1st Gaming PC - Ideas for £600 budget

[dt99]

Hi,

My son is looking for his 1st gaming PC, ideally wants to run the latest games, GTAV etc, but I know for his budget of £600 this will not be at highest graphics.

Looking for ideas, budget of £500-£600, not including monitor, keyboard, mouse, but I will need an OS.

Idea of what to buy please, plus cost of building this as I have never attempted a build before, is it really hard to do?

 

[mickyflinn]

Take a look at videos on youtube on how to build a pc and see if you think you could do it as it will give you more budget for your build.

 

[dt99]

I have looked on YouTube etc and seen loads of videos and I think I should be able to build it, I have a friend who built his own, so if I get stuck I could always get him to help. So, I think I would be looking at around £500-£600 budget for a build, any recommendations would be helpful.

 

[Gibliotech]

If you weren't completely comfortable building it yourself check out this spec I put together, it does go a little bit over the budget but would save you the trouble of putting it together.

You could also add a wireless card in there should you need to.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x OcUK Kinetic H3 - Intel H110 Configurable Skylake ATX DDR4 Gaming PC = £605.83
  • Processor:Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
  • Memory:Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0
  • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
  • Optical Drive:OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
  • WIFI:Unwanted
  • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
  • Security Software:ESET Smart Security - Trial Key
  • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
  • Warranty:OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
  • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)
  • Graphics Card:XFX Radeon RX 470 Core Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  • Case:Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black

Total: £619.93
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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[dt99]

Thanks, that's a great help.

Would that build be able to cope with the latest games, GTAV, COD etc, as these are the types of things that he plays. If not, could you suggest what changes I would need to make, while trying to keep the cost increase as minimal as possible.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Gibliotech]

No worries at all.

Yes that system would handle those games completely fine, the only thing I would probably suggest is adding an SSD to the build to improve the systems boot time, other than that anything else I would suggest upgrading would increase the price too much.