Gaming PC for a friend - no fixed budget

Munky1080 · 12 Jun 2019 at 19:24

Hello everyone;

I've not been keeping up with hardware much over the last few years, so I'm not sure what the current sweet spot is for the price / performance ratio. My friend wants to venture into PC gaming after spending his whole like as a console gamer. He's massively into FIFA, and Skyrim, and I would image would game at 1080p. Ideally, he'd like something that will last for a few years, but not break the bank if he decides that PC gaming isn't for him.

He's not really given me a budget, but I suggested we could probably do something for as cheap as £400-500 or potentially up to £600-750 if the performance bump is worth the money. Is anyone able to maybe show a few different options and these price points?

Thanks in advance

Munky1080 · 13 Jun 2019 at 11:36

Thanks buddy - I've spoke to my mate a bit more now and it looks like he doesn't need a keyboard/mouse/monitor and we're looking at a hard budget of £650. His girlfriend wants one too, so I'll be building them two identical PCs.

Any other suggestions at this budget?

Munky1080 · 13 Jun 2019 at 12:53

They're quite keen to get something soonish, but I could possibly get him to wait if the value for money at the £650 price point is a lot better. I'm just having a bit of a play on the OCUK site right now to find something around the £650 mark, but I'm so out of touch these days that I'm not sure what's what these days

Munky1080 · 24 Jun 2019 at 11:51

Hey! So we've ordered the above parts and after windows is installed, the computer crashes after about 10 minutes or so of use. I can't even get through windows update before they crash. I'm headed back over to his tonight to take a look. I don't think it's a hardware issue though, as before installing Windows the computer seems fine.

Any auggeatsugg on how to avoid the BSOD? We are using windows update to update the drivers but I'm going to try to manually update the drivers tonight, before windows does it for us.