Spec me a balls to the wall £4000 RGB pc

Carl81

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Im getting my yearly savings from work on dec 7th and am wanting to buy my step son a pc for christmas. He has proven me wrong with his old bad attitute over thr last 18 months and now is the time to reward him.

Ive already got my old asus pg278q to give him.

Want as much bang for buck as i can get for the cash.

He will be gaming at 2k res and will upload videos to youtube and twitch.

Gpus im thinking are 2 x gtx 2080 (+ nv link)

also needs as much rgb as possible.
Ive no idea when it comes to watercooling...."EK BLOCKS" mean nothing to me lol

If it costs more thats fine...just need a list of parts to work off.
Will get my local pc repair shop to build it.

Thanks
 
Hi

If I was spending £4K I would probably go with a 34" 3440 x 1440 120Hz G-Sync and a 2080 ti.

At the minute Ryzen offers better value for money than Intel, but with a budget like this you can go either way.

Also if you are not wanting to build it yourself and are buying from OCUK then I would ask them to build it. I would trust them over any other pc store.
 
lee32uk said:
Hi

If I was spending £4K I would probably go with a 34" 3440 x 1440 120Hz G-Sync and a 2080 ti.

At the minute Ryzen offers better value for money than Intel, but with a budget like this you can go either way.

Also if you are not wanting to build it yourself and are buying from OCUK then I would ask them to build it. I would trust them over any other pc store.
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thanks for the reply. some of the prebuilt machines come with 1 x
512gb ssd and a 3tb wd standard hdd...not much bang for buck really for £4000.
do overclocker build any pc for a customer?
 
Carl81 said:
thanks for the reply. some of the prebuilt machines come with 1 x
512gb ssd and a 3tb wd standard hdd...not much bang for buck really for £4000.
do overclocker build any pc for a customer?
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You should be able to make a basket on here and have them build it for you. Not sure what they charge but they are not going to turn down a £4K build. The best person to spec an RGB build is @orbitalwalsh if he is online. Not really my thing all this RGB lark :D
 
Just as an example here is a rough build (Without a case and cooler) for Ryzen with a 34" 3440 x 1440 120Hz G-Sync monitor.



My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £3,445.49 (includes shipping: £12.60)
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Resistance said:
If you want to save some cash its ok but intel is better by far for the sake of a little bit extra
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The higher the resolution the smaller the gap. The op could go 4K with a 2080 ti. At that res it is pretty much neck and neck. You are looking at £600 for an equivalent 8 core/16 thread Intel. That is just crazy money.
 
Resistance said:
When you are spending as much as he is you want the best I know I would and for a extra for £'s its worth it
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Except your suggestions are just silly. Where is the nice G-Sync monitor to go with the 2080 ti ? Also you need a cooler and psu and you are already at almost £3500. The op has a £4K budget including the build fee.

Also why would you get the 8086K for that price ? The 9900K is the same price for more cores/threads.
 
Carl81 said:
what about gpu water blocks and all that jazz? how do you.buy them? arw they already installed to a.gpu?
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I wouldn't go down the custom loop route for a 1st build. You can go with a 360mm sealed liquid cooler for example for the cpu. Plus a custom loop is going to add a lot more cost to the build and it would need maintaining in the future.
 
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