£1500 Gaming PC Budget

[SkidMarkKing]

Hi,

would you recommend buying a pre-built gaming system with a budget of £1400/£1500 or do a full custom build?

I've added parts up in the past and it's not much more if anything at all to get a gaming pc pre-built?

 

[Tetras]

Here's a comparison of a prebuild I often spec, versus a £1500 full build:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x OcUK Gaming Oxygen - AMD Ryzen 5 7500F, GeForce RTX 4060Ti Gaming PC (SKU: FS-1BZ-OG) = £1,199.99
  • Case: 1 x SYSTEM OFFER - APNX Creator C1 Blue Mist Limited Edition Mid Tower Case
    
  • Memory: 1 x Kingston FURY Beast 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit
    
  • Graphics Card: 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 4060Ti TUF OC 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
    
  • M.2 Solid State Drive: 1 x WD Black SN770 500GB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS500G3X0E)
    
  • 2.5" Solid State Drive: 1 x Samsung 1TB 870 QVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-77Q1T0BW)
    
  • Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems

Total: £1,199.99 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

Upgrade to 32GB of memory (+£40)
Upgrade to 7800 XT (+£102)
Upgrade to 2TB SSD (+£85)
Remove 1TB SSD (-£80)

Total: £1347.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £349.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen - Space Marine & Unknown 9 Awakening Games Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-02908) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K6-AS) = £130.00
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B2-TG) = £89.99
• 1 x Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XT HellHound 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1AR-PC) = £629.98
• 1 x AMD Radeon - Space Marine & Unknown 9 Awakening Games Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-02939) = £0.00
• 1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £110.00
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case Black (SKU: CA-7B2-LL) = £69.95
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 850W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02519) = £104.98
• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £22.99

Total: £1,507.88 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[mickyflinn]

The main advantage of a pre build is plug in and play backed by a 3 year warranty .

Self build , more money for better parts equating to better performance but the downsides are building , troubleshooting any potential problems, tweaking and setting up .

Comparison of Brother @Tetras builds above the self build would be at least 25% more gaming performance

 

[triggerthat]

Self build always. There’s plenty of support to help you when things don’t go right.