Need PC parts | Budget £400-450.

Fukkatsu

Fukkatsu

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Hey guys! I'm looking to be buying some parts to build a PC. But... Sadly, I'm no expert... So I thought some people on the forum could help.

I'm looking for a PC that can run Battlefield 3 on Med graphics, Arma 2 and other good graphical games.

I havent got a speaker keyboard or mouse as well.

So if any of you could show me all the components and accessories I need, that'd be great!

Many thanks.
 
Do you have any re-usable parts?
Do you need an OS?
Its going to be hard to get a decent system but we can try on that budget for everything.
 
Cannot you not use the Windows 8 free trial until you can afford a proper version? With only £450 its getting nigh on impossible to create a PC that will play any modern game let alone BF3.
 
 
 
Leprechaun312 said:
probably not like i have the following

amd athlon II x3 440 3ghz
6gbs of ram
ati 5770

and that barely runs arma on medium a pentium i dnt think will cut it
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That Pentium benches higher in games than the Athlon II x3 440. Coupled with the 6850 it should perform well for a budget gaming PC.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £31.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
Total : £432.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Use the developers copy of windows 8 to delay your purchase of the OS. It saves you a good £80 which is the price basically of the 6850 GPU.

The pentium G isnt as good as the i3 but it still holds it own against AMDs phenom quad cores

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/405?vs=88

The mobo has USB3 and sata3. Can take a wide range of CPUs both sandybridge and Ivybridge as future upgrade options. I paired 8GB of RAM with it too at a good price. PSU is modular, it's way OTT for your needs but is a bargain whilst on offer.

The 6850 can be overclocked to nigh on 6870 (£120ish GPU) performance very easily, that is the minimum gaming GPU you should be really looking at IMHO. I ran out of cash so couldn't spec a monitor......could you use a HDTV perhaps? If you can't you will have to omit the GPU and look to add one later and use the CPUs IGP (which wont be any good for gaming) for the time being.

Note the 500GB HDD! It helps to have something to install the OS and games to lol Hope this helps any questions feel free to ask :)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-6 Six Core 6100 Black Edition 3.30Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with FREE Deus Ex & Dirt Showdown PC Games £115.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
1 x Asus M5A97 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D 500GB SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache - OEM (0F13178) £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £40.99
1 x OcUK Swift 650W V2 Silent Power Supply £28.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Samsung SH-D163C/BEBE SATA 16x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £503.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



thats an amd build you get 6 cores instead of 2 and it benchmarks higher than the pentium dual core
 
Do not use that PSU, never skimp on the PSU.

EDIT: That processor is better, but really limits his upgrade options.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D 500GB SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache - OEM (0F13178) £53.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-500CXUKV2) £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £42.00
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £40.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £19.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Logitech S-150 2.0 USB Speaker System - OEM (980-000029) £11.99
Total : £488.28 (includes shipping : £17.85).



heres another choice an i3 which is better than the amd 6 core i posted earlier and also a decent psu
 
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