Spec Check ~£500 gaming PC

moleh

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PC for Daughter's Birthday. She plays Lego games and Minecraft but wants something that will last as she moves into later games. I have a 1080p Monitor and a SSD to put in it.

What do you think? Could I get better if I built it myself?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Kinetic H2 - Intel H110 Configurable Skylake Micro ATX DDR3 Gaming Cube = £499.98
    • Case:BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Red
    • Memory:Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)
    • Graphics Card:MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
    • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)
    • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
    • Optical Drive **Please check case support**:Unwanted
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Unwanted
    • Security Software:Unwanted
    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
    • Warranty:OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
    • Processor:Intel Core i3-6320 3.90GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail

Total: £514.08
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Thanks in advance.
 
moleh said:
What do you think? Could I get better if I built it myself?
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The price seems right. You'd only save about £50 building it yourself. Maybe less.

Of course, that could be used on a 380 or 960 4GB.

But my guess is by the time she needs something more powerful than a 950, it'd have been better not to spend extra on 380/960 just now, and buy a more current card then.

You could also drop to an i3-6100 (don't think the difference will be noticed) and a cheaper case, and free up £50 in so doing, to get the slightly better GPU while still having OcUK build and support it.
 
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Danny75 said:
The price seems right. You'd only save about £50 building it yourself. Maybe less.

Of course, that could be used on a 380 or 960 4GB.

But my guess is by the time she needs something more powerful than a 950, it'd have been better not to spend extra on 380/960 just now, and buy a more current card then.

You could also drop to an i3-6100 (don't think the difference will be noticed) and a cheaper case, and free up £50 in so doing, to get the slightly better GPU while still having OcUK build and support it.
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Agree, cheaper case with better graphics.
 
I have put that case in as she can pick a colour and she is still at that age where that matters. What about the below? Cheaper CPU better graphics?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Kinetic H2 - Intel H110 Configurable Skylake Micro ATX DDR3 Gaming Cube = £492.98
    • Case:BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Red
    • Memory:Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)
    • Graphics Card:Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N960OC-4GD)
    • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)
    • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
    • Optical Drive **Please check case support**:Unwanted
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Unwanted
    • Security Software:Unwanted
    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
    • Warranty:OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
    • Processor:Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail

Total: £507.08
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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