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Listen I get it you don't have much money, air pods or a PC that can open chrome without catching fire Well now I have made a guide just for you, so that you can game or maybe edit videos on a budget that doesn't void your wallet. [hide] Step 1: Price hunt part a) Firstly you need to aim for a prebuilt within a shop or online under £150 and look for something containing a: 4 Core CPU (preferably over 3GHz) or higher E.g. an i5-2400 8 Gigabytes of RAM or higher Extras (not needed but desired): Motherboard with extra RAM slots for the ability to upgrade later DDR3 RAM slots so its cheaper to upgrade later I found this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-Professional-Antivirus-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B071H9RP12/ref=sr_1_13?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1549927261&sr=1-13&keywords=quad+core+pc&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A1481781031 part b) Secondly aim for a graphics card that will fit in your case dimensions for less than £160 without picking up a fake, such as a: GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (Usually between £80 - £140) GTX 1060 3/6GB (usually between £100 - £180) GTX 970 4GB (Usually between £90 - £190) Info : The 1050 Ti performs the worst (by a very large margin) but draws the least power, the 970 performs better than the 1060 3GB but the 970 and 1060 3GB perform worse than the 1060 6GB, and the 970 draws the most power (1050 ti - 75W / 970 - 145W / 1060 - 125W) Part c) Work out the total cost (should be around £300) Step 2: Power part a) work out the amount of power your PC will draw at its max, and compare it to the power supply within the pre-built Part b) Order a new power supply that is above the max your PC will draw e.g 500W (Only if it already surpasses the current power supply) Info: if you're new PSU doesn't have a 6pin/8pin connector (e.g if its modular but didn't come with one for some reason) AND you have a 1060/970, order a cable to power your Graphics Card Step 3: Assemble Replace you're power supply for the new one, here is a video demonstrating how to do so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFVhgiwJE6U Connect your GPU to the top PCI-E slot of the motherboard, here is a video demonstrating how to do so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNe0sSvifE Boot it up and install drivers from geforce experience or nvdia's website Now for upgrade-ability, your options are: Buy a new CPU Cooler to prevent thermal throttling (E.g. a hyper 212 evo for £20) Buy an extra ram stick if you have spare slots on your motherboard (or replace one with a larger storage) Buy a £20 SSD and move your Operating system to it for faster boot times [/hide] And you now have a £320-£400 PC for gaming, editing, whatever you desire.

the m690? yeah maybe with the side bit on the left compared to the other one, and its got another button

np mate 👍

👍 is the ikbc keyboard mechanical? whats its usual price? Also trust me the drevo tyrfing v2 is great, ive been using it with brown switches for about 3 days and its been good so far

I've had them both for about 3 days, for the keyboard brown switches are and its a god compared to membrane keyboards. Also yeah corsair makes good mouses to be fair. its Just some of them are overpriced for how good they are compared to their budget ones

@Laxus tru 250gb and 120gb ones are cheap rn and yeah intel optane's a bit of a pain in the a55 but its worth it if its compatible since the price for ssds with a terabyte or more are so high (1tb = £140 wtffff)

@Joey do you mind the colour or just want a good wireless mouse with dpi and side buttons? because redragon usually has good keyboards and mouses and there's a mouse called redragon m690 that has adjustible dpi and side buttons that goes for £16 on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Redragon-M690-1-2-4Ghz-2400DPI-PC-Laptop-Professional-Wireless-Gaming-Mouse-Mice/253742607121?epid=20021321955&hash=item3b143ceb11:g:jwIAAOSwzlFbRFUX:rk:3:pf:1&LH_BIN=1&frcectupt=true there's also one called redragon m652 that has two side buttons and adjustable dpi that goes for £16 aswell https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Redragon-M652-2-4G-Wireless-Gaming-Mouse-with-USB-Receiver-5-Adjustable-DPI/253757404825?epid=14021517175&hash=item3b151eb699:g:7uoAAOSw3TJbWDHn:rk:2:pf:1&LH_BIN=1&frcectupt=true

lol true but if its for a fat steam library then 4 terabyte ssd = £500 4 terabyte hdd + intel optane = £130

na i wan't gonna recommend second hand ones, i know there's some dodgy s*** on some of em

