£500 Gaming tower build.

[Scania]

My nephew has £500 for a new gaming PC, he already has keyboard, mouse, two 1440x900 monitors.

So, his best solution for a £500 gaming rig please, I'm assuming he'll need an OS too, an SSD would be nice but not vital.

So, spec me a Case, PSU, RAM, CPU, HD, Graphics Card, Motherboard,DVD R/W and OS please (and anything I've forgotten!) performance is much more important than looks, the cheaper and more basic the case for example, the better.

He plays ARMA / DayZ.

I'm trying to persuade him to go used as I think he'll get much more bang for his buck as such but would like to see what options we have for a new build.

Thanks.

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x "Recon iX44" Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) Quad Core Value Gaming Bundle = £259.99
  • Build Time:Standard Build Laptops - Approximately 3 to 5 working days
• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle = £44.99
• 1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100)= £32.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x HIS Radeon R7 370 IceQ X2 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H370QM2G2M)= £109.99

Total: £550.55
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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One attempt at it.

 

[Scania]

Thanks stulid, I'm taking it as a given that going the AMD route for the cpu is a waste of time given the i5's better performance?

I'm local so will be collecting so postage cost comes off too.

 

[stulid]

AMD cpus suck hugely compared to Intel.

 

[Scania]

AMD cpus suck hugely compared to Intel.

Agreed, just wanted to confirm.


Any other takers?

 

[LordPablo]

What kind of performance will this build provide with games like BF4, Elite Dangerous etc? I'm trying to spec a good bang for buck 1080p 60fps build, but it's difficult to nail it down. Haswell or skylake, i3 or i5, 8 or 16gb RAM?

 

[stulid]

To be honest.

Arma runs like solidified ****.

And a R9 380 wouldn't hurt (with a 500-550W PSU to cope) for 1080P gaming.