Gaming PC with monitor/keyboard and mouse for circa £700-800?

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chortle

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Any advice on a spec for a workable gaming desktop for a 12 year old? Budget £700-800 ideally and needs to be usable for homework etc and for playing todays games.

Needs monitor and keyboard and a mouse also, which stretches the build budget a little.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

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If it's not urgent, or if they can wait for a late Christmas present, you might prefer to wait until early next year when Intel are expected to release more 8th Gen CPUs, and cheaper motherboard chipsets.

At the moment, the things at the cheaper end of the scale are still the older generation of motherboards and CPUs.

You could get something like this:


Case
GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core G4560 (3.50GHz, 3MB Cache) + HD Graphics ()
Motherboard
ASUS® H110M-R: Micro-ATX, DDR4, LGA1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Keyboard & Mouse
CoolerMaster Devastator III Combo Keyboard and Mouse
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price £665.00 including VAT and delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-home-office-pc/eQ95wenRTh/

I put a decent starter keyboard and mouse combo in there, but you can probably get cheaper unbranded ones on Amazon etc.

PC Specialist's cheapest 24" 1920x1080 (aka 1080p) monitor is about £110, but you can get monitors like that for ~£80 on special offer on other websites if you shop around.

With the spec I posted above you could expect to play demanding modern games on pretty high settings. The case and PSU would support a range of upgrade options as well.

The main disadvantage is that the motherboard only supports 7th Gen CPUs, and the CPU is fairly weak. This means when you inevitably want to upgrade the graphics card, the CPU will hold the new GPU's performance back. And any CPU upgrade would either be from out of date CPUs, or require a new motherboard as well.

So if you can wait for the cheap stuff to be available from the 8th Gen CPUs and motherboards, you may prefer to do that. If you can't, a G4560 + GTX 1060 3gb is a powerful budget gaming combo.
 
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