#Advice for a new budget gaming PC

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north parcel
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Hi, my old PCSpecialist gaming PC seems to have died after 9 years so I need to get a replacement. I've only got a limited budget and currently just have a 1080p monitor. SO I'm after advice for a desktop PC spec for around £800-900. It'll be used for gaming, uni work and online meetings. I'd like something that would be possible to upgrade if I get a better monitor later.

stable jay
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Heya! What uni work is it? And do you reckon you'd be able to recover your windows licence from the old PC?

civic night
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with those meetings, is a camera required, or do you already have one? helps to know this as even a shoddy camera runs 20+quid, which can make quite a difference in performance

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also, is wifi a must, or can you live without it?

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as Junior brought up, if you can salvage that windows license that would be a big win, as you save roughly 120 quid, and that goes a long long way

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it would bring my build to under 800, or allow you to keep the price, and get a better system

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also, maybe you can get a windows key from your uni, if salvaging is not an option, mine did at the time, but that was 10 years ago

north parcel
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I've got a windows digital licence (for windows 10) if that helps. I've got a cheap camera and uni work has some programming and excell type stuff

civic night
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that win 10 license is REALLY good to have, as I said, 120 ish pound good

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as for wifi, is that a need or not?

north parcel
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wifi is not necessary

civic night
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cool, then the second build I listed is a good start, but wait for Juniors verdict, he can work some serious magic

north parcel
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ok - thanks

stable jay
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Happy to explain choices If need be!

north parcel
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Thanks - can I ask why you suggest the 6700 instead of the 6650?

civic night
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in short, significantly more GPU horsepowers

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you go from about 80 FPS on average to 90 FPS at 1080 ultra settings

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if you can swing the expense, I'd say go for it, if not, then mine is the way to go, except maybe a beefier cooler,

stable jay
civic night
stable jay
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I didn’t see the 8 change to a 9 🙃

stable jay
civic night
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basically mine, except cooler and PSU

stable jay
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And mobo and storage

civic night
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ah, prime over tuf, and less storage

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either way, suggestions are there, Pual has a firing neuron or two so can see what he likes, pick and choose maybe hake his own changes

north parcel
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Thanks for the suggestions. This might be a stupid question but would there be room for my old 1TB HDD as a document storage drive in the case as well?

civic night
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the case is fairly spacious, you will need to muck around with sata cables (power and date) but that should be no issue

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if you click the case image it will give more info about the case

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