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By *eeps and Tatties OP Couple
over a year ago

Leicester

Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bumping for the daytime crowd.

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By *arieJ2021Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

Really depends what your after, what games are you wanting to play? is a screen included in that price, do you want vr etc?

Graphics cards and ram are at all time high at the moment so £900 wont go as far as it did last year

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By *arbarianzCouple
over a year ago

BARNSTAPLE

Ooh finally a thread for me!

I'll reply after lunch with a build list. But! It's a horrible time to buy or upgrade. Would advise waiting a couple of months as the next nvidia announcement will bring card prices down a bit

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

"Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900 "

Pc Gamer will have couple of reviews to look at but I would push too 1k make some difference or try ebay for return with lite damage..

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By *etwifeandhim69Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

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By *etwifeandhim69Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

"Really depends what your after, what games are you wanting to play? is a screen included in that price, do you want vr etc?

Graphics cards and ram are at all time high at the moment so £900 wont go as far as it did last year"

Good god woman!

You can only make me so hard!

Seriously though, as an avid PC and VR gamer (I like things other than swinging), I do love when a woman knows her GPU from her CPU. Probably because my better half is a complete technophobe unless it vibrates.

Yeah it absolutely is a terrible time to buy a PC or upgrade due to market conditions and availability . £900 will not go far at all.

That said, it looks like the market is slowly going back down as demand is dropping but it still could be a year or two before everything is reasonably priced.

I'm all for people building their own PCs but at the moment, off the shelfs seem to be the best value.

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By *arieJ2021Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Really depends what your after, what games are you wanting to play? is a screen included in that price, do you want vr etc?

Graphics cards and ram are at all time high at the moment so £900 wont go as far as it did last year

Good god woman!

You can only make me so hard!

Yeah it absolutely is a terrible time to buy a PC or upgrade due to market conditions and availability . £900 will not go far at all.

That said, it looks like the market is slowly going back down as demand is dropping but it still could be a year or two before everything is reasonably priced.

I'm all for people building their own PCs but at the moment, off the shelfs seem to be the best value.

Hubbys a nerd so taught me

Currently got i7 6800, nvidia 1070, 32gb ram, 1tb m.2 and 4tb hdd

hubbys is i7 6700, nvidia 1070, 64gb ram, 500gb ram, 500gb ssd and 10tb hdd

both cost around the £2000-2500 about 4 years ago

got an original htc vive and psvr, dont get me started on the consoles

back to op

if your after an all singing dancing games machine its worth paying a bit more for it, get something that will last around 7-8 years maybe more, then again if its for fortnite you can get probably get away with £500

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

My graphics card alone cost £930 (RTX3080), but that is pretty much the highest spec one you can currently get. It depends what kind of games you want to play and if you want to be able to run the latest games or are happy with the extensive back catalogue of very good games that will play fine on lower spec systems. Have a look on Novatech at some of their budget builds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ooh finally a thread for me!

I'll reply after lunch with a build list. But! It's a horrible time to buy or upgrade. Would advise waiting a couple of months as the next nvidia announcement will bring card prices down a bit

Hahah no they wont. Seeing as Nvidea up the price brackets of SKU's in the first place due to lack of competition from AMD. You can see this by comparing the £/FPS from the 700 series and forward.

TSMC (Who make Nvidea chips, Nvidea doesnt make anything itself) are in the shit as it is. You will not be seeing prices normalise until 2023. Then like Covid the "New Normal" will be the prices we have now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pm me if you need some hellp

There is some info that is needed

What resolution is the monitor you wanted to use?

What is the use of the PC? As in gaming, basic photoshop/video editing? If its for gaming what games do you intend to play? Football Manager for example compared to something inherently more demanding like triple A game like Cyberpunk

Unfortuntly atm the GPU market is fubar. But if you only plan on playing light games at 1080 an AMD APU maybe be a good option to keep the budget low (APU is a GPU and CPU combined) so wouldnt need a GPU. AMD will releasing new 5000 series APU's soon afaik

A good Youtube channel to take a look at would be GamersNexus, Adored Tv, LinusTechTips and hardware unboxed

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By *anPsurreycoupleCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

"Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900 "
build one instead your get more for your money thank buying one of the shelf

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By *etwifeandhim69Couple
over a year ago

Darlington

"Really depends what your after, what games are you wanting to play? is a screen included in that price, do you want vr etc?

