Pre built

[Maxr440]

For a £1500 gaming computer would you recommend going for a pre-built system or building my own

[3 Lions]

1 minute ago, Maxr440 said:

building my own

Do this

[pcnoob27]

Building your own is probably cheaper a 1070+i7 8700 will fit in your budget

[Shreyas1]

Pre-Built specs?

 

with the mining thing rn, and if you really need a pc, then go for prebuilt

otherwise, wait for a bit then build

 

alternativly, you can get a new intel CPU and then use integrated graphics and wait until prices fall

 

[Shreyas1]

1 minute ago, pcnoob27 said:

Building your own is probably cheaper a 1070+i7 8700 will fit in your budget

Nowadays most 1070s go for 600-1000 USD

[pcnoob27]

Just now, Shreyas1 said:

Nowadays most 1070s go for 600-1000 USD

I have seen them going for 500

[Shreyas1]

1 minute ago, pcnoob27 said:

I have seen them going for 500

Really? Where?

 

The best I have seen are 1080s going for ~ 530 USD at Best Buy 

 

[pcnoob27]

4 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

Really? Where?

 

The best I have seen are 1080s going for ~ 530 USD at Best Buy 

 

1080s? I was talking about 1070s and i saw that on pcpartpicker lowest is 640 but in my country around 500

[Canada EH]

Hopefully stores have reserved a few gpu's for customers willing to spend a few g's on a complete system with a 1070/1080 gpu

[deXxterlab97]

I would get this

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (£263.94 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z370P D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£90.96 @ Box Limited) 
Memory: Kingston - FURY 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (£149.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£65.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£47.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC 11G  Video Card  (£701.96 @ Novatech) 
Case: NZXT - S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£58.90 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£81.16 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £1460.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-18 20:51 GMT+0000

 

[Jrasero]

On 2/18/2018 at 3:07 PM, Maxr440 said:

For a £1500 gaming computer would you recommend going for a pre-built system or building my own

mmm with pricing on ram and graphics cards I would lean prebuilt

 

In November I bought a $1000 Gigabyte prebuilt with a i7 6700K, 16GB SO-DIMM, 1TB 2.5", 240GB M.2, and Gigabyte G1 Gaming 1070.  I have since sold all of the parts besides the hard drives and upgraded to Z370N, i7 8700K, 16GB DD4, EVGA 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid in a Bulldog 2.0 barebones case full liquid cooled.  

 

point being you can always buy prebuilt, update it down the line or sell of the parts for a little extra scratch to eventually build your computer.