PC Budget Help Needed

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DS wants a PC for gaming, he needs a PC for homework. One of his subjects is photography so will need Photoshop on it, he also does Media Studies.

Gaming is not a priority (whatever he actually thinks).

What is a sensible budget to set? I don't want to set it too low as he needs something fairly decent and I don't want to go high unnecessarily.

I'm not asking a salesperson as they'll add a few more £hundred than is genuinely necessary!

TIA.

Custom build will get you more for your money, if you can build it.

I've just inherited my partners old one which still packs a punch gaming wise. You can get a similar build to my current for about £250 plus a case, cooling etc. So probably about £400 if you want to decent stuff.

Whatever you get check it can run the games etc. he wants

www.game-debate.com/can-I-run/?EA

Let me know if you like to know my current spec.

Graphic optimising is a little different from gaming optimising so not quite my thing. But building a powerful gaming PC will still perform with Photoshop etc., as it will still demand a good graphics card. I'd expect you'd have to be very serious about photo editing etc. to need a fully optimised build.

Hope this helps.

A PC good enough for photoshop should cost around £600 (cheaper if you can get someone who builds pc's to build it for him) but if buying from say pc world this one would do .

www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/acer-nitro-n50-600-28-intel-core-i3-gtx-1050-gaming-pc-1-tb-hdd-10180711-pdt.html

BUT buy a SSD to go with it and put all applications onto it instead of the Hard drive.

i built a gaming PC for £450 but again that is if you know someone who can build it.
Also depends what games he wants to run as he doesnt NEED ultra specs at 60+ fps he just needs the games to run without lag at medium- high settings with 30-60 fps so £500-£600 should be fine from a store.

Buy a desktop which can be upgraded to future proof. A decent amount of memory is important for handling both media programmes and gaming, ditto a decent graphics card. Dh uses his work laptop to game and use photoshop so not overly high spec but apparently it lags a bit. I'm guessing £5-600 is a starting point but if depends if you already have a monitor etc

Thank you very much. Yes, we'll be going to PC World as I know naff all about computers!

Try Scan, not PC world.
You can custom build it and then get them go build it for you and test it.
Their store is in Bolton too if you live near there. I'm sure they'll have someone to talk to for advice as well.

Try Dell online. You can look at the specs and then customise if you need to.