First PC buy

Hello I'm just wondering could you guys help me out with my first gaming PC purchase?
I'm planning on purchasing the PC off of PCspecialist (now I have never, ever gamed on a PC before so bare with me if I do seem abit slow to grasp what you guys are saying, I've been a console gamer all my life)
What I'm aiming for is a PC that is slightly more powerful than an Xbox One X because I was thinking about buying an Xbox One X but I already have a PS4 Pro and considering most if not all XB1 X games are on PC I think a gaming PC is a wiser purchase.
Any specs that are similar or slightly more powerful than the One X would be very much appreciated, Thanks, "Oh!" The PC nedds to be totally upgradable to, Thanks

I'm not really sure it's possible to spec a PC that's 'a bit more powerful than [console of choice]'. Consoles and PCs are very different and handle games differently.

Xbox One X might run a 1080p game at 4k by upscaling it rather than necessarily running it at native 4k. Also they might run games at different framerates, the quality settings are different, and some games might be poorly 'ported' to PC from console. Consoles don't need to worry about running much besides the games too, unlike a PC.

What sort of budget are you looking at? Do you need a monitor, keyboard and mouse, etc within that budget? If you already have a monitor or TV that you will be gaming on, what resolution and refresh rate will you be gaming on?

Jason Voorhees said:

Hello I'm just wondering could you guys help me out with my first gaming PC purchase?
I'm planning on purchasing the PC off of PCspecialist (now I have never, ever gamed on a PC before so bare with me if I do seem abit slow to grasp what you guys are saying, I've been a console gamer all my life)
What I'm aiming for is a PC that is slightly more powerful than an Xbox One X because I was thinking about buying an Xbox One X but I already have a PS4 Pro and considering most if not all XB1 X games are on PC I think a gaming PC is a wiser purchase.
Any specs that are similar or slightly more powerful than the One X would be very much appreciated, Thanks, "Oh!" The PC nedds to be totally upgradable to, Thanks

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What's your max budget and do you have monitor, keyboard and mouse or do you need those included?
If you already have a monitor which is it?

well im hoping to game at 4k and I do have a 4k, hdr tv and I would need a mouse and a keyboard. I'm looking to spend around £1.500

Jason Voorhees said:

well im hoping to game at 4k and I do have a 4k, hdr tv and I would need a mouse and a keyboard. I'm looking to spend around £1.500

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You won't be able to game at 4k at that budget unfortunately, you'd need a minimum of a 1080ti which PCS have run out of stock of, but would set you back around £700.

You'd be looking more like £2500 for a 4k machine to game comfortably at 60fps.

EDIT: I stand corrected below, I don't know how he does it

You can certainly get a capable 4k gaming PC for £1500 give or take, but the value of doing so versus spending a bit more and getting a more robust spec is open to debate.

The 1080 ti is out of stock. The RTX 2080 is an option:


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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 B360M-A: Micro-ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - GTX VR Ready!
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1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
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256GB INTEL® 760p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (upto 3210MB/sR | 1315MB/sW)
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
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
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 (Operating System Required)
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BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
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Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
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3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
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STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
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Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
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1

Price £1,548.00 including VAT and delivery

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The RTX 2080 has had very mixed reviews. Not because it's a bad GPU, it's fine, but because it trades on features like real-time raytracing and DLSS which are basically implemented by 0 games at the moment. For which you pay the better part of £100 more than a GTX 1080 ti, which in today's games performs very similarly indeed.

The same build as above but with a GTX 1080 ti would be £1470, which is £80 you could spend on all kinds of things instead

You could wait for PCS to stock the 1080 ti again.

If you are comfortable installing your own graphics card (look up videos on youtube, it's pretty simple and an upgrade all gamers should know how to perform eventually) you could buy the PC without a graphics card and buy a 1080 ti from elsewhere.

But even with a 1080 ti or RTX 2080, you can't whack all settings up to ultra indiscriminately. e.g.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_RTX_2080_Founders_Edition/18.html

That's not a problem as such, very often there are a few select settings in PC games' graphics options which make little difference to visual fidelity, but are the difference between "I can run this game at very high at 1080p on a £250 GPU" and "I keep 60fps at ultra at 1080p on my £600 GPU".