Advice on specs for Gaming Pc for 12 year old

Hayley Hamilton

Hayley Hamilton

Hayley Hamilton

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Hi all, I've got some specs on a gaming pc & after some advice on how good it will be or what you would change to make it better without costing too much more. Also the screen is a curved one & my daughter has now said she doesn't want a curved so advice on a screen would be great too please.... Specs are...
Ryzen 3000 Series

Corsair 88R micro ATX case

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz

Palit GeForce GTX 1650 StormX 4096MB
GDDR5 pci express gc

Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB 2x8gb DDR4 pc4 24000 c16 3000mhz dual channel

Seagate 250gb 2.5 BarraCuda 120 SATA Solid State Drive

Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 64MB Cache Hard drive

ADDON Wireless AC Dual Band 1200Mbps PCI-e

Microsoft Windows 10 home advanced

MSI Optix G241VC 24" 1920x1080 VA 75Hz FreeSync 1ms Curved Widescreen (doesn't want curved)

Thanks so much in advance of any advice provided (I'm not a computer minded person so appreciate any help at all)
 
Do you already have that PC and you want to upgrade it or are you looking for opinions if that is a good PC to buy? sorry if its just the way im reading it hah.

That is already a pretty solid PC, what have you budgeted for upgrades?
What games does your daughter play?
 
Hi sorry... Its for opinions on whether its a good pc & if at all spending a little more (not too much) would make it better. Also need. Advice on the screen as she doesn't want a curved one. She's currently mainly playing fortnite.

Thanks for replying
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £405.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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IPS screen for better colour reproduction.
You havent listed a motherboard or PSU. The above one has wifi built in so saving buying an addon board.
A 1650 super for a tenner more.
 
Hayley Hamilton said:
Hi sorry... Its for opinions on whether its a good pc & if at all spending a little more (not too much) would make it better. Also need. Advice on the screen as she doesn't want a curved one. She's currently mainly playing fortnite.

Thanks for replying
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What is your budget for the PC?
Apologies, I am still confused if you have bought that PC and want to upgrade it or you are looking at buying that one. If that is one you are looking at buying, how much is it?
 
dfour said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £405.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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IPS screen for better colour reproduction.
You havent listed a motherboard or PSU. The above one has wifi built in so saving buying an addon board.
A 1650 super for a tenner more.
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Hi thanks for this... I missed out this top bit..... Kinetic R3 - AMD B450 Ryzen 3000 is that the motherboard? Would the one you suggested be better? The only thing you'd change is the graphics card? Otherwise would bee a good pc & last a good while? Thanks agaain
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
What is your budget for the PC?
Apologies, I am still confused if you have bought that PC and want to upgrade it or you are looking at buying that one. If that is one you are looking at buying, how much is it?
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No I have not bought it yet.... Specs have been recommended and just wanted advice/clarification that is was a good one and if would improve on anything for a little extra money
 
Hayley Hamilton said:
No I have not bought it yet.... Specs have been recommended and just wanted advice/clarification that is was a good one and if would improve on anything for a little extra money
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What is your budget?

Those specs are ok but what is it costing?

It's impossible to say if you should upgrade etc when we don't know what your spending.

Would you build this PC yourself or are you wanting to buy one already built?
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
What is your budget?

Those specs are ok but what is it costing?

It's impossible to say if you should upgrade etc when we don't know what your spending.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...F3_U@bIFI3@4#bIFJ3)/UbIFK3!6?bIFL3)u)bIFM3)u_

With overclockers I believe if I'm right they build it for you once you've put it the specs you've asked for.... Comes in under £900.....if people believe that for not too much more £££'s would make it much better then I don't mind spending a little extra
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You can save a bit of cash going with Intel and use that on a better GPU like the 1660 super for better gaming performance.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £247.44 (includes shipping: £10.50)


Hayley Hamilton said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...F3_U@bIFI3@4#bIFJ3)/UbIFK3!6?bIFL3)u)bIFM3)u_

This is the specs & price on overclockers....
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You can save £100 just by installing windows yourself and picking up a cheap activation key for a couple of quid.​
 
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Joxeon said:
Not sure its worth spending an extra £90 on a 2060 over a 1660 super since its only around 15% faster.

Also I would just go for a 1TB SSD and forget the HDD as 1 TB of fast storage should be plenty.
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Hi thanks for your advice on the changes here, out of curiosity you think the 1660 graphics card will be enough? Which one one is the 1tb ssd (sorry my knowledge is 0) I couldn't tell u looking at the others. Also can I ask what screen you'd recommend pls.? Thanks
 
No such thing as 'enough' in a pc spec! Although pretty much any game can be 'detuned' to run on most hardware. As for the ssd I'd pick a Samsung Evo.
 
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