Graphics cards and ram are at all time high at the moment so £900 wont go as far as it did last year

Good god woman!

You can only make me so hard!

Yeah it absolutely is a terrible time to buy a PC or upgrade due to market conditions and availability . £900 will not go far at all.

That said, it looks like the market is slowly going back down as demand is dropping but it still could be a year or two before everything is reasonably priced.

I'm all for people building their own PCs but at the moment, off the shelfs seem to be the best value.

Hubbys a nerd so taught me

Currently got i7 6800, nvidia 1070, 32gb ram, 1tb m.2 and 4tb hdd

hubbys is i7 6700, nvidia 1070, 64gb ram, 500gb ram, 500gb ssd and 10tb hdd

both cost around the £2000-2500 about 4 years ago

got an original htc vive and psvr, dont get me started on the consoles

back to op

Haha.

I7-6700k, 2080 ti, Vive and Index, all the consoles going back years etc etc. As hobbies go, I go big with it lol. Yeah...we like our gaming in this house.

And yes, as for OP, either buy 2nd hand or look somewhere like the companies Overclockers or Scan if you're buying off the shelf. They beat high street suppliers hands down.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900 build one instead your get more for your money thank buying one of the shelf"

Normally I'd agree, but currently that's not as cut and dry as it once was. Some premades are better value due to not only the price but also availability of graphics cards. It can (for once) work out in your favour to buy a premade.

A friend of mine was struggling to get (and refused to pay the prices for a single item) a newer graphics card. Ended up getting a fairly well Spec'd rig for not all that much more than it would have cost for the same graphics card alone.

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By *J StathamMan
over a year ago

Manchester

900 wont get you what you'd hope or want

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep its crazy

The fact i can sell my Vega 56 for a profit on Ebay atm is stupid. Not that i could afford to then play the inflated prices to replace it in the first place

Issue with some OEM prebuilts like DELL is that they us proprietary parts and are a pain to upgrade. They have one PC for sale with i think a 1060 that is just an Nvidea chip on a shit board with VRAM running at 110c. Dogshit.

Dawid Does Tech Stuff bought a Dell and the cooler that came with it didnt even cool the CPU properly and would throttle. Dells Tech support told him to disable boost in BIOS...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not atm really as GPU prices are stupid atm for AIB's

The only people that are selling GPU's anywhere near MSRP atm are companies selling prebuilts

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By *entlemanDMan
over a year ago

Fareham

Right now is probably the worst time to try and buy a gaming PC.

In December I was able to build one for a friend's son for xmas for £600, today the same build is £881

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You might want to take a look at PC Specialists. They make gaming PCs. Bought one for my daughter who needed a machine with lots of grunt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just been pricing up a motherboard and rayzen series 9 cpu and that's 900 quid just for the 2

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

The graphics card I replaced with my RTX3080 is a GTX1080 which five years ago was a beast. With the current GPU world shortage I've seen that those are still selling second hand for silly money! If I could be bothered I could probably get £300 - £400 on ebay but I'm just going to gift it to a mate who is building one. It's still a very capable card for all but the newest games.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The graphics card I replaced with my RTX3080 is a GTX1080 which five years ago was a beast. With the current GPU world shortage I've seen that those are still selling second hand for silly money! If I could be bothered I could probably get £300 - £400 on ebay but I'm just going to gift it to a mate who is building one. It's still a very capable card for all but the newest games."

I managed to get a build with a 1080 which for what I’m playing atm(warzone) it’s plenty good enough but I will be upgrading again in 2 years or so

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not atm really as GPU prices are stupid atm for AIB's

The only people that are selling GPU's anywhere near MSRP atm are companies selling prebuilts"

And even then miners are snapping the prebuilts up and switching the cards and Chuck them back up on the second hand market to recover some off the cost

It’s crazy out there at the moment

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

o/p wait until new year. As been mentioned it's graphic cards which are the problem. Even the "low end" ones are vastly overprices at the mo. You could always get a decent pc and spend most of your money on the cpu/motherboard to future proof where possible. Then add a something like a (gpu) 1050ti, 1060 or rx 480 for now and upgrade later if you must have a pc now. That does depend on what your usage will be. If gaming and you get one of those cards, you will need to lower the settings somewhat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900 "

It's all about the graphics card but decent pcs for gaming are 1000s so younjust gotta shop around on ya budget

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By *arbarianzCouple
over a year ago

BARNSTAPLE

Apologies, time got away from me yesterday.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/kQscCJ/entry-level-amd-gaming-build

This would do, has a 1650 in it, there is a lot of good bits still out there, you may even want to look at prebuilts as their pricing models are fairly static. so you can often get a nicer card in a cheaper prebuild.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/8tFfrH/modest-intel-gaming-build

Intel version there!

