Best Gaming PC for <$1300?

ego22 on 25/03/2018 - 09:29
Last edited 25/03/2018 - 12:59 by 1 other user

hay hay hay!

back in 2003/2004 some friends and i were very into building gaming PCs. i remember one of the last ones i built was to play the FIRST COD and COD united offensive (im old) i have played a few PC games since then on older hand me down computers from friends but there is no way they would play the new farcry which is my inspiration right now. i know NOTHING about the latest PC parts and have no time to invest in learning and doing all over again. i just want to know is their any good off the shelf gaming PC that will age gracefully. either from any online stores, Dell, harvey norman, whatever, that is about $1300 or less?

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  UFO on 25/03/2018 - 09:40

  +1

  More info bud, what's included in your budget?

  Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers? Or have you got $1300 just for the tower? That'll make a big difference to what you can get.

  Also, are you into overclocking and pushing parts to their limits, or want something stock and stable?

  Do you already have an operating system, or are you looking to get something OEM?

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    ego22 on 25/03/2018 - 09:45

    ive already got the monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

    stock and stable

    and windows already installed.

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      UFO on 25/03/2018 - 09:54

      good place to start:

      http://www.msy.com.au/viconline/mspec-gaming-pc/20257-mspec-…

      $1300 Intel based package

      Horses for courses on which GPU, SSD, HDD you go for. I'd personally drop the 2Tb Seagate and 240Gb WD Green SSD, and instead go for a bigger SSD as your boot drive (and get a storage drive later if you really want it).

      Minor changes to this line up will give slightly difference performance, but unless you are really counting frame rates and anal about specs, what's on offer here isn't too bad value at all.

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        SimpleRoger on 25/03/2018 - 11:52

        -1

        Why would you do that?? Of course build it yourself, that's part of the experience of pc gaming, you don't just buy a pre built.

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        UFO on 25/03/2018 - 12:04

        I agree… I'd much rather build something from scratch as well. But OP said he wanted something off the shelf, so went with what was requested.

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  iforgotmysocks on 25/03/2018 - 09:54

  +6

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/368308

  Awesome value. Only missing an SSD

  SSD version for $1119.20 if you don't want to touch it at all https://m.ebay.com.au/itm/Inspiron-Gaming-Desktop-Intel-Core…

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    Wampus on 25/03/2018 - 10:29

    +3

    I have always built my own gaming desktops, but when you couple Dell's warranty with the part costings, you're better off getting this for sure

    The 1060 6g will set you back about $500 as is

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    UFO on 25/03/2018 - 11:06

    This Dell system is pretty good actually! Ignore my above comment ;).

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  TimboAus1234 on 25/03/2018 - 12:33

  Yep great deal saves a lot of time to unless you love building and watching benchmarks of random games (like I do :) )