Purchasing A Pre Built Desktop

[Sosa__]

Hi Guys i would like to purchase a £500 pre built gaming PC for a Triple Monitor Setup. I had to start buy purchasing the monitors gradually and i have purchased 2 AOC monitor and i would like to purchase a pre built gaming PC tower for under £500 to start gaming with the two monitors i already have, and i want to get a PC with the right graphics card for the job. Feel free to suggest the right PC with the need GC. Thanks

 

[basroil]

You have to be joking... You need to spend about that much PER MONITOR (in computer hardware other than the monitor) if you plan on gaming with it.

 

[hang-the-9]

As above ^ for a three monitor gaming system (unless you just want one monitor for games and the rest just there for general use) you need to buy a video card that will cost as much as your full budget is for the system and a CPU that is almost that much.

This goes double for a pre-built system where your 500 will get you a 400 system worth of parts.

In general, an nVidia 980 Ti is the card to get for starter triple monitor gaming, that single card is about 500 in the UK. For good results you need two of them. A power supply to run them will set you back another 100, another 150 for a decent SLI motherboard, another 250 for a decent CPU, 100 for RAM, etc...

 

[Fritchard]

I am not expert but I have been asking similar questions for a long time, and I know the kind of answers you are going to get. First off, you might be able to get a prebuilt PC that is good for single monitor gaming. It won't be anything amazing but it won't be awful either. Secondly, a $500 custom PC might get you the performance of an $800 prebuilt. Prebuilts are overpriced because of labor and the parts they use sometimes aren't the best. Not all the time though. Not only are prebuilts generally overpriced, they tend to have issues. If you build it yourself, you will know it like the back of your hand. When it is time to upgrade, you won't have to worry about taking it apart the wrong way because you put it together. If you don't know how to build a PC yourself, I am sure there are step by step guides all over the internet and maybe even on this site that could help you. So you could spend $500 on parts to build it yourself, and get so much more power out of it.

 

[Bi11Carson]

Wouldn't get a "pre-built" in 'new' condition because they come loaded with Windows 10. 😛 Prefer to get a used gaming rig from amazon, ebay or local classified ad. Last year I picked up a used pc for $50 U.S. It came with preloaded with winXP, 1T of storage, 2 dvd-rw drives, an audigy 5.1 sound card. Also an Nvidea gfx card that goes for $100 used on ebay or $275 retail. And it came with speakers, monitor, mouse & keyboard. Had to be patient because it wasn't until after 2 weeks before I came across it.