Building a PC for £100 (Extreme Budget)

[Xcellenye]

Hi all, this is my first post. The thought has just struck me; why not build a "gaming" pc for around a hundred quid. This will not include OS, as I have a copy of Windows 7, already have a disk drive and a hard drive so i'll need

CPU
MOBO
RAM
GPU
CASE
PSU
(I think thats it)

This has to compete with second hand consoles, can get ps3's 360's £99 second hand now. I'd like it to run Battlefield 3. Remember it doesn't have to run it max obviously I mean with such a low budget, just better then how a console would run it, so pretty much medium settings as consoles to me are around low/medium @1280x720.

I'd like some help from you chaps in what to pick may have to go searching ebay (i know i know) the PSU is going to be quite a challenge as i know what those cheapo psu's are like.

Can this be done?

 

[stulid]

No it cant, and we cant link to anything on ebay to show you what to get as its a competitor.

You will have to do the leg work yourself.

 

[Surveyor]

You forgot a HDD and DVD drive.

Somehow I think even stulid will struggle with this one.

Edit

He didn't even try

 

[Xcellenye]

You forgot a HDD and DVD drive.

Somehow I think even stulid will struggle with this one.

I mentioned in the opening post that im recycling my own HDD and Disk drive

 

[Xcellenye]

No it cant, and we cant link to anything on ebay to show you what to get as its a competitor.

You will have to do the leg work yourself.

I'm not asking for links to items

 

[Surveyor]

I mentioned in the opening post that im recycling my own HDD and Disk drive

Sorry, missed that

It's so much easier now.

You have 6 items to buy at an average price of £16.67 each including delivery.

Happy hunting

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

BF3 gaming PC, for £100....troll on.

 

[Xcellenye]

Sorry, missed that

It's so much easier now.

You have 6 items to buy at an average price of £16.67 each.

Happy hunting

Haha thanks, first thinking of what platform, mobo etc then take it from there, maybe LGA 775 with a Dual core Pentium?

 

[Xcellenye]

BF3 gaming PC, for £100....troll on.

No harm in trying?

 

[Reaper 392]

without going preowned you simply cant beat the consoles at that kind of price.

this is the cheapest computer you can buy from overclockers with a graphics card that will do something:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £37.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (AM3) Motherboard £26.36
1 x OCUK EZCool NA-705 Case - Black (500w PSU) £24.98
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 2.30GHz (Socket AM3) - OEM £23.99
1 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99
Total : £125.32 (includes shipping: FREE).

i wouldnt trust that PSU to power a fan, let alone a computer, but a good PSU would be 40% of the budget gone

*edit*
removed DVD and HDD drives

 

[mickyflinn]

Build a "gaming" pc for around a hundred quid

Maybe if your gaming at resoloution of 800 x 600.

 

[stulid]

BF3 gaming PC, for £100....troll on.

Buy a console is the only way.

 

[Xcellenye]

without going preowned you simply cant beat the consoles at that kind of price.

this is the cheapest computer you can buy from overclockers with a graphics card that will do something:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £37.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (AM3) Motherboard £26.36
1 x OCUK EZCool NA-705 Case - Black (500w PSU) £24.98
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+ 2.30GHz (Socket AM3) - OEM £23.99
1 x OcUK Value 160GB IDE ATA-100 8MB Cache Hard Drive - (OEM) MD01600BJBW £21.98
1 x Sony DDU1681S-0B 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.98
1 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99
Total : £160.28 (includes shipping : FREE).

Wow, thanks Reaper take out that disk drive and HDD and that takes it around £130...

 

[Xcellenye]

Buy a console is the only way.

meh.

 

[Reaper 392]

Wow, thanks Reaper take out that disk drive and HDD and that takes it around £130...

done.

i expect it'll be worse than the PS3 though

 

[stulid]

meh.

Well no £100 pc parts are going to play BF3.

 

[Xcellenye]

done.

i expect it'll be worse than the PS3 though

Well the RSX in the ps3 is around the same as a 7800GTX since a 9800GT is miles better i think not?

 

[stulid]

Well the RSX in the ps3 is around the same as a 7800GTX since a 9800GT is miles better i think not?

It dosnt work like that.

The console game is optimized for one/two set of specs (the PS3/xbox360) it doesn't need to worry about all types of different pc hardware variable configurations.

The PS3 Cell chip is a bit brainier than a old pc cpu.

 

[Xcellenye]

Well no £100 pc parts are going to play BF3.

Well there is a difference between just "play" and running it well, I have a pc with an AMD Athlon 64 single core (GeForce 6150 Le <<< LOL) piece of garbage to be exact however it still "plays" the latest games even though it maybe wont get 30fps+

 

[Reaper 392]

the cheapest PC i'd actually recommend for a gamer would be something like this:


YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £79.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £53.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £45.98
1 x MSI H61M-P23 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £44.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 370 Case - Black £32.99
1 x Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low Voltage Dual-Channel Kit £23.98
Total : £294.52 (includes shipping : £10.50).

way over your budget, but this will give you some decent graphics and plenty of upgrade choices