Gaming PC -£1000 budget
 

So I'm not too clued up on the whole PC gaming scene, but do love my console gaming. I'm going to need a PC soon so might as well make the transfer to PC gaming and enjoy nice frame rates! I have a £1000 budget(will consider a bit more if it's required), what do You guys recommend? Links would be helpful. I don't need a monitor but will require a keyboard and mouse.

Cheers!

If you are going down the self build route check out scan.co.uk. They also do overclocked cpu/mobo/ram combos.

Wouldn't have the slightest clue what I was doing mate. Looking to buy a complete unit ready to go.

£1000 aint gonna get you decent frame rates with up to date games im afraid. gonna be nearer £2000 even self building.

£1200-1500 imo. PC Specialist are decent for building your own config at a decent price.

I have used Overclockers for years and I mean years.

Having always built my own PC's its just a case of selecting the right bits.

I built both myself and my son a Gaming rig each as soon as he wanted to do
something different other than use a consul.

Give them a call and tell them what you are after and your budget.

As above thought If you want something decent your looking more at £1500
I spent just over £500 on a graphics card alone but that supports 4K gaming :)

4k monitors don't come cheep either. The gaming quality and difference to a consul is night and day however the gaming community is no where near what it is with say X-box or PSN

Luckily I have a fair few friends which still game on PC's so we can catch up for some FPS

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/

Cheers for the info guys. I'm not looking to run 4K games at 60 FPS, I just want to be able to play games in a fairly decent resolution with good frame rates. Certain games like Just Cause 3 (for example) are sometimes borderline un-playable on console, would be nice to just play them properly for once.

Ok then you definitely need to raise your budget to 1500 or above as you will need a fairly expensive gfx card, like a nvidia 1080 GTX and a decent Skylake i5 7600K CPU (preferably overclocked), 16GB of ram etc etc. This isn't including the cost of a 4K monitor.

you could ask for help on the overclockers forum

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/

Goto the bottom of this page, the "Zephyr" elite onwards may do the job for an off the shelf option.

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/deskt...dvertised-pcs/

Ideally you would want to configure one of those and replace the vid card with an Nvidia 1080 GTX though. And increase the RAM speed to at least 3200mhz.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Preci...8AAOSwSypY~fRf
(not affiliated)

Plus the graphics card of your choice - Thinking 1060 / 1070 to game @ 1080p

Problem is you need a full system, monitor (£100 ish) windows (£100) ish so theres £200 gone already.

Gaming graphics card is gonna be £400-500
CPU £200-300

and there's your £1000 gone still needing to add MB, Ram, case, cooler, PSU, monitor, SSD, HDD etc etc

crap spec for gaming mate I'm afraid, 4gb ram isn't enough, SSD is a must nowadays etc

and knowing dell will be the cheapest ass MB with zero expandability

But for the money. . .

When cash allows, you can get a PCIE M.2 SSD at some point. A mechanical drive will not impact on FPS, just load times.

Ram is dirt cheap at the moment. Chassis goes up to 64gb

PCIE slot is 16x - I don't see why you'd need more than this?

What can you find for £500 (what the seller would accept) for a chassis?

Buying a cheap machine is false economy, you'll find the limitations of prebuilt ones a big problem. Unless you know exactly what MB is in it.

A budget rig will not play games in 4K at reasonable settings :lol1: Even a 1060 or 1070 GTX wouldn't cut the mustard for gaming at high settings with the frame rates the OP is expecting. OP do you really need to game at 4K? 1080p I expect would be ok for you.

I know £1,000 is a lot of money to spend on a luxury item in life but in PC terms it doesn't get you a lot especially when it comes to a gaming rig, the higher end decent graphics cards are £500 upwards to well over £1k, your going to need a decent case to house all this new hardware in, one that will potentially take a longer graphics card and will have good ventilation. Your going to need a good cooler whether that's an AIO, air cooling or water cooling, i doub't you'll go down the latter route. You'll want to upgrade any stock case fans which are generally rubbish and loud, again it's additional cost. A Decent mobo will cost you a fair chunk, decent speed ram, you'll need a decent processor so nothing bottlenecks. You'll need a decent PSU to power that lot, depending on what GPU you get will depend on what PSU to get. Like someone mentioned above you'll need an operating system, deffo get a quality SSD with decent storage.

If that were me and i had your budget i'd look at places like AV forums in the classifieds, you get people selling used components that are still under warranty, a lot of the time they are not very old. Obviously make sure any components are compatible with your mobo socket version etc, you'll get more for your money going down that route than buying brand new.

If going down the self build route, I've had some bargains at CeX.

Find a good processor, and build the rest of the PC around it.

I;ve got a water cooler on my CPU, H100 comes as a sealed unit so you just bolt it to the case and clip it to the MB as you would a normal air cooler.

Smaller H60

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/hydro-s...uid-cpu-cooler

OP needs something off the shelf and pre-built.

https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku...A#.WSMJAsa1suU

Bit hit & miss via CEX - but it comes with warranty and you can return it.

Why doesn't someone just offer to build it for the OP then (at a cost)? It would be "off the shelf" AND more bang-per-buck....

Sure my build fee is £500 ;)