Spec me a £600 gaming build

[mattius1989]

Good evening all,

I need to build my friend a gaming PC (1080p) for £600 that is future proof to the extent that it will just need a GPU replacement every 1-1.5 years for the foreseeable.

It will need an OS (Windows 7) but won't need a monitor or peripherals. I have been out of the loop for a while so I'm not up to date on the best £/performance components at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (H270XQ2G2M) £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £67.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX NA'VI 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit **OcUK Exclusive** (KHX16C9C2K2/8) £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £38.99
Total : £613.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[ExtremeIC3cream]

How about this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Predator 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17066C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (KHX21C11T2K2/8X) £71.99
1 x Seasonic G series 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £69.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £67.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shadow Tower Case - Midnight Black £54.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £54.95
Total : £604.43 (includes shipping : £8.00).



It should be able to last to last a few years and play BF4 on 1080p

 

[Doomedspeed]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (H270XQ2G2M) £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £67.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX NA'VI 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit **OcUK Exclusive** (KHX16C9C2K2/8) £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £38.99
Total : £613.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[stulid]

lol

 

[mattius1989]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I've forwarded Stulid's advice and it looks like he is will be going with the build. For arguments sake, what's the best equivalent Intel build for the price?

 

[teppic]

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (H270XQ2G2M) £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £110.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £75.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £67.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX NA'VI 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit **OcUK Exclusive** (KHX16C9C2K2/8) £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £38.99
Total : £613.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Can't really beat this. Though Gibbo nicely discounted this on request earlier

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-074-BQ

Bit more power for later GPU upgrades.

 

[teppic]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I've forwarded Stulid's advice and it looks like he is will be going with the build. For arguments sake, what's the best equivalent Intel build for the price?

At this budget, nothing worth bothering with. You'd need a 4670K to be competitive, and that's an extra £60, plus the extra for a decent Z87 board.

 

[fowler002]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I've forwarded Stulid's advice and it looks like he is will be going with the build. For arguments sake, what's the best equivalent Intel build for the price?

well taking stulids spec and just changing the cpu + mb

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail (Free Final Fantasy 14) £172.99
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included (H270XQ2G2M) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £67.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Kingston HyperX NA'VI 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit **OcUK Exclusive** (KHX16C9C2K2/8) £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £38.99
Total : £703.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).



you could get rid of the os and use the 90 days window 8.1 enterprise trial, then after the trial is up buy a full version of windows(be it windows 7 or 8). would need to do a full reinstall unless I'm wrong.

hmm seems someone has stulid envy, to go on top of ether envy