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By *arbarianzCouple
over a year ago

BARNSTAPLE

"o/p wait until new year. As been mentioned it's graphic cards which are the problem. Even the "low end" ones are vastly overprices at the mo. You could always get a decent pc and spend most of your money on the cpu/motherboard to future proof where possible. Then add a something like a (gpu) 1050ti, 1060 or rx 480 for now and upgrade later if you must have a pc now. That does depend on what your usage will be. If gaming and you get one of those cards, you will need to lower the settings somewhat. "

For anybody who is desperate please, say it with me! PRE BUILT. see above, with their semi fixed price structure, you can basically just pay £800 for a card.. and get the rest free! xD

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By *arbarianzCouple
over a year ago

BARNSTAPLE

Hahah no they wont. Seeing as Nvidea up the price brackets of SKU's in the first place due to lack of competition from AMD. You can see this by comparing the £/FPS from the 700 series and forward.

I will put money on it if you want pal! :D the toolkits out already to devs have shown hints.. seen the sdks myself!

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By *eeps and Tatties OP Couple
over a year ago

Leicester

Cheers all your info has been invaluable looking at buying the admi i5 9400f 4.1 ghz six core with a rtx 2060 6gb x x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cheers all your info has been invaluable looking at buying the admi i5 9400f 4.1 ghz six core with a rtx 2060 6gb x x"

I have no idea what this means but I love a happy ending.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cheers all your info has been invaluable looking at buying the admi i5 9400f 4.1 ghz six core with a rtx 2060 6gb x x"

Awesome!! Glad you got something!

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By *avey daveMan
over a year ago

Rochdale

"Right peeps need some advice looking at buying a gaming pc but don't know what to go for so need some ideas please ?? budget about 900 "
best be is to buy a half decent bog standard gaming pc for around 300 and upgrade peice by peice if your lucky enough you might find a pc guy who will do you part ex on the parts

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By *arbarianzCouple
over a year ago

BARNSTAPLE

Glad you got sorted.

If anyone else is reading this, expect around... 18 months of pain for current gen! It is basically a perfect storm that has been building for YEARS.

Customers in the electronics industry did not want large quantities of stock kept on hand in terms of components it creates hassle and management issues with MSL then EV and high tech cars started to appear.. IoT is starting to explode with everything being sensor based.. and then Covid. which created MASSIVE demand for home electronics like laptops, webcams etc.. ALL whilst factories across the globe were working split/short shifts!

All in all, there are certain IC's out there worth more than heroin at the moment!!!

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

On a 900£ budget you could get a laptop with a 1660ti, mid range I7 or Ryzen 7 and 16gb of Ram.

It'll enable you to run most everything but with low to medium settings if want acceptable frame rates.

I'm on the market for one but am aiming for top tier. Hard to find anything with the constant component shortages

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

Think about what games you like, what frame rate you're after and what resolution you want to play in.

Then, YouTube search the games in question. Many people will test them with various graphics cards and resolutions and you will know what kind of thing you're aiming for (or aim slightly higher, of course).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kinda the wrong time to buy now with the price of graphics cards going through the roof

Maybe hold off for a few more weeks and I'm sure they will drop in price alittle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"On a 900£ budget you could get a laptop with a 1660ti, mid range I7 or Ryzen 7 and 16gb of Ram.

It'll enable you to run most everything but with low to medium settings if want acceptable frame rates.

I'm on the market for one but am aiming for top tier. Hard to find anything with the constant component shortages

Anyone that wastes money on a laptop for gaming needs their head examined

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wait for a system pre-built.

I've just had to upgrade all my PC's for a new race sim thats in development as I'm hosting all the development races online and just the graphic cards alone cost 1500 each.

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