Gaming pc help

safcpelaw

safcpelaw

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Looking for some advise the bairn has wanted a gaming pc for a while and he’s saved around £800 il match what he’s saved so £1600 can I get anything decent for this? Always been a console bod so not even sure what I’m looking for, ready built, custom built any help will be appreciated cheers.
 


£1600 will get you a beast.

Some really good bargains around at the minute on processors and graphics cards as a new models are due out in a few months.

The only components that seem to be affected by covid are power supplies which have gone up in price by a fair chunk.

If you buy a pre built system you will get a little less for your money, and usually with inferior components.

You will no doubt get fan boys popping up saying buy this brand CPU over that brand or this GPU over that one because that's what they prefer.

But currently £ to performance the best CPUs are by far AMD, ryzen 3600 or 3700 would be a good choice for you.

How olds he and what kind of games would he be playing ?
Graphics card wise Nvidia have all the bells and whistles, but you pay a premium for them known as the nvidia tax. But for your money you get features like hairworks so your anime waifus hair look realistic and ray tracing so you can look at your reflections and admire the pretty lights, although ray tracing is currently only available on a few games and tanks performance so not really worth it in my opinion. For the average gamer a AMD GPU will run the same games with similar performance for a fraction of the price.

There are plenty of youtube tutorials showing you how to put the components together if you fancy building one your self. Don't buy windows retail, just buy a cheap key off ebay for about a fiver. You download a tool from the Microsoft website to make a usb to install it.
 
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1080p at 60fps should be your minimum aim but easily achievable for around £8/900.
If he wants a future proof beast, such as 4k gaming. You’ll be looking at spending the lot. 4k at 60fps is quite expensive to achieve and most games these days can’t even reach that standard anyway.
 
You looking to build yourself or buy prebuilt? with that sort of budget you'll be fine either way even having to buy all the rest like monitor, keyboard etc
 
You could build a pretty decent one for 800 for 1600 it'd be higher mid range.
What type of stuff is he looking to play?
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5700xt gpu around 400

Decent start for a 1600 pc
 
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My advice would be build a pc to approx 1000

Keep the 600 back for when the new 3000 graphic cards release.

Build best pc you can with a 1660 super. Keep what you save for a beastly 3000 series card. Literally just clip in and clip out to swap graphics cards over and you'll be able to claw money back on the 1660 super on eBay.
 
Agree with the Ryzen comment, but have a look and see when the next gen 4000 ones are coming out, they look to be a massive leap.

Probably aim for 1440p 144Hz gaming right now. 4k gaming isn't far away from mainstream, and a quick GPU upgrade would nail that too when its time.
You'll have plenty money left over.
 
next gen ryzen won’t be out for a while, they have just released an enthusiast version called the XT, with slightly higher clocks but the extra price you pay it isn't really worth it. 3600x & 3700x are the current ones to buy. 4000 look to be delayed and probably won't come till the end of the year.

not really worth paying the nvidia tax for a underpowered 6gb 1660 card now imo, not gonna get much longevity out of it and saying sell it when the market will be flooded with them due to everyone else selling them at the same time will be a nightmare, as well as dealing with ebay return scams.
 
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next gen ryzen won’t be out for a while, they have just released an enthusiast version called the XT, with slightly higher clocks but the extra price you pay it isn't really worth it. 3600x & 3700x are the current ones to buy. 4000 look to be delayed and probably won't come till the end of the year.

not really worth paying the nvidia tax for a underpowered 6gb 1660 card now imo, not gonna get much longevity out of it and saying sell it when the market will be flooded with them due to everyone else selling them at the same time will be a nightmare, as well as dealing with ebay return scams.
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I saw laptops with them in, so assumed the desktop cpus were out to buy, seems not. Cheers
 
safcpelaw said:
Looking for some advise the bairn has wanted a gaming pc for a while and he’s saved around £800 il match what he’s saved so £1600 can I get anything decent for this? Always been a console bod so not even sure what I’m looking for, ready built, custom built any help will be appreciated cheers.
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I just bought a nitro 5 with a gtx 1650 and ryzen 5 3550 for £560, laptop. Depends what you want, I was just after a casual 1080p gaming pc or laptop, that could play at a decent frame rate on medium settings.
 
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Suppose the question nobody has asked yet, is the lad wanting to stream while he games? That adds a canny demand to the system iirc
 
Cheers for the replies can’t quote them all no clue.

But he plays usual cod fortnite FIFA Mostly and a few others. with his mates he’s talked about streaming but not sure how he would do that and it’s something I’m not fully comfortable with.

He’s just wanting a different aspect of gaming I think
 
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Cheers for the replies can’t quote them all no clue.

But he plays usual cod fortnite FIFA Mostly and a few others. with his mates he’s talked about streaming but not sure how he would do that and it’s something I’m not fully comfortable with.

He’s just wanting a different aspect of gaming I think
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Streaming seems to be the "big thing" for kids these days. Its not for me either, but its fairly mainstream really - other than normal parental checks, I wouldn't be automatically adverse to it, but your call obviously.

Streaming does put a lot more load on the PC though. Can't remember if GPU or CPU though.
 
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Cheers for the replies can’t quote them all no clue.

But he plays usual cod fortnite FIFA Mostly and a few others. with his mates he’s talked about streaming but not sure how he would do that and it’s something I’m not fully comfortable with.

He’s just wanting a different aspect of gaming I think
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Have a look at this post here. This sarden dude seems to know his stuff and regularly posts good deals.

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Have a look at this post here. This sarden dude seems to know his stuff and regularly posts good deals.

Ryzen 3700x B450 512GB SSD Nvme 3TB 5600xt W10 OS custom with 3600 B550 / X570 / GPUs - £999.99 @ Palicomp | hotukdeals

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Be wary of following him for gospel. He posts a lot of "deals" with shite PSUs

He reckons he doesn't have anything to do with the company's he recommends but I beg to differ. He recommends CCL a lot and there customer service is horrific apparently.
 
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Streaming seems to be the "big thing" for kids these days. Its not for me either, but its fairly mainstream really - other than normal parental checks, I wouldn't be automatically adverse to it, but your call obviously.

Streaming does put a lot more load on the PC though. Can't remember if GPU or CPU though.
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Honestly, not as bad a people think. Ryzen 3600 and 1660ti would cover it, software from OBS (free) and Nvidia NVENC can encode.
A quick check, and it looks about £800 for a PC you can build yourself. Don't be shy, it's pretty easy to put together:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£156.97 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard (£120.97 @ Laptops Direct)
Memory: Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£60.81 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 860 QVO 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XLR8 Gaming OC Edition Video Card (£252.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case (£73.08 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£49.99 @ AWD-IT)
Total: £809.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-01 20:48 BST+0100
 
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Get yourself on PC Specialist, you can pick the components you want, pick the price point you want, they'll build it and send you it.
 

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