Spec a mate a PC!

Make sure your friend understands that he has to troubleshoot issues that arrive afterwards himself, otherwise you'll be his tech support for the next 5-10 years.
 
Diddums said:
I had a Samsung 32" 1440p monitor (£330 iirc) and it was amazing, until it went pop two months out of warranty.
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I bought one for £200 from Acer and it's been fab, IPS and an 10bit panel, bargain.

Warranty is what? 12 months? if it lasts 14 months I'll be fairly happy actually. :D

G-Sync is to expensive, Freesync is useless you're unfortunate enough to own an AMD card, high refresh rates only matter for competitive gaming (old games only), for most modern games you'll struggle to maintain 60+ fps so the chances are you wont even benefit unless you like potato quality graphics.

You can pickup decent monitors for £200-300, I wouldn't spend anymore.
 
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lltfdaniel said:
Yes it is cheaper to assemble/build it your self and would likely be £100 cheaper.

What specs should he go for, i will do that later, when i edit this post.

i wouldn't buy a ready made pc,

1k will allow for a half decent pc machine for sure even with software and monitor.

Upgrade path eh? then am4 socket motherboard is a no brainer here because amd will support am4 until 2020 when ddr5 ram comes out.

We can get a bog standard 7200rpm hdd instead of a ssd.

Yes this half decent machine will allow you to play at medium high settings.

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £947.56 (includes shipping: £14.70)
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My 2 pence, something like this above.
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I've had a second recommendation for this being a solid build and the parts are back in stock too, so looks like i will be going with this.

Only modifications suggested to me were to get a cosair case and better power supply, so i will look into this today.

Thanks everyone
 
Dr_D1amond said:
I've had a second recommendation for this being a solid build and the parts are back in stock too, so looks like i will be going with this.

Only modifications suggested to me were to get a cosair case and better power supply, so i will look into this today.

Thanks everyone
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Enjoy your new pc is all i say ;-).
 
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