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I am switching from console to PC, so I do not want to build my own. I found this, it seems like a good price. I want to be able to play games like BF1 and GTA V at ultra 60fps, think this can do that?

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Switching from console to PC isn't a good reason not to build your own PC. That's not a good price. No, it won't be able to play GTA V at Ultra 60FPS. Horribly low clock speed i5 will not cope well in GTA at all. I guarantee the case and PSU are trash quality. No SSD is pitiful. Also very likely that it includes a cheap, low end chipset motherboard with limited features.
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13 wrote Switching from console to PC isn't a good reason not to build your own PC. That's not a good price. No, it won't be able to play GTA V at Ultra 60FPS. Horribly low clock speed i5 will not cope well in GTA at all. I guarantee the case and PSU are trash quality. No SSD is pitiful. Also very likely that it includes a cheap, low end chipset motherboard with limited features.


Could you suggest a better prebuilt for me then around that price? Don't really want to build my own, as have no experience with it before,
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Not really, pre-builts are all trash so I wouldn't recommend any of them. It's not the price that's the issue, it's the fact that little care is taken with them and low quality, low end components are used in pre-built systems to cut costs. This is just more issues for you. I really don't understand why people would want to pay more to get less performance, but more issues. It's really not hard to build a PC, and I guarantee it's easier to build a PC than it is to deal with a shitty pre-built. If you really have to buy a pre-built(you don't), at least try to get something with an SSD and a CPU that's not clocked under 3GHz. An i5-6500 or 6600(k) ideally, or their Kaby Lake counterpart. You're pretty much guarantee'd to get a shitty low end, low quality PSU and motherboard though, regardless of what pre-built you get(for the most part).

Or, you could spend your money much more wisely, and invest in this;
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CPU: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£190.99 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£74.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£41.25 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£65.48 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£189.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£55.56 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] (£52.73 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £670.98

Newer, much faster CPU. Decent motherboard, should be better than whatever you get in a pre-built since it's quite likely any pre-built you buy will have an H110 chipset motherboard. The 4GB RX 480 competes with the 6GB GTX 1060 now, but it does look like the 480 will age better since a few months ago, the 6GB 1060 beat the 8GB 480. Red RAM might look out of place so you might want to get something that matches a little better, or you could just unscrew the red RAM heatsink and paint it if you want at some point. Modifying your system is half the fun of PC owning anyway IMO. Also with this you get a very nice, good quality case and a decent PSU. I don't really like Corsair for PSUs, but I've got to give it to them, their new CX units are pretty good, look nice in pretty much any system and some of the units are priced fairly well for semi-modular PSUs. Also, you get an SSD, which is pretty much a necessity. A little bit of money left, so you can grab an HDD as well, I'd say to go for a 2TB HDD instead of 1TB since it's only like an extra tenner for 2TB. You can add the HDD later if you want though.


Also there are plenty of videos on YouTube, there is even a thread on here for helping new builders. Building a PC seriously is not hard at all. It's more like assembling something from Ikea than actually 'building' anything.
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Thanks for the response. I'm a total noob when it comes to PC's. Hence why I wanted to get a prebuild. Im no longer going to get that, however I am more tempted to try and build one, I just fear that I will mess up and it will be too time-consuming. Here is another prebuild I found, similar to the last one. I am going to choose some parts tomorrow, based on what you recommended
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Here was the other prebuild; [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

You are probably going to slate it anyway. I have just set up an account on part picker. Going to try and create my own now
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That one is slightly better because it has the faster i5-6600 but it's quite a premium for a slightly better CPU, when the system I suggested is £70 cheaper and will still perform better. Its honestly not hard. Read the sticky in here with tips and building advice and then maybe watch some YouTube video's, you'll get it. Plus you can always use one of the appropriate PC sections here to ask for help if you have any trouble. As I said, think of building a system like assembling something from Ikea.

And we're here to help with PC builds so we can make sure you don't buy the wrong parts to build a system.
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