Do any better for under £380? Gaming PC

Mark719

Mark719

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Would like suggestions and opinions on if I could make this cheaper or there are better bang for your buck components than the ones I've chosen.

Budget £380

I don't need a case.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 Nitro 370 Dual-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11240-04-20G) £139.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition 3.70GHz (Socket FM2+) Kaveri Quad Core Processor (AD860KXBJABOX) £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £44.99
1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003) £43.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 AMD A68 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £29.99
1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible £14.99
Total : £373.88 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

 
 
LOL, mate - in that budget there's COMPLETELY no sense to build any rig used for gaming which consists of *new* parts only. Otherwise you will end up with AMD Kaveri + Radeon 370, or dual-core Intel (+Radeon 380, which is not happiest marriage).
Try to make a mix of used/B-grade parts and some new ones. Buy used components amongs stuff that brakes extremely rarely, like CPUs, maybe motherboards, RAMs (OCZ doesn't make any of RAM anymore, lol).B-Grade might be graphic card, or used with warranty "leftover". Brand new might be PSU, case, drives. Dig out the Clearance section, and Forums/MembersMarket, eventually Ebay auctions first and look at the 1155 platform, they would be as much cheap as new Kaveri, but stronger in gaming (and in SATA performance). CPUs to follow: i5-2300/2400/2500/2550/3330/3550P/3340/3450/3470/3550/3570, motherboards to follow: P67/Z68/Z77 (they allow to overclock non-K CPUs upto 5 bins up).
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel Core i5 DIY Micro ATX Motherboard, CPU & RAM Bundle £205.93
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £44.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £29.99
1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible £14.99
Total : £305.50 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).




You could also save a few quid if you opt for a non modular psu.

Choice of GPU

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Mini OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail (9 (GX-071-KF) £119.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-206-MS) £109.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660TI OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-107-GI) £89.99
Total : £329.57 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).
 
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Yeah I agree you would have to buy second hand to build something decent, my computer while it's pretty much a mild gaming computer it cost just under 500 brand new, granted I got my from a local shop as was a present and this is what the build is:

Asus H81M-PLUS
Intel i3 4160 dual core 3.6ghz
8gb corsair xms3 ddr3 1600mhz
Gtx 750 1gb
1tb hard drive
Corsair vs350
Coolermaster k350 case
Windows 8.1 64bit

Me telling you my spec is likely irrelevant and if I built it myself like I do normally I would've altered some bits, but this consist of brand new parts and was just to give an example.
 
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