Is this good value?

Blackgator

My brother is buying a PC for his kids for gaming and a little bit of programming.
Do you guys think this would be okay and is it good value? Its £600

ASUS G11CD Core I5-6400 8GB 1TB GTX 970 DVD-RW Windows 10 Gaming Desktop

Tech Spec

Key Specification
Processor manufacturer Intel
Processor Model Intel Core i5
Processor Number 6400
Graphics GeForce GTX 970
RAM Memory 8GB
Hard drive capacity 1TB
Operating System Windows 10
Optical Drive SATA DVD+/-RW 16x SuperMult
Manufacturer Warranty 1 year warranty
Form factor ATX
Processor
Processor Model Intel Core i5
Processor Number 6400
Clock Speed 2.7GHz
Memory
RAM Memory 8GB
Storage
Hard drive capacity 1TB
Graphics
Graphic Type Dedicated
Graphics Manufacturer NVIDIA
Graphics card GeForce GTX 970
Graphics Memory 4GB
Media
Optical Drive SATA DVD+/-RW 16x SuperMult
Operating system
Operating System Windows 10
Keyboard and Mouse
Peripherals Keyboard and Mouse
Warranty
Warranty 1 year warranty

He's not interested in building one himself like I suggested.

What do you think? Any better suggestions?

2ndcoming

That's actually not bad, usually prebuilds are a rip off.

If there's an option with an SSD built in I would go for that, or else pick one up on Amazon (120gb minimum). Makes a big difference.

Blackgator

2ndcoming wrote: »

That's actually not bad, usually prebuilds are a rip off.

If there's an option with an SSD built in I would go for that, or else pick one up on Amazon (120gb minimum). Makes a big difference.

Thanks. I thought price was good, just a little worried about the CPU not being up to much. 2.7Ghz doesn't feel like a lot.

Lu Tze

Blackgator wrote: »

Thanks. I thought price was good, just a little worried about the CPU not being up to much. 2.7Ghz doesn't feel like a lot.

It boosts up to 3.3GHz

challengemaster

The i5-6400 is one of the best Skylake CPU's in terms of power/price. Barely lags behind the 6600K. It's not going to bottleneck a GTX 970. You'll have 60+FPS in most recent titles on Ultra 1080p settings.

I have essentially the exact same system, I just have my 6400 overclocked to 4.3Ghz.

2ndcoming

challengemaster wrote: »

The i5-6400 is one of the best Skylake CPU's in terms of power/price. Barely lags behind the 6600K. It's not going to bottleneck a GTX 970. You'll have 60+FPS in most recent titles on Ultra 1080p settings.

I have essentially the exact same system, I just have my 6400 overclocked to 4.3Ghz.

Is that through SkyOC using an older BIOS or something? I remember those non-K Skylakes were overclockable, until they weren't.

challengemaster

2ndcoming wrote: »

Is that through SkyOC using an older BIOS or something? I remember those non-K Skylakes were overclockable, until they weren't.

It was initially through SkyOC using an old bios, until my BIOS corrupted itself a few months ago and I had to flash it.

Turned out that Asrock had quietly enabled BCLK overclocking on the later versions of the BIOS and fixed it so it worked properly and all reporting systems were functional. So it now works better than before :pac:

2ndcoming

challengemaster wrote: »

It was initially through SkyOC using an old bios, until my BIOS corrupted itself a few months ago and I had to flash it.

Turned out that Asrock had quietly enabled BCLK overclocking on the later versions of the BIOS and fixed it so it worked properly and all reporting systems were functional. So it now works better than before :pac:

I wondered about that, I upgraded from an i3-6300 to 7600K and had to update the BIOS to run the Kaby Lake chip on a Z170, spotted SkyOC in the BIOS menu when I updated. It hadn't been there previously as I built my system after Intel tried to block the practice.

jebidiah

Someone posted this from Overclockers in another thread. its fairly similar performance wise, but has newer CPU and GPU. Might be a better option

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-gaming-vision-vr-gaming-pc-intel-8th-generation-3.6ghz-quad-core-fs-1c5-og.html