To be fair with you, if you're in the UK I say go for pcspecialist. You can put together a pc yourself on there, they'll assemble it and ship it to you. If you're got any worries about what you're ordering, just make a thread on this forum and someone will probably sort out any problems they might forsee (though pcspecialist does have quite a good compatibility check).
pcspecialist.co.uk
It's definitely something to look up. Unless you want to go through the trouble of shipping a quite expensive product (which I've never done, so I'm not entirely sure how that works)
Here's a few pointers to go about selecting stuff:
- 8GB RAM is more than enough, 16GB is just overkill if you're planning on gaming and will put a severe dent in your budget
- You can always borrow a copy of Windows from someone and if you're planning to fit in high end components on a budget, perhaps that would be the best course of action at the moment.
- PCspecialist often puts bluray drivers as their template, change it with a regular dvd burner as you won't really need it and it's rather expensive.
- Go for a decent case and get the more expensive branded cooler(s) they've got on the website, the stock AMD cooler is quite noisy and annoying and the middle one they offer is quite crap.
- They've got a great option of gaming keyboard/mouse combos on there and you simply cannot go wrong getting them.
- Gold warranty = Definitely worth it. Although I say go for silver, it's only like 5 quid (bare cheap) and it'll go a long way.
- Go for a good PSU, ignore when the message pops up saying you don't really need a 550W PSU since you'll probably be better off getting it in the long run.
That's pretty much it, mate. Happy building.
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