HELP ME PICK MY PC...

Jaime Johnston

Jaime Johnston

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Hello Everyone,

NEW TO GAMING

Please help me pick my first gaming PC. I absolutely love ACER PREDATOR, I love Alienware aswell.

I have a budget of £1,200ish.

What do you recommend? I just want no lower than 60FPS on high settings, just as high as possible. So basically the best for my budget obviously.

Thanks guys! I just want to make sure I get the best for my money and when I am looking around I haven’t got a clue lol.
 
Jaime Johnston said:
Hello Everyone,

NEW TO GAMING

Please help me pick my first gaming PC. I absolutely love ACER PREDATOR, I love Alienware aswell.

I have a budget of £1,200ish.

What do you recommend? I just want no lower than 60FPS on high settings, just as high as possible. So basically the best for my budget obviously.

Thanks guys! I just want to make sure I get the best for my money and when I am looking around I haven’t got a clue lol.
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Hi, do you need a monitor with this and are you building yourself or pre-built?
 
If it has a brand on it, like Acer, Alienware, etc, it will be overpriced and have some sub-par parts in it to cut corners and cut costs.

Browse the pre-built gaming PC's on OcUK. :)
 
For an Intel-based system:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Kinetic Z3 - Intel Z370 Configurable Coffee Lake Gaming PC = £1,142.03
    • CPU:Intel Core i5-8500 3.0GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
    • Memory:Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30
    • Case:Kolink Stronghold Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Tempered Glass Side Window
    • Graphics Card:Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Mini 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10700G-10M)
    • Secondary Storage Drive:Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)
    • Optical Drive:Unwanted
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Security Software:Unwanted
    • Primary Storage Drive:Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
    • Lighting:Unwanted
Total: £1,156.13 (includes shipping: £14.10)
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Although, I would wait until thursday as AMD are releasing a new range of CPU's - Ryzen+ 2000 series. These could save you money and offer more performance.
 
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I am guessing it's a crappy Kolink which they will tell him is a high quality psu anyway. For that price it should have a gold rated Seasonic/Antec/Bitfenix in it not a bargain basement psu.
 
Thanks for your help.

The system that southernorth proposed and you all highly rate. What FPS should I be getting on games like CS:GO, DOOM, Diablo III, World of Warcraft and Wolfenstein??

I might give Farcry 5 a go aswell. Just want high graphic settings with no lag as everyone wants.

Would that specification beat/compare to the likes of Acer Predator G6-710 that is priced currently at £1949.97? As I have heard from people that you get a lot more for your money on custom pre-build's.
 
Jaime Johnston said:
Thanks for your help.

The system that southernorth proposed and you all highly rate. What FPS should I be getting on games like CS:GO, DOOM, Diablo III, World of Warcraft and Wolfenstein??

I might give Farcry 5 a go aswell. Just want high graphic settings with no lag as everyone wants.

Would that specification beat/compare to the likes of Acer Predator G6-710 that is priced currently at £1949.97? As I have heard from people that you get a lot more for your money on custom pre-build's.
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At 1080p:
Doom and Wolfenstein would be ~150fps.
CS:GO 250-300 (or loads more if you play at low res)
Diablo 3 ~200fps
WoW is hard to say, should be ~60fps in raids, but will be 100+ when questing.


Here's a rough idea of performance across a variety of other games:
 
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Also found this 1070ti system:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Vision VR Gaming PC - Intel 8th Generation 3.6GHz Quad Core = £1,149.01
    • Processor:Intel Core i5-8400 2.8GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24
    • Graphics Card:*Build Stock* Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
    • Solid State Drive:Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)
    • CPU Cooler:Alpenfohn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler - 120 mm
    • Case:phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Black Window
    • WIFI:Unwanted
Total: £1,163.11 (includes shipping: £14.10)


Great price for what you get.​
 
southernorth said:
Only a 2 year warranty seems to say a lot. That's the minimum it can be in the EU afaik.

Competing (decent) brands start at 5 years. Although, as you say, we won't know actual performance until reviews emerge.
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Think it's 3 years for the total build even if part is two but yeah, not helping themselves. Specially with Google searches kicks up people on forums saying to avoid lol

Jaime Johnston said:
So which one are you saying is better the first PC you built at £1,156 or the 2nd one at £1,163?

Thanks for all your help.
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As he's mentioned , the second one. 8400 works lovely with 1070ti and you won't see any problems at either 1080p or 1440p . Build one around it at launch and was a nifty little system
Chip also runs cooler and boosts to 3.8hz on all 6 cores
 
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