PC buy for Minecraft and Roblox plus

[dl43]

Hi all.

I am looking to buy my son a gaming PC for his 12th birthday. He only really plays M!necraft and R@bl@x at the moment but may progress onto other games in the future.

I have never really been a gamer and I am not into computers so I don't really know what I need to be looking for in a PC for him to use.

Can anybody point me in the right direction please?

Thanks in advance.

[Mod edit: changed title for clarity from the unhelpful "Spec Recommendation".]

 

[Why_Me]

What country are you located, what is your budget, what is your son's monitor resolution or does he need a monitor?

 

[dl43]

What country are you located, what is your budget, what is your son's monitor resolution or does he need a monitor?

We are in the UK. Looking to spend about £500. He will need a monitor too

 

[Why_Me]

We are in the UK. Looking to spend about £500. He will need a monitor too

I would look at a prebuilt with that budget.

https://www.scan.co.uk/

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[Brian Boru]

spend about £500. He will need a monitor

Ouch, that's a big bite out of the budget. If you have a spare TV, that could be used and keep the £500 for the box—it's still going to be a low-end machine anyway.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-asus-tuf-gaming-fa506ihr-hn019w-fhd-144hz-r5-4600h-8gb-ddr4-512gb-nvme-ssd-4gb-gtx-1650-usb-32-w

This laptop is on sale on Scan for just over your budget. Should play Minecraft and Roblox fine and a laptop solves the monitor issue.

Unfortunately a tower and a monitor with similar specs will run you a fair amount more than that. Keyboard, mouse, Windows and so on will up the cost quite a bit as well.