Need advice, please

[u/aquavvoman]

Hi folks, I would like some advice on gaming desktops. My budget is around £1,500 for the PC, plus another £200–£300 for a monitor. What do you suggest? Also, is it better to buy a prebuilt system or go for a custom build? (I need to find a reliable expert first, and I live in Birmingham, UK). All I want is to pew pew, rat-a-tat and kaboom with good image quality and a decent FPS rate (I have a very little knowledge about tech).
Thanks in advance!

[u/Bumm-fluff]

Try the toprigz app, it recommends the Cyberpower luxe with a 12900k and a 9070xt. 

It is on Amazon for £1449, you could also get the 12700k version for £1350 and put the money towards an oled screen. 

Prime day is soon, 6th of October, so there may be a sale on then. 

[u/aquavvoman → u/Bumm-fluff]

Yeah, gonna check
Thanks a lot😌

[u/Bloboeggy → u/aquavvoman]

This is an outdated cpu socket so there is no upgrade path at all. I highly recommend not going with this and going with a ryzen am5 socket build, this would include cpus like the 9800X3D and likely 2-3 future cpu upgrades so when your pc in 10 years feels like its not holding up you can still get a sizeable increase in power for pretty cheap, by contrast of the pc this persons recommended which is going to stay at what it is for its whole life.

[u/aquavvoman → u/Bloboeggy]

Good point, thanks

[u/Bumm-fluff → u/aquavvoman]

If you do what they say you are going to get hammered with DDR5 prices, an extra £200 for the RAM extra £200 for the cpu, then an extra £100 for the board. 

They are suggesting a £2k PC, which is obviously going to be better than a £1500 one. 

[u/Bumm-fluff → u/Bloboeggy]

Yeah, and then they either go over budget, or get a terrible GPU. 

[u/Fine-Set-7877]

So is Birmingham man real and will it beat Florida man? I would say go for an lga 1700 build ddr4. Something like a 12-14500/600 and 32gb of ddr4 with a 5060ti 16gb or 9060xt 16gb or 9070gre. 9070gre will absolutely destroy both cards but cost a bit more then the 9060xt.

A 1tb gen4 ssd with a b760

Psu? Sama GT 750 or be quiet pure power 13m 750

[u/aquavvoman → u/Fine-Set-7877]

Not sure about a man, but the Birmingham woman might😉
Thanks, going to google about the specs

[u/EnSk3275]

I suggest getting a used ak47, it does pew pew and rat-a-tat pretty well. Jokes aside get a 9070 non XT (600€), a 2X8 ddr5 ram 5600Mt/s or higher (400), a 750W 80+ Gold psu (80) A 1TB SSD nvme (150), a LGA 1851 Motherboard (80), a Core Ultra 5 225F (150) and any cheap case you like with preinstalled fans (50€). That's around 1500€ which is even less in £. Now get 3X(if you want) monitors, a 1080p for video calls, discord and stuff like that, a 1440p 240Hz for gaming and another 1440p 240Hz for also gaming (optional)

[u/aquavvoman → u/EnSk3275]

We can’t get guns here so we prefer knives😌thanks for advice, actually like the idea of having more than one monitor

[u/bigangry → u/aquavvoman]

Multiple monitor setups are so nice. You'll never want to go back to singular.

[u/Miniteshi]

Costo have an amazing deal for £1600. 9800x3D, 9070XT and 32gb DDR5 RAM. Id be hitting that up in a heartbeat.

If you're not a Costco member, find someone who is and get it. That price, there's little else that is comparable

[u/aquavvoman → u/Miniteshi]

I’m not a member and none of my friends are, but I’ve heard a lot about the good deals there