PCSpecialist Ignite Black Friday 2025 Review
Conclusion
Conclusion
If you’ve only got a very old system, or none at all, the choices available can seem overwhelming. A quick glance around the internet ends up full of high-end owners. You’d be forgiven for assuming anything priced beneath £4000 is worthless. Pish and nonsense. Away from the world of “Cyberpunk at 4K ray-traced 100FPS+” glory hunters, there are many rock solid gaming options. The PCSpecialist Ignite Black Friday special is the perfect example of a system that’s less than a grand and will play anything at 1080P and most things at 1440.
That 1440 resolution bears mentioning. You might think with a RTX 5060 and Intel Core i7-12700 that 1080P is the target resolution. It probably is. By running our usual taxing suite of games at a higher resolution we demonstrate how capable the PCS Ignite system is. You won’t find many games that ask more than ours do. What this means is clear. Firstly if Cyberpunk runs at nearly 60 FPS and everything else runs higher, then any title on Earth will run easily at 1080. Secondly even Cyberpunk and Metro would only require tiny tweaks to pass 60 FPS at 1440 and thus, again, anything else will run smoothly at this higher resolution.
The reason we used the higher resolution, besides clearly pointing out that if it can run x at this higher res then it’ll run anything at that or below, is the nature of monitors. These days most monitors at 2560 x 1440 cost about the same as their 1080 cousins. However, the technology is put into the higher resolution models. So you get a nicer image. Additionally the amount of extra desktop space cannot be overstated. It makes the whole system significantly more usable, without you particularly increasing your outlay. PCSpecialist themselves will sell you a 27″ 2560 x 1440 260Hz monitor for £136. Hence it’s nice to know the Ignite Black Friday system can handle it.
Stepping away from the games the Intel Core i7-12700F is a fantastic processor for the money. As you could seen in our testing it’s capable of 3D rendering and video encoding without requiring you to wait a week for it to complete. Tying it with a fast M.2 storage drive only adds to the nippy nature of the system. The only thing that slows down your fun is Windows itself, with the 24H2 and 25H2 updates totally nerfing PC performance. Hopefully Windows 12 will sort this, but if you’re new to PC ownership just bear in mind any sluggish loading is the OS itself and not the fault of the PCSpecialist Ignite.
Blending hugely capable gaming thanks to the Nvidia RTX 5060 and Intel 12700F, and a choice selection of components elsewhere ensuring maximum value for money, the PCSpecialist Ignite Black Friday 2025 System is easily worthy of our Gamers Choice Award and a bargain at just £999.
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