Desktop best buy

Richie63

I'm after recommendations for a reasonably priced ( <=£ 700) buy off the shelf desktop. I don't need the monitor as it runs with a 26" telly.

It does however need to be good for gaming as the main use is by my son

Any ideas would be great.

YeehaaMcgee

Hmm, gaming PCs are always fairly expensive. Check something like this out though, and change the graphics card to the highest spec you can afford.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 40&subcat=

Richie63

Cheers for that link

Gazlar

Not a gaming one but I bought a decent spec desktop with an ok processor 8gb ram and 1tb hd for 200 quid from ebuyer.com, dunno if they have any decent gaming ones, not really my bag, but might be worth a quick look

Richie63

Now that's a great idea for that price you could add a half decent vid card if it will take it and still be quids in ,,,, Cheers

YeehaaMcgee

Richie63 wrote:

Now that's a great idea for that price you could add a half decent vid card if it will take it and still be quids in ,,,, Cheers

That is a great idea, with one caveat... Just be wary that the power supply in some (most) cheap computers really can't supply the needs of a powerful graphics card. It commonly results in the machine shutting down and rebooting during graphic-intensive moments.

StorckSpeed

Novatech are quite good, they have a few gaming PC's at different values, (Monitor not included):
http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/gaming/?th=g

I normally just buy motherboard bundles from them and upgrade the PC for around £300, easy if you know how to re-install windows.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/motherboardbundles/
Scan Computers also allow you to do this:
http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs-overclocked-bundles