Afternoon folks, my son has been saving up his money for the past year under the promise that I will double it at Christmas so he can get himself a half decent gaming pc.
The budget in my mind has been around £1300.
His best mate has just got himself an i5 14400k, 4060ti, 16 gb rig and he wanted the same.
I've spoken to a few people locally that build machines, looked at the various outlets including here and for that budget I could probably scrape a bit more out by going Ryzen and maybe even stretching to a 4070 super. I even thought it would be cool to do the build with him so he gets a deepr understanding of how his machine functions.
However, last night I was chatting to a work colleague who had ordered a load of kit and had it sat around for a few months intending to build himself a rig, only to end up taking a job abroad. He offered me the lot for £1k!
Ryzen 7800X3D
Asus Proart 4080 Super
Vengence 32GB DDR5 Ram
850 PSU
Cooler
Everything was still sealed and having checked online, the GPU alone is around £1k
So now my lads potentially got an absolutely banging rig that will blow his best mates away (my boys always playing catchup these days as his mates parents are pretty well off by all accounts) as a bonus we'll build together on Christmas day! I'm just after some advice in regards to the missing bits.
Firstly, we need a motherboard, an HDD ideally 2tb and a case for it all to go in.
I need to be realistic here as the budget is £1300, but I also don't want to ruin what could be a cracking system with a cheap MB.
Any suggestions to help me achieve this build
The budget in my mind has been around £1300.
His best mate has just got himself an i5 14400k, 4060ti, 16 gb rig and he wanted the same.
I've spoken to a few people locally that build machines, looked at the various outlets including here and for that budget I could probably scrape a bit more out by going Ryzen and maybe even stretching to a 4070 super. I even thought it would be cool to do the build with him so he gets a deepr understanding of how his machine functions.
However, last night I was chatting to a work colleague who had ordered a load of kit and had it sat around for a few months intending to build himself a rig, only to end up taking a job abroad. He offered me the lot for £1k!
Ryzen 7800X3D
Asus Proart 4080 Super
Vengence 32GB DDR5 Ram
850 PSU
Cooler
Everything was still sealed and having checked online, the GPU alone is around £1k
So now my lads potentially got an absolutely banging rig that will blow his best mates away (my boys always playing catchup these days as his mates parents are pretty well off by all accounts) as a bonus we'll build together on Christmas day! I'm just after some advice in regards to the missing bits.
Firstly, we need a motherboard, an HDD ideally 2tb and a case for it all to go in.
I need to be realistic here as the budget is £1300, but I also don't want to ruin what could be a cracking system with a cheap MB.
Any suggestions to help me achieve this build
Cracking deal you got there
