Dell XPS i7-6700 GTX 1660 Super

aaz82 · 21 Dec 2023 at 15:55

Hi. I’m looking for advice on a gaming PC as I’m completely new to this. I’m looking at the below PC to start online gaming like COD, GTA etc.

Does this seem like a good starter and is it a good price?

£260

Spec
CPU: i7-6700
GPU: ASUS GTX 1660 Super
RAM: 32GB (2x16GB)
STORAGE: 256GB SSD + 2TB HDD!
Built in WiFi + Bluetooth
Windows 11 Pro Activated

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Any advice welcome!

Thanks,

Alan

jp7152 · 21 Dec 2023 at 18:21

Sounds like a very good all rounder to me! With sensible settings it should make a good starter machine. One thing to bear in mind is that when you want to move on there isn't really an upgrade path to it will be more of a case of getting a new machine rather than doing upgrades.

Another slight consideration is that it doesn't meet the requirements for Windows 11, meaning you may have difficulty with updates in the future. That's not a problem though as it's relatively easy to stick Windows 10 on instead.

Overall I don't think you can go wrong with that spec for that price.

aaz82 · 21 Dec 2023 at 18:25

Thank you so much for your response @jp7152. It’s been difficult working out what’s good and not with no experience so this has been very helpful!

aaz82 · 21 Dec 2023 at 19:03

one other I’m looking at in my price range. Would you say this is better?

£250.

Specification:

Intel Core i7 4770K 3.50 GHz (4 cores, 8 logical processors)

32 GB RAM

240GB PNY SSD

500GB HDD

AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB RAM (16GB shared memory)

Gigabyte Motherboard

Power supply Corsair CS 650M

RGB remote included (for the RGB Strip)

Asus Xonar DG Gaming Sound card

Case Corsair SPEC-DELTA Carbide Series, RGB

Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX Gaming Case.

6 Corsair fans in total (3 of these at the front are RGB but you will need Corsaird RGB controller to make them light up)

Windows 10 Home activated

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aaz82 · 21 Dec 2023 at 19:10

@jp7152

jp7152 · 21 Dec 2023 at 22:21

No the first one is much better. The CPU is quite a lot newer and the Nvidia card has an extra 2GB of memory and is considerably faster.

ED209 · 22 Dec 2023 at 09:53

Would agree, the first option is better than the 2nd.

jigger · 22 Dec 2023 at 11:04

I’d try to find something based around an AMD AM4 motherboard and 8gb video card.

Look out for.
CPU, Ryzen 1600, 2600, 4500. 1600AF
Motherboard, A320, B350, X370, B450, X470. All of those boards will support upgrades to very recent and highend CPU

GPU, RX 470/570/480/580 and 590 are all very similar, try and find an 8gb version.

Intel Arc 750/770 cards are also very good.

Dropping down 6GB you have cards like the 1660 in all its flavours and the RX5600 XT which is a very decent performer for 6gb card.

When it come to Nvidia GPU’s you need to be carful when comparing. Nvidia uses the same suffix for cards with very different performance. If it’s seems to good it probably is. Example, a RTX 1060 3gb is a complete different chip to the RTX 1060 6gb and some 12gb cards offer much less performance than the 6gb version.

I wouldn’t be too concerned about system memory and storage as that can be changed/increased very easily.