£300 pc spec for general use/gaming

rigby93 · 29 Apr 2013 at 20:13

Hi I'm looking for a PC spec pretty much just for general use but can also cope playing some less graphically heavy games like sim city etc. The budget is around £300 but I've already got a 1tb HDD I can pull out of my laptop if I need to.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

PS I've found this build on another website and I wouldn't mind your opinions on that as well as your own specs. Cheers
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-introducing-the-digital-foundry-pc

rigby93 · 29 Apr 2013 at 23:53

Yeah that was exactly my line of thinking with the HDD it was just to save a little but of money for the time being so I could get it up and running. Also I like your spec but I am more inclined to go for an Intel CPU over amd mainly due to personnel preference but for that price I think I'd be looking at an i3

rigby93 · 30 Apr 2013 at 11:19

Yeah I think looking deeper into it the trinity mist probably the best option for my budget. I also wouldn't mind a WiFi card if anyone can suggest one.

rigby93 · 1 May 2013 at 01:40

I'm still thinking the first spec by honosuseri seems to be the way to go but I'm wandering is there any mono in particular that will be best for adding a GPU ( the 6670 most likely) at a later date and will the 430w PSU be sufficient if I did add a GPU later on.

rigby93 · 1 May 2013 at 10:13

Thanks for the clip its nice to see that I can expect even better results than that which is really more than I was expecting by itself. I was wandering if there was any reason in particular you chose the xigmatek case or whether you think I could get a slightly cheaper case to save a little money for a network card