Last updated on 30-07-2023
We anticipate that you may wish to purchase a new computer to see you through your time at Falmouth University. Although there was a shortage on GPUs in the last couple of years, this seems to be levelling out and prices are starting to come down again. This page will be updated to reflect our current buying advice for students enrolling on our undergraduate courses who wish to purchase a personal computer.
We have separated our computer recommendations by course, which you will find below.
We have provided links to some pre-built PCs. The specs of these machines are generally what we would recommend for a PC and you are welcome to find the parts individually, or look at alternative pre-build retailers.
Desktop PC Specifications
OcUK Gaming Karambit £1529.99
- Processor: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700F
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 4060Ti 8GB GDDR6
- Memory: 16GB DDDR4 3600MHz
- Main Storage: WD Black SN770 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3X0E)
- Secondary Storage: WD Blue SA510 1TB SSD 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0A)
- Operating System: Windows 11
AlphaSync 4000D £1329.99
- Processor: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13400F
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHz
- Storage: Samsung 980 PRO V-NAND M.2 1TB
- Operating system: Windows 11
Laptop PC Specifications
Alternatively, you can look into laptops for more portability. For laptops you should anticipate a cost of approximately £1500. Here are a few laptops we've identified as being particularly good value:
MSI Katana GF76 £1499.99
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-12700H
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6
- Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2
- Operating Sytem: Windows 11
Desktop PC Specifications
OcUK Gaming Pyrite Gaming PC £1,001.95
- Processor: Intel Core i5 11400F
- Memory: 16GB (2x8GB) Lexar Hades DDR4 3600MHz
- Storage: Seagate 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6
- Operating System: Windows 11
Laptop PC Specifications
ACER Nitro 5 15.6" Gaming Laptop £899.00
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-12700H
- Memory: 16 GB
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6gb
- Storage: 512 GB
- Operating System: Windows 11
As mentioned in the welcome letter, we highly recommend students purchase an external solid state drive for transferring the large video content that you will be working with on the course. Here are two recommendations.