All of our systems are built to your requirements - we offer these specifications to show examples of what is possible at a particular price point, essentially our serving suggestion of what works well on a particular budget. 

NOTE - Computers are collected from our shopfront rather than sent by courier at a distance, delivery options are not offered.

Nimrod is an ideal starter gaming PC that's ideal for the majority of games and certainly great for titles like Fortnite, Overwatch 2 etc

Gaming performance comes from a fast processor (Intel i5-12400F with 6 cores, which currently is the best value in terms of price / performance for processors around £100 cost at the time of setting up this configuration) and a Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card with 4GB VRAM - likewise, this outperforms the price competitive product (GTX 1650) at a slightly lower price point.

These parts have been picked to provide optimal value with every frame per second possible at the price point! 

We make sure to build systems with future expansion in mind, so the power supply has capability to support swaps up to £400 graphics cards in future with our-trade up scheme and the case is large enough to accomodate these too. The motherboard can support later generation processors from Intel 12th / 13th / 14th generation.

The PC includes a quick 1TB Solid State Disk (NVMe type from Western Digital) which is noticably quicker than cheaper SATA models and is another premium item that we've included in this budget-friendly PC.

The system is housed in a Black Diamond case with ARGB lighting on the front panel and rear fan, although you can choose your own case if preferred - see the "Configure" tab above for additional case options.

Case

Suggested for the case the GameMax Black Diamond – it’s not too expensive, but is smart looking with a tempered glass side panel, and both a front lighting strip and rear fan are included that can be set to a single colour of your choice or cycle through various patterns. 

Dimensions are 20.7cm wide, 37cm deep, 46.5cm tall.

It gets a couple of extra USB ports on top (in addition to the rear ports) and has room for 2 x hard disks and up to 2 x solid state disks, so it’s particularly good for potential storage expansion as well.

Power 

MSI A650BN 650W Bronze is slightly more than we need – a 600W Power Supply would be adequate for the computer spec, but it’s good to have a little extra buffer to allow for future upgrades.

MSI is a solid brand and has enough connectors to support additional storage devices later, and has enough connectors to support additional storage devices later, and would handle a graphics card upgrade too (graphics cards up to £700 price point are supported on this spec of power supply – so it’s easy to just plug those straight in when you want to improve graphics performance later, or add more disk drives with the 5 x SATA connections )

Motherboard

Gigabyte H610M S2H V2 is a MicroATX motherboard suited to the selected processor and case.

This motherboard has 1 x M.2 Sockets (for high-speed storage), 4 x SATA ports (for regular storage devices), 2 x DIMM slots (for memory) and with the current case we get a total of 9 x USB Ports (6 at the back of the computer, 3 on the top)

This supports 12th and 13th generation Intel processors, so does have some upgrade room in future (although reastically, the latest top-end i7 and i9 models need a higher-end motherboard for better power circuitry, but anything up to i5-13600KF is fine)

Processor

Picked Intel i5-12400F which is a good gaming and application processor with 6 cores. These new Intel Alder Lake processors (Intel 12th gen) have excellent performance and provide 6 cores (12 threads available)

Comparing to AMD equivalent Ryzen 5 5600 - they're fairly close with the Intel slightly ahead more often in games. The Intel model is a little bit cheaper and comes with a better cooler, so I've picked Intel i5-12400F model here.

Memory

Memory or RAM affects how many things your computer can have open at once – typically 8GB is suitable for general computing use and 16GB needed for higher demand games, with the likes of Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto games needing 16GB RAM to maintain consistent performance.

So, included 16GB of Team DDR4 3200Mhz memory (made of 2 x 8GB modules) which at least means we’re keeping in line with demand. 

Memory speed can be another factor in overall system performance – there’s only a small price increase from slower speeds like 2666Mhz to 3200Mhz memory, but the latter makes the computer noticeably quicker and is reflected in our scoring. Other computer providers may hide the memory speed, and this is usually an indication that they’re using the cheap / slow stuff to shave a few £ off somewhere, but this can be detrimental to the performance of the whole package.

Storage

Have included a Western Digital SN580 1TB solid state disk (NVMe SSD) which gives amazing read speeds (4150MB/s – about 20x faster than a hard disk drive and 6x faster than a regular SSD). It should be enough for 8-12 games to be installed at once depending on size, and if you ever need further capacity in future it’s easy for us to fit a second disk drive (hard disk or SSD) to the computer later as additional storage.

Options – if you want to change storage size, see the configure tab above this text. 

Networking

Motherboard has wired Ethernet port built in, Wifi is optional but a Wifi adapter can be fitted to a USB port if required i. Certainly, a wired Ethernet connection is the most reliable option so always best to use this when possible.

Or, if you need a network cable, just let us know what length and we can add this to your order.

Operating System / Software 

Genuine Windows 11 Home 64 bit included.

System assembly includes setting the system up with all updates and your choice of applications, e.g. web browser, free office/security software if needed. Any media applications – Spotify, iTunes, etc.- can pre-install some games if you want to play right away. For example, we have the downloads for some games saved here (we don't have every game but do have a decent selection of popular titles held), so we can copy them on to the system so that they are ready to play when you sign in to your game accounts.

Systems include a software recovery image to bring them back to day one condition and include all original media for the Windows license and accessories from the system's parts. 

Internet Security

Windows includes Defender which provides reasonable anti-virus protection and for many users this will be fine. We would tend to suggest this as being a better pick than many of the free anti-virus packages which often just serve up as many pop-ups and adverts that can be a distracting nuisance.

Being generally careful online with unknown sites / downloads is good practise, and most importantly good password management is essential today - make sure to avoid using the same passwords for valuable logins, particularly email and anything financial. Additionally, the other common attack in terms of security now is tricking the person using the computer to give access - either through email, website or a phone call.

Anti-virus and security packages can provide greater coverage (although note above, they can't cover for compromised passwords nor allowing an unknown person to connect to your computer) but certainly with add-on programs you can have more thorough coverage for checking files, emails and websites. 

We can provide Norton 360 standard which gives real time threat protection, VPN access which can be enabled when accessing banking or similar and other features like Cloud storage and webcam use notifications. This is at an introductory price of 1 year for £14.40 - although note that the subsequent renewal is typically more expensive, although you can of course come back to us to purchase a license for another year at a lower price.

Or for business grade security, we offer ESET Smart Security for £37.09 for 1 year.

Build Time

Computer assembly/testing time is within one week, and most often 4 days.

How to order / Pay 

Payment can be made online by debit/credit card or Paypal – just click add to cart on the page and complete checkout if you’re happy with the suggested spec and want to pay online, or we can do payment in store if you want to visit in person to complete this. 

We'll then message you again to confirm when the computer is ready (build time noted above)

We can accept Paypal payments for all or part of the system cost – sometimes using Paypal’s four months interest-free option (Paypal Virtual Credit) can spread some or all of the system cost (depending on the limit offered) – see more details here https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-virtual-credit

Additionally, Paypal offer a Pay in 3 option – where you pay a third immediately, then the remaining 2^nd and 3^rd payments a month apart. There is no interest cost for this, so it’s a great way to manage cashflow and get an item right away – see more details here https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-payin3

(note, we have previously advertised in-store finance options but have discontinued these because of high operating costs – if you do want longer payment terms, typically we found that customers eligible for a finance application could get a better deal with lower prices by applying for a new credit card with an introductory rate. Often this would mean 12 or 24 months interest-free, which was a much better deal than the finance option) We have a blog explaining this in more detail here with suggestions on finance options if needed - https://www.kustompcs.co.uk/pc-guides-and-info/finance-on-pcs-is-it-worth-it/