Allied Gaming PC, Any Good?

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  MS Paint on 10/02/2025 - 23:05

  +3

  Which games does he play and what's the resolution and refresh rate of his monitor?

  plus $179 for Windows

  Don't do that. You can install it for free with some minor limitations or pay $10 to activate it.

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    jv on 10/02/2025 - 23:07

    +1

    Which games does he play

    Minecraft.

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    jv on 10/02/2025 - 23:07

    -5

    pay $10 to activate it.

    They are illegal licences.

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      MS Paint on 10/02/2025 - 23:24

      +2

      That's why I didn't provide links etc. Just making op aware of options.

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        jv on 10/02/2025 - 23:45

        -5

        Might as well steal a PC whilst they're at it…

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          tenpercent on 11/02/2025 - 08:49

          +3

          @jv: You wouldn't steal a car /s

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      Bruceflix on 11/02/2025 - 07:00

      +3

      There's a huge difference between illegal and not complying with the eula.

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    heal on 10/02/2025 - 23:10

    Mostly plays Minecraft. Very occasionally plays Fortnite. He is 16 years old starting year 11. Doesn't need a laptop as he has a surface pro for school.

    Has 2x Asus VE247 monitors. 1920x1080 & 2ms.

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  jv on 10/02/2025 - 23:06

  Allied Gaming PCs seem to have mixed reviews.

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    heal on 10/02/2025 - 23:13

    +1

    What about Nebula PC? They do have a 3 year warranty.

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  Clear on 10/02/2025 - 23:23

  +3

  It's worth mentioning that Allied and Techfast are the same. With Allied you're getting ready to ship gaming PCs at a higher price than the weeks/months you need to wait for Techfast.

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  scrimshaw on 10/02/2025 - 23:26

  +6

  For $1000+ budget I wouldn't be considering an AM4 socket, which has already reached it's end of life. Moreover the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 performs more like a Ryzen 5 3600 due to it's very small cache size. The naming scheme makes it sound like it's a slightly worse AMD Ryzen 5 5600 but it's actual performance is quite a ways off.

  If you're trying keep the budget low there's a RTX 4060 + Ryzen 5 5500 system for $888 + $50 delivery @ Nebula

  In terms of value though I think this deal is much better (at +$260 difference).

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    heal on 10/02/2025 - 23:55

    In terms of value though I think this deal is much better (at +$260 difference).

    That would be around his price point with windows installed. He could afford to upgrade to the MSI gaming plus motherboard.

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      scrimshaw on 11/02/2025 - 10:40

      +3

      Don't upgrade the motherboard, you are still getting the same tier of chipset (b650) and you're not really getting anything extra out of it — no extra performance or PCIE lanes. If you have extra dosh to spend it's better to spend it on a better graphics card.

      The RX 7800XT you were looking at earlier for example is a lot faster than the vanilla RTX 4060.

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        heal on 11/02/2025 - 12:25

        The RX 7800XT you were looking at earlier for example is a lot faster than the vanilla RTX 4060.

        So if i was going to upgrade anything, it would be best to put it into a GPU, even if he doesn't currently play anything that needs a better GPU at the moment?

        Or is there other upgrades that would be better, such as ram or psu?

        They even off a thermal compound upgrade but I'm thinking that might be a bit of a gimmick.

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          scrimshaw on 11/02/2025 - 13:03

          +1

          @heal: Thermal compound upgrades are not necessary at all, the stock stuff is fine, you are not buying a super-high end Ryzen 9 9950x that requires top-end liquid cooling and the best thermal performance. Ryzen 5 cpu's run cool enough on ordinary thermal compound and factory default cooling.

          For RAM, 16GB is minimum nowadays, and 32GB is recommended. You don't need anymore than 32GB of RAM, but it would be somewhat short sighted to buy a desktop with 16GB as of 2025.

          As for graphic cards, it's usually better to buy a higher tier GPU if the monitor resolution is higher than standard 1080p. The 7800XT is much better equipped to run games at a higher resolution than the 8GB RTX 4060 is, not just because of raw performance but also because of it's much higher VRAM (video memory) specification. The 7800 XT is considered a direct competitor to Nvidia's RTX 4070 (so it's a tier higher than the RTX 4060).

          PSU upgrades are not necessary so long as the base-spec one is not complete garbage, especially when you're trying to keep budget low, and often when you opt for a better power supply the system builder will over-charge you for it. Component upgrades & addons are how the system builder makes their margins, so resist the urge to unnecessarily add things to your base configuration. They're not good value most of the time (it's a noob-trap)

          TLDR: any spare change should be spent on the graphics card, and Cooler / T. Compound / PSU / Case upgrades should be considered luxury-add ons that are not super essential unless you have a very specific reason to buy them.

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            heal on 11/02/2025 - 14:12

            @scrimshaw: Thanks for your help, went for the AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD Ryzen 5 7500F (AM5 socket) with 32gb ram as per the second option in my original post. Only upgrade we got was $15 for a white case. Really appreciate all the advice. Overall my son spent $200 more than he orginally planned to but he's earning good money for a 16 year old working at the local servo. Whilst he doesn't spend a lot of time gaming, he agreed that if he and his friends all moved onto a different game which needed a better GPU he would regret not getting the 7800XT.