Gaming Spec for £800 including monitor possible?

[Freeman]

Hi,

Bit of a long shot but I have around £800, more or less, for a gaming spec.

It'll need:

• OS
• Monitor
• Wifi card

Reckon it's achievable for that sort of budget?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[bagel]

Depends on the specs of the monitor you want really

 

[arc@css]

I'd say it's possible. I'll have a go pricing up a system later.

 

[Freeman]

Depends on the specs of the monitor you want really

Nothing over the top really. Just something that will play @ 1080p, look okay and not have little niggles like light bleed or noise.

 

[Freeman]

I'd say it's possible. I'll have a go pricing up a system later.

Sounds great! Thank you.

 

[bagel]

An extra £50 or so would get you a 144hz monitor which is a game changer if you play fps or anything fast paced. Could save £30 and get a 3300x but you lose two cores and four threads so likely to need upgrading sooner than a 3600

Edit: fixed

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £74.99
• 1 x Seasonic Core Gold GC-650 650W 80+ Gold Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Asrock B450 Pro4 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £79.99
• 1 x ADDON Wireless AC 600Mbps USB High Gain USB Adapter (AWU680)= £10.99
• 1 x Zalman T7 Mid-Tower ATX Case - Black Window= £29.99
• 1 x MSI Optix G241VC 24" 1920x1080 VA 75Hz FreeSync 1ms Curved Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £129.95
• 1 x WD Green 3D NAND 480GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS480G2G0A)= £49.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 580 Arez Dual OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99

Total: £812.99 (includes shipping: £18.12)​

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[Freeman]

So I'm wondering if we can just get away with a 500gb SSD for now instead of including any sort of mechanical storage. I think I probably could...

 

[bagel]

So I'm wondering if we can just get away with a 500gb SSD for now instead of including any sort of mechanical storage. I think I probably could...

You won't be able to have many games installed at a time but adding additional storage later is very easy

 

[arc@css]

The build above is a solid one for the cash and I don't think I could improve on it to make enough of a difference.

The only thing I can think of is possibly buying an OS key from a reputable seller, and then putting that £100 or so saved towards a 1440p screen or something entirely different like more storage capacity/faster GPU?