Gaming Computer Specifications?



Rusty said:
I thought you were talking cpu wise. Ryzen chips are great and support for am4 socket should last a while. Nowt wrong with amd gpus either but they are a bit behind Nvidia.
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If you reckon AMD graphics are the way forward then good luck But high end specs imo they run short on drivers a lot quicker than Nvidia
 
Whatever you get it needs an SSD as the C drive.
Also if you check the specs on the game he wants to play remember they will usually be the minimum specs.
 
Az* said:
I've just bought one of the girls one. I usually use scan or ocuk exclusively but decided to use pc specialist this time after a mate recommended . I went low end for now to see how much she uses it, no point in a 10 core cpu and 1080 if they hardly use it.

I7 8700k cpu(overcooked to 5ghz iirc)
Asus motherboard (forgot name, bout 90 quid)
M2 128gb hard drive(have a spare 500GB ssd for a secondey)
16 GB corsair RAM
Asus 1050 TI 4GB graphics card
Coolmaster tower and CPU cooler.

The above was around £550 exc vat. Pre built so I didn't have to piss about building it.

You could probably drop the price a little if you went for the I7 8700 over the 8700K.

Bout the cheapest I could build whilst also being able to play bf5 and a few other games on half decent settings.
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link me up mate, this sounds ideal
 
Right, I’ve taught myself (in theory :p) how to build a PC over the weekend, and I’ve bought all the parts. Next question - what’s the best way to get Win 10 onto it?
 
Dave Herbal said:
Oh I’ve no doubt I’ll be on here asking for help at some point. But I enjoy a challenge.
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I finished this about a month ago. Couldn't get it to the post (Building machines is not new to me, I was fuming). Had to retrace every cable back to the PSU, and it took until the last one to realise that I hadn't plugged the motherboard in :rolleyes:

Good luck

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Dave Herbal said:
Right, I’ve taught myself (in theory :p) how to build a PC over the weekend, and I’ve bought all the parts. Next question - what’s the best way to get Win 10 onto it?
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It's easy Dave. All the hardware will only go were it is meant to, ram will only go in the ram slots, cpu can only go in one place. Same as the cables etc.

Let us know how you get on.
 
Dave Herbal said:
Oh I’ve no doubt I’ll be on here asking for help at some point. But I enjoy a challenge.
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if the case has them remember the risers! I remember being called round a friends when I was a teenager, they turned it on and sparked and now wouldn't do anything, turned out the screwed the motherboard directly to the metal backplate and shorted out every pin.
 
No7 said:
I finished this about a month ago. Couldn't get it to the post (Building machines is not new to me, I was fuming). Had to retrace every cable back to the PSU, and it took until the last one to realise that I hadn't plugged the motherboard in :rolleyes:

Good luck

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Got enough fans there?

I’ve been a bit hamstrung cos I’m supposed to stay within the bairn’s savings budget. Could only afford 2 fans. Suppose I can get more in future if required.
 
Dave Herbal said:
Got enough fans there?

I’ve been a bit hamstrung cos I’m supposed to stay within the bairn’s savings budget. Could only afford 2 fans. Suppose I can get more in future if required.
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They're needed on mine to be fair. Just make sure you orient them the correct way when you're installing. If you're sticking with 2, make sure one is pulling in from the front/bottom, and the other is pushing out the back at high level.
 

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