drive is more than enough, so if you want a fancy screen/kb&m then you can drop to the 240gb ssd which will keep it under £650.

i dont game with proper gaming keyboards/mice, so i couldnt advise on that, but for that stuff in general and a screen your better off used for now, spent the most on the more important stuff ie the tower, can get some decent screens used for not much money then save up for brand new and better should you need to.
 
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