Is this PC any good?

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#1  Edited By TrotexOfficial
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Hello, I'm trying to buy a new PC... However, it will take some saving as by the end of Christmas I will have about £400. Seeing as I'm 15, I get about £50 each month and with the occasional job I can get that up to about £75. So, anyway, let's get into the PC I'm looking at buying within next year.

I like this look of the PC on this website I found, it's £969.95 with it all overclocked. The specs are below:

Up to 4.6 GHz i5 4960k 'OC INTEL quad core. Uprated liquid CPU cooler Corsair H80i 120mm. 8GB DDR3 - 1866Mhz CL9 Kingston HyperX. Nvidia GTX 760 2GB 'OC GDDR5 Asus direct CU II. 120gb SSD - 530MB/s Read and write Mushkin Chronos. 1TB HDD - 6GBp/s 7200.14RPM Seagate Barracuda. 600W 80+ Certified PSU Corsair CX Series. 64Bit Windows 7 Home premium

Or, I could change from the windows 7 home premium to 64Bit windows 8.1 Premium, but from what I gather, Windows 7 is the better option. For you Americans £969.95 is about $1523.97. I should have about $628.11 after Christmas and I get about $94.27 a month. Anyway, thanks in advance for helping me with this choice. If you guys have any more/other recommendations for me to get instead, please, post them!

I mean, it's either this or a ps4...

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Do you need a pre-built or can you build it yourself, It all really depends what you want to do with the PC.

For nearly £1000 please tell me that comes with a monitor.

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Buy the parts yourself and assemble it. Saves $$, prebuilts always skimps on gpu which is the heart of the performance of the system. Overclock is easy.

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@klunt_bumskrint: Haha, no monitor included, I don't need one anyways, the only thing I really need is a keyboard and then I can just go down to the local shop.. And honestly, I don't think I can assemble a PC myself, and the PC people around here cost A LOT.. I've looked into it already

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@trotexofficial said:

Hello, I'm trying to buy a new PC... However, it will take some saving as by the end of Christmas I will have about £400. Seeing as I'm 15, I get about £50 each month and with the occasional job I can get that up to about £75. So, anyway, let's get into the PC I'm looking at buying within next year.

I like this look of the PC on this website I found, it's £969.95 with it all overclocked. The specs are below:

Up to 4.6 GHz i5 4960k 'OC INTEL quad core. Uprated liquid CPU cooler Corsair H80i 120mm. 8GB DDR3 - 1866Mhz CL9 Kingston HyperX. Nvidia GTX 760 2GB 'OC GDDR5 Asus direct CU II. 120gb SSD - 530MB/s Read and write Mushkin Chronos. 1TB HDD - 6GBp/s 7200.14RPM Seagate Barracuda. 600W 80+ Certified PSU Corsair CX Series. 64Bit Windows 7 Home premium

Or, I could change from the windows 7 home premium to 64Bit windows 8.1 Premium, but from what I gather, Windows 7 is the better option. For you Americans £969.95 is about $1523.97. I should have about $628.11 after Christmas and I get about $94.27 a month. Anyway, thanks in advance for helping me with this choice. If you guys have any more/other recommendations for me to get instead, please, post them!

I mean, it's either this or a ps4...

If you can't assemble a PC on your own you're throwing away your money, unless you play MOBA, MMO, FPS or RTS games.

With a 1000 pounds budget I could build a PC as twice as powerful than that crap.

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#6 TrotexOfficial
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@PredatorRules: Is it hard to build your own PC? I mean, I'm up to learn if I can save that much lol, never knew when people buy pre-built they waste that much money

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@trotexofficial said:

@PredatorRules: Is it hard to build your own PC? I mean, I'm up to learn if I can save that much lol, never knew when people buy pre-built they waste that much money

You can learn easy from experienced members here, also there're tons of YouTube vids on guides and how to build your own gaming PC.

My personaly 1st build took about 2-3 hours and that's being completely clueless where to connect any parts, following some 1-2 YouTube vids.

Now I can assemble one less than an hour.

It's not hard and it's far more rewarding to see a PC that you've build with your own hands actually working, rather than buying one that already ready to go.

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@trotexofficial: Where do you live?

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@klunt_bumskrint: South western England :P

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@trotexofficial: I live in Oxfordshire, I'll come and build you one.

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@klunt_bumskrint: Haha, thanks for the offer, but it's quite a far way to go just for a PC build and seeing as I live by Plymouth it is a good 200 miles lol

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#12  Edited By deactivated-579f651eab962
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@trotexofficial said:

@klunt_bumskrint: Haha, thanks for the offer, but it's quite a far way to go just for a PC build and seeing as I live by Plymouth it is a good 200 miles lol

Ok well nevermind