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.

Photograph shows the correct case / cooler although with a different graphics card and motherboard, so while mostly accurate to the look of this finished PC there are some small detail differences so please consider the photo to be for illustration purposes.

Commando brings some more firepower to the battlefield with fast Radeon RX 7600 graphics and a balanced set of competent parts throughout making it ideal for high framerates on a 1080p monitor and handles multi-tasking / streaming with ease.

This system level introduces an 8 core processor - while most games are fine with 6 cores, a few do benefit from 8 cores (Cyberpunk 2077 for example) and allows more background tasks to run while gaming such as chat or stream applications without hurting performance. Further, this system has 32GB RAM which benefits both larger games and also helps with keeping multiple applications open at the same time as gaming (streaming, chat, browser, music and so on)

The Radeon RX 7600 8GB graphics card is great value and typically matches the more expensive GeForce RTX 4060 product for speed and as above makes this ideal to pair with a fast 1080p monitor.

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 PC includes a quick 1TB Solid State Disk (NVMe type with PCI Express 4.0 support from ADATA) 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 smart GameMax Vista AB case featuring with 3 x ARGB fans and glass panels on the front and left side making it look properly striking on top of your desk, and likewise there's a Freezer 36 cooler with illuminated fan adding to the lighting setup. This case is also available in a matt white finish - can be picked using the Case drop demu in the Configure tab above.

Case

The system is housed in the GameMax Vista AB – this case has a glass front and left side for a wide view of components inside and has 3 ARGB fans included which can be set to a colour or pattern of your choice. A white version of this case is also available, as long as a Mini version which is a little less tall.

It’s a medium-large sized case - Dimensions are 21cm wide, 42.1cm deep, 47cm tall – but means we have enough room for larger graphics cards and more storage if required in future.

It gets 3 x USB ports on top (in addition to the rear ports) and has room for up to 3 extra storage devices (2 x hard disks and 1 x SSD) so there's plenty of room for upgrades there, and there's both enough space and cooling to support quite high-end graphics cards (realistically up to the £800 or so price point)

The lower section on this case is meshed rather than glass, and it means should we need to there’s space to put extra fans in that middle tray section to blow more air to the graphics card area should we need it.

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 B550M DS3H AC is the part of the computer that all the other bits plug into, this is a mid-range model and is suited to the selected processor. The B450 models are okay, but the B550 models have better suitability for the higher-end processors like Ryzen 7 and above, so that is a reason for picking this over the lower cost models.

This motherboard has 4 x SATA ports (for storage devices, means there’s room to add extra disk drives later), 4 x DIMM slots (used for installing memory / RAM) and in the current case we get a total of 10 x USB ports (4 x USB 2.0, 5 x USB 3.0).

This motherboard is great for future upgrades too, while we’re including a 8 core processor just now, it can support adding a 12 core processor if required in future. There’s room to add more memory and add more disk drives as noted above.

Both wired internet access (Ethernet) and wireless (Wifi) are included, as well as Bluetooth 4.2 support for pairing to wireless controllers or headsets.

Processor

AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X is a 8 core / 16 thread processor with excellent performance and is generally considered the sweet spot of processors for gaming just now – the CPU score of 29,569 points in passmark meets exceeds the recommended level for most games today, leaving some resources available for background tasks alongside gameplay.

Likewise this performs well in creative work like video edting.

The processor does include a cooler but they’re just ‘okay’ – tending to run quite warm and can get a bit noisy, and during high-loads will typically not allow the processor to hit its highest boost speeds. I’ve included an uprated Kolink Umbra EX180 Black Edition CPU Cooler which has a larger 12cm fan (opposed to 9cm) and a larger surface area so does a better job than the standard processor cooler - resulting in both lower temperatures and less noise.

Memory

Memory or RAM affects how many things your computer can have open at once – typically 16GB is plenty for general computing and gaming use these days, and 32GB is a good for moderate for larger games like Hogwarts Legacy, Star Citizen and Flight Simulator. Additionally, it means for even lower demand games that it's possible to have other applications open at once without too many slow-downs.

So, included 32GB of Corsair DDR4 3600Mhz memory (made of 2 x 16GB modules) which at least means we’re in a good region. This uses 2 of the 4 slots on the motherboard, so there’s room to double up to 64GB if ever required in future.

Memory speed can be another factor in overall system performance – there’s only a small price increase from slower speeds like 3000Mhz to 3600Mhz 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

Included a high speed 1TB PCI-E 4.0 NVME storage (ADATA S70 with read speeds up to 7400MB/s - about 30x faster than a hard disk drive and 10x 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. 

Graphics

Included a Radeon RX7600 8GB graphics card as its able to support the recommended level on all current games on a 1080p monitor.

To see performance in particular games, search the name of the game + RX 7600 on youtube, or check for example this video showing performance in a range of games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTW7zKGuK8o 

This card can support multiple monitors (up to 4) so can add additional screens in future if required. 3 x Displayport and 1 x HDMI connection are supported.

Networking

Motherboard has wired Gigabite Ethernet port built in, and Wifi (up to 433Mbps Wifi AC with 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz support).

Additionally Bluetooth 4.2 is supported for connecting up a wireless controller or headset.

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/