Advice on £400 budget pc.

[BrayWood]

Brilliant so at least it's playable and on medium settings it will be a lot smoother and higher frame rate right? Also I was thinking of scimping on a monitor and hooking it up to my 32inch LG tv. Is this possible and I heard with a hdmi it should be fine. What will it play like on this or should I get a monitor?

 

[BrayWood]

That would be personal. But I think the simplest way to say it is it is much better than current consoles.

??? ^^

 

[Sasahara]

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS HD 7750 iCooler 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H775FN1G) £83.99
Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) **FREE SHIPPING** £79.99
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £59.99
Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard [GA-H61MA-D3V] £43.99
Antec High Current Gamer 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.00
Intel Celeron G540 2.50GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £34.99
GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1333C9DC) £23.99
OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £21.98
Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99

Sub Total : £335.76
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £69.50
Total : £417.01


I've gone down the discrete Graphics card route as integrated graphics don't cut it imo. The HD 7750 has around double the performance compared to the A10-5800K integrated graphics.

The G540 is round the same lvl as a stock E8400, compared to the A10-5800K it will almost match it in 1-2 core performance. When 3-4 Core would be used it would have course lose by a mile, but for a gaming/budget build your better off investing in the graphics over CPU.

Most games sill only use 1-2 cores and the games that would utilise 3-4 cores would need a high end card to go with it, so not much good on a build of this budget.

I'm hoping the 8Gb of ram isn't a typo as it's a great price.

The SSD will really help loading times and make the system much more responsive. If you can't live with 111GB then switch it for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB. That would also put you on closer to the £400 budget.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-252-SE

Hope that helps

(Edit) changed the mobo to the Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 Instead of the D2V.

 

[honosuseri]

Brilliant so at least it's playable and on medium settings it will be a lot smoother and higher frame rate right? Also I was thinking of scimping on a monitor and hooking it up to my 32inch LG tv. Is this possible and I heard with a hdmi it should be fine. What will it play like on this or should I get a monitor?

Tv is ok, I have a HTPC hooked up to a 3DTV.

I'm not that keen on Bacons spec, granted he has tried to keep to the £400 budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £69.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1866C10DC) £35.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £425.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).



I've gone over......yes again I know lol

You need the A75 chipset for HDMI output for the Trinity or Llano APUs. My RAM is lowprofile which means it's easy to get heatsinks over it. Why does this matter? Because the A75 chipset also lets you overclock the APU, which means better performance in games.

Eventually you will want to add a dedicated GPU if you are serious about gaming but this will definately get you up and going.

I dont know why sasahara is using the D2V instead of using the D3V mobo like idleman and I used. It's a better mobo with USB3 and sata3 support....it's £1 cheaper too. Paying for the OS is hampering the spec, using windows 8 developers edition might make more sense for now as said earlier.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN1G2M) w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £134.39
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
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 £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £483.91 (includes shipping : £10.50).



That's what I would call a half decent budget intel build and it's still over £400 thanks to the OS

 

[BrayWood]

Tv is ok, I have a HTPC hooked up to a 3DTV.

I'm not that keen on Bacons spec, granted he has tried to keep to the £400 budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £69.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1866C10DC) £35.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £425.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).



I've gone over......yes again I know lol

You need the A75 chipset for HDMI output. My RAM is lowprofile which means it's easy to get heatsinks over it. Why does this matter? Because the A75 chipset also lets you overclock the APU, which means better performance in games.

Eventually you will want to add a dedicated GPU if you are serious about gaming but this will definately get you up and going.

I dont know why sasahara isnt using the D3V mobo like idleman and I used. It's a better mobo with USB3 and sata3 support....it's £1 cheaper too. Paying for the OS is hampering the spec, using windows 8 developers edition might make more sense for now as said earlier.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN1G2M) w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £134.39
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
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 £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £483.91 (includes shipping : £10.50).



That's what I would call a half decent budget intel build and it's still over £400 thanks to the OS

I'll just have to save more ;D as long as I get a good pc by the end. I'm just worried the big 32inch tv will suck. Are they worse than 22inch smaller ones?

 

[honosuseri]

I'll just have to save more ;D as long as I get a good pc by the end. I'm just worried the big 32inch tv will suck. Are they worse than 22inch smaller ones?

Just make sure you set the PC to the TVs native resolution and you will be ok.

£500 should be enough to include the OS. If we could get the intel i3 CPU in the spec that would be nice, alongside the 2GB 7850 GPU. Note the GPU comes with a few games, better to pay more for a better GPU than buy the games seperate no?

 

[BrayWood]

Just make sure you set the PC to the TVs native resolution and you will be ok.

£500 should be enough to include the OS. If we could get the intel i3 CPU in the spec that would be nice, alongside the 2GB 7850 GPU. Note the GPU comes with a few games, better to pay more for a better GPU than buy the games seperate no?

Ok then I'm spending £500 and no more now

 

[Bacon?]

For £500 grab the spec with the Pentium and 7850 Hono put up before. Only thing I would try to go for is a modular power supply as the Zalman is a small case so you could end up with a big mess

Heres one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-PP&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

 

[BrayWood]

For £500 grab the spec with the Pentium and 7850 Hono put up before. Only thing I would try to go for is a modular power supply as the Zalman is a small case so you could end up with a big mess

Heres one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-PP&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Will I be able to afford os with this though? And do you reckon I should start buying parts one by one or wait and get them all at once?

 

[honosuseri]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £155.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
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 £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £505.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).



Little over, dig behind the sofa for some spare change I used the 2GB 7850 here which I would prefer over the 1GB model.

Bacon makes a fair point about the modular PSU but it is a luxury. I'd order it all in one hit. As I said you can try windows 8 developers edition for 3 months then buy an OS. Wether you do this to save money now or use the £80 to improve the spec is upto you

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £155.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £501.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 

[BrayWood]

^^ Thank you so much ^^ This is the build I'm going for!

 

[honosuseri]

^^ Thank you so much ^^ This is the build I'm going for!

Well I've done my best to balance the parts to the budget. Sadly some bits are out of stock so if you order now there will be a delay till the parts come back into stock obviously.