You can try what @Sterling0x1suggested. If that doesn’t work you could go to a local data recovery centre or ship your hard drive to one (Only if the data is that valuable to you) Only if you’ve tried running a file recovery and you don’t want to spend the money sending it to a professional, then I’d pay for a cheap one. if you choose to look for another one on a budget I’d be happy to suggest a reasonably good one

There’s a wireless version of the same mouse, but wired is cheaper so ye @JoeyDo you want me to find an alternative that’s wireless for £20 ? Might be able to find one that’s good

Damn, missed opportunity

So I know you guys are trying to save money for VIP so daddy DiDA gets his payday, but you also need a new keyboard and mouse as the ones you stole from school years ago aint cutting it anymore. But I KNOW you want it cheap and somewhat premium at the same time. Well now you have a solution! [hide] I present the Drevo Tyrfing V2 88-87 Keyboard Things that make the Tyrfing V2 a good choice. On Ebay it can be found for the low price of just £25 used (for example here's a US layout one with brown switches https://goo.gl/FroH5d and here's a UK version with brown switches https://goo.gl/2hcrEy) It can be found in multiple different layouts such as UK, US, IT, RU, GE and FR It is MECHANICAL so you can decide if it comes with Black, Brown, Red or Blue outemu switches (A budget friendly clone of Cherry MX, here's a comparison between Red outemu's and Red Cherry MX's by users of them https://goo.gl/gS3CWG) It's fully RGB! Changeable using Fn keys or it's software here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ci21wxZ8fmLDnRbWcihR02UY_p8jylbu/view Has a braided cable with wire management Side notes: - UK layout has a different font to US (may be all ISO EU versions have different fonts compared to ANSI US) - ANSI US version has Double-Shot key caps whereas ISO EU versions have Laser Marking - Mostly made of plastic apart from the brushed metal on the front plate Next, I present the Corsair Harpoon Mouse (wired) Things that make this corsair mouse great choice. It can be found for the price of £20 on Ebay (here's one https://goo.gl/SuFu27) It has 6 programmable buttons (and the sides are rubberised) Has a DPI range from 250 to 6000! Has RGB lighting for its logo (Customisable using corsair's ICUE software http://downloads.corsair.com/Files/CUE/iCUESetup_3.10.125_release.msi) Side notes: DPI resets to the "default value" upon reboot, so if you're happy with a certain DPI, remember to set it as default in the ICUE software Intended for right handed users Super-lightweight (85g) [/hide] Hopefully this will help someone choose their computer peripherals on a low budget and if anyone has any advice or questions feel free to ask as I own these two products myself and have bought them off the ebay sellers I have listed. And don't forget to drop a like!

na ram doesn't really affect gaming but overclocking your gpu will definitely help

oof you dont use xmp? or does your motherboard not support it or something? Also your 1060 got a near average score so you could try overclocking it yourself using MSI afterburner (instead of using the factory overclock that the gigabyte cards have) to improve your core and memory clocks by a couple hundred. Usually if your card lets you and you do it well, you can get around a 5-15% average fps increase in games If you're interested here's some links: http://download.msi.com/uti_exe/vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip - msi afterburner https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/ - gpu z https://assets.unigine.com/d/Unigine_Heaven-4.0.exe - heaven benchmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEH_y6mxeOk /// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wsDqsObcg /// - overclocking guides with people using similar cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKO7UX4oIYA - benchmarks comparing stock 1060 vs overclocked 1060 hope this helps my guy

is it the windforce oc one?

(had a quick google and this is what i've gathered from UK pricing and gpu.userbenchmark.com ) @absoluT1on Idk what you could do to go against the 1060 3gb for £200. My guess is if you wanted even the smallest bit of a performance boost the RX 580 (or 590 if you can find it for a good price) is your best bet. but I personally think you should stick with your 1060 3gb as £200 is too small of a budget to one up it. maybe get the 6gb version and sell your 3gb one for an upgrade? userbenchmarks - 1060 3gb vs RX 580 https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB-vs-AMD-RX-580/3646vs3923 1060 3gb vs RX 590 https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB-vs-AMD-RX-590/3646vs4033 1060 3gb vs 1060 6gb https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB/3646vs3639

I want a g-nome

Nice!

Either need to reply or you bought the wrong vip