Pre built pc advice please

[Markwalton]

Hi all

I’m looking to buy a pre built pc that will be used to run Microsoft office, play football manager and also games such forza horizon 5 when released. At the moment I have an Xbox series x but would like a pc that I can use foreverything.

until tomorrow I’ve 20% off with dell and have been considering this:

***no competitor linking!***

Would love some opinions as to whether this is a goodoption? How’s the spec for the cost etc?

if anyone can offer alternatives in that price range that would be great too.

thanks all

 

[feck199]

Can’t have links to competitors which in this case dell would be just that.

would have been better giving a budget and asking for suggestions on prebuilt in that range

 

[Danny75]

Hello,

Please remove the link (no competitor links as OcUK has their own shop with pre-built choice) and list the specs instead, leaving mention that it's a Dell Pre-built.

Note that all Dell (and some other brands) pre-builts have some, or a lot, of proprietary connections which can make it difficult or impossible to fully upgrade the PC in future, replace parts etc.

Your situation where you only need it for basic stuff and Football Manager right now, which can use onboard processor graphics, could mean you'd be better off getting a PC with onboard processor graphics (neither of the two processors in that Dell spec fit the bill as they are "F" variants"), and then waiting to land a graphics card of your choosing, with good cooling/little noise.

But if you do go for that Dell, I would grab the 3060Ti over the 3060. It's a hefty bump in performance and comes close to the 3070.

 

[Markwalton]

Hello,

Please remove the link (no competitor links as OcUK has their own shop with pre-built choice) and list the specs instead, leaving mention that it's a Dell Pre-built.

Note that all Dell (and some other brands) pre-builts have some, or a lot, of proprietary connections which can make it difficult or impossible to fully upgrade the PC in future, replace parts etc.

Your situation where you only need it for basic stuff and Football Manager right now, which can use onboard processor graphics, could mean you'd be better off getting a PC with onboard processor graphics (neither of the two processors in that Dell spec fit the bill as they are "F" variants"), and then waiting to land a graphics card of your choosing, with good cooling/little noise.

But if you do go for that Dell, I would grab the 3060Ti over the 3060. It's a hefty bump in performance and comes close to the 3070.

thank you, and my apologies for posting with the link.

 

[Markwalton]

Hello,

Please remove the link (no competitor links as OcUK has their own shop with pre-built choice) and list the specs instead, leaving mention that it's a Dell Pre-built.

Note that all Dell (and some other brands) pre-builts have some, or a lot, of proprietary connections which can make it difficult or impossible to fully upgrade the PC in future, replace parts etc.

Your situation where you only need it for basic stuff and Football Manager right now, which can use onboard processor graphics, could mean you'd be better off getting a PC with onboard processor graphics (neither of the two processors in that Dell spec fit the bill as they are "F" variants"), and then waiting to land a graphics card of your choosing, with good cooling/little noise.

But if you do go for that Dell, I would grab the 3060Ti over the 3060. It's a hefty bump in performance and comes close to the 3070.

I also am very tempted by perhaps building a pc myself and as you say just waiting for GPU prices to return to normal levels before adding that.

 

[Danny75]

I also am very tempted by perhaps building a pc myself and as you say just waiting for GPU prices to return to normal levels before adding that.

AMD have released their 5700G but it's not listed for sale in the UK yet. Could wait a few weeks to see price.

Otherwise your options are Intel 11th or 10th Gen. 11400 (best value for money), 11500 (better onboard graphics than 11400), 11600K if you fancy overclocking (not much because they are just about pushed to the limits already), 11700 (for eight cores) or 11700K (eight cores and a bit of overclocking).

The 5700G looks interesting though (or the cheaper 5600G depending how budget ends up looking). Any issues with future GPU and you have a pretty decent iGPU to fall back on.