NickToye

1. Budget & Location I'd like to get this all done in under £2k. My location is the UK. 2. Aim The aim is to have a system that I can use for gaming, and also web development (my day job). Games I usually tend to play are mainly city building games, but I'm interested in all really - apart from FPS, I suffer with motion sickness on those games. 3. Monitors 1 monitor, and I'd like to be able to run 4k on it. My iMac is 4k, so I'd like the PC to be the same. 4. Peripherals Keyboard and Mice a definite, although I'd rather have a slimmer mac-like keyboard then the chunkier keys found on many PC keyboards (in my experience anyway). I already have a Windows 10 license that I am running on my iMac under Bootcamp. Hope that helps.

Ok, well when I used to buy PC's around 10 years ago, they quickly went out of date, so I essentially need a case and a motherboard that is not going to go out of date.

ok, well trust me when I say this, I am a proper noob at all this. What will the Zen AMD do for me? Is this preferable over an i7 Intel CPU?

So I want to build a decent system. Not just for gaming, but for general use also. By day I am a front end developer and my gf is a graphic designer - so we are both Mac users, and sometimes the iMac we have is occupied. So I wanted to have a PC I can use for developing on, and of course for gaming too. I earn a decent salary, but I don't really want to be dropping a lot of my salary to buy all the best components in one go - I'd rather do it over a period of time. So my first questions is, can that be done, or could I fall into the trap of components becoming obsolete? Second questions is, what would be a good starter case and motherboard? Thanks.

Thanks very much.

Hi, Just signed up to this forum via the YouTube video on ultimate 4k gaming. I've not really used a PC in a good while as my profession is Mac based, but I have joined because I want to learn more about assembling a decent system - I'm also keen to build my own as I've never really done it before, well not in the past 15 years anyway. I assume this channel is not the right place, am I best suited raising a topic in General? Thanks