Expert view needed on first pc

cai000

cai000

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Hi looking to buy this as a first gaming pc for my son. Seen this one..
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Vibox Gaming PC • AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4.0GHz • Radeon Vega 8 • 16GB RAM • 1TB NVMe SSD • Windows 11 • WiFi • White​

He wants it in white, is this worth the buy? If not, any recommendations welcome, that also come in white!

Thanks
 

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Hi, I wouldn't have a clue! Looking to buy it, the specs are for one i found on amazon. Is it worth buying or can you advise of another? Many thanks!
 
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16GB system RAM isn't enough.
Vega 8 is IGP, that will be ok for basic gaming but not anything within the last few years at medium setting or higher, get dedicated GPU
1TB storage isn't enough
 
Thanks, any suggestions? All welcome, my son is wanting one for Christmas, I don't want to waste money on a rubbish one x
 
What is your overall budget? Do you need peripherals (monitor/keyboard/mouse etc), what sort of games does he want to play?

If your budget is around £350-450 as the above link seems to suggest, he'd be much better off with a console unless you're extremely lucky with the second hand market.
 
cai000 said:
Thanks, any suggestions? All welcome, my son is wanting one for Christmas, I don't want to waste money on a rubbish one x
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we'd like to help but you're making it extremely difficult

could you please read this and follow the instructions:
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What is your overall budget? Do you need peripherals (monitor/keyboard/mouse etc), what sort of games does he want to play?

If your budget is around £350-450 as the above link seems to suggest, he'd be much better off with a console unless you're extremely lucky with the second hand market.
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Hi, just the tower needed, he has everything else. Prob looking £500-£600 budget. Could you advise of any models or if this would be decent enough as a starter. I really don't want to buy something rubbish.

Thank you so much for your advise and time.
 
cai000 said:
Hi, just the tower needed, he has everything else. Prob looking £500-£600 budget. Could you advise of any models or if this would be decent enough as a starter. I really don't want to buy something rubbish.

Thank you so much for your advise and time.
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You'd honestly struggle to build one yourself at the moment that would be much better than an Xbox Series X for that sort of money without going second hand (and even then), going for a pre-built adds a premium (as does going for white parts unfortunately).

The best thing I could suggest would be to look at the second hand market, if you can list the specifications of some of the machines you come across we can further advise.

This of course depends on the sorts of games he intends to play, some are more demanding than others. If all he intends to play is Roblox it would be a relatively easy suggestion as it doesn't require much power, but if he wants to play even moderately demanding current generation games the cheapest new prebuild I'd be willing to recommend would probably be £800-1000. It's not a black and white question or answer, there's going to be a lot of nuances, that's why ideally we need more information than you're giving us.

Part of the issue is that certain parts having unusually very high prices right now (RAM especially), you might luck out on a bargain come Black Friday but I'd be surprised.
 
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Thanks, appreciate you responding. Is there a model on market you would advise? Not looking to build one until he's older so just need a good starter model. The model at start of thread is what I'm considering, but really need input from people in the know as whether it worth the money.
 
cai000 said:
Thanks, appreciate you responding. Is there a model on market you would advise? Not looking to build one until he's older so just need a good starter model. The model at start of thread is what I'm considering, but really need input from people in the know as whether it worth the money.
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It's not, it's last generation hardware and more akin to an office PC with a fancy case. Even if looking to upgrade it down the line you'd have severely limited options to the point it'd not be worth the hassle.

This would play anything out reasonably well, if you felt comfortable installing Windows 11 yourself you could get a cheap OEM licence and save around £100 on it:

My basket at OcUK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Merlin - Intel Core i5 12400F Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming PC (SKU: SYS-OCG-00047) = £924.98
    • Case: 1 x Lian Li Lancool 205M Mesh Micro-ATX PC Case White
    • Processor: 1 x Intel Core i5-12400F 2.50GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
    • Memory: 1 x Kingston FURY Beast RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit
    • Graphics Card: 1 x Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
    • M.2 Solid State Drive: 1 x WD Blue SN5000 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive
    • Operating System: 1 x Build Stock Microsoft Windows 11 Home Advanced - Systems

Total: £932.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

That said, it has limited upgrade potential and you'd get a better long term platform if you could spend around £1100 as there's a good deal on an AM5 based system currently. Regardless, since I've no idea what your son intends to play I configured it to have 32gb of RAM and a 16gb 9060XT to ensure it can actually play any current game decently.
 
Minisforum might still have systems in stock. They have been running a sale recently though. UM 870 slim is/was about that money.
 
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