Newcomer / Intro Where to get a good PC for Odyssey in the UK, and specs

Frankymole

Frankymole
Hi all,

My PC is coming up to 4 years old but was never that great as a gaming machine. I'm not competent enough to upgrade components or build a new one, I just want to order one from a reliable supplier who knows their stuff.

The most important thing is running Odyssey well at Ultra settings - if anything can.

Ideally a PC with Windows per-loaded and licensed to me.

Where would you suggest I start looking?

All suggestions gratefully received.
 

GroG79

G
You can look for the big guys like HP or Dell. I dont know the popular pc shops in the Uk.
I would visit your local PC shop and do business with them.
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
GroG79 said:
You can look for the big guys like HP or Dell. I dont know the popular pc shops in the Uk.
I would visit your local PC shop and do business with them.
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Unfortunately it's PC World and they don't have a great reputation! That said, we got my kid a decent 3060 laptop from them (she only plays Roblox!)...

I think Alienware belong to Dell. Their stuff looks good, but expensive, however I don't mind splurging a decent budget (several £K) for quality stuff.

Just fed up of struggling with low graphics settings...
 

AlSki

AlSki
There are others available...
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Personally I'm running an i5-8400 / RTX 3080 and get 4K ultra, if you don't want 4K you can get away with less.
 

tolm

tolm
Well, no one will agree with me online but I ordered an Alienware Aurora about a year ago and it’s been great. Obviously wasn’t cheap but a I got a discount through my work that put it within the ballpark of other pre-builds for the same spec at the time, and I got a free keyboard and mouse via the Dell Rewards vouchers.

More recently, I’ve order individual components and also a pre-built Motherboard / CPU / RAM bundle for my son from cclonline and have been pretty impressed with the prices and delivery times from them. The little pre-built motherboard was done well - CPU thermal pasted and the cooler fitted ready to just slot into the case we already had. But they do full builds as well and are definitely less expensive than full price at Alienware!
 

Morbad

Morbad
I looked at some reviews for the sites suggested and PC Specialist looks like it has the best long-term track record. They also have a largely unoffensive configuration page and seem to gouge the least.

So, I built a high-end system with their configurator, as free of waste and extraneous nonsense as possible, but not cutting any corners where the corners would actually matter:

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 24-Core Processor i9-13900K (3.0GHz) 36MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME Z790-P (DDR5, LGA1700, USB 3.2, PCIe 5.0) - ARGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
24GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4090 - HDMI, DP
Graphics Card Support Bracket
PCS GRAPHICS CARD SUPPORT BRACKET
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6900MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ - MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 360 Series ARGB High Performance Liquid Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
ASUS PCE-AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 2400Mbps/5GHz, 600Mbps/2.4GHz
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Supplied on USB Drive
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Firefox™
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days

Price: £3,600.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z790-ddr5-pc/KkZQN3bhd7/

There are several components I would swap out were I building this system myself, but these are the most rational options available from PCS. Everything less expensive has performance or usability compromises, everything more expensive is a waste of money. Anything equivalent from any other reputable shop was, on a cursory glance, significantly more expensive.
 
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tolm

tolm
sheesh
Morbad said:
I looked at some reviews for the sites suggested and PC Specialist looks like it has the best long-term track record. They also have a largely unoffensive configuration page and seem to gouge the least.

So, I built a high-end system with their configurator, as free of waste and extraneous nonsense as possible, but not cutting any corners where the corners would actually matter:

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 24-Core Processor i9-13900K (3.0GHz) 36MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME Z790-P (DDR5, LGA1700, USB 3.2, PCIe 5.0) - ARGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
24GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4090 - HDMI, DP
Graphics Card Support Bracket
PCS GRAPHICS CARD SUPPORT BRACKET
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6900MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ - MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 360 Series ARGB High Performance Liquid Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
ASUS PCE-AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 2400Mbps/5GHz, 600Mbps/2.4GHz
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Supplied on USB Drive
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Firefox™
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days

Price: £3,600.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z790-ddr5-pc/KkZQN3bhd7/

There are several components I would swap out were I building this system myself, but these are the most rational options available from PCS. Everything less expensive has performance or usability compromises, everything more expensive is a waste of money. Anything equivalent from any other reputable shop was, on a cursory glance, significantly more expensive.
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Sheesh … that’s a monster!! Not convinced a 4090 is essential for Elite but I will admit there are times I wish I had something a little more pokey than the 3070 I have.
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
A very decent PC picked by Morbad!

I upgraded my system to a 12900k with 64gb of ram a while ago, recently I upgraded the GPU to a 4090 and got a LG 48" OLED.

The system runs EDO exceedingly well. At the moment I'm still playing around with settings, so not sure where I'll end up. But I'm really enoying it with maxed out settings, 4k at 60Hz with 2.25 DLDSR oversampling. The game has never performed and looked so good for me!

Seems like it would have no problem to do 4k/120Hz but it won't do 8k/120Hz.. :D
 
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