I was looking for a UK keyboard laptop whilst living in Germany, to be used for general home office work and some light gaming on the go (e.g. WoW).
Pros:
- Laptop looks good, quite slim and stylish
- Reasonably priced overall considering the pretty sizeable SSD, RAM, and decent integrated...
Bought this laptop for my mum who had been struggling on with an ageing laptop for quite some time. I was looking for something with a good processor and SSD for snappy load times, at an affordable price point. Here's what she had to say:
"Absolutely delighted with my new laptop. It arrived on...
You might be able to salvage a monitor lying around and reinvest the savings back into the PC for a better deal. For £5 you can get converters off Amazon that let VGA monitors (thinking era ~2007) interface with DisplayPort outputs on modern graphics cards, allowing up to 1080 pixel resolutions...
This website is quite useful to 'test' different builds and see if they stand up to whatever benchmark you're interested in, which for you is presumably 60fps 1080p gaming:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder
For each component you'll have to make your own call between 'value' and 'bench'...
I'm guessing 500 gb-ssd, 2 tb-hdd is the sweet spot for storage at the high-end of gaming? Really pleased because that's what I selected in my (admittedly much more cheap and cheerful) build!
P.S. particularly interested to hear thoughts on the motherboard - I have heard that only select models will work with the Ryzen 3xxx CPUs slated for release in July. Not sure whether to just wait on those!
Hey guys,
Would really appreciate some feedback on this planned specification. My goals are:
* 60 FPS gaming at 1080p on ~max. settings for 2019 titles and on high settings until 2024
* Quiet performance
* Good value
* Potential to upgrade
Case
FRACTAL FOCUS G BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)...