1,200 excluding mouse

Elladene

Elladene

Elladene

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Can anyone help me spec something for gaming? Its for my son. We have a mouse and headphones already. We have a monitor, but its fairly basic so was hoping for that budget a reasonably fancy monitor could be purchased as well. Hope someone can help me get the ball rolling. If at all possible, an Nvidia and a Vega list would really help (although I have read on these forums that Vega is far and away the best at the moment). Thank you very much.
 
That's great. Thank you. What case would you recommend? He likes the RGB bling! Also, he seems set on an RTX 2070. Not sure why but would it be possible to squeeze that in? Thank you so much for helping.
 
Thanks for your help with that. I think ill work with something very close to RTX2070 basket (My son seems smitten by Nvidia). Ill be placing orders over the next few days. Case looks great for him!!
 
Thanks both guys. I have put order in. I haven't bought the monitor as I was slipping over budget and we have an older one to hand - wont get the benefit of the card yet, but keeps us under budget and gives us a savings/Christmas present target. Thank you very much.
 
I went intel in the end.

I have a quick question though. I got the Kolink Phalanx. However, it has shipped without a manual and Im a little confused with the case fans - they seem to have their own separate controller unit and Im not sure how to connect it correctly. All the case fans connect to the controller unit. This unit has two outward cables requiring connection: One is marked power and clearly goes to the power supply. The other is marked m/b and therefore obviously goes to the motherboard. But im not sure where. Can you help? Does it go to the fan headers or the Digital LED strip headers? Also, what voltage should I set to? The motherboard allows the Digital LED strip headers to be set to 5v or 12v, so which should I set it to? Note: the case doesn't ship with a manual and I cannot find anything on the internet. Btw, motherboard is Z390 Auros Pro. Hope you can help. I tried to post a few pics to help explain my query, but even that small task seems to be beyond me.
 
Perfect, thank you. Your response and a bit of research have clarified (its the digital addressable LED and it goes to the corresponding spot on MB). I was confused as I thought the 'fan power' needed to go to motherboard somehow so that speed can be controlled by the motherboard. I realise fans are plugged directly to power and are on/off via case button i.e. 100% on or switched off. The motherboard doesn't interact with fan speed/power at all, only the LEDs. One final question though - the MB has a header to set the voltage on the digital addressable led to 5v or 12v. Do you know which it should be? (its defaulted to 5v) Thank you.
 
Thanks. Hopefully they are not too noisy - but I'm skeptical. I wouldn't want them to be off - obviously wary of heat. I might have to replace them with a different set of PWM fans or fans + appropriate controller. A little frustrating!
 
Thanks all. Just to let you know all put together now and son is one happy lad. Case looks great. Cant believe how nice and neat and easy it is to work in a big case rather than teeny weeny cases that i've used for myself over the past few years. Might go big next time for myself. Monitor is going to have to wait for Santa. Fans are a little noisy but I had some old Noctua's that I connected to case top and M/B so I can always disconnect original case ones if they are a problem - for my son I think he doesn't care about fan noise anyway. Thanks all. Life is so much easier with a resource like this (that I have used in the past as well). Building computers was much more frustrating in the old days.
 
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