Moving from US to UK in 3 months and will build a PC. Which parts to get before leaving?

[delsaber]

So, as the title says I am moving back to my native land of the UK!

I plan to build a new PC when I get home but want to bring SOME parts with me to save money. Some things I will not make huge savings on and others are crazy ie a gigabyte 980 gtx is ~ $550 in the US compared to over $800 in the UK!

Not sure if I will have issues with airport security though?!

Here is the plan:

- Gaming PC which will be used for some web dev and photo editing.
- Need a full pc inc monitor (pref 120hz or 4k maybe?), mouse etc
- Have budget of around $2k-$2.5k
- Will buy small bits from US. I was thinking gpu, cpu, ssd and mouse
- having been using amazon.com and amazon.co.uk for cost comparisons between the two countries.

I am interested to see how others would do this?! Help would be great!!

 

[turkey3_scratch]

are you forgetting UK uses different currency? Parts are actually cheaper in Europe often.

 

[Derza10]

are you forgetting UK uses different currency? Parts are actually cheaper in Europe often.

Lol i'm pretty sure he knows it uses different currency... and prices in the US are almost always cheaper.

 

[NotSoSmartWithComputersSadly]

$2k is about £1250, if this the case, you can build yourself a moderately good computer for gaming, intel is quite expensive in the UK, so you might have to go for an AMD CPU.

Anyway, I would recommend looking at ebuyer and amazon uk for prices on what you want.

 

[delsaber]

are you forgetting UK uses different currency? Parts are actually cheaper in Europe often.

I am sticking with using dollars just for simplicity. I live in the US at the moment you see.

The way it works is that prices in the US are about equal in number to UK so a gpu might be $550 in the US but £550 in the UK which is around $800!

 

[Mike Hackett]

ANY triple rad aio u want get it first. usa is def cheaper than uk, trust me, im in the uk.