Gaming PC for £600 ish - spec help need

MireMare · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:01

Friend wants to put together a gaming PC so he can join me on Arma II / Day Z.

He will be using his TV via HDMI until he gets a monitor later, so 1080p resolution, preference is for Nvidia card.

What would you guys suggest for the £600 budget?

Spudsasin · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:15

Im sort of in the same position but i generally want to point my PC towards Frostbite and the Battlefield Series. After research and looking around I've come up with:

AMD FX-6300
MSI 970A-G46 ATX motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Western Digital 1TB HDD
San Disk128GB SSD
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Casecom CS-13 full tower ATX case
Corsair 600W CX Builder 80 Plus Bronze PSU
LG 24x DVDRW

This build has over-clocking and SLI/Crossfire potential so its also future proof

Hope it helps

Martini1991 · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:20

Spudsasin said:
Im sort of in the same position but i generally want to point my PC towards Frostbite and the Battlefield Series. After research and looking around I've come up with:

AMD FX-6300
MSI 970A-G46 ATX motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Western Digital 1TB HDD
San Disk128GB SSD
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Casecom CS-13 full tower ATX case
Corsair 600W CX Builder 80 Plus Bronze PSU
LG 24x DVDRW

This build has over-clocking and SLI/Crossfire potential so its also future proof
Hope it helps

I'd probably get the 7870 over the 660 personally.

MireMare · 25 Jul 2013 at 15:49

Spudsasin said:
Im sort of in the same position but i generally want to point my PC towards Frostbite and the Battlefield Series. After research and looking around I've come up with:

AMD FX-6300
MSI 970A-G46 ATX motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 2GB
Western Digital 1TB HDD
San Disk128GB SSD
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Casecom CS-13 full tower ATX case
Corsair 600W CX Builder 80 Plus Bronze PSU
LG 24x DVDRW

This build has over-clocking and SLI/Crossfire potential so its also future proof
Hope it helps

He loves Battlefield too, so thanks for that. And that comes in at around £600?

teppic · 25 Jul 2013 at 16:02

£600 should be plenty - I put up a suggestion here for a similar £500 build:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18529513

Spudsasin · 26 Jul 2013 at 00:37

MireMare said:
He loves Battlefield too, so thanks for that. And that comes in at around £600?

Yeah if you shop around the.n you can get it for £590