£1200 Gaming PC. Help Required.

[Parkinson1NX]

Hi everyone,

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. Still running my build listed in my signature but finally convinced a friend to come over to the PC side of things.

His budget is £1200, doesn’t need peripherals.

Will need OS though.

EDIT: very keen for WiFi as well.

Gaming @ 1080p, maybe 1440p if possible.

Some help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[EsaT]

Not exactly best time to build PC now.
Memory prices have been rising for couple years (about tripled) thanks to memory chip maker cartel and lately also graphics card prices have increased lot.

Also AMD is upgrading Zen CPUs in couple months.
Though not that current ones are bad for their pricing and current socket is going to be used to 2020.
So it would be possible upgrade CPU to Zen2 architecture based with more than minor improvements.


Anyway assuming you can help friend in future upgrades it would be best to make sure parts which can be used for long time are good ones.
Good PSUs have 10 year warranty which tells something about how long you can expect to be able to use them.
(Seasonic Focus Plus also very well priced)

Also case is another part which doesn't really wear/become technically old.
So what kind case your friend would like?
Bling bling decorated or more modest styling?
And would it be good for case to be able dampen some of the noises of components or is "collection of holes" wanted?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

@Parkinson1NX

are ways to get windows 10 for £30+, google it


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte AB350N-GAMING WIFI AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £101.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £169.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Toshiba 1TB P300 Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £39.95
• 1 x Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass Mini-ITX Case - Black/Red= £76.99
• 1 x Super Flower Platinum King 450W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply - Black= £64.99
• 1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1070 Dual 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £539.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £55.99

Total: £1,220.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[orbitalwalsh]

would give your system a run for its money

 

[JediFragger]

I'd choose this one tbh, looks good;

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...ntel-core-i5-8600k-4.8ghz-fs-1bv-og.html#t=c+

Just knock the Win10 off and get a cheaper key and sorted

 

[ExoMale]

redid list hence the odd order, but heres a mini itx version and from intel.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1070 Dual 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £449.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £53.99
• 1 x Seagate 2TB BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM006)= £53.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 550W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £66.95
• 1 x Cougar QBX Mini-ITX Cube Chassis - Black= £44.99
• 1 x Asrock Z370M-ITX/ac Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini-ITX Motherboard= £127.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £85.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £94.99
• 1 x Asus External Slimline DVD Re-Writer, USB, 8x, Black, Cyberlink Power2Go 7 - Black (SDRW-08D2S-U LIT= £26.99

Total: £1,168.16 (includes shipping: £12.30)



drop the windows and dvd drive, use the savings to get 16gb ram, download and make an iso of desired windows then pay £10 on cdkeys for a key or less on the bay.​

 

[orbitalwalsh]

@Parkinson1NX

are ways to get windows 10 for £30+, google it


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte AB350N-GAMING WIFI AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £101.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £169.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Toshiba 1TB P300 Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £39.95
• 1 x Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass Mini-ITX Case - Black/Red= £76.99
• 1 x Super Flower Platinum King 450W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply - Black= £64.99
• 1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1070 Dual 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £539.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £55.99

Total: £1,220.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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Updated... Gtx 1070 Ti!!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte AB350N-GAMING WIFI AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £101.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £169.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Toshiba 1TB P300 Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £34.99
• 1 x Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass Mini-ITX Case - Black/Red= £76.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £53.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £499.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99

Total: £1,188.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[lee32uk]

Cheaper Ram

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £149.99

Total: £158.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)​

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[orbitalwalsh]

Cheaper Ram

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £149.99

Total: £158.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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nice spot! wasn't on sale when i listed but yeah, def the worth in change !!

 

[JediFragger]

Don't ya just love it when someone asks a question like this but doesn't even bother to check their own thread for 10+ days.....

 

[lee32uk]

Don't ya just love it when someone asks a question like this but doesn't even bother to check their own thread for 10+ days.....

Maybe he is busy with work or other commitments.

 

[JediFragger]

Maybe he is busy with work or other commitments.

Happens a lot, just boils my ****. But you may be right, I'm jumping a bit.