I'm getting a job which will earn me 21 pounds a week(I'm 15). if I needed to save up for everything but a mouse and microphone, which I already have, how many weeks would it take?
In other words, I want a PC that can run games @ 108060 and maybe probably record in either 108060 or 108030. How much would I need to get one?
Posted Aug 25, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC
Work for a year and you will get a PC that can probably record 1080p 60fps highest graphical settings for a few years if you dont have the patience about 600£ would be enough.
At £15 a week I hope you are not working for more than 3 hours.
Anyway with a budget like that grab some 2nd hand stuff. Plenty of amazing builds being sold at bargain prices.
21 pound a week, about 30 min paper round mon-sat
I got confused between your age and wage.
Anyway 2nd hand is the way to go for value for money. If you have time (you are in high school ;) then I recommend the ocuk members market for second hand stuff.
I bet they forgot to tell you that's it's 30 minutes working, 3 hours loading which doesn't count as working for some reason.
Nah, it's something we have to do before school so you just turn up at 7, pick up your papers, deliver them then go home. Then on Saturday you get payed!
Depending on the exact spec you go for. It's possible to build a decent console killer for $250-$400 (GBP 160-260) - look up Potato Masher on YouTube - under one condition: that you invest time into searching for sales and/or refurbished or second-hand hardware ( r/hardwareswap is one of the places to get started ).
Remember that until you can afford a monitor, you can use a TV as your display, and that you can get Windows cheaply from r/microsoftsoftwareswap.
parts in the uk tend to be a lot more expensive though
If you save every penny, about 1/2 a year and you could piece together a good little starting machine. 2nd hand would be the way forward. Best bet is to save up ~£500 then start weighing up the options.
Awesome, thanks :)
I'd work out your budget by using benchmarks online for cpu/gpus and work out whether you want: an ssd, overclocking, preference for nvidia or amd software (nvidia has a great recording software) and aesthetics (eg case window, LEDs)
Once you have a budget and an idea of what you want your build to do give the guys at r/buildapc a shout and they'll help you out picking the best parts.
Good luck ,and happy ascending, :)
I've actually got some really decent recording software, Mirillis action! it works really well on my laptop and my brothers PC!
I'm not a huge fan of the L.E.D Flashing and all that, i think having a PC like that just looks silly and uses up electricity. I'm a fan of those white cases, like in the background of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CM86vHLWwAApeNl.jpg , but maybe without the blue LED side panel!
I've been wanting to save for a PC for ages, but I never had the chance too. Also, a nvidia graphics card would be awesome, as the Nvec codec, or whatever its called, works with OBS for streaming/recording.
I didn't know about that sub so I'm defo gonna check it out, thanks for the help!
I want your keyboard OP.
You're almost done with school, I'd try for something bigger than a paper route, certainly at least by next summer. Trust me, when you're making $770 every two weeks for 35 hours a week, you won't look longingly at a paper route. This is especially true if you don't need to save up for college (like me, doing 20% for me, 80% for college) and you can divert 100% of that to a PC.
I'm not almost done with school! I've got all of this year, 2 years of sixth form college then a uni course...
I would aim for about 1000USD so probably around 700-800 pounds. To figure out how many weeks it'll take, keep going to math class.
Wow, that end bit is a bit pretentious. I'm fairly sure I could do basic division, I just wondered about costs.
The price he's talking about only makes sense for high-end, brand new components.
In practice, a system that is perfectly fine for running current gen games at 1080p and mid-high settings can be built around a two year old GPU and a four year old CPU, both of which can be found quite cheaply.
Since your budget is limited, I advise you go for that as a short term goal and then upgrade the rig according to your needs and financial ability.
My brother got one 2-3 years ago for 800 quid that can do what I want, but parts are always getting cheaper as new ones come out, so I know I could get it for cheaper. The pretentious bit was "keep going to match class". Like, for a start it's compulsorary, and secondly I'm planning on doing well in my exams, not flunking them all.
I think your plan of going for a short term goal then upgrading is a good one, but I will have to think about building or getting from a website like pcspecialist. I'd like to be able to build myself though
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