Spec a mate a PC!

[Diddums]

Evening all, a friend of mine wants to get in to PC gaming and I've already convinced him to buy from here but he doesn't know what to buy so I thought I'd ask in here. Here's his post:

- is it significantly (ie more than £100) cheaper to buy all the components and assemble myself (lol). Shouldnt be too difficult to put all the components into a frame and turn it on and install Windows?



- if yes, what specs should I go for ? I have no idea what ram and graphics cards motherboards to get etc



- if no, should I buy a decent PC and upgrade bits on it ? My thoughts are that you shouldn't really buy it if it needs new bits straight away anyway



- budget. Probably 1k max inc software and a decent monitor etc.



- happy to upgrade as and when it requires it but id rather it be able to run almost all games on atleast mid level settings for a few years.



- Probably need atleast 2 TB data storage as i have well over 1TB of downloaded files, music and photos that I have spread over a laptop and 2 external hard drives that I would like to back up properly.



-games i want to play. Basically all the games i haven't played on PC because i haven't had one for about a decade. If love to play the latest Total War and other RTS games on mid or high level graphics for once.

Anyone wanna throw a dart at this board? Cheers

 

[Diddums]

TBH, as you've got members market access, the most cost effective way to build a solid rig would be to go preowned.
eg 4790k/6700k/7700k and a 1060 6gb would be in the region of £800-900 (or a 1070 depending if you want to spend the whole £1000) would be a solid enough build to last a few years yet.

Mm isn't an option as he wants it on finance.


Thanks all, he's got a link to this, any advice is appreciated

 

[Diddums]

yeah this was what i suspected. I didnt know the Gsync started at such a high price. I was considering getting something with a 1070 as my mate has been whispering that in my ear, but i will go with whats being recommended i think.

Yes! What he said! That's been my mantra ever since my PC gaming days, you can spend $$$$$ on a stonking PC that dances circles around everything else but if you're pushing those pixels to a crap monitor or are controlling them with a crap keyboard and mouse, it ruins the whole experience.

I had a Samsung 32" 1440p monitor (£330 iirc) and it was amazing, until it went pop two months out of warranty.