1st gaming desktop for 8 year old ?

[victormcneely]

My 8 year old son wants a desktop to learn how to get better at programming games and playing them. I don't want to waste money and don't know much myself budget of about £350 any advice on buying 2nd hand, or refurbished gamers desktop?

 

[Lutfij]

What do you want included in that budget? Monitor, speakers? If so then you're best going for a used prebuilt. Then again, your son being 8 years of age, shouldn't be worried if he was working off of the iGPU or an APU. Would you happen to have an idea as to the sort of games you want your son to play?

 

[ArchitSahu]

What does he intend to play? Fortnite? Games like that?

Here:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£86.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£63.21 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£67.08 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£31.79 @ Aria PC)
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case (£20.39 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £316.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-06 13:38 GMT+0000

The iGPU should be good enough for less demanding games at med to low at 1080p.

 

[victormcneely]

Yes games like fortnite is correct. And just the desktop is fine for that budget thanks for your help do you know best place to buy or where to look. Also he is interested in learning how to programme things into games like Minecraft I'm sure you know more than me on his limitations with this but just so he may be capable of this on the desktop

 

[ArchitSahu]

Yes games like fortnite is correct. And just the desktop is fine for that budget thanks for your help do you know best place to buy or where to look. Also he is interested in learning how to programme things into games like Minecraft I'm sure you know more than me on his limitations with this but just so he may be capable of this on the desktop

Minecraft will be easily run on this PC.

In the list I have provided, next to the price it is written where you can get the parts. Then you can follow guides on how to build a PC or find a local shop who will do it for you for a fee.

How to build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhX0fOUYd8Q

What to do after:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpqkiaO7q4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xURz-SSQUVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfwjISmkEJM

 

[victormcneely]

Thank you this is great help I get the idea that to get best for money is to buy necessary parts separate then build yourself or pay someone to build as with buying pre builds it's hard to trust what your getting. Thanks