£900 build

nJoyo

nJoyo

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Hi, I want a £900 build, and have £900 to spend on the entire thing, including keyboard, mouse and monitor. I want the whole set up done for £900, can anyone suggest me a good build, that I can play some what decent new gen games. E.g Fortnite, PUBG. ect.
 
tamzzy said:
you could ask in customer services section :)
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Thanks :)

tamzzy said:
you could ask in customer services section :)
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Do you also think it'll decrease the performance by removing the ssd, I feel like that can be added in the near future when the price is abit lower. I have a budget of £900 smack on, no higher :(

also need to add wifi. :P
 
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tamzzy said:
personally, i wouldn't. i'd get an ssd and use that as the primary drive. getting a hdd/external hdd added for extra storage later down the line is the more convenient way to do it.
also, i'm assuming you've never used an ssd before which is why you'd want to drop it?
it's honestly the single best thing you can do for system responsiveness/quality of life improvement for a computer. ever. once you've used a computer with an ssd, you'd wonder why you didn't get one sooner :D


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so taking your comments into consideration, my revised spec for your consideration would be to:
1) drop the hdd altogether, and get a 500gb ssd instead - this space should last longer before requiring to get a hdd for storage
2) cheaper kb/mouse
3) added in wifi card
4) some money left in the budget for ocuk to build the spec for you :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £873.51 (includes shipping: £14.70)
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That looks like a beautiful build, thanks a lot!
 
tamzzy said:
just ask ocuk to put it on for free lol. op is spending the best part of £900
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Done, I've requested it in the customer services thread, however it appears that no one has responded as of yet hoping to get this built over this week and have it delivered by the end of this week. fingers crossed it will :p
 
Initial post was made at 11:30 so hopefully it'll be some time soon when they post. :) Thanks for all the help Tamzzy. I appreciate it.
 
I do understand it's not hard, but I've had issues with installing windows 10 on a system which was previously made by overclockers. Had to diagnose the pc my self, and it was some wifi dongle which was causing Windows 10 set up screen. Hence why I wanted them to install it so I just have to insert my key and that's it.
 
tamzzy said:
i did think about that, but the cheapest 24" 1080p monitor is £90, but it's a VA screen and i'm assuming, being that cheap that there'll be a lot of ghosting as per cheap VA screens.
the next cheapest TN 1080p screen is £110
and besides, the cerberus headset for £30 is a steal
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which one is the TN pannel you speak of, I'd have to set if I could budget it.
 
tamzzy said:
@nJoyo wow £107, that's very dear indeed. they used to charge a lot less...
it doesn't cost £107 for what is, at best a 1h jobbie for an experienced builder :rolleyes: especially if they're not installing win10 for you
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Yeah I figured and apparently their excuse is the price has gone up because of some parts are good more expensive, to me which doesn't actually make any sense.
 
tamzzy said:
yeah no sense indeed, as you're already paying for the parts separately :confused:
sigh. wonder if @Gibbo would help?
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I just re added everything into the basket and it appears most of the parts mentioned's price has just gone up today.. coincidentally. And that has made the price go up, however I've heard back from them just now, and been told the price is £77 for them to build the PC.
 
tamzzy said:
hmm... £77 is still very steep tbh. i wonder if you're better off just buying the parts on its own, then asking a friend who's done this before to help you along. then get a 6/12-pack and enjoy together afterwards as payment.
if it was a £2k machine, then £77 isn't that bad of a price. but £77 on a £700 computer is a bit much...
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I didn't think overclockers.co.uk was trying to rip people off. I've been buying from them for years, and thought I would still receive the same type of customer service and price clearly not the case in this instance. I just feel £77 is abit of a rip off. Honestly speaking. Its better to buy a pre-built PC from elsewhere I feel.
 
tamzzy said:
best of the prebuilds within budget:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tita...8uMHk1.65Tbd1Uw~Tbs1Ux9TbB1Uz;TQi1#V?bjac2~8)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £912.96 (includes shipping: £23.10)
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you get free shipping don't you? so this works out at £890
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For this build I think I can get it from elsewhere. I don't feel like giving my money to overclockers after this experience tbh. Sorry.
 
Something else which I forgot to mention. I called in today for a quote, and had posted on forums for one yesterday, but delayed and responded today, and both of the quotation are different in price, and supposedly they've told me it's at a discounted price even though the price is higher than when asked for the quote via phone. I feel like they're just charging any price they feel necessary and do not actually have any form of guideline to follow to base the price off.
 
tamzzy said:
understandable sentiment, really, given the circumstances
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Yeah feels like there is no point even explaining to them to be quite honest. Feels like it would be just a waste of time. Thanks for all your help though. I'm glad there's people like you on the forums that actually help newbies like myself :P just wish they would handle these kind issues appropriately.
 
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