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Delmawnz

Delmawnz

Delmawnz

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Hey folks,

Looking to purchase some main components to build a gaming PC for running the likes of Battlefield, DayZ/Arma, Plants vs Zombies, Titanfall ect.

Looking for as much Bang for buck out of 350 as is on the market. Would 30/40fps for the above game genres for £350 be pushing it?

Looking for suggestions for parts available on OC.co.uk for:

CPU
Motherboard
GFX
RAM
HDD
DVD
PSU

Cheers to anyone who gets involved.

Delmawnz
 
 
mickyflinn said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £43.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £42.98
1 x Gigabyte B85M-D2V Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £42.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £362.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).

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I would be tempted to add a little more to the cost and get a Z87/Z97 board to be able to make use of the overclocking features of the Pentium.

Something like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
Total : £78.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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wildman_33 said:
I would be tempted to add a little more to the cost and get a Z87/Z97 board to be able to make use of the overclocking features of the Pentium.

Something like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
Total : £78.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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mickyflinn said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £43.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £42.98
1 x Gigabyte B85M-D2V Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £42.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £362.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).

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I've always looked to AMD as king of gamer CPU's. Why would you pick Intel?
 
Delmawnz said:
I've always looked to AMD as king of gamer CPU's. Why would you pick Intel?
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AMD do offer good budget options, they lose out to Intel with the higher end stuff. The Pentium anniversary offers very good value for money with an overclockable board.

For an AMD budget build you would be looking at something like the FX4300 which in anything that doesn't use more than two threads (which is a lot of games) would be considerably slower.
 
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Delmawnz said:
Hey folks,

Looking to purchase some main components to build a gaming PC for running the likes of Battlefield, DayZ/Arma, Plants vs Zombies, Titanfall ect.

Looking for as much Bang for buck out of 350 as is on the market. Would 30/40fps for the above game genres for £350 be pushing it?

Looking for suggestions for parts available on OC.co.uk for:

CPU
Motherboard
GFX
RAM
HDD
DVD
PSU
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While most people are trying their best to give you the best suggestion within the budget, but I have to be honest...you need a bigger budget!

Games like Battlefield, DayZ/Arma, Titanfall, you'd need a i3/FX6 CPU as the bear minimum (but ideally a FX8 or i5 as minimum) for hopes of 30/40fps. Once you got the CPU side of frame rate sorted, graphic side would just be a matter of "how far you willing to go" on graphic settings, but I would still suggest getting a HD7850 (now rebranded as R7 265) or R7 270 as the bare minimum.

The Pentium K CPU is a very capable CPU for the price, but it is something that's more suited for light/threaded mmorpg and general casual steam games, rather than the typical EA heavy hitters.
 
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