Posted 20 January 2024

Gaming PC Recommendations?

Have a budget of £700 (willing to bring this to 750-800)

PC will be used for gaming (VR and some high performance games) but also for work where I occasionally need to run some high performance tasks (max 3 times a week for 30mins at a time)

I’m happy with building it myself. Don’t have any experience but willing to give it a go.

Doesn’t need to include a mouse/keyboard/display.

Let me know please if you have any questions
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  1. Charger1969's avatar
    It can be done I did it.
    Z690 MSI MAG Tomohawk DDR5 £190
    12600k all core boost 4.9 £190
    32G DDR5 5600 Corsair Veng £90
    Thermalright PS120SE ARGB £30
    RM750 refurb £80
    MSI MAG 100M case comes with 3 fans £45
    1TB NVME Corsair £60
    2nd Hand 2080ti MSI Trio £200
    Total £885 so slightly over budget

    Runs MW3 at solid 160 1080p with DLSS on Quality and mix of high and med settings, I have a 165Hz monitor so cap frame rate at 160, on MW3 benchmark CPU hit 270fps and GPU around 160, tried it also on 1440p and was around 120fps
  2. aLV426's avatar
    It depends on your definition of high performance as that budegt will not stretch to what others might call high performance.
    For VR you don't need 4K output - therefore it wouldn't be considered "high performance".
    The best thing to do is check the recommend spec of the games you want to play and then purchase the hardware accordingly. For example the new game Robocop has a recommended GPU listed as a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB which is a £520 card...
  3. Mark_Hickman's avatar
    Your budget is quite low really, as mentioned above what games are you playing and what resolution are you hoping for ?
    If by high performance you mean new AAA titles you might have to play 1080p-2k to get reasonable frames per second (edited)
  4. hashimmoe's avatar
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    thanks for your responses.

    The games I’ll be playing would likely be:
    MW3, GTA 5, FM24, CS2, Cyberpunk, RDR2. These would be modded heavily too. I’d like to try Baldurs Gate and potentially GTA 6 when it comes out but it’s impossible to know what is required for it now.

    I wouldn’t want anything over 1440 tbh so I feel like this budget seems justified with what I want. I’m happy to spend more but it would have to be something I won’t have to upgrade for a very long time.
    aLV426's avatar
    Well let's look at the latest release (Counter Strike 2) and it's recommended specs:

    • Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit.
    • Processor: Intel Core i7 9700k or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. (~£250)
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM. (~£30)
    • Graphics: RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 5700 XT. (~£100 second hand if you can find stock)
    • MW3 lists a RTX 3060 as the recommended (~£300)
    • DirectX: Version 11.
    • Storage: 60 GB of available Hard Disk space.

    As you can see you may struggle to come in under budget if buying new, second hand you should be able to build a good enough machine to meet the recommended specs. Note that MW3 have a competative recommendation which would far exceed your £800 budget.
  5. Mark_Hickman's avatar
    Some of those games are pretty cpu dependant, also as mentioned above you need a decent gpu for some.
    I just put together a list on pcpartpicker for ryzen 5 7600x, rtx 3060ti, liquid cpu cooler, B650 wifi motherboard, 32gb Corsair vengeance ram, 1tb sabbrent rocket nvme ssd, coolermaster gold 850 psu, Corsair 400D airflow case.
    Total £1070
    Id be looking for something around those specs, the 3060ti had quite a big performance boost over the 3060 and doesn't costuch more, and something like 7600x or should keep you good for a few years.
    I think you could lower a £1070 to 900ish using ebay for parts and take your time

    Here just saw this deal, order this then start collecting bit by bit separately you'll soon have a decent build for close to your budget
    hotukdeals.com/share-deal-from-app/4283652 (edited)
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