Gaming PC - Buying Guide
Our Guide to help you buy the right Gaming computer for you
When buying a gaming PC just keep in mind that Gaming PC's arn't just the same as games consoles and you cant just buy a game from the shop and play the game, every game on PC has a minimum and recommended requirement to play the game. We always recommend buying a PC at least at the recommended standard for he games you inten
With gaming computers ranging from £150- £5000 how do you know which one to buy and how much to spend?
Our simple guide below will assist you.
Guide to buying a Gaming Computer
What is a Gaming Computer?
A gaming computer is simply a high spec personal computer and what makes it different from a standard PC is it should be more powerful have a dedicated Graphics card and better cooling, and of cause ARGB lighting.
What to consider
:When buying a gaming PC just keep in mind that Gaming PC's arn't just the same as games consoles and you cant just buy a game from the shop and play the game, every game on PC has a minimum and recommended requirement to play the game. We always recommend buying a PC at least at the recommended standard for the games you intend to play.
We also advise that you consider the age of the gaming PC and the upgradability of the PC as new games are released and new parts you might want to upgrade.
Below we have put the recommended specifications for the most popular games:
Recommended Specification per game
Fortnite - Recommended Spec
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
COD Warzone - Recommended Spec
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 960, AMD R9 280, or equivalent DX11 GPU
Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM
Processor: Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz, AMD Ryzen 3 3300U, or equivalent
Memory: 16 GB RAM or higher
Hard Drive: NVMe Solid State Drive
OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
COD Warzone - Recommended Spec
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
COD Warzone - Recommended Spec
OS: Windows 10 64-bit latest update
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600X processor
RAM: 12GB RAM
HDD: 175GB HD space
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 1660 or Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
DirectX: Requires DirectX 12 compatible system
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
OS: Windows 10 64-bit latest update
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600X processor
RAM: 12GB RAM
HDD: 175GB HD space
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 1660 or Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
DirectX: Requires DirectX 12 compatible system
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Minecraft - Recommended Spec
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
COD Modern Warfare - Recommended Spec
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz / AMD A10-7800 APU 3.5 GHz or equivalent
- CPU SPEED: Info
- RAM: 4 GB
- VIDEO CARD: GeForce 700 Series or AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series (excluding integrated chipsets) with OpenGL 4.5
- DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 256 MB
- PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
- VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
- OS: Windows 10
- FREE DISK SPACE: 4 GB
Forza- Recommended Spec
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
- CPU: Intel i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VIDEO CARD: NVidia GTX 1070 OR AMD RX 590
- DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 8192 MB
- PIXEL SHADER: 5.1
- VERTEX SHADER: 5.1
- OS: Windows 10 version 15063.0 or higher
- FREE DISK SPACE: 110 GB
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
League of Legends - Recommended Spec
- CPU: Intel Core i5-330 / Ryzen 3 1200
- CPU Features: SSE4
- GPU: NVidia GeForce 560 / Radeon HD 6950
- GPU Features: DX-11 Level Hardware
- VRAM: 2GB
- Free Storage Space: 16GB SSD
- OS Versions: Windows 10
- OS Architecture: x64
- RAM: 4GB
- Recommended GFX Setting: High
- Recommended Resolution: 1920 x 1080
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
- OS: Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor: 6 Cores, 3.5 GHz processor
8th Generation Intel®Core™
AMD Ryzen™ Zen 2
- Video: DirectX® 12 capable 8GB GPU
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX
AMD RDNA™ 2
Intel® Arc™ 7 Graphics - Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Storage: 128GB available space
- Internet: Broadband internet connection
- Resolution: 1280 x 720 minimum display resolution
GTA 5 - Recommended Spec
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
- CPU: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHz (8 CPUs)
- CPU SPEED: Info
- RAM: 8 GB
- VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GB
- DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2 GB
- PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
- VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit, Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
- FREE DISK SPACE: 72 GB
- SOUND CARD: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
Roblox - Recommended Spec
World of Warcraft - Recommended Spec
Roblox - Recommended Spec
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 280
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
- RAM: 2 GB
- HDD: 0MB
- DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card