10 yr old neohews first build

Gregfoster17

Gregfoster17

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My 10 year old nephew has been quite taken with my PC and has been spending many hours playing minecraft and recording his game play for 'youtube'. He thinks he's recording videos for youtube, but that would actualy require him to edit and then post them :eek:.

So for his christmas this year I said I would buy the components for me and him to build his own PC to play minecraft on, while recording his 'youtube videos'.

I certainly didn't want to break the bank, but wanted something with a discreat graphics card, dual core CPU and a SSD. The only thing he gets to chose is the case, from a list that I will make for him.

So far I have pieced something together and was just wanting to see what you guys thought. Could it run Minecraft reasonably well, while recording and are there any pitfalls I have fallen into.

CPU: Athlon x2 340 £19
Mobo: Gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2 £36
Ram: Hyper FURY series 4GB 1600Mhz £17.30
PSU: EVGA 500W £33
GPU: MSI R7 240 2Gb £46
Boot SSD: Corsair Force series 120 Gb £48
HDD: WD 1Tb Caviar Blue £39
Total £238.30

I already have keyboard, mouse, OS, monitor and speakers. Part of the reason for chosing the parts tha I have, is that I think they will do the job for now, but can all be upgraded as he gets older and birthdays come around and the likes. Or he can do some chores for money towards a new GPU :D.
 
I personally would be going second hand- you can get a a much better intel cpu \ motherboard for that kind of money- have a look on Gumtree for a modernish desktop to pillage a few parts from for £50 or so, and sell the rest.

Same again on the GPU- You could be looking at ATI 7850 kind of kit for £46 which I think is equivilent to r9 260x??
 
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