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So the lad turned 18 a few weeks ago and inherited some money and wanted to buy a new gaming pc, was looking at the R12 alienware as 'it looks cool' and another that I had pointed out. then we realised a relative had left his pc for the boy to have and tinker with...We dug it out and wondering if its worth upgrading. I reckon it will be close to £850 to get what he wants.
Now he will ONLY use this for gaming, not even for youtube..Its literally for playing games. He wants ray tracing capability but have suggested he waits and see if he needs it now or later. he plays red dead, farcry etc, not really any fast paced FPS
So this is the setup on the pc we have
Silver Stone Case--1 large cooling fan and 3 smaller ones-all the ports and connections you could want
Asus Z87 Deluxe/Dual motherboard
I7 4770k cpu
Be Queit cpu cooler
MSI N670GTX-2GB
Great Power X14s4p4 PSU
5 x 3TB WD HDD( and yes I did mean x5---15tb...what for I dont know)
Asus Bluray drive
Hp DVDR drive
HP lightscribe drive
No ram in at the minute
Acer CB270HU
Now we dont need the optical units and this case is a bit of a behemoth so my thinking was to add/change the below for now and he can do the rest piece by piece and learn maybe(although he did inherit a nice sum so will probably say get better stuff for it)
Corsair 16GB RGB PRO RAM
WD Black SN850 1tb SSD
New smaller case if possible to fit(although not necessary it would look better
So I have seen a number of options for the graphics card for now. TBH I dont want to go through the minute details, and he has no interest in doing anything else then having a pc that will turn on, be quiet and fast. So what does he actually need, these are available localy and not out of budget. Are they going to be good enough for modern games for the next 18-24 months or is he worth paying a little more and being able to forget about for ages?
Gefor RTX3060 x2 12gb-top of the 'budget' budget
RTX2060 6GB
1660 Super Dual(I see a lot of pre-builds with these)
GTX 1050TI 4gb
Going to swap the monitor out for a Asus 24" TUF 165Hz one
And going for K57 RGB keyboard and the harpoon RGB mouse.
So do I also HAVE to change anything else to make it good enough for gaming? The CPU is dated but is it ok?
Or am I better off just telling him to spend to get a new one....Budget for upgrade around £1000 but new system with peripherals would be around £1800 so what should I do hahah
Thanks in anticipation
Now he will ONLY use this for gaming, not even for youtube..Its literally for playing games. He wants ray tracing capability but have suggested he waits and see if he needs it now or later. he plays red dead, farcry etc, not really any fast paced FPS
So this is the setup on the pc we have
Silver Stone Case--1 large cooling fan and 3 smaller ones-all the ports and connections you could want
Asus Z87 Deluxe/Dual motherboard
I7 4770k cpu
Be Queit cpu cooler
MSI N670GTX-2GB
Great Power X14s4p4 PSU
5 x 3TB WD HDD( and yes I did mean x5---15tb...what for I dont know)
Asus Bluray drive
Hp DVDR drive
HP lightscribe drive
No ram in at the minute
Acer CB270HU
Now we dont need the optical units and this case is a bit of a behemoth so my thinking was to add/change the below for now and he can do the rest piece by piece and learn maybe(although he did inherit a nice sum so will probably say get better stuff for it)
Corsair 16GB RGB PRO RAM
WD Black SN850 1tb SSD
New smaller case if possible to fit(although not necessary it would look better
So I have seen a number of options for the graphics card for now. TBH I dont want to go through the minute details, and he has no interest in doing anything else then having a pc that will turn on, be quiet and fast. So what does he actually need, these are available localy and not out of budget. Are they going to be good enough for modern games for the next 18-24 months or is he worth paying a little more and being able to forget about for ages?
Gefor RTX3060 x2 12gb-top of the 'budget' budget
RTX2060 6GB
1660 Super Dual(I see a lot of pre-builds with these)
GTX 1050TI 4gb
Going to swap the monitor out for a Asus 24" TUF 165Hz one
And going for K57 RGB keyboard and the harpoon RGB mouse.
So do I also HAVE to change anything else to make it good enough for gaming? The CPU is dated but is it ok?
Or am I better off just telling him to spend to get a new one....Budget for upgrade around £1000 but new system with peripherals would be around £1800 so what should I do hahah
Thanks in anticipation
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