Gaming PC Deals & Offers

Am looking forward going towards more a subscription based with this and xbox game pass. As personally it will save me money plus I believe gamers will save cash instead of trading annual games

If it on pc or ps4 u can get a usb stick and put all the badges kits and other stuff on it. I just order a usb with it all already on each year from eBay about 9quid or if u have pc do it ur self

Different year, same price for the same game with a different roster and UI. And every year people lap it up (party)

Niiiiice.

No, in fact the PC version is more advanced in terms of graphical options.

While I get where you are coming from, I would point out that on the other side, a small investment in time learning how the components work together will save a huge amount of time and money in the future. Consider this, you would be able to effectively troubleshoot your system when, and I do mean when, not if, something goes wrong down the road. Instead of sinking lots of money and losing potentially weeks sending the PC off for repairs, you would be able to fix 90% of the issues that commonly come up in a few minutes, or at least know what part needs replacing. Just something worth considering..

I think you need to buy a console then.

Thankyou OP. I'm in the market for a new desktop. I have elderly parents, a young family. I have a busy social life and I run two businesses. I have *zero* interest in building a PC. Why on earth would i want to waste half a day of my time building one. Why would i want to waste time waiting for all the separate parts to turn up. Who is going to research which parts i need? which parts are compatible with each other? What if one part is faulty? what if another part doesnt turn up? What if the vendor send the wrong item? Who goes back to the post office to send it back? What happens when theres a problem in the build? Who is going to diagnose it? What if i'm not home when courier delivers and he doesnt want to leave the package in my shed? Who takes all the empty packaging back to the recycling centre? I've noticed this theme in all the Desktop deals. The PC builders come along and say 'you can build it cheaper'. Those parts dont just magically turn up unpackaged waiting for you on a workbench so that all you have to do is plug it together in 20 mins like a piece of Lego. If you enjoy it, then great. Good for you. But there are some ridiculously patronising views in this thread. Everybody has different circumstances. I value my time. If my PC is milisecond slower than yours then more fool me. There will always be someone with a bigger and better PC. There is clearly a massive market for us who just want to order a PC. It turns up, we plug it in and it just works.

But we all started with the first time. Technology nowadays makes it even easier than it ever was, and the amount of video tutorials also helps. The fact that most jumpers are even self explanatory, and that there are some tweaks on the design to avoid any missteps makes it a great time to build your own

Whilst I agree that 'build your own' is usually the stronger and preferred option. You have to put yourself in the shoes of those who have never self built before. Yes, the plug and play nature of most modern hardware does lend itself to following a tutorial to 'mechanically' put the thing together. But getting a viable operating system on and configured has nuances between systems, and its this that most novices have apprehension about. Also don't discount the experience required when it comes to troubleshooting and diagnostics. How many times, even as very experienced builders, have we been caught out by a dodgy bios setting or jumper. This is not to put anyone off self build. Do it, its an enlightening and rewarding, if sometimes frustrating, experience and there is a ton of support out there. More a note to all those people who have built before and take for granted the attitude and confidence required to take the first step.

Ryzen 2 didn't exist when the 8700k launched. I considered a 1700x at the time, but there would have barely been any IPC improvement over the 2600k I was upgrading from. Im very happy with my machine, but yep, if I was building today I would probably go for a 2700x instead or wait for the next gen.

super fast vast storage,32 gig of ram, I suspect a ryzen 2700x would have made a better base platform,unless you really needed intel graphics adapter. I expect ryzen 3 will kick intel so badly many will wish they never bought an already dead end 8 series board.

32GB memory, 1TB and 500GB nvme drives and buying the 8700k at launch probably didn't help too much!

