Gaming PC Novice - Help me please
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Post in the proper sub-forum. This is the intro forum.
List desired budget, whether you need a monitor (or 2 or 3), windows, peripherals, etc.
List desired budget, whether you need a monitor (or 2 or 3), windows, peripherals, etc.
Soldato
Post in General Hardware.
As above, let us know the budget and if the extras are needed.
Tell us what games your son plays too. Going by your post, I'm guessing you have no experience of building a PC so unless you know someone that can either help you or build it for you, you can get a pre-built one. Mention that in your post too as it will help.
As above, let us know the budget and if the extras are needed.
Tell us what games your son plays too. Going by your post, I'm guessing you have no experience of building a PC so unless you know someone that can either help you or build it for you, you can get a pre-built one. Mention that in your post too as it will help.
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Right i'll decide the budget - £1000 for the tower only as this will get him a decent spec machine.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £985.04
(includes shipping: £13.20)
My 2 pence.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Mini 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10700G-10M)= £359.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
- 1 x Asus ROG Strix B350-F AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £117.95
- 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TDGED416G300= £119.99
- 1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK)= £69.95
- 1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24D5MT SATA ReWriter - Black (OEM)= £11.99
- 1 x Kolink Punisher Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black= £46.99
- 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)= £64.99
Total: £985.04
(includes shipping: £13.20)
My 2 pence.
Soldato
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As above you can see buying parts can get you much better build sometimes then pre-built
2 months ago ocuk did a VR headset and pc for £999...that was a steal.
Since you mention you can't build it yourself
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £813.08
(includes shipping: £14.10)
Not sure how old your son is , but laying down a lot of cash might be hard to stomach when parts like the GPU get a new version every year. Any card inside that you get should be fine for 2 generations at least but it gets pretty easy for any kid to want the latest and greatest next year
Cost of parts by themselves
Notice 16GB of 3000hz ram instead of quoted 2400hz in pre-built . Speed will effect the performance quite a bit for Ryzen based pcs
My basket at Overclockers UK:
2 months ago ocuk did a VR headset and pc for £999...that was a steal.
Since you mention you can't build it yourself
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Titan Tanto Micro ATX Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 1400 system @ 3.70GHz = £798.98
- Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
- Lighting:Unwanted
- Optical Drive:Unwanted
- Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
- Sound Card:Unwanted
- Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)
- Secondary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Unwanted
- Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
- WIFI:Unwanted
- CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
- Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24
- Case:Cougar Spike Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black
- Security Software:Unwanted
- Graphics card:Zotac GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Total: £813.08
(includes shipping: £14.10)
Not sure how old your son is , but laying down a lot of cash might be hard to stomach when parts like the GPU get a new version every year. Any card inside that you get should be fine for 2 generations at least but it gets pretty easy for any kid to want the latest and greatest next year
Cost of parts by themselves
Notice 16GB of 3000hz ram instead of quoted 2400hz in pre-built . Speed will effect the performance quite a bit for Ryzen based pcs
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
- 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £101.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £119.50
- 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050Ti WindForce OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £149.99
- 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
- 1 x Fractal Design Focus G Mini Window Micro-ATX Case - Black= £49.99
- 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £94.99
- 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £60.95
Total: £774.09
(includes shipping: £11.70)
Personally, when my kids hit gaming game , I'd aim for something like this - although I hope to keep that as long as possible even when I have a Degree in games design hehe
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £674.58
(includes shipping: £11.70)
(includes shipping: £11.70)
Personally, when my kids hit gaming game , I'd aim for something like this - although I hope to keep that as long as possible even when I have a Degree in games design hehe
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £101.99
- 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050Ti WindForce OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £149.99
- 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
- 1 x Fractal Design Focus G Mini Window Micro-ATX Case - Black= £49.99
- 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £94.99
- 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £60.95
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1200 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £95.99
- 1 x GeIL Evo X AMD Edition 8GB (4GBx2) PC4-24000 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GAEXY48GB3000C16ADC)= £73.99
Total: £674.58
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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