Spec me a balls to the wall £4000 RGB pc

Carl81 · 28 Oct 2018 at 11:40

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

Carl81 · 28 Oct 2018 at 12:29

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.

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 · 28 Oct 2018 at 14:00

what about gpu water blocks and all that jazz? how do you.buy them? arw they already installed to a.gpu?

Carl81 · 28 Oct 2018 at 15:00

thanks for all the suggestions.

baisically my step son started doing stupid things and breaking the law with the rest of the chavs in our area. I sat him down and told him what was expected of him over the next 18 months... luckily he changed amd adapted... he went on basic and advanced first aid courses all over the uk...he starts his public service course in 2 college in a few weeks.
I told him 12 months ago that i would put between £50 and £90 a week into my yearly savings club at work for him to buy a car or what ever he wants .. that pays out on dec 7th.
he does deserve it to be fair...he met a lad in comic con early this year...the guy had the x299 7900 intel chip with what looks like an water cooling kit that looks incredible looking.
He now wants the same. he will.be 18 in dec.

He wants my asus pg278q 144p 27inch g sync monitor..

so i dont need a monitor ...just need everything else.
he uses my system at the min...4790k ...980 ti Sli etc ...simple h50 cooler.
gaming at 1440p and streaming $ uploadig .

thanks