New pc £1000

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 21:38

Hey, I need advice on a new Gaming pc for my nephew.

He has a £1000 budget and is starting from scratch so he will need everything from the pc to monitor.

I know he wants to play rainbow six siege, over watch, team fortress etc.

Could you help with spec?

Thanks in advance.

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 21:42

Will he be building himself or are you after a pre-built?

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 21:48

To be honest we haven’t discussed it yet, I would want him to build it because i built mine a few years ago and i enjoyed it.

Spec both please if possible and I can give him the options.

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 21:49

Well, the thing about doing it himself if you'd get more for your money. A pre-built would incur costs from OcUK to build before shipping it out.

It'd also be good experience and is just like digital lego lol

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 21:56

I know, I loved it when I built mine.

Just advise parts then and if it comes to it I will build it for him.

Only thing though I’m not sure if he wants rgb lights and all that stuff. I’m not to keen on it but he may like it.

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:13

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £79.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
1 x MSI Radeon RX 5700 MECH OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £319.99
1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £185.99
1 x Zalman i3 Midi-Tower Case - Black Window= £42.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 510 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive RV.1 (ZP1000CM3A001)= £91.99
1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler= £73.99

Total: £998.04 (includes shipping: £13.20)

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:23

Thanks for that, it looks great. I’ll need to Add and OS, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Hopefully with Black Friday coming up there’s some deals.

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:28

weeroo said:
Thanks for that, it looks great. I’ll need to Add and OS, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Hopefully with Black Friday coming up there’s some deals.

ahh ok - let me have a reshuffle

OS is like £2-3 on a bay site

Minibiker · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:35

weeroo said:
Thanks for that, it looks great. I’ll need to Add and OS, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Hopefully with Black Friday coming up there’s some deals.

Download Windows Creation Tool from Microsofts website onto a USB and then buy a cheap key like mentioned

@snips86x I was about to say Where's the monitor

great component choice though

ninezerofive · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:38

Use this:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...es-cashback-bf-offer-details-inside.18870588/

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:43

Slower RAM (but you won't notice it)
Slower GPU
Monitor added

Should be perfect for 1080p

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £185.99
1 x Zalman i3 Midi-Tower Case - Black Window= £42.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 510 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive RV.1 (ZP1000CM3A001)= £91.99
1 x Cooler Master MasterKeys Combo RGB Gaming Bundle - Keyboard and Mouse= £49.99
1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £59.99
1 x LG 24GL600F-B 24" 1920x1080 TN 144Hz 1ms FreeSync Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £139.99
1 x MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99

Total: £960.45 (includes shipping: £19.62)

I made further adjustments:

Smaller SSD (probably won't be a massive issue though)
gsync/freesync monitor
1660 super (perfect for 1080p)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Super Flower Leadex III 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £89.99
1 x MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £99.95
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £185.99
1 x Zalman i3 Midi-Tower Case - Black Window= £42.95
1 x Cooler Master MasterKeys Combo RGB Gaming Bundle - Keyboard and Mouse= £49.99
1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £59.99
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Gaming Pro OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £229.99
1 x Acer Predator XF240H 24" 1920x1080 TN 144Hz FreeSync/G-Sync 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Blac= £198.95
1 x Kingston A400 480GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/480G)= £39.95

Total: £997.75 (includes shipping: £0.00)

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:48

Thanks for this, I really appreciate your time on this. I’m calling with him on Sunday to show him all this and let him make his decision on what he wants.

Congratulations, I hope you realise this lad will not see the light of day once he has this up and running lol

Minibiker · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:55

The good thing with the newer Ryzen CPUs is the fact that you can get away with running 3000mhz RAM or above where as the older Gen stuff seemed to want 3600mhz to get the best performance

snips86x · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:57

weeroo said:
Thanks for this, I really appreciate your time on this. I’m calling with him on Sunday to show him all this and let him make his decision on what he wants.

Congratulations, I hope you realise this lad will not see the light of day once he has this up and running lol

It's always dark atm anyway so don't blame him to much lol

weeroo · 20 Nov 2019 at 22:59

Lol. I’m just happy that he’s actually getting a gaming pc.

I had a quick chat with him there and send him screen shots, he’s happy to do it himself.

This has given me the itch to upgrade mine now lol

Thanks for your help on this.