Anyone point me in the direction of a desktop, Need to replace my old slow pc. Mainly used for browsing, odd game playing (nothing too heavy), general surfing. Also can I get Windows 11 as a download? Any help/advice would be much appreciated thanks. Budget up to £700.
Nothing too taxing gaming wise that requires anything like liquid cooling or multiple fans it`s only basic stuff like call of duty etc
Would have thought they are all Windows 11 as they are stopping supporting Windows 10 next year. Any PC shops you can go to that build one - tell them what you want and they can recommend a good spec. Probably work out cheaper
Your best bet value-wise is going used, but if it's a couple of years old you might be stuck on Windows 10 instead of 11 as that requires recent hardware. You can get great value though from buying a used office PC on eBay and sticking a new solid state drive and reasonably modern but also used graphics card in it. You can make a basic gaming system for <£200 this way. If you want new components then I'd suggest anything with an AMD Ryzen APU in it (for example Ryzen 5 8500G - the G denotes it has graphics capabilities and they're pretty decent). An APU is a CPU combined with a basic but gaming capable GPU (graphics). Then later on if you want more performance you can stick a dedicated graphics card in it. Have a look at PCSpecialist online if you're not comfortable building one, they allow you to configure your own PC with new parts and they build it specially and ship it to you. It's still cheaper than buying one somewhere like Currys I find.
You're probably going to struggle for 700, Windows 11 alone is £109. You can probably get something used within budget. I've bought my past 3 from Overclockers and have found them to be reliable. Here's one on offer for £800. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...ore-geforce-rtx-3060-gaming-pc-fs-1f8-og.html
If you're not bothered about buying online and want good service locally, I would recommend going to see Richard at Rotherham Computers...next to Millmoor. He's built a few for me over the years and I can't rate him highly enough...absolutely top lad and no bull.
Make sure it has a Solid State Drive(SSD512GB) & 16GB ram, a cheap Graphics card(Nvidia 1080),4Gen Motherboard, you should be OK.
Not sure Windows 11 needs recent hardware. I've got it running on my daughters old laptop without any issues - which was bought before she went to university, so it 6-7 years old now.
Depends on the CPU generation and if it contains a TPM 2 chip. I think it's Intel 8th gen or later, or anything AMD Ryzen. It is a few years of leeway though yeah
