Best Gaming PC for under £350 ($400)
The integrated graphics of the AMD Ryzen 3 3400G provides enough performance for some basic gaming while also delivering quad-core CPU performance. Needs a micro-ATX or ATX case. We recommend a 350W 80 Plus power supply.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G |
Amazon |
£129 |
CPU cooler |
AMD Wraith air cooler included with CPU |
N/A |
N/A |
GPU |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 integrated into CPU |
N/A |
N/A |
Memory |
16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz |
Scan |
£70 |
Motherboard |
Asus TUF B450M-Plus Gaming (micro-ATX) |
Scan |
£79 |
Storage |
500GB WD Blue SN550 (M.2 NVMe) |
Amazon |
£58 |
Total |
|
|
£351 |


Best Gaming PC for under £600 ($800)
This quad-core PC provides enough performance for entry level gaming. Needs an ATX case with room for a 150mm-tall air cooler. We recommend a 450W 80 Plus Bronze power supply.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X |
Amazon |
£120 |
CPU cooler |
ARTIC Freezer 7 X (air cooler) |
Amazon |
£18 |
GPU |
PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT |
CCL |
£253 |
Memory |
16GB (2 x8 GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX Pro 3200MHz |
Scan |
£70 |
Motherboard |
Asus TUF B450M-Plus Gaming (micro-ATX) |
CCLonline |
£79 |
Storage |
WD Blue SN500 NVMe 500GB (M.2 NVMe) |
Ebuyer |
£58 |
Total |
|
|
£608 |

Upgrades
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
Swap Graphics card |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
Ebuyer |
£369 |

Best Gaming PC for £1200 ($1400)
Get into ray tracing with this entry-level RTX gaming system.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X |
Scan |
£469 |
CPU cooler |
Antec Neptune 240 |
scan.xo.uk |
£80 |
GPU |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition |
Overclockers.co.uk |
£338 |
Memory |
16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600MHz |
Scan |
£81 |
Motherboard |
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Carbon WiFi (ATX)* |
Box |
£160 |
Storage |
1TB Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD (M.2 NVMe) |
Amazon |
£140 |
Total |
|
|
£1,229 |

Upgrades
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
Add secondary storage |
Western Digital Blue 4TB |
Amazon |
£108 |

Best Gaming PC for under £1500 ($1800)
Needs an ATX case with room for a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler. We recommend a 600W 80 PLus Bronze power supply.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X |
Overclockers |
£450 |
CPU cooler |
Antec Neptune 240 (240mm AIO liquid cooler) |
CCLonline |
£80 |
GPU |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition |
Scan |
£649 |
Memory |
16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600MHz |
Scan |
£81 |
Motherboard |
Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (ATX) |
Ebuyer |
£300 |
Storage |
1TB Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 |
Amazon |
£180 |
Total |
|
|
£1,730 |

Upgrades
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
Swap CPU |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (12 cores) |
Amazon |
£560 |
Swap CPU cooler |
Corsair H100i RGB Platinum (240mm AIO liquid cooler) |
Amazon |
£125 |
Add secondary storage |
Western Digital Blue 4TB |
Amazon |
£190 |

Best 4K Gaming PC for under £2500 ($3000)
A 12-core CPU, 4K gaming-capable graphics card and real-time ray-tracing are all possible with this build. Needs an E-ATX case with room for a 240mm-all-in-one liquid cooler. We recommend a 650W 80 Plus Gold power supply.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X |
Overclockers |
£560 |
CPU cooler |
Corsair H100i Pro RGB (240mm AIO liquid cooler) |
CCLonline |
£120 |
GPU |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti |
Scan |
£1040 |
Memory |
16GB (2 x 8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3600MHz |
Scan |
£81 |
Motherboard |
MSI Prestige X570 Creation (E-ATX) |
Overclockers |
£440 |
Storage |
1TB Corsair MP600 (M.2 NVMe) |
Amazon |
£197 |
Total |
|
|
£2,306 |

Upgrades
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
Add secondary storage |
Western Digital Blue 4TB |
Amazon |
£90 |

Best Workstation PC
The serious multi-threading power of the Threadripper 2950X makes this a massively capable workstation PC. Needs an ATX case with room for a 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler. We recommend a 700W 80 Plus Gold power supply.
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
CPU |
AMD Threadripper 3960X |
Amazon |
£1350 |
CPU cooler |
NZXT Kraken X63 (280mm AIO liquid cooler) |
Overclockers |
£130 |
GPU |
Zotac Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 6GB |
CCLonline |
£230 |
Memory |
32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3200MHz |
Scan |
£269 |
Motherboard |
ASRock TRX40 Taichi (E-ATX) |
CCL |
£470 |
Storage |
1TB Samsung 980 Pro (M.2 NVMe) |
Amazon |
£182 |
Total |
|
|
£2,531 |

Upgrades
Component |
Name |
Supplier |
Price (inc VAT) |
Swap Graphics card |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition |
Scan |
£469 |
Swap CPU |
AMD Threadripper 3970X |
Amazon |
£1,800 |
Add secondary storage |
4TB Western Digital Blue |
Amazon |
£95 |

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