Advice on buying a Gaming PC

Takmon

MinuteNoodles said:

Takmon said:

£500 of parts would have certainly not built a top of the range PC 5 years ago. A top of the range graphics card in 2015 would have been something like a GTX980 and that alone would have cost around £500.

Yes it would and no they didn't. I bought a Asus Strix 6GB GTX1060 from Curry's for £230 in 2016. They were reasonably priced before the Bitcoin mining craze took hold a year or so later. From a Tomshardware review in June 2016 when they were released...

"Now we’re getting a third Pascal-based board in the GeForce GTX 1060. We already know that Nvidia’s partners will have versions starting at $250."

Here is an article from June 2015 showing that the top of the range GTX980 Ti suggested retail price at the time was £549. So that was £549 just for a graphics card never mind the ram, processor, CPU etc to make up a PC. So it certainly wasn't possible for a top of the range PC in 2015 to be made for £500.

A GTX1060 in 2016 would have been a mid range card that's why it only cost £230. The top of the range was the GTX1060 which cost $599 when released in may 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series#GeForce_10_(10xx)_series

In August of 2016 the top of range card would then become the Titan X which had a release price of $1200.

NairaDoll

Hi there,
Running high-demand graphics applications and games would cost a lot more than that. Look at some of the completed builds on PC Part Picker - there are "good" PCs ranging from £1,200 to £2,300 or more... So she is targetting the higher end of the price range but without seeing her dream build it's tough to say whether she's wasting her money or she's just got very good taste in parts!

My Daughter has been a PC gamer for years and he swears he's not wasting his money and said something about this card being worth it because RTX is superior" I would be telling you that he's right and that a "super-duper" Garageband for PC can free. I'd say that it's worth buying very good parts because they can last for years.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6161870/advice-on-buying-a-gaming-pc#latest

Ceme3000

MinuteNoodles said:

Takmon said:

£500 of parts would have certainly not built a top of the range PC 5 years ago. A top of the range graphics card in 2015 would have been something like a GTX980 and that alone would have cost around £500.

Yes it would and no they didn't. I bought a Asus Strix 6GB GTX1060 from Curry's for £230 in 2016. They were reasonably priced before the Bitcoin mining craze took hold a year or so later. From a Tomshardware review in June 2016 when they were released...

"Now we’re getting a third Pascal-based board in the GeForce GTX 1060. We already know that Nvidia’s partners will have versions starting at $250."

I have to agree with Takmon. You have missed the point as Takmon is talking about top of the range.  In this case the premium (in 2015) GTX980 commanded a huge premium.

Your Curry's purchase is not an exampe of top of the range so isn't a valid comparison.  It was a year later and the GTX1060 was only low to mid range with worse benchmark performance than the GTX980 that preceeded it 12 months earlier.  In 2016 top of the range was GTX1080 which had a launch price of £480.

ValerieMeshko

In fact, if you're taking your gaming daughter's computer, she should know how to use it. Take her by the hand and go and choose together, let her buy the one she sees fit. 

ValerieMeshko

I made a mistake in the post above.

I just wanted to make it clear that your daughter herself must understand the requirements of the computer she wants. Then why doesn't she choose it herself?ValerieMeshko said:

In fact, if you're taking your gaming daughter's computer, she should know how to use it. Take her by the hand and go and choose together, let her buy the one she sees fit. 

Ergates

ValerieMeshko said:

In fact, if you're taking your gaming daughter's computer, she should know how to use it. Take her by the hand and go and choose together, let her buy the one she sees fit. 

That post was from over a year ago, I'm fairly sure that any purchasing of PCs was done long ago...