1k gaming pc

Good morning, 1st post so hi all.

My son has always wanted a gaming pc so for his 16th we have decided to get him one. Trouble is been a lifelong console gamer I feel a bit out of my depth.

What can you more knowledgeable people recommend.

Budget of £1000, monitor, keyboard and mouse not required but he dose want to be playing AAA titles, cod, battlefield, pubg, fortnight ECT.

Thanks in advance

Here we go! A nice build for a little bit over £1000!

Case
THERMALTAKE VIEW 27 MID TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i3 Quad Core Processor i3-8100 (3.60GHz) 6MB Cache

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z370 HD3: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready

Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP

1st Hard Disk
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED

Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY

Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Processor Cooling
Corsair H80i V2 Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans

Thermal Paste
EK-TIM ECTOTHERM THERMAL COMPOUND

Extra Case Fans
2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)

USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence

Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language

Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days

Promotional Item
FREE entry to win one of FIVE GIGABYTE Fan Bundles!

Quantity
1

Price £1,014.00 including VAT and delivery

This PC should definitely get nice framerates at 1080p and has a great gaming processor that is liquid cooled for better performance, and to top it off, A GTX 1060, which is a great 1080p gaming graphics card.

Thanks for using the PCS Forums, hope your son has a great birthday

Hi and welcome to the fora

For you budget, I would suggest the enigma elite review build. Priced at spot on £1000. With the newest i5 processor (i5 8400) and a solid graphics card (GTX 1060 6GB) to handle 1080P on high/ ultra settings with ease. It also contains 16Gb of RAM and a fast storage configuration.
If you manually configured the spec it would be about £1130.

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/configure-review/237/

As to the post above it shows how good value the enigma elite is! It has a better processor as well as a better graphics card. And also a CPU cooler to suit your needs. This turns out cheaper for a better performance!

See here http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-8400-vs-Intel-Core-i3-8100/3939vs3942

Yeah, go for that!

Thank you I will take a better look when I get home. I have been recommend this one from a friend not sure which one would be best

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Thank you I will take a better look when I get home. I have been recommend this one from a friend not sure which one would be bestView attachment 11390

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Enigma has better hard drives so do that

Engima Elite not only has an NVMe SSD as well as 1TB HDD, it also has double the RAM.

Go with the Enigma Elite.

It's about £1130's worth of spec for a fixed £1k price, so essentially you're not going to beat it from a value point of view at this price range.

Thanks guys that one will do then.

Just before I get carried away and order will this be able to run oculus rift? Also I see some say rgb ready what dose this mean?

RGB usually refers to RGB LEDs, which are small lights that can produce a range of colours for effect. It's just shiny lights. It's not like a TV that is "HD ready" where that actually means it can display a certain sort of content.

It exceeds the 'recommended' spec for the Occulus Rift: https://support.oculus.com/170128916778795/ although bear in mind that VR gaming is more demanding than regular 1080p gaming, as it involves a higher resolution and refresh rate. So it'll do it, but some more demanding titles will not run at very high settings.

Compare the system requirements for Fallout 4: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/Fallout_4/ (GTX 780)
With Fallout 4 VR: http://store.steampowered.com/app/611660/Fallout_4_VR/ (GTX 1080)
Granted recommended specs should be taken with large quantities of NaCl. But it's illustrative of VR gaming being a good deal more demanding. A £1000 system might not live up to your highest hopes with a £500 VR setup.

Will give vr a moss then we have psvr anyway so no big loss.

Dose of have to be rgb ready to light up keyboards and a mouse or dose they come with there own software to achieve that?

they come with there own software to achieve that?

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This

Thank you for your help, much appreciated

Note that some cheap RGB mice won't have software that lets you control the light pattern, it just does what it's been pre-set to do. Make sure you check how what you buy works first, if the lighting is important

We have bought a second hand razor mamba tournament edition. It was only a tenner so no big deal if the lights cant be changed

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We have bought a second hand razor mamba tournament edition. It was only a tenner so no big deal if the lights cant be changed

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Awesome mouse! For a tenner, that's a steal!

The RGB / LED lighting control, as well as bindings etc, on that won't have anything to do with the kind of motherboard the PC has. You should get the full functionality that the software offers as far as I know.