AdvicemATX new build advice - first PC
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What is your budget and currency? £1500
What will you use the PC for? Gaming - competitive Fortnite
Do you need a monitor? Yes, 144Hz +
Do you need a keyboard, mouse, or other peripherals? Yes
Do you need an operating system? Yes
Will you overclock? Yes

Anything else we should know? I'm switching from console to PC gaming, for competitive Fortnite mainly. I have quite limited space on my desk whilst running a dual monitor, so looking to build a micro-ATX build in a small case. I need to be able to run Fortnite at 240fps. As I'm using a mATX board and a first time builder, I don't want to go and order a GPU that's too big for my case.

Would you be able to recommend some specs for me?

Thanks!
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240fps? That isn't really a need imo.

Few more questions.

What other games do you plan on playing? (a system of that price is a bit unreasonable just for fortnite)
What monitors will you be using?
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It doesn't seem that you are educated in what you need. Firstly, is there a way you can set up the tower on the floor somewhere, to allow a bigger case to be built? Also there is no point targetting 240 FPS on a 144hz monitor because the monitor is unable to output those frames.
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If you have a 144Hz monitor 240 FPS won't matter at all you're just wasting your money.
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So, technically 240FPS on a 144Hz display is going to be better than 144FPS on a 144Hz display. Or, it should be better. Higher FPS should reduce input latency. However, in practice, it doesn't really work this way. Even if it did, I very much doubt you'd be able to notice it- and if you were able to notice it, you'd probably have a 240Hz display(or should have).

So a £1500 mATX system with a high refresh rate monitor, this is what I'd be looking at;
PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£168.30 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B450M MORTAR MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£84.95 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (£146.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card (£462.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox NR400 (w/o ODD) MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£61.04 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic PRIME SNOWSILENT 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£80.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Monitor: MSI OPTIX MAG271CQR 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor (£349.00 @ Box Limited)
Total: £1453.17

You said you needed peripherals within budget, but you didn't specify which peripherals you need? Keyboard? Mouse? Speakers? Headset?
Depending on what peripherals you need, you might want to drop the GPU down to an RX 5700XT instead of the RTX 2070S(or maybe drop to 16GB RAM instead of 32GB) to get some half decent peripherals within your £1500 budget as well.

*Edit* Also pls tell me this isn't only being used for Fortnite? If it is only being used for Fortnite, then this is waayyy overkill, you do not need a 2070 Super, or even 5700XT and £1500 is too much to spend on a system that is solely being used for playing Fortnite IMO.

For "competitive Fortnite", even this is more than enough really;
uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/gVqYL2
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