Good afternoon everyone,
My Dad has asked me to spec a new computer for him. It's one that I will be looking to have built by OCUK and then sent to him, as I'm a few hundred miles away, and he has no experience building them. He's given me a budget of £900 - £1200, but doesn't mind going up to the £1200 limit.
It needs to have a fairly good graphics card as he will be gaming occasionally on things like Witcher 3, Fallout 4 etc on very high settings, but will only need to be 1080p max. Either the 480 or the 1060 would be good. He will not be looking to upgrade for a while.
Also, CPU needs to be pretty good as his main hobby is chess, and his chess software can be quite demanding when he's analysing several games at once.
So far this is what I had in mind. Only extras apart from the tower are windows and a keyboard, but I have left the keyboard out of this as I will let him pick (so take budget approx 1120-1150 or so unless you include the keyboard). How does this look? Do you guy have suggestions to make this better? He would like to upgrade components down the years at some point. I didn't opt for water cooling, as I have had experiences of the pump failing quicker than a fan will, and I'd rather keep things as simple as possible for him.
If I ask OCUK to build this for me, approx how much extra will that add?
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,111.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
Many thanks everyone,
My Dad has asked me to spec a new computer for him. It's one that I will be looking to have built by OCUK and then sent to him, as I'm a few hundred miles away, and he has no experience building them. He's given me a budget of £900 - £1200, but doesn't mind going up to the £1200 limit.
It needs to have a fairly good graphics card as he will be gaming occasionally on things like Witcher 3, Fallout 4 etc on very high settings, but will only need to be 1080p max. Either the 480 or the 1060 would be good. He will not be looking to upgrade for a while.
Also, CPU needs to be pretty good as his main hobby is chess, and his chess software can be quite demanding when he's analysing several games at once.
So far this is what I had in mind. Only extras apart from the tower are windows and a keyboard, but I have left the keyboard out of this as I will let him pick (so take budget approx 1120-1150 or so unless you include the keyboard). How does this look? Do you guy have suggestions to make this better? He would like to upgrade components down the years at some point. I didn't opt for water cooling, as I have had experiences of the pump failing quicker than a fan will, and I'd rather keep things as simple as possible for him.
If I ask OCUK to build this for me, approx how much extra will that add?
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Corsair Carbide 400C Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Window (CC-9011081-WW)= £95.99
- 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £99.95
- 1 x Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£20 Saving**= £326.98
- 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/16= £74.99
- 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £65.99
- 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 480 Devil 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £259.99
- 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212X CPU Cooler= £29.99
- 1 x Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM001)= £62.99
- 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £94.99
Total: £1,111.86
(includes shipping: £0.00)
Many thanks everyone,
many thanks. I'll suggest both.
