Gaming PC - 13 year old - Valorant & Fortnite mainly - £1,000

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Hi all.

My son has managed to save £1000 from his allowance, and wants to buy a PC. Currently has an X-box S. Main game is Fortnite and Valorant looking for great frame rate do not need keyboard, mouse and monitor. Looking for a prebuilt PC please can you advise any websites that sell in the UK happy to wait a month or so in January.
Thank you all very much for advance we are both noobs!
 
At what resolution is the monitor? E.g. playing at 4K would be much more demanding than 1080p.

What framerate does he consider "great"?
He has a monitor with 144 Hz at the moment.

Frame rate - he said 240! But, I think that'll be unlikely. He wants to play Fortnite competitions with his friend though.
 
Ok, thank you. Is AMD 5 important over an AMD 4?
for your budget, you won't get onto an AM5 system.

Frame rate - he said 240! But, I think that'll be unlikely. He wants to play Fortnite competitions with his friend though.
for fortnite, in dx 11 performance mode or dx 12 performance mode, 240hz is easily doable with this pc:
 
Great, thank you.

AM5 system:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,139.99 (includes delivery: £0.00)​
 
Sorry, the AM5 platform - I read that is better for future proof and DDR5, but out of our price range I think.
DDR5 is the main problem, since it has gone triple or more price in the last few weeks.

AM5 does have better upgrade potential though, yes.

Frame rate - he said 240! But, I think that'll be unlikely. He wants to play Fortnite competitions with his friend though.
This review gives the expected numbers for each resolution and a bunch of games (in the graphic above the resolution):

Fortnite, they don't include it, but if you search on YouTube for: the game, the resolution, the graphics card and CPU, then you'll usually find someone that has recorded footage.

Esports games at competitive/low settings are a weird one, because they can easily CPU bottleneck. If that's the intention, then if you can afford to get AM5, I would. Just because it allows more room to grow if the gaming gets serious. With AM4 you only have the 5700X3D/5800X3D to upgrade to and they're hard to find/pricey at the moment.
 
AM5 system:

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,139.99 (includes delivery: £0.00)​
This looks great - he may be able to sell some Pokémon cards to finance the extra amount. Thanks you!
 
This looks great - he may be able to sell some Pokémon cards to finance the extra amount. Thanks you!
just fyi that the base price is £980 - which is what you will see when you click the link
16gb ram is unavailable at the moment and you will have to change the ram to: Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit
this adds £160 to the cost, bringing it up to £1140

also note that there are two options for the kingston ram, one is 5600mhz, the other is 6000mhz - obviously the 6000mhz version is the one you want (same price)
further to note, that ram prices are predicted to continue to increase further for the next year at least, so buying sooner rather than later is advisable
 
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Its so frustrating not being able to link to other sites.

The OP could get a new AM5 7600 / 5070 gaming PC within his budget..
 
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