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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice please! Gaming PC for son

    I've done just that actually! ;) Kept that rapid 500gb M2 but dropped the second drive for now.... Keeps me around that magic £1300 number. I have all our films and family photos etc stored on a big 6TB drive on my PC, am thinking if i can share my media folder with him he can just watch films...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice please! Gaming PC for son

    Howdy everyone - i'm back to necro this March 22 thread! :) My Son has continued saving up through his birthday and another few months of doing jobs - he now has a solid £1100 and i'm happy to top him up by another couple of hundred to allow him to purchase his first gaming PC! I followed the...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice please! Gaming PC for son

    Ah. V. Good point, this would be his first instance of Windows ownership so we’d need a license…
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice please! Gaming PC for son

    Thanks for taking the time out for this. I’d been having a look at a few pre builds on eBuyer etc and couldn’t immediately see where the price difference was but I get it now…. They’re using the older Ryzen 5600 with AM4 whereas this build is the newer socket Intel. That gives a better...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Advice please! Gaming PC for son

    Looking for some other - possibly better informed than my own - opinions if you have a spare minute! My 13yr old son has been using my PC for gaming since I bought it. It is a PC Specialist 2018 Desktop - Ryzen5 1600, 16gb Ram, GTX1050Ti 4Gb. Price was about £1200 when I bought it. L It’s been...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST My 1st Build.... That needs to be a bit of everything!!

    Hi All! Am loving the PC Specialist website, very easy to use and full of well specced/priced kit too! I'm trying to build a PC that blasts through all my usual duties and still covers me for possible future upgrades and changes of usage. I have zero experience in buying PC's really, i tend to...
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