Gaming PC build - Budget- £400 - 450

Rhys-Jenkins

Rhys-Jenkins

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Hey guys!

I was hoping if I could borrow some of your expertise! Christmas is coming and I'm looking to purchase a gaming PC for someone who is interested in playing games such as Minecraft, Alice: Madness Returns and when it's out - Sims 4.

I'm aware that I may not need as much as £400, but I want to keep the budget open to make sure it's an optimal build (perfect FPS on highest quality).

I would be grateful if someone could provide a list for me - if any of the pre-built PC's are available, I'd appreciate if someone would point out one that is able to match the above!

Thanks in advance!
 
Weclome,

Are you only looking for a pre-built? Not wanting to build it yourself? (actually £400 is a pretty small budget for decent components)..

Will an OS and monitor be needed too?
 
 
Doomedspeed said:
Weclome,

Are you only looking for a pre-built? Not wanting to build it yourself? (actually £400 is a pretty small budget for decent components)..

Will an OS and monitor be needed too?
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OS and Monitor won't be needed! Really? I thought £400 would be a good price for just small time gaming (not looking to play games such as CoD, battlefield or any sort of AAA game.

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Thank you, Ted! Seems fair, I'll definitely look into it! - Doomed, what important item?

Thank you
 
 
This will allow you a better upgrade path in the future.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI HD 7790 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card wit (GX-198-MS) £84
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £498.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Doomed - that budget build looks great. Especially for what it'd be used for! Though, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to be missing a graphics card? :)

Thanks Idleman, another great consideration.

Thank you all for your help again, I really appreciate it.
 
Trinity CPU's have on-board graphics chips, quite supprieor to that of the intel and chips. Pairing it with fast RAM also increases the FPS.

I've seen these chips play BF3 on medium/high settings so it'll be great for mincraft/sims. :)
 
My 5 pence;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 750K Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD750KWOHJBOX) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £513.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Idleman said:
This will allow you a better upgrade path in the future.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI HD 7790 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card wit (GX-198-MS) £84
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £498.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Probably the best out of all of the specs in my opinion. Best balance of performance / cost.
 
Idleman said:
This will allow you a better upgrade path in the future.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI HD 7790 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card wit (GX-198-MS) £84
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £498.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Thanks, Idle. This is probably the one I'll go for. Fair price for what it's worth, plus stating it will allow better upgrading helps a lot.

Thank you all for your help, feel free to keep putting in your specs, I'll keep my eye on this thread in case something else pops up. Hopefully this will help other people looking at this thread as well!
 
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