Not sure how you managed that, I did one for under £1900 including 8700K, 1080 Ti, Intel Optane + 10TB HDD

Get an ancient pc that still works and strip it down totally. Take a couple of photo's of the case button connections first (you may not be able to get a manual with diagrams ) Take everything out the case. Re assemble it all, re pasting the cpu and cleaning the heat sink. Watch a couple of vids on it. When you fire it up again and it works you will feel that a new one from scratch will likely just give you a few head scratches about setting up discs and windows/whatever, but you will find out its not rocket science and unlikely you will actually BREAK anything. Even the power cables dont go in the wrong holes,generally. Trouble shooting a new build that wont start is a logical process to find a bad component and its rare, Personally I would use an asus or asrock mainboard(as a first timer), but again, it fairly rare to have non working equipment delivered, just avoid brand new platforms. (Like intel '9' series for e.g. ) until they have been shipping a few months. Alternatively, you could buy a used Haswell box (4 series intel) for about £130 and soup it up with used parts, this will cost much les and you start with a working example. This is a good way to learn and how many people get into it. And now is not the time to buy a new g.card unless you absolutely have nothing. You will probably kick yourself later.

Ya welcome Dude. SOD Dell and the horse they rode in on, I would never buy anything from them and this sort of behavior is why. Enjoy!

It is the alienware R3 i7 desktop but cannot be upgraded to windows 10 without errors, Dell have refused to help by updating the required drivers. Very happy with new build and thanks for the pointers.

alienware R3 covers a lot of models, lets just guess its 4 years old plus and has an i5 in it, some were low power cpu only boards, these were really bad value. Wherein a haswell i7 games like a champion; no probs in new AAA titles at all, deffo not worth building a new un for gaming .(digression) But,you want a really fast rig for other tasks and gaming as a sidenote so this setup is champion. The graphics card will game ultra settings, 1080p 60 hz pretty much any game, its the bottleneck for gaming performance. (you have to go up to a gtx 1080 on 1080p settings to stress that cpu) Overclocking the 2600X is barely worth the bother(the boost at stock settings is slightly more useful than locking all the cores at 4.1 for e.g. what with heat, noise and voltage etc), check out you tube videos about tweaking memory/memory sub timings, this may help minimum frame rates in the worst games (dips,if any are noticeable) It will help pro tasks 'a bit'.. You may find setting the ram up with LPX 3200 timings and increasing the voltage a fraction would be a good place to start,as ryzen chips seem to prefer frequency to lower cas latencies,at least with 'ordinary' DDR4 ram. (That sort of price). You will however be pretty happy with the rig running all at stock,so not being an expert on ryzen gear and ram I will leave research to you who have spent. Good luck!

Thanks Jo I got the memory at the lower price. £151 Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Dual - 6GB Graphics Card £239.99 It's mostly built now and just waiting on a NVMe SSD which is arriving today. Getting excited, can't wait to start the thing up. It's replacing an alienware R3 desktop Cheers

Ram price changes daily, today I would buy the patriot viper 4 2x8 gb 3200 mhtz cas 16 http://www.morecomputers.com/p/?pid=PV416G320C6K>>Patriot&referer=PCPart This stuff tweaks o.k. with ryzen chips.The corsair 3000 gear has gone up to £175, so just be aware ram price varies a lot while performance not so much in a price range. Corsair is a big brand but they are not ram experts. Also that gpu price was deceptive, get which ever 1060 6gb dual fan is cheapest on the day, those cards sip power so they should all run pretty quiet.

Budget Gaming PC, at best.

Mine booted first time fine, albeit a bit slowly. I've now moved Windows 10 onto a Kingston 120gb SSD & its much faster.

Has anybody else received one of these and found it to be a bit of a dud? First boot seemed to get stuck on a "Just a moment..." screen for the best part of 20-30 minutes (before we gave up); having given it longer to sort itself out due to it being the first boot. Powered it down, and on the second try it went past the screen above, and seemed to be trying to load the desktop, but instead it was a flickering black and white outline of the windows toolbar and icons along the bottom, with a constantly spinning cursor icon, and not much else happening. This has been powered down and rebooted a few times since with the same outcome, and each time left for differing lengths of time, but with no alteration to the status quo. Suffice to say, not too impressed. Obviously going to get in touch with them about it, but does anybody have a clue what the issue sounds like it could be in the meantime?

can this processor by swapped with i5-8400 coffee lake using same motherboard and everything? If not what would be other suitable option? Also since many gaming pros are here, what would be the cheapest way to build a gaming rig myself using i5 processor and a cheap motherboard which can do everything along with 1060 graphic card. Thanks

The processor is weak compared to an i5, but compared to the ancient AMD Mobile trash in the PS4 Pro it may as well be an i7.

