Could you help me choose a PC?

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Adil

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I'm considering buying a PC in about 2 months time and would like to choose from among these three. Can you guys please help me choose or recommend a better if you can. I have a budget of £500 and I really can't go over it so anything under that would be great.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00U09C...lid=345TCIF5G2TYK&coliid=I37G9HC90P46C0&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01FKZZ...lid=345TCIF5G2TYK&coliid=I1Z94R3V7H75A7&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SJAY...TF8&colid=345TCIF5G2TYK&coliid=I34DUQSPAHR3N3
 
Hi, welcome to the forum, good to see a fellow Brit!

Of all of those systems the first one is definitely the best but the CPU, whilst still OK for gaming, is 4 years old and due to be replaced soon, so it's old technology. Now is actually not the best time to buy a new gaming-grade computer because very shortly new GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA are coming out and later this year AMD are coming out with new CPUs to replace their aging ones, so a lot of the components you see for sale right now will be obsolete and by much better ones that coast about the same soon.

What do you intend to do with the computer? I guess play games? Have you looked into or considered building anything yourself?
 
Thanks for the extremely quick reply and I have considered building a PC but I'm concerned that the price of each individual component when added together would go over my budget but then again I'm also relatively new at analyzing PC's so any help would be appreciated.
 
Yeah that's true, for £500 you probably won't get anything as good as the first build on Amazon with the FX-8350 and the GTX 960. I might be wrong though. I'll spec you a build tomorrow at some point and see what I can do. For £500 though I think the first build from Amazon looks pretty good actually. I haven't looked too much at it but it looks like it's using good quality components all round where a lot of these systems cheap out on the case, motherboard, graphics card and/or power supply.
 
Thanks for your quick reply, I'll do some research myself on each individual component and I'll post my results tomorrow if I find a good build.
 
I'd probably choose the i3 one because it has DDR4 RAM vs DDR3 (newer technology) and you can replace that i3 6100 with an i5 6600K or an i7 6700K if you feel you want something faster in the future whereas with the AMD you're stuck with no future CPUs or upgrade paths at all for that socket. If you wanted to upgrade the Intel setup in the future it'd be simple as finding one of the listed CPUs and maybe buying new RAM, but with the AMD one you'd need a CPU, board and RAM.
 
Thanks, would it be better for me to wait 2 months until the prices of the gtx 970 and get that with an i5 or would not it not matter compared to the gtx 960?
 
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