£400ish spec for CS:GO and League of Legends

[R.O.S.S.I]

Can anyone help? My friend is after a system for around £400 and wants to be able to play CS:GO at 1920x1080 in high settings with a constant FPS over 100 and League of Legends too.

Is this achieveable for £400? I've been out of the speccing game for years so not sure what is hot and what isnt and what kind of specs are needed to run the games.

Any help massively appreciated.

 

[meandu229]

Since someone else will need to know when they do it,, Ill ask,
Do they need just a base station (no monitor, keyboard etc)?
Do they need an OS?

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Sorry, should have said, no OS required or KB & mouse, purely just the base station tower spec.

 

[Poneros]

Absolutely, G4560 + cheapest mobo + 8 gb ram + cheapeast case + a decent 400w PSU and based on what's left the GPU (460/1050 or used). D O N E!

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Cool, so that kind of spec will have no issues playing CS:GO on highest quality in 1920x1080p?

 

[Daaaveee]

You could save a couple of quid getting a cheaper PSU but I wouldn't advise skimping on a critical component

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Pentium G4560 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £64.99
• 1 x Asus Prime B250M-K Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £56.99
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010)= £45.95
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £55.99
• 1 x Aerocool V2X Black Edition Midi-Tower - Black= £19.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Mini 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £109.99

Total: £437.05
(includes shipping: £13.20)



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[ExoMale]

Something like this maybe? £402 or £408 total if you chose a gold rated supersflower 350 or 450w psu.

Couldnt see you getting much in the way of a 2c/4t processor from skylake to keep within budget and 2400mhz ram in dual 4gb is cheaper, but wasn't sure if the board supported faster speeds to save a few quid and a kaylake setup cost a little bit more to get a 2c/4t cpu the rx460 should be plenty and is getting cheaper in Some cases.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £56.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core G4400 3.30GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 PC4-17000C14 2133MHz Single Channel Module (HX421C14FB2/8)= £68.99
• 1 x Zalman T4 Micro-ATX Case USB 3.0 - Black= £22.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £45.95
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 460 Dual OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £86.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £42.95

Total: £395.95
(includes shipping: £11.10)


Or going haswell likely save you some money and likely more option for the 2c/4t processors, I know my haswell i3 is brilliant, but my system was originally pre-built(not how it is now, but at the start) and cost more than your budget.



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[richthomuk]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £56.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core G4500 3.50GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £68.99
• 1 x Asus H110M-A/M.2 Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £44.99
• 1 x Aerocool V2X Black Edition Midi-Tower - Black= £19.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1050Ti Mini 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £139.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
• 1 x Seagate Firecuda SSHD 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive (ST500LX025)= £54.95

Total: £434.09
(includes shipping: £13.20)



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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £56.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core G4500 3.50GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £68.99
• 1 x Asus H110M-A/M.2 Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £44.99
• 1 x Aerocool V2X Black Edition Midi-Tower - Black= £19.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
• 1 x Seagate Firecuda SSHD 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive (ST500LX025)= £54.95
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Mini 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £109.99

Total: £404.09
(includes shipping: £13.20)





Forgot about the g4560
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[faceman123]

dude wait for AMD ryzens full range to drops, intel are currently doing price drops etc. Bad time to pull trigfger

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Thanks for the spec suggestions everyone.

When are prices likely to change on Intel side, do we know?

 

[richthomuk]

dude wait for AMD ryzens full range to drops, intel are currently doing price drops etc. Bad time to pull trigfger

Not worth waiting on Ryzen for a build like this, its cheap enough already for a PC that will do what the OP wants and memory prices are still on the rise and will still be rising after Ryzen 3 and 5 are here. So waiting for a possible price drop on an already low cost CPU vs the 100% fact that Ram and HDDs are going up in price, really isnt worth it.