Gaming builds at all price brackets.

samwil

Enthusiast
Reworking this tomorrow, got tired, feel free to browse, after going through these I'm surprised what you can get for your money, 70 supers at 1250 and 80 supers at 1750.

Feel free to give feedback on these, I got a bit bored and I've done them fairly quickly so I can point people to this page for builds and ideas at what they should be getting for their money where performance to value are concerned.

The entry level gamer:
Budget - £750.00


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Low tier:
Budget - £1000.00


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Base mid tier:
Budget - £1250.00


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Core mid tier:
Budget - £1500.00


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Upper mid tier:
Budget - £1750.00


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Upper tier:
Budget - £2000.00


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Enthisiast:
Budget - £2500.00


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All you'd need and some:
Budget - £3000.00


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I no longer trade in money, rather gold bars, peasant:
Budget - £4000.00

Its here, simply because some people do have this much disposable income and have no reason not to spend it.


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I'm literally reviewing these right now, so bare with whilst I optimise them all, I've literally scanned down and built a framework for them all to expand and optimise on so dont go taking these as recommendations until this writing doesnt exist.

Anyone that wants to chip in feel free, the idea behind these specs is to demonstrate what you CAN get in terms of performance for your money, obviously this doesnt take into account personal preference so if you have something that you need life a drive or Wi-Fi, choose the spec below your budget and add to it if you wish.

Will try update this when I have spare time.

I'm tired and had a better idea which I'll put in tomorrow, got tired and checked half of them then realised something a bit better and easier for people to implement. Back tomo.
 
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Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
For the low tier £1000. Good job squeezing an RX 5700 into the build. But arguably not the best fit.
I feel not many people buying a PC with a hard £1k budget will have the ~£300+ for a good monitor, or even the £200 for a sensible monitor. Arguably better to go with a lower spec GPU and spend elsewhere on the system / monitor

Likewise £1250. Great to see a 2070 Super in a build of that price range. But if someone popped up and said they'd get a 2070 Super in a £1250 build with a basic screen I'd tell them to save £120-£140 via 2060 Super or RX 5700 and invest there.

For £1500, limited offer but:

£2000 build with a 2TB SSD? For £2k, assuming suitable monitor budget, a 2080 ti is viable. The £2k above is £2063. For £1990:
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/Je4NkaE5mP/
(2080 ti, cut CPU to R5 3600 because games won't really care, 2TB HDD + 500gb SSD, TX650m, Cm Lite 240 - scope to up the SSD to 1TB or swap to the R5 3600x)

For £2.5k I'd go with a better mobo. Gigabyte UD as a bare minimu (the VRMs are decent apparently, which for a 9900k would be a major consideration). Probably economise on storage - 1TB SX6000 + HDD - to go with something like AORUS Pro.

£3k+ seems to involve some spending for the sake of e.g. 32gb RAM. I'd tell them to just save the £90 and buy some games.
 
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