New PC

Do you really need 16GB of RAM?

 

Aight, you may not like my opinion cause it's not gonna save you money in the short run, but it will defo save you money in the long run.
1. Without SSD your pc is way overkill for your hard drive, you wanna get SSD to boost your performance, but obviously you can do this later assuming you cba to format your computer.
2. Get a better power supply, your graphics card will be wayyyy outdated in a couple years, what you wanna do is have a good power supply so you can buy another card of the same variety rather than upgrading your card to a newer one.
3. Asus ain't great, but since you haven't been given an option I guess u got no choice really, but I would recommend gigabyte anyday.
4. I'd recommend windows 7 instead of windows 8 but I know no one will listen to me and everyone will get mad at me, cus apparently windows 8 is now better than it was on launch (BS if you ask me). Either way if it was my PC no way i'd get windows 8.
5. If you can I'd really recommend getting a better CPU, that one is gonna get old and fast. But I understand that 99 pounds is a lot to spend, so up to you.

 

Could add an SSD, alot of people recommend it

 

Does it really change the price that much? Pretty sure they just assemble it for you for free assuming you buy all the parts from them. (At least that's how it was like to me when I bought my computer, if I had just bought the parts separately would've cost the same o.O)

 

He's going to be paying monthly

 

Nomy, you're forgetting warranty, 5 year warranty is no joke, if you get faulty parts or if you fucked the parts up by plugging them incorrectly etc etc etc.
For instance, my computer, I went tos, to one that works with the pc. There can be alot of those issues and building your own pc is a LOT of work, putting the fans and plugging things to the moth the computer store and asked for specific parts in my pre-built pc, I asked for a specific ram and a specific motherboard, and apparently, even though nobody was expecting it they didn't work together, so they switched out my ram, no chargeerboard can be tricky, while it's true that a "professional" might do a sloppy job, at least he knows what you're doing and you're warranted, videos out there might be very informative, but I dunno if it's enough.

 

Yea I considered doing this myself but I can't guarentee having enough money for the fixed payments.

It's nice that it will only take you 3 years to payoff because the computer will most likely be powerful enough to run the new games to a high standard.

 

What did you get in the end?

 

You might have to upgrade your PSU along the way (as well as add SSD and in the really far future buy another graphics card) but overall this rig is amazing.