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

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:14

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!

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:18

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gaming-mach-1.1-ryzen-5600-rtx-5060-pre-built-gaming-pc-fs-pb14-ep.html

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:20

Ben74 said:
please can you advise any websites that sell in the UK happy to wait a month or so in January.

tamzzy said:
and we can only list parts from Overclockers UK (OCUK) as this forum is owned, operated and paid-for by OCUK

Tetras · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:27

Ben74 said:
Main game is Fortnite and Valorant looking for great frame rate

At what resolution is the monitor? E.g. playing at 4K would be much more demanding than 1080p.

What framerate does he consider "great"?

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:33

Ok, thank you. Is AMD 5 important over an AMD 4?

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:35

Tetras said:
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.

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:39

Ben74 said:
Ok, thank you. Is AMD 5 important over an AMD 4?

for your budget, you won't get onto an AM5 system.

Ben74 said:
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:

tamzzy said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gaming-mach-1.1-ryzen-5600-rtx-5060-pre-built-gaming-pc-fs-pb14-ep.html

Tetras · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:41

Ben74 said:
Ok, thank you. Is AMD 5 important over an AMD 4?

What do you mean "4" and "5"?

Do you mean 4000 CPU? Like Ryzen 4650 or Ryzen 5600?

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:42

Tetras said:
What do you mean "4" and "5"?

i read it as AM4 and AM5

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:44

Tetras said:
What do you mean "4" and "5"?

Do you mean 4000 CPU? Like Ryzen 4650 or Ryzen 5600?

Sorry, the AM5 platform - I read that is better for future proof and DDR5, but out of our price range I think.

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:44

tamzzy said:
for your budget, you won't get onto an AM5 system.

for fortnite, in dx 11 performance mode or dx 12 performance mode, 240hz is easily doable with this pc:

Great, thank you.

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:46

Ben74 said:
Great, thank you.

AM5 system:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Powered By Asus Gaming PC - Gamesplanet Game Choice (SKU: DIG-ASU-05978) = £0.00
1 x OcUK Gaming Radiance Crossbow - AMD Ryzen 5500 - Powered By Asus Gaming PC (SKU: FS-1G1-OG) = £1,139.99
- Case: 1 x Kolink Unity Solar ARGB Mesh Midi-Tower Case - Black
- Processor: 1 x Build Stock AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Six Core 3.7GHz (5.0GHz Boost) Processor - MP
- Memory: 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Graphics Card: 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 5060 Dual OC 8GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- Primary M.2 Solid State Drive: 1 x WD Blue SN5100 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive
- Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems

Total: £1,139.99 (includes delivery: £0.00)

Tetras · 29 Dec 2025 at 15:53

Ben74 said:
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.

Ben74 said:
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):

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB Review

The GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB is NVIDIA's newest release. It is built using the same chip as the RTX 5060 Ti, but only comes with an 8 GB VRAM option. In our review we run it through all our tests, including 1440p and 4K with and without ray tracing, and we also recommend optimal settings for...

www.techpowerup.com

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.

Ben74 · 29 Dec 2025 at 16:21

tamzzy said:
AM5 system:

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Powered By Asus Gaming PC - Gamesplanet Game Choice (SKU: DIG-ASU-05978) = £0.00

1 x OcUK Gaming Radiance Crossbow - AMD Ryzen 5500 - Powered By Asus Gaming PC (SKU: FS-1G1-OG) = £1,139.99

Case: 1 x Kolink Unity Solar ARGB Mesh Midi-Tower Case - Black

Processor: 1 x Build Stock AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Six Core 3.7GHz (5.0GHz Boost) Processor - MP

Memory: 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit

Graphics Card: 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 5060 Dual OC 8GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Primary M.2 Solid State Drive: 1 x WD Blue SN5100 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Solid State Drive

Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems

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!

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 16:28

Ben74 said:
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

mickyflinn · 29 Dec 2025 at 16:49

£1099 the mach 2 is a good option but on pre order.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gaming-mach-2-ryzen-7500f-rtx-5060-ti-pre-built-gaming-pc-fs-pb15-ep.html?page=1&locales[]=en_GB#reviews

tamzzy · 29 Dec 2025 at 16:51

mickyflinn said:
£1099 the mach 2 is a good option but on pre order.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gaming-mach-2-ryzen-7500f-rtx-5060-ti-pre-built-gaming-pc-fs-pb15-ep.html?page=1&locales[]=en_GB#reviews

ah that's a better spec than the radiance crossbow

i would get the mach 2 actually @Ben74

Colapops · 29 Dec 2025 at 18:33

A grand PC to play fortnite?

Sorry but why? Just get a PS5 or Series X.

freddie64 · 29 Dec 2025 at 18:43

Colapops said:
A grand PC to play fortnite?

Sorry but why? Just get a PS5 or Series X.

Ben74 said:
My son has managed to save £1000 from his allowance, and wants to buy a PC.

The lad wants a PC.

Livewire88 · 29 Dec 2025 at 19:02

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..