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      10-06-2019, 05:06 AM   #1
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Looking at getting my son a gaming pc for Christmas. Don't need nothing high spec as he only plays roblox, minecraft and Fortnite. Can any one recommend any at a budget price?

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I’ve bought a couple of gaming pc’s from these over the years.

https://www.chillblast.com
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What sort of budget are you thinking?

Definitely best to build one yourself, then you can easily upgrade it when/if he gets into more power hungry games later.
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This would make a great lad & dad buy the components then build it up together. Not as daunting as it sounds & your lad would get a lot more from it all than just plugging in a box.
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This would make a great lad & dad buy the components then build it up together. Not as daunting as it sounds & your lad would get a lot more from it all than just plugging in a box.
100% this.
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This would make a great lad & dad buy the components then build it up together. Not as daunting as it sounds & your lad would get a lot more from it all than just plugging in a box.
also agree with this!

Best thing to know is the budget and what you'll need. Monitor/mouse/etc or just the box?
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This did cross my mind but I haven't played with a computer for a good few years now I wouldn't know what's compatible with what.

What's a good basic spec to start with ?
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This did cross my mind but I haven't played with a computer for a good few years now I wouldn't know what's compatible with what.

What's a good basic spec to start with ?
I use this website for my parts

www.scan.co.uk

Great site and you can use the system checklist to ensure you get all the parts.

For some ideas you can use this off one of the website I frequent.

https://www.mmo-champion.com/content...d-of-the-Month

The most basic build would run fortnite easily.
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This did cross my mind but I haven't played with a computer for a good few years now I wouldn't know what's compatible with what.

What's a good basic spec to start with ?
It's very simple these days, all plug and play really as long as you check you get a compatible CPU and RAM for the motherboard you choose, nothing else can go wrong really.

Don't buy a generic PSU though, they can be very poor quality.
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CyberpowerPC Regiment Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 3 2200G, Nvidia GTX 1650 4GB, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 400W 80+ PSU, Wifi, Windows 10, Onyxia https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074DYBD..._FgHMDb07FS0Y3

Bought my kid one of these. Seems decent spec for the money and plays everything you need it to
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check out pcpartpicker

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/builds/

loads of builds so you can find one to suit your budget, as said building it with the lad would be a great Christmas morning experience.
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I can 2nd the nomination for Cyber Power. I have no problem chucking in disks, RAM, new graphics cards etc but prefer to leave motherboard, cooling etc to people with better eyes, less shaky hands, and more time.

Anyway they have a decent website with a big range of builds, which you can tailor or not. Quality of my build was very good.
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I may have something useful to use as a base for £50. I have what was a top spec tower used as a 4K media server. Just needs a graphics card and Windows installing. I'll dig out the spec as I'm using another one at home for streaming to the TV.
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I may have something useful to use as a base for £50. I have what was a top spec tower used as a 4K media server. Just needs a graphics card and Windows installing. I'll dig out the spec as I'm using another one at home for streaming to the TV.
If you could get the spec mate that'll be great. I've just been flicking through awd-it trying to get together a build
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Just out of curiousity what do you guys think to this step up? Any things to change?

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Just out of curiousity what do you guys think to this step up? Any things to change?

Well, looks like it’s a full size ATX motherboard, but a micro ATX case, so the motherboard won’t fit.

Also I’d spend about £5 more on a decent make case.

And 16gb ram is a bit ott for the games your son plays, even 8gb would be more than enough.

And lastly, there’s no graphics card?
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This would be a much better system imo, not ott for the basic games he’s currently playing, but with the graphics card it would be able to play all modern games at decent detail level.



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thanks for that. just a couple of questions if there any reason to choose 2x4gb sticks rather than 1x8gb stick? and ive noticed on some motherboards it says gaming but on the one your list it doesn't say gaming is there a big difference between them?
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If you could get the spec mate that'll be great. I've just been flicking through awd-it trying to get together a build
Yeah I think I can beat that with an Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8-16Gb RAM.
And all I do with mine is edit GoPro footage and play movies on it

Just needs a graphics card, HDD & a DVD drive if you need one.

This is mine with a 64 Bit version of Windows installed.


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thanks for that. just a couple of questions if there any reason to choose 2x4gb sticks rather than 1x8gb stick? and ive noticed on some motherboards it says gaming but on the one your list it doesn't say gaming is there a big difference between them?
Two sticks works in dual channel mode, which is much faster. Don’t worry about the “gaming” on motherboards, it’s just a nonsense marketing thing.

Muffking’s pc would be a really good base for £50, that old i5 cpu has virtually identical performance to the Ryzen 2200g I suggested. It means you can cross off the motherboard, cpu, ram & psu from my list, saving you around £170!
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I've just dropped him a pm about the computer he's selling. What would be a good graphics card to go with this ?
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I've just dropped him a pm about the computer he's selling. What would be a good graphics card to go with this ?
For around £200 you can get a decent mid-range which would play 1080p just fine

A Nvidia GTX 1660

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus...u-1800mhz-boos

Or an AMD RX590

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-...r5-dp-hdmi-dvi

The GTX is a bit more powerful than the 590, but the 590 is cheaper. Both would handle 1080p gaming fine.

I second the CPU too, I have a 3570k and have used it for 7 years (OC'd to 4.2 Ghz though) and easily handles 1080p gaming.
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