Please Spec Me a £2000 gaming machine.

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Hello all, I was wondering if all you fine people could spec me a new machine up. It has been quite sometime since I have gone the PC route (been mostly laptops), in fact it was when I joined this forum back in 2004 perhaps to ask the same thing. I have saved my pennies and had a figure in my head of £2000. This excludes screen, keyboard and mouse as I am pretty confident I can decide those myself. But other things I'm not sure on. Basically I want a machine just for gaming, I have a laptop to do my photo editing and other little projects. So a small SSD like a 256GB is enough. Also Operating System as I would like to hear if the majority of people have stuck with Windows 7 or moved to 8.1.

£2000 is my max, this maybe overkill I don't know. This isn't a 'look at me I have money' post. It's for many years I have had to be careful with game settings to make sure they run well at 20-30fps. I'd like to max things out without much thought this way.

Okay well if you guys can help I would be very thankful of it.
 
Thanks for the quick response. By any chance do you have something similar pre-built on your website? I'm looking for something roughly £2200 in total including screen (22") and keyboard. I added £200 to incorporate those two additional items.

Also is 8GB fine for most modern day games or would 16GB be overkill?

Thanks.
 
I only ever had a 18.5" laptop I thought a 24" might strain my eyes. I have a 23" TV in my bedroom so could put it on my desk to see if it's a good size to go with.
 
You can have a really good gaming rig for significantly less than £2000.

By all means spend that much as you will have a cracking machine, but you really do not need to be blowing that much.

You will get a very high spec setup for £1000-£1200.
 
For that budget you can get a much better case than the 450D - dont really rate that case that much to be honest.
 
You will get a very high spec setup for £1000-£1200.

Even a pre-built for around the same money:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Pro Gamer X65i Intel Z87 Full-Tower - Gaming PC Configurator £1362.12
- Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black (CC-9011030-WW)
- No Overclocking Options (Zero Cost)
- Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
- Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler
- MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
- TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01)
- MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- No Graphics Card Upgrade
- Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
- Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
- OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (temporarily out of stock)
- No Sound Card Upgrade
- SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614)
- Asus USB-N13 300Mbps Wireless Adapter
- Case Mods Not Selected
- OcUK Value AT/ATX "Kettle Plug" 2 Meter Mains Cable
- Keyboard Not Selected
- Mouse Not Selected
- System Build Fan - Noiseblocker BlackSilent Pro Fan PLPS - 120mm PWM (EXNO-001)
- Monitor Not Selected
- Speakers Not Selected
- No Headset Option (Zero Cost)
- Game Controller Not Selected
- No Office Software
- No Security Software
- Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
Total : £1,381.62 (includes shipping : £16.25).

 
£1200 will get you a machine that can play and do mostly everything well unless you're doing specific professional tasks like 3D design and even then they're not half bad.

From my experience, use the remainder to make you're PC usage a overall better experience. Get a bigger better monitor, buy a nice keyboard, mouse and headphones, invest in some speakers, get a new computer chair etc etc.

These things will bring you much more joy than spending £800 to try get a extra 10% performance.
 
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