I used PC Specialist for 2 PCs over the years. They're good. Now, I have a local high street company called Computer Cabin who can advise and put together a system that suits my needs.
Gaming PC advice?
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The main requirements for speed, for me, is a high end processor, the largest SSD (Solid state drive) you can get within your budget and a mid-top end graphics card. Obviously, the monitor is important too and needs a high refresh rate (144Hz) if he's going to play for prolonged periods without eye-strain. A quiet cooling systems would be an advantage.
Most PCs come with the usual sockets for USB, network etc...
Again, if you can find a good local company with recommends from customers, that would be good, but remember, if it looks like a fantastic deal it probably isn't, in the long term.
Good luck.
thanos999
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i recently built a new pc for myself in november but it cost about £2500 my most expensive pc build ever never bought an off the shelf pc in the last 20 years always built my own .
i would start buy buying a a good quality motherboard around the £200 price point you dont need the top off the line motherboard neither do you want bottom off the line motherboard.
you need a mid range cpu costing around £200 the most expensiv part will be the gpu and coincedently nvidea are releasing a new series off gpu today and i believe scan are doing a special launch event anyway back to your build you could go with a cheap gpu for now like a 4060 or amd radeon 7600 for about £300 and upgrade the gpu if need be in 6 mounths.
one think i forgot get the best powersupply you can afford in fact that is the only thing i wouldnt cheap out on most reputable manufactorers have a 10 or 12 year garantee on there power supplys i would also suggest getting a 1000 watt power supply or hihger as opessed to the recomended power supply that should cost about £100 to £150 reason is for upgrades in the future.
get 32gigs off ram for about £100 and finaly a ssd for about £50 to £200.
i would start buy buying a a good quality motherboard around the £200 price point you dont need the top off the line motherboard neither do you want bottom off the line motherboard.
you need a mid range cpu costing around £200 the most expensiv part will be the gpu and coincedently nvidea are releasing a new series off gpu today and i believe scan are doing a special launch event anyway back to your build you could go with a cheap gpu for now like a 4060 or amd radeon 7600 for about £300 and upgrade the gpu if need be in 6 mounths.
one think i forgot get the best powersupply you can afford in fact that is the only thing i wouldnt cheap out on most reputable manufactorers have a 10 or 12 year garantee on there power supplys i would also suggest getting a 1000 watt power supply or hihger as opessed to the recomended power supply that should cost about £100 to £150 reason is for upgrades in the future.
get 32gigs off ram for about £100 and finaly a ssd for about £50 to £200.
Agent_zed
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Just for clarity for the OP, there are 2 different types of SSD's. The older type is just a direct replacement for HDD's and plug in using SATA connections. The more modern version is NVME and these plug directly into the motherboard a bit like RAM.
NVME is faster than SATA so you'll want to go this route for gaming. I'd imagine all higher spec motherboards will have NVME connections these days.
When I built mine NVME was expensive so I opted for a smaller NVME to run the OS and then have Sata SSDs to store the games as they can be 10's of GBs. Others can advise as this may not be the best way of doing it. I don't play many modern games but things like Tomb raider - shadow of the tomb raider (2018) run fine, and also happen to be dirt cheap in the steam sales.
Indeed. This is why it's good to seek advice and then do some research before putting down the money. Google is your friend, as they say. A local, trustworthy PC shop is even better, as long as there's no conflict between what you researched and what the shop is saying.
That is how I have my Pc, the SSD for the OS and programs with all work files on a WD Sata drive. I think SSD's are much improved now with higher read write cycles but not good for long term data storage unless things have changed.
ey_tony
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In 2019 I built this computer and I installed two regular 1tb + 500gb HDDs and two SSDs (WD Blue 500gb and 250) ... the smaller of the SSDs still runs the operating system today and the important games files are located in the 500Gb SSD and both SSDs have worked flawlessly since installation and this computer really does get some hammer.
The regular HDDs house the majority of my games and other non-game files. The 500Gb HDD also housed my now redundant Windows 7 operating system as I was running both Win 7 as well as Win 10 for a while.
The only issue now is that the 500gb SSD is just about full so I will add an NVMe drive and transfer the contents of my 500Gb SSD drive to the NVME.
The computer is old by today's standards so I was considering building another but it's still pretty fast and boots from switch on in around 10-12 seconds plus it runs the games I play with the graphics maxed out so I'll probably get another year from it by installing an NVMe drive and wait until todays higher spec components (processor, mobo and DDR 5 RAM) drop in price and then build another as that is how I built this computer.
