Kid wants the cheapest bestest build that plays everything for £300!

[PaulW]

Hi,

A friend who's nephew wants a gaming PC with a £300 budget that plays everything! is living in a dream world and he should get him a steam deck. clearly His budget of £300 is unworkable but I've endeavored to get it as low as possible and still not be pants. so far i have come up with this for £734

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Black 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX ATX AM4 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Gigabyte WINDFORCE OC GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB Video Card
Deepcool CC560 V2 ATX Mid Tower Case
MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Can you suggest some savings or improvements to this to get him the best bang for the buck that is going to be better than a pocket calculator. i also don't know what games he is playing he wants it to play everything but he is 14 so i am guessing the usual for that age.

Thanks

P

 

[PaulW]

you want 2x 8 GB or 2 X 16gb as a single stick of memory hinder performance.

It needs to be 2 x 8GB sticks

Thanks for that both of you, glad i asked i'll change it to 2x 8gb Cheers

 

[PaulW]

You welcome .

If you really want to budget down the the rx6600 is perfectly fine for 1080p gaming specially games like Fortnite, cs2.

Thanks, he'll only need it for 3-4 years anyway before beer, women and working for a living consume his life.

 

[PaulW]

Get a 5600 with a cooler

which one comes with the cooler bundled, might suggest that although i don't like stock coolers personally.

 

[PaulW]

are you buying the components used or new?

new for now

 

[PaulW]

For someone with an initial desire to get it all for £300 he doesn't need some of that. For £700 I'd be trying to go AM5, are you speccing it for him or you?

As mentioned get a 5600 (make an offer on the B grade one at OCUK), drop the HSF, change to a B450, 2x8GB sticks of RAM, get a 2nd hand GPU.

specing it to be as cheap as possible which will play the games he wants but i dont know them yet. even £700 might be over his budget unless he gets some help.

 

[PaulW]

Thanks all, massive thanks to all who spent time commenting, i think i have enough options to go with now and see what he thinks. i think the 5600 is a good call with the RX 7600. its a much better option and the 32gig of ram option all at the expense of cheaper mobos / cases / stock cooler. putting the money into where it counts.

 

[PaulW]

I recommend you go second hand. I just sold my sons PC for £300 that was perfectly fine as a starter PC.
Intel 9th gen and 1660 super.
If he wants budget, give him budget

good suggestion, However second hand is pot luck, you are probably a decent human being who takes care of your sons PC and used good components for it. Not every second hand seller is like that. i'd hate to suggest that and have him buy somthing that dies just after he gets it. so i think for peice of mind and warrenty new but sensible is the way to go for him.

 

[PaulW]

only 340 posts to go until you have member's market access

339

 

[PaulW]

At you current rate of post per year gonna be another 9 years to get there

338, yes i think i'll be fine, i have a job. its not me who's paying for the PC, so this kid has to start washing a few cars

 

[PaulW]

At you current rate of post per year gonna be another 9 years to get there

This sounds like a challenge now if i post 5 a day i can get members acess in about 2 months. so feel free to help me out

 

[PaulW]

i would go 2nd hand myself. i know you do not make the post count for here, but maybe you know someone who does.

i would keep away from ebay but there are other forums with a decent classifieds section such as avforums.

yeah I've never been a fan of ebay tbf.