I feel your pain, but to be honest, the answer is probably no but it depends on what games he's going to want to play. A £300 PC will probably still play Minecraft OK, but for things like GTA, your budget wont stretch, e.g. for a start you would need a better graphics card which will eat up over 2/3 of your budget :disappointed:

In all seriousness, you may be better to consider a console, its a one off purchase and fits in your budget (although I can feel the glares and daggers in the back from the PC master race for even daring to suggest such a thing!! :smiley:)

It is a fair point.

The only counter I have is that if you have assorted pc bits and pieces already available then you can get some good stuff quite cheap and make something really good compared to what you spend, especially on Black Friday.

Last year I grabbed a brix gaming for £170 total, including 8gb ram and small ssd, that runs gta V well. End of range stuff but still well under a third of what it was selling for. Based on some of the other offers last year you could get a decent ready to go i3/i5 for £230/£260 with no graphics card and even asda were dumping their stock like this for similar prices, £80 for a 750 puts you just above the £300 budget. They were older stock and only had 6gb though, ok but not great...like your £300 budget. :P

If you had parts and os you might be able to pick up a decent barebones for sub £200 this year too, but again older generation, and a 750 or 760 gtx for sub £80. If you have hdd/sdd then £30 for ram and use your own os. Who knows maybe the 960 might flop in price or the 780 and you get lucky.

Having realistic expectations is needed here: that £300 wont get you cutting edge performance but it will get you playing at medium, with the ability to upgrade to higher end graphics if they ever hit a realistic price.

If it is like last year stuff goes quick so you need to know precisely what you need and hit it fast.

edit: messed up the quote chopping!

defo add £2.99 to the 120gb SSD to replace the 1TB SATA :smile:

This good? I'm not a PC expert, would like to buy a gaming player for my son

AWD-IT are very good, just finished my latest build using their i7 6700k bundle and by far the cheapest around. I haven't tried pcpartpicker but wouldn't be suprised if the parts alone are close to this, let alone prebuilt with good customer service. Looks good deal op.
Edit: AWD-IT been around 10 years and gave me 3 years warranty on my parts.That psu will be fine for a 1060, these guys know their stuff.

awd it is a great comp. bought a pc from them 3 years ago and it still runs solid

​Thanks. Is there a ccl point you would recommend?

seems like a sweet build. these guys are great. i bought my current pc from them a while back and havent really had a problem

​Can I just point out the 6gb Ram in the title is for the graphics card and cannot be changed. As for system memory, it comes with 8gb as default.

So would this be a good PC to buy? I'm currently gaming on the PS4 but am planning on switching to PC very soon but just don't know whether to build it myself or buy a pre-built PC like OP's post.