Complete Novice (NEED HELP)

LKDF

LKDF

LKDF

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Hey Guys,

I'm completely new to PC gaming in the current generation. I've always settled for old hand me down machines and never really had a current up to spec machine. I would like to start my PC gaming career with a machine that is capable at playing games comfortably without blowing up my bank account.

So I open this thread to anyone willing to help me with the current and best hardware I can get for a budget of say £600 give or take a bit. All help or insight would be greatly appreciated and hopefully turn my status from novice to amateur.

Thanks guys
 
Thanks this is exactly what I'm looking for some people to help me get my head around the current norms etc. Thanks for the prompt reply hopefully some more feed back will help too. Do you find PC parts come down in price in January for the sale or not?
 
I'm only looking to get a machine sufficient to run games now. and any kind of upgrade will follow in a few years time I'd imagine. I know the next intel processors are just around the corner but the i5 series is more than enough for what I need to do right now. However i'm only waiting till january so christmas is past and I can save some money.
 
well I'm willing to spend about £600 on the machine itself anything like monitors keyboards mice etc I'll acquire later just more focused on the machine with a good gaming card that's not going to fall over and can keep up with today's intensely graphical games.
 
I can get the OS etc myself. also if possible to budget an SSD would be sweet. I have a 1T HDD and a 500HDD in my current standard PC so starage is not a problem more the compatibility between boards and RAM and Cards I'm completely oblivious to.
 
Bacon - you see the second link you sent with the SSD. That graphics card is obviously lower spec than they other. Is it still capable of running the likes of crysis and BF3 etc?
 
it's just the £80 difference could be saved on the card and spent on the SSD size or upgrading from 8 to 16GB RAM? and still work out the same in the end. So really what i'm asking is. Is it worth sacrificing that much on the GFX card to upgrade the rest to a better spec or is it not needed?
 
well you see I was talking to my other techie's that I work with and they said to get the card first and then get a monitor that corresponds. So thats the route I was going down. Would you recommend it the other way round?
 
I was looking at the 24" marker anything bigger than that would be uncalled for. So yeah 24" LED monitor was my looking DVI and HDMI outputs
 
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