Best Gaming PC for £1000 ?

Marty_J

I know it's not what you asked, and I know I'm going to get some flack from PC-gamers, but for £1,000 you could get an XBox 360, a Playstation 3, a 32 inch HDTV to play them on, and still have £200 left over to buy games with.

gdh82

Thanks again for the positive and encouraging posts. Must admit that the more I think about this, the more I feel like going for it and building our own! :cool: Been abit of an ambition of mine for some time and my son now sounds keen too so we might just do it! Have to admit that I'm slightly bricking it at the same time! hehe

Anyway, is it right you can buy pc-kits to help ensure you get the right motherboard/cpu/psu combination ? That could help us along our way. And is it right that half the battle is ensuring compatibility between all the components ?

Otherwise, I guess our shopping list is essentially...

Case
Motherboard
CPU/Heatsink
RAM
HDD
Graphics Card
Sound Card

Any recommended outlets for buying good quality parts ? Thanks (yet) again.

piggeh

ebuyer.com has always served me well - had to RMA my drive the other day as suspected it was faulty, and was pretty hassle free.

hexus.net and tomshardware.com are quite useful for reviews and reference- hexus community is quite knowledgeable on PC components.

With regards to compatability, you just need to look out for which speeds of ram your motherboard takes, whether its the right socket for the cpu, pretty easy to gather from technical info. But I would check some reviews for the motherboard to see how it performs.

TBH if I were buying a stock PC, or building one, it's best to read reviews on the parts used to know their shortfalls.

aj2703

I wouldn't go with the CCL one. The overclockers one if you are going to buy a pre built one would be my choice from the two. However i would agree with the others, build your own. I would go i7 myself. Take a look at the overclockers bundle deals and then break that up and try to source the parts from other dealers. Overclockers can be expensive for some parts and also good value(but it dosen't hurt to spend a little time trying to find stuff cheaper). One thing i definately would not go for is Vista 32 or 64 bit. It does use up system resources. My advice would be to get a something cheap like xp home and when windows 7 comes out get that. Early reports from most of the people whom have downloaded the beta release are very good and it looks to me that is it going to be a far better OS the vista will ever have been. As ever the choice is yours. Don't be scared to build it yourself there really is nothing to it. As has been said if you have any trouble just post in here and i'm sure we'll be able to help you out.

exup

Haynes also do a PC manual which can take you through build basics -
as for the xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii route - you can be tied to what these consoles have - you cannot really upgrade them compared to a PC (especially the xbox) and they can be unreliable.

Percy1983

Marty_J wrote: »

I know it's not what you asked, and I know I'm going to get some flack from PC-gamers, but for £1,000 you could get an XBox 360, a Playstation 3, a 32 inch HDTV to play them on, and still have £200 left over to buy games with.

Skip the PS3 and have £500 left...

Back to the PC, I really would recommend against spending £1000 on a PC, you get a point where you say pay 80% more for parts that run 10% faster.

Do you need a full setup? (monitor, keyboard, speakers etc) if so would you want surround (5.1 or 7.1) and what size monitor would you use or would you want to use an LCD TV?

Its all about getting balance with a PC, if you answer the above I will happily spec something for you.

GDawg_3

Hi all, I've found this awesome monitor which I bought recently and that I want to recommend...

Dell SP2309w 23" Monitor 2048x1152 80000:1 300cd/m2 2ms Built in webcam 16:9 VGA/DVI/HDMI Black

I bought it on ebuyer.com for £218 delivered.

23" widescreen and it runs at a resolution higher than FULL HD. If anybody wants a decent PC, then this is by far one of the best buys for the screen:j!