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Diddums

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Evening folks!

I'll try keep it short:

A long standing member of our gaming community's wife lost her battle to cancer on Weds night. He's a retired gentleman so has loads of time on his hands and as of Wednesday, a huge gaping hole in his life.

As we take care of our own, we're all chipping in to build him a PC. Costs will need to be kept as low as possible whilst still meeting our criteria:

A) 1080p gaming minimum, 1440p if budget allows.
B) Must run most modern titles fairly well, including Star Citizen.
C) Due to his circumstances, he will have time for a new hobby so upgradeability and the ability to tinker with it will be preferred.
D) As above, must be future proof.

We have no idea of budget, there are a TON of variables on the table at the moment like whether we wabt exclusively new or will be able to use used components, or what hand-me-downs we can get our hands on.

Same for peripherals.

In an ideal world we'd build him a brand new monster pc so that's our starting point and we'll have to compromise whilst at the same time trying to up the budget.

I know this is very vague but I'm hoping you guys can give us a starting point to work from.

So, whatcha got ladies and gents? All input appreciated.

Thanks :)
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £930.15 (includes shipping: £15.30)​
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That's a good looking build. Sorry to hear about your friend. Have you considered giving him the spec sheet and vouchers so that he can kick off the process by getting engrossed in the build himself?
 
Diddums said:
@Lemin that looks pretty good, thanks :)

@arrkaye that's actually a fantastic idea. Maybe we should buybhim the parts and build it with him. We don't like vouchers, too impersonal.
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Totally with you on the vouchers, I see them as a more useless version of cash, but part of my point was researching the bits and pieces and selecting them are such joyful experiences every time I build. If he is so inclined, he may cherish that experience too.
 
Some fantastic suggestions in here, thanks all. That build above looks ace too, I might have a spare monitor and some goodies lying around as well, will have to have a look.

Thanks all, any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated <3
 
Hi again!

What's the consensus on a GTX 1060 6gb for £150? That offer's on the table for us and seems to outperform the RX 580 according to reviews, plus it's a £50 saving.

Brand new, just not sure which brand it is.
 
The 580 and 1060 are on an even par tbh. Swapping to nvidia means you would probably try and get a Gsync monitor [mucho dosh], whereas AMD, you'd look for a Freesync one [much cheaper].

Not sure that monitor above has either tbh.

Are there no bits he already has that you can reuse, or is this purely a nuke from orbit and rebuild like a mofo on christmas morning?
[that probably sounded better in my head than it reads, but this is a Diddums thread, so guess it fits]
 
skyripper said:
The 580 and 1060 are on an even par tbh. Swapping to nvidia means you would probably try and get a Gsync monitor [mucho dosh], whereas AMD, you'd look for a Freesync one [much cheaper].

Not sure that monitor above has either tbh.

Are there no bits he already has that you can reuse, or is this purely a nuke from orbit and rebuild like a mofo on christmas morning?
[that probably sounded better in my head than it reads, but this is a Diddums thread, so guess it fits]
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Great, thanks. We're going for the 1060 for now purely down to price but if our little crowdfunding operation goes well then we'll re-evaluate.

We're at £500 so far.

What's the consensus on this?

MSI Intel Z270 GAMING PLUS Kaby Lake ATX Motherboard
 
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