Buying son new pc

Bit of help needed please, as title says buying my son a new pc for his gaming addiction I have a Budget of 1400 to 1500 pounds please needs to run quite lot of the latest games too many to list he also plays a lot of mmorpgs, sports and fighting games please help much appreciated thank you in advance

If you can wait a tiny bit, PCS are just releasing their new chassis with newest intel mobile chips. I'd recommend the new iteration of the Defiance for that budget.

There are set to be some goodies like high refresh and possibly gsync screens, 6 core mobile processors and other goodies.

EDIT: read that as laptop cos was excited about the new refresh, jumped the gun again, apologies.

Does this need to be a laptop or is a desktop ok?

If a desktop does he already have a monitor and if so what model is it exactly? ie what resolution and refresh rate?

Oussebon said:

Does this need to be a laptop or is a desktop ok?

If a desktop does he already have a monitor and if so what model is it exactly? ie what resolution and refresh rate?

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Desktop PC needed and also he has a gaming curved monitor 34" thats all i know sorry not a geek it is a surprise birthday present though so any suggestions on builds etc would be very grateful thank you

If you bought the monitor online do you have a link to the product page? The reason I ask is that what the spec of the monitor is can affect what graphics card is best suited to the build - and therefore how to balance the build

If it has Freesync rather than Gsync, an RX Vega GPU may be preferable to an Nvidia one.

On the assumption that it might be a 34" Acer Predator type of deal with 1440p ultrawide resolution, 100hz refresh rate, and gsync, then a GTX 1080 ti would be ideal. It's an expensive GPU, making the build something like:





Case
GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-8500 (3.0GHz) 9MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME Z370-P: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - GTX VR Ready!
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
1[SUP]st[/SUP] M.2 SSD Drive
256GB SAMSUNG PM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2800MB/R, 1100MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 100 Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
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
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month 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
Quantity
1

Price £1,497.00 including VAT and delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z370-pc/SuMM8tNNMw/

£1500 is a relatively slim budget compared to the monitor. The above cuts a few corners like going for a relatively budget case (though still adequate for cooling) and only 8gb RAM (more RAM can be added later, and 8gb is ok for now).