Gaming pc help ???

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Hi my son wants a gaming pc for Xmas. I don't know anything about them at all . But I need to get it as cheap as possible . But I'm thinking if it's to cheap it might not play the games he wants it to . Any advice would be great. I have shown a pic of the one my son is thinking about. I'm not sure about what he has chosen in the drop down ?

My 15 year old has a Gaming PC we bought it on Currys clearance on Ebay it cost him just under £500 he can run Fortnite at 144 fps. His monitor was £200 though and we are already buying Ram for it so i think its going to be a bit of a money pit but he loves it.
My son paid for it himself from Birthday money from Family and Christmas money the same he didn't want anything else.

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Hi my son wants a gaming pc for Xmas. I don't know anything about them at all . But I need to get it as cheap as possible . But I'm thinking if it's to cheap it might not play the games he wants it to . Any advice would be great. I have shown a pic of the one my son is thinking about. I'm not sure about what he has chosen in the drop down ?

If it's a pc to play the quality level of games on the consoles e.g. Call of duty Wa rzone, or gta v ect your looking at , at least £1500 upwards, due to needing ect good graphics cards, at least 16gb ram, the at least a 2tb hard drive ect,

Basically cost wise for performance, consoles I prefer , if I had the option is love a pc but they are too £ vs consoles to play the same games

The Playstation is several times better at being a games machine than the PC in the pic.

Last time I built one I spent about £1200 and I've put another £900 into it since. Games PCs are not cheap at all; I'd be surprised if you can get anything competent below £800 right now.

DS built his pc 5 years ago it cost 1200 and is really decent I think if it had been bought ready made, the whole set up overall it would have been getting close to 2000. He did buy himself an extra 4K monitor so has two of them. I always joke his desk looks like Jack Bauer’s in 24.

Why does he want such a high spec PC? My DS is in to hardcore competitive gaming. He was invited to join an E sports team a few years ago but it was during his GCSE exams so was a firm no from me, he also makes videos for YouTube so has lots of editing software available to him, we run our own gaming clan and he does stuff for friends as well.

Lots of people game, very few people as actual gamers make a decent living from it. I am friends with a popular streamer for a game I play. He does make a living and was briefly number 1 stats wise in the world for a game played by millions. I knew him before he was famous and you have to be beyond amazing.

Hi OP. I have a good gaming laptop from HP for £750. I would try and speak to him about it, at 15 he is old enough to understand affordability, and say that he can save up Christmas and birthday money - and try and find some odd jobs - to buy one?