What did they say about it they still haven't changed it you should ask them to give you a mouse and keyboard like they have stated in the description pretty sure they'll be lawfully obliged as it's stated in the product description.

Hi I purchased this and it says it is 256GB (M2) so it is an M2 drive. There are a couple of other things wrong in the John Lewis description. 1st error is it does have an optical 24xDVD-rw drive 2nd error is it doesn't come with any keyboard or mouse. I have double checked they have given the correct item. I'd rather have the drive than the wired mouse/keyboard so will point the errors out to JL but won't complain

Can anyone recommend me a budget monitor to go with this since I’m broke now lol

eBay bid bro brand new aswell

Where did you get it from that costs over 1.1k normally

Thanks for posting this. Was so close to buying this the other week after trying it on in a shop at £129.99 and found it comfortable out of all the headsets I tried [glasses wearer]. Glad I held out for this price - hot!

Damn that looks awful :|

128mb of ram? Now we are talking!

Those LED’s are a crime against my eyes

Good of you're building a PC for your kids, they'll love it.

Would have to pay me to use this in a build

I just spent ages posting the same deal only to find this one. Can't find anything similar at this price. In fact I'm buying one. Oh wait, 15 quid to deliver to northern ireland.... I'm out! (highfive)

The one novatech is selling has the part number RS650-AFBAG1-UK, which is http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/enthusiast-v-series/v650/ definitely the fully modular one

Are you sure? I can only find the modular one on Amazon for £109.99

Hate to admit it, but your right! (highfive)

No it's the same one, both are v650

This is exactly the same 'Rumor' that was spread when the 10xx line came out. It was complete fiction, even in a time when AMD had nothing to offer to compete. The 1060 beat the 970. The 1070 beat the 980. And the 1080 beat the 980ti. The launch prices were: $249, $399, and $549. I'd expect similar launch prices, with the potential exception being the 1180, which might be pushed to $599. I'd also think calling a 1070 a 'mid range' card is not fair either. It's definitely a high end card. Anyway, I agree with your other point -- Don't buy the 10xx series at launch price this late in the life cycle. You will regret it. Also, basically any AMD card right now is so far over priced and not worth the sticker price for gaming. The advice on both fronts is -- Don't buy a GPU right now. If you are forced to buy a GPU and can't get a reasonable used one to tide you over, then I guess you are out of luck.

Lots of games yes, but not new games that are released after 780Ti became EOL. EOL cards are good if people play mainly backlogs of games they never got round to play, but for gamers that always hop-on the latest releases, they ain't such a good idea due to the lacking of driver performance optimisation for the new games.

Tempted, if it hits <£400 im biting.

Class!! :{

They do spin when playing playing normal modern demanding games at Full HD resolutions and over. They start spinning when the GPU reaches 60c. This Armor fan cooler is fine for the 1060, 1070 and 1080, but is absolutely dreadful on the 1080Ti, because the 1080Ti produces too much heat for this cooler. https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2927-msi-1080ti-armor-review-high-temps?showall=1 I have the 1070 Armor which runs cool enough. (about 70c at full gaming stress, under 70c on old games/fps capped games). Recently I had a spare Corsair H90 water cooling AIO and Kraken G10 laying around so installed that. (which is extremely easy to install on the 1070, 1080 and 1080Ti Armor, plus MSI have a heatsink brace already installed covering all the vrms). Now I get a 20c-25c drop under load which is cool. You don't really need to do this on the 1080 Armor though cause the normal fans run quiet at load. Was just bored really and had the spare parts doing nothing 8)