£600 budget build

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Hi, I've made a thread like this before but my sis decided not to go down the PC route but her laptop is on its last legs and she is wanting a PC so I said i would help her with a build.

It would be used for light gaming and by that I basically mean The Sims and light photo editing with Photoshop.

I've looked at 2 types of setups, one with an Intel i3 Haswell + GPU and the other being an AMD Kaveri APU.

The Budget is £600
Everything is needed except kb+mouse, if Windows 7 could be included that would be a bonus but not essential.

Must haves are a ssd and a 1080p monitor.

Cheers
 
You sure it's Windows 7 you're after and not 8?

Here's an AMD spec

YOUR BASKET
1 x IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £129.95
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £67.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Motherboard £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £586.79 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Its Windows 7 she is after, she isn't a fan of windows 8 at all.

I have no experience with apu's at all. Are they more than capable of running The Sims at 1080p?
 
marvluslf said:
Its Windows 7 she is after, she isn't a fan of windows 8 at all.

I have no experience with apu's at all. Are they more than capable of running The Sims at 1080p?
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What the hell, I have 2 accounts. Accidentally put in my PC Gamer login and Ive found an old account
 
I've just had a go and came up with this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £131.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Crucial M550 128GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M550SSD1) £71.99
1 x Asus A88XM-PLUS AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Silverstone Precision PS07 Midi-Tower Case - White (SST-PS07W) £55.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £52.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
Total : £590.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).



You'll notice that doesn't include an OS or DVD drive but the HDD could be removed and a cheaper case could be chosen. Is the Sims on Origin/Steam or on a physical disk? As if its online theres probably no need for a DVD drive anyway.

The 7850k offers a bit better GPU performance so will likely run Sims 4 better when it comes out and supports Mantle allowing it to play some other games a bit better too.
 
wildman_33 said:
I've just had a go and came up with this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £131.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Crucial M550 128GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M550SSD1) £71.99
1 x Asus A88XM-PLUS AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Silverstone Precision PS07 Midi-Tower Case - White (SST-PS07W) £55.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £52.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
Total : £590.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).



You'll notice that doesn't include an OS or DVD drive but the HDD could be removed and a cheaper case could be chosen. Is the Sims on Origin/Steam or on a physical disk? As if its online theres probably no need for a DVD drive anyway.

The 7850k offers a bit better GPU performance so will likely run Sims 4 better when it comes out and supports Mantle allowing it to play some other games a bit better too.
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Both builds are looking real similar to the apu build I had in mind.

It's the origin version of Sims and as for the DVD drive they cost next to nothing anyway so it's no big deal. I mustered up my own build using an i3 4330 and amd 265x and it came to £600 without the OS and using a cheaper case, ssd and hdd. Would it be silly picking an i3 over a 4 core apu?
 
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