£300 Minecraft\Light Build

Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

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Could you help spec a £300 cheap minecraft build for my friend.
I'm giving him a OCZ ModXStream 500w & a Aerocool strike 1 for about £40 (if thats a fair price) so the rest of the budget is £260~ (he wants to keep costs low as possible)

also in the future he would probably play real games, and so will likely add a AMD R9 280X/ something else in there.

I think AMD would be best route here with 4/8gb ram & SSD

ideally need the cheapest for him.
 
Excluding OS & Monitor, maybe KB & mouse but you can get cheap ones right lol

edit, subtract £15 (wireless kb&m set) from the £260 budget so £245
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £49.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £47.99
1 x Asrock H81 Pro BTC Intel H81 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard £32.99
Total : £310.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Best I can do with £300, new. Not bad bang for buck tho really! (I'm loling at the BTC board, but it will do the job, esp for the money)

You have access to the MM right? Would get an even biggerer bang for his buck there if he don't mind second hand.
 
 
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Mm is the way to go for that budget

Built a cracking 1080p gaming rig sub £400 out of there
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £49.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £47.99
1 x Asrock H81 Pro BTC Intel H81 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard £32.99
Total : £310.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Changed to reflect today's special offer.

Wont be able to run at that speed, but you will get some nice low timings out of them at 1600.
 
For the time being could the intel cpus on board GPU be good enough for very light games like minecraft, im pretty sure MC is based more on the RAM/CPU than GPU

Wouldn't an FX 8320/FX6300 be better for its money than the pentiums?


What Im planning on doing is getting all this built for about 220 then when he has more cash get him a GPU (or perhaps sell him my 280x and get a 290 :P)

so what setup would work with minecraft very well and make PC performance very good (without going into the serious gaming side just yet) and without bottle necking at max, a 280x.



also i think i would prefer AMD builds for this budget because my 6950 / Phenom x4 build performed really well, and when I upped the CPU and mobo to an i5 4670K i didnt feel like i had gotten a £200 upgrade... more like a slightly better gpu. to date still prefer phenoms even though technically the i5 is miles better at everything else.
 
Trojan Horse said:
For the time being could the intel cpus on board GPU be good enough for very light games like minecraft
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Yeah runs it fine, so scrap the GPU, and hey presto!

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £49.99
1 x Asrock H81 Pro BTC Intel H81 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard £32.99
Total : £208.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Edit: The original SSD is now out of stock, but the next one up is slightly better and it's not so much a squeeze to get the extra £ or so needed. ^_^
 
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Yeah runs it fine, so scrap the GPU, and hey presto!

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £49.99
1 x Asrock H81 Pro BTC Intel H81 (Socket 1150) ATX Motherboard £32.99
Total : £208.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).




Edit: The original SSD is now out of stock, but the next one up is slightly better and it's not so much a squeeze to get the extra £ or so needed. ^_^
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Huh minecraft has cats now? How slow has update process been, last time I had a go on that crafty little game it was 1.6.4 I think. nevermind though haha

it does LOOK fine but 25fps sounds like poop to me really, i just dont to make him a PC and then he finds because he paid so less that he barely got a mediocre PC that cant even run minecraft.

also does windows 8 still have any compatibility issues, he really would like me to install win8 (never have, always installed 7 on my friends's pcs) just dont want him to play an older game that isn't fully compat with windows 8.

thanks for that setup looks great, what kind of disadvantages would I be looking at for these super cheap BTC boards. im mainly looking for a cheap reliable board that I nor he should have to tinker with so definetly no OCing or anything.

Also will be going with other Teamgroup 8GB ram @ 2666mhz (life time warranty one) that the above user suggesetd

also if i did get him a 2nd hand GPU what is the max a Pentium could take before bottlenecking a GPU. 270/280/280X? or less? - and more importantly would that help his minecraft performance jump to like 60 or more FPS ( he wants to use a few mods)
 
Whoops, I linked the wrong ram, yes the white 2666 ram, will edit it now.

I'm really struggling to get anything cheaper out of amd, and a lot of their stuff is out of stock.

To be honest, for a couple of hundred quid with an SSD and a decent upgrade path that is not too shabby for a bargain basement build.

No disadvantage to using the BTC board.


As for the 25 fps, that's great for a £50 intergrated gpu, for now.. you could plonk a second hand cheapo gpu in there, like a 8800 for £15 or something from the MM, mincraft runs great on them lol.

No idea about windows 8, I'm happy with 7 for my needs, but I doubt it.
 
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Threepwood said:
Whoops, I linked the wrong ram, yes the white 2666 ram, will edit it now.

I'm really struggling to get anything cheaper and a lot of amd stuff is out of stock.

To be honest, for a couple of hundred quid with an SSD and a decent upgrade path that is not too shabby for a bargain basement build.
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cheers pal well I do appreciate your help though.

could you show me a potential AMD build... just in case OcUK isn't the only pc retailer in the entire world (but i am lead to believe it just is).

however will likely just go with the build you suggested, if he ever does decide to go crazy and get an i5 (not crazy but for him yes) then at least he could. also is my ocz mod x stream 500w compatible with his the haswell system
 
so the ocz mod xstream 500w pro runs 2 x 18A on the 12v rails. the 270x is meant to be 24amps, is this all combined or..? will the 270x work on a 500w psu like the suggested?
 
I would go with Intel if you plan to stick a GPU in there in the future, the onboard GPU will be fine, and you can use the Optifine mod to increase MC's performance.

270 should be fine but the 280/290 cards might be overkill for the Pentium, even when overclocked.
 
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