[SOLVED] Best gaming pc for £500? P

[ronanwhite2011]

Hi my girlfriends brother is looking for a gaming pc that will be used to play games such as fortnite and apex legends etc.. and I offered to help him as he had no clue into gaming PCs. He also wants to use it for school work and stuff like that

Would there be any prebuilt, pretty powerful systems that live up to high quality gaming for around £500-£600 within the UK?

I would prefer to get him a prebuilt system as he is a bit unsure of me building it for him but if not and there can be a powerful performance for money difference between a prebuilt and buying parts then I would be able to build one. So would prefer a prebuilt customer pc but also can build one if there is a much better system that can be bought for this price range

 

[maxamillionfeettall]

"High Quality Gaming" doesn't really exist around the 500-600 price bracket regardless of pre-built or not. The best I can see for pre-built would be this , or this . If you can build it for cheaper, by all means, do so.

 

[Vic 40]

Problem with those pre builds is often quality of psu and motherboard,also low speed generic ram. When building yourself could you get something like this,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor (£84.25 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.76 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£53.44 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£55.97 @ BT Shop)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 570 4 GB Gaming 4G Video Card (£137.94 @ AWD-IT)
Case: RIOTORO - CR488 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.21 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£83.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £587.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-04 07:25 GMT+0000

Saw this as well,
ARIA EXPRESS - INTEL i7 GAMING PC w/ Windows 10 - Aria PC
thing is i don't know what i7 and what motehrboard/psu are used,nice to have 16gb of ram,but hdd instead of ssd.The gpu is also not as food as in the AMD build above.

 

[ocer9999]

Why not dropping the OS and use the money to get a top end Ryzen 7 1700 with 8 cores.

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WkxkBb
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/WkxkBb/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3 GHz 8-Core Processor (£141.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.76 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£53.44 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£55.97 @ BT Shop)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 570 4 GB Gaming 4G Video Card (£137.94 @ AWD-IT)
Case: RIOTORO - CR488 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.21 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£63.83 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £564.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-06 04:26 GMT+0000

You can get online legal windows license for less than 30$.