[SOLVED] Pc Specialist Vortex XT

[Pedain]

Looking at getting a fairly decent gaming PC and found this one on PC Specialists website

Case: COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX K500 RGB GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor i7-9700K (3.6GHz) 12MB Cache
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 UD: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM): 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: 6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive: 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive: 256GB Intel® H10 NVMe SSD + 16GB Intel® Optane™ (upto 1450MB/sR | 650MB/sW)
Power Supply: CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY


Comes in at roughly £1340, just wondering if the price is good or I can get better elsewhere?

Also if anyone has similar any reviews are welcome

Thanks in advance!

 

[Barty1884]

A 9700K, 2060 (non-Super) and a fairly low-end 450W PSU for £1340 doesn't strike me as a particularly good deal, no.

Component cost, retail would be around £1000-£1100 - so there's a pretty sizeable markup AND you could have better quality components for not a whole lot more.

Do you have a local(ish) PC store that offer assembly?

To give you a rough idea... Sticking with Intel, you could have substantially better specs for less:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor (£325.60 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£27.95 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z390-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£108.98 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£69.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX500 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£56.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£53.70 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB VENTUS OC Video Card (£489.99 @ Box Limited)
Case: GameMax Kage ATX Mid Tower Case (£36.80 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Core GC 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£75.46 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1245.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-21 17:20 BST+0100

Which leaves you ~£100 for assembly, if you're not comfortable doing so yourself.

However, there's better value to be had in a Ryzen based system.
R5 3600, faster memory and double the SSD space - and you can look at ~£1100 in cost (+ assembly).

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£163.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (£89.97 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Intel 660p 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£123.74 @ Novatech)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£53.70 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB VENTUS OC Video Card (£489.99 @ Box Limited)
Case: GameMax Kage ATX Mid Tower Case (£36.80 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Core GC 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£75.46 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1133.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-21 17:24 BST+0100

Building your own really isn't too difficult, provided you do your research, take your time and don't force anything.

 

[MJS WARLORD]

Hi pedain I can recommend pc specialist , I got a games rig from them 4 years ago and since then I have got a cheaper general purpose rig and a laptop from them.

Have you just made up that list of parts or have you put it through the build my pc section , that section will tell you if you have made any mismatches , it might tell you the psu is not big enough.

A few tips , the special packing to keep parts safe in transit is very tight , be careful removing it , if you have a side fan they will have probably not plugged it in to keep the wire away from the packing. If you forget to plug it in the pc will stop at an extra screen before desktop and you will see a separate shut down button.

Take out the 3 yr gold cover , 1 of my ram went down after 18 months.
Don't throw the packaging away.
I got the windows disc with my first rig but by the time I got my second one they stopped supplying the disc but if you pay extra they will give you one. The manuals now contain instructions on how to make an iso image if you need to do a complete clean install.
You only get windows operating system and a few microsoft related bits , no bloatware that wants your money.
Disconnect your internet during initial set up , my second pc went online to do microsoft updates before it got to desktop for first time so i was up and running without any anti virus.

Finally did you notice they price match if you can find your exact build cheaper.

 

[Pedain]

Hi both thanks for the replies! Much appreciated

 

[kevinburrow]

I think PcSpecialist always seem overpriced to me. I understand them to have excellent customer service, but even for pre-built there are cheaper options, such as :https://www.ukgamingcomputers.co.uk/ .

I've heard you can select all your own parts at Overclockers and send them a query asking them to build it, which would usually be something like £100 on top, but you get exactly what you want that way and when I checked it worked out a lot better last time I checked.

Obviously, if you were able to put it together yourself you would get a substantially better build.