£500/600 Budget Gaming PC Help.

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Hi guys, I'm wondering if I could have some help?

I'm looking to build a budget gaming PC for a friend of mine, we have peripherals, monitor and Windows 10 already so that doesn't need to be included

It'll be used to game @ 1080p.

I'm not 100% on what is compatible and what isn't so any help would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you all in advance,

Alex.
 
 
I would take a more powerful CPU and an SSHD than trying to squeeze in a small SSD and a hard drive. A 4gb Card will still be more than good enough for 1080p gaming on a build