£350 Gaming PC Build

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I'm in need for a new PC mainly for gaming and I need some help.
Here's what I've already got:

  • Mouse
  • Keyboard
  • Monitor
  • Windows
I will also be building it myself.
Thanks.
 
 
 
If you're really tight on budget, consider dropping to 4GB of RAM, as the rest of your spec probably won't justify having 8GB.

Also, if you need to reduce costs you could lower the CPU to the AMD A10-6800K, but for the £15 difference I'd probably try and get the 7700K if at all possible.
 
Heres my offering:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £125.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £43.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x OcUK Value Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £370.93 (includes shipping : FREE).



The case and PSU are budget and wouldn't recommend it if you want to upgrade to a dedicated GPU.
I lowered the ram to 4gig.
I do have an ssd in the system which I think helps any system.
I also included a dvd drive.
 
I am aware there will be a FPS drop of around 5-10FPS (game dependant) I was just trying to bring the budget down.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
5-10 fps at the level of performance is quite huge!
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Im not disputing that. Im just trying to set out different options as to try and keep it in budget.

I think he should stretch to the team group 8gig 2400mhz option which would cost around an other £20 compared to the 4gig 1600mhz option.
 
RJC said:
Hello and welcome to the forum :)

Went a little over:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £125.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Motherboard £64.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
1 x Akasa AK-191-SM Smoke Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin £5.99
Total : £388.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).

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For gaming, I would swap out the Kaveri (lovely though it is) and get an athlon 750k for £60. Then go for the 2x2Gb Teamgroup memory for £33.

That's a £99 saving, which pretty much covers an R7 260x - and that will be much better for gaming.

You could go for a cheaper board too, to bring it back closer to £350
 
And if you didn't want to go down the APU route (and spent a little more)

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270 Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 750K Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD750KWOHJBOX) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £41.99
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
Total : £420.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Maybe drop to a 500GB HDD and 4GB RAM. If you really needed to spend less, build it in the cardboard box it came in!
 
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Thanks for the suggestions guys!
Maybe I should've mentioned this in the opening post, but I do intend on upgrading it in the future and I don't mind going a little over the £350 budget.
 
My go at an intel build, bit over budget but worth the extra imo. Pentiums often get shunned by people as they're the 'basic' processors and seen as underpowered, but it's really just an i3 without hyperthreading :)
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270 Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIR) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
Total : £401.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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