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Hello again, after taking advice from the kind people here, I have come back with a new build. Hopefully this would work. I'm looking to build a new PC and as i havent built one for 10 years i need some advice, my budget is £500 but as I won't be putting it together until the new year I'm...

My budget is a HARD £1150 Build 1 AMD RYZEN 5 3600 4.2GHz, RTX 3060 12GB, 16GB 3000MHz, 250GB SSD, 1TB hard drive, 600mps WiFi, windows 10 £1069 Build 2 AMD RYZEB 5 5600G Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB, 16GB RAM, 960GB SSD, 550W 80+ PSU, WIFI, WINDOWS 10, ONYXIA III RGB £1136 *Wifi is important. Is...

I've been looking at 2 pre built options: I am literally looking for value - I dont want to get ripped off! While trying to get decent mid range gaming pc Build 1: Asus ROG G15Dk (AMD Ryzen 5-5600X, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 SUPER, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) & Windows for £849 Build 2: ADMI, Ryzen 5...

Hi all, I know you probably get this query a lot. I can only but apologies to add to those numbers, but I'm not overly familiar with building pcs, and I've only done it once in 2013 (after I was fooled by Dell. I vowed never to build a ready build pc again). So back in 2013 I built my first pc...

Hello A friend of mine has asked me to build them a rig that is good for getting into video editing. I haven't built one for a while and usually only build gaming rigs for myself, so I am a little out of touch with what's good and what's available. Their budget is around £800 (excluding...

Hi Is it worth paying£1000 for the below? It's not for gaming but for heavy workload, multitasking. RGB MID TOWER CASE Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WiFi (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready! Memory (RAM)...

A friend of mine asked me to look at his pc as it sounded like it was taking off. The PSU was ready to burn his house down so I stuck my barely used spare cooler master mwe 500w in there. He has a Radeon R7 370 GPU, 16gb DDR3 1666 RAM, an Asus M5N97 motherboard and an AMD FX 8350 CPU with a...

Hi All, Hope everyone well in these Covid times. Community always helpful with my PC builds, so was hoping you could do the same for my son 12 years old. My son put together this spec (from another site) for playing Fornite, Rocket League, Minecraft and school work: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6...

To my surprise I managed to get rx 6800 which will be delivered tomorrow. Looking for some advice about the best build I can get mainly for gaming with around £1000 remaining. I have also ordered ryzen 5 5600X but seems like I am not getting it any time soon (800th in the queue 5 days ago) so...

Hello , I’m looking to get a new PC and need help with the best specs possible. I already have a NXZT H510 case , kraken m22 cooled and GTX 1660 DDR5 graphics card but need everything else. I will use the pc for some gaming and photoshops/video editing. The budget is £550-650. Please spec me out...

Looking to build my 2nd PC as my current one is getting old. I do average level gaming and general use including occasional Adobe CC use (Photoshop, Illustrator & XD) Primarily shooters: Call of Duty, Forza, Minecraft (Modded & w/ Shaders) and some fortnite Im looking at roughly £800 with some...

Hello, I have a budget of $1600 -$1700 CAD. In that, I am looking to upgrade 3 components, i.e., GPU, monitor and the memory, if possible. My current specs are as follows: CPU: i7 7700k GPU: Nvidia 1060 6GB RAM: 16gb Memory @ DDR4 2400 MHz MB: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 Monitor: Acer GN246HL @...

Hi, I brought a reasonable system from overclockers about 5 years ago (stats below). I most edit audio (quite big plug-in heavy projects) and video on it. Don't do as much gaming as I used to on it but wouldn't mind an excuse to be able to turn all the settings up a bit and have a good machine...

Hi buildbrains! I'm back to build a quietish gaming machine for my daughter. I need the case and what goes in it, peripherals are sorted. Monitor is a basic 1080p, no gsync etc etc. It needs to be able to play Red Dead at middling settings, and my budget is around £650. I'd like to be able to...

Current specs: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black Corsair Carbide Series 100R Mid-Tower Case - Black Cougar STX...

Hello, I was originally going to post a parts list but I’m suffering from information overload as I haven’t built a PC from scratch for a long, long time and my experience is about 10 years out of date. I was wondering if you could help? I’m looking to build a versatile PC for a number of...

Hi, guys, I own a asus gl502vs for 2 years now and the mobility is great but It really gets hot while it's on my lap, anyway I miss playing on a big monitor. I would like to buy an AMD cpu-gpu or the Nvidia alternative if it's cheaper, I'm going for the best price-performance ratio, I don't care...

As per the title. A mate needs a CAD/CAM desktop with Win 10 and a keyboard. Work has given him a £900 budget. What's the best he can get for the money? Cheers.

Hello all, I have zero experience with building pcs so I could do with a recommended build / some advice. I want a new pc for photo editing and general usage, Web browsing etc. It won't be used for gaming. I have photographs on sd and cf type cards, typically I'd transfer my photos using a...

Hi guys, I work in video production but also game a lot at a fairly high level - I'm looking to upgrade my PC to get more frames per second in games and also export complex 4k edits faster which needs a lot of CPU power. I'm after a processor with lots of cores that can also get as close to 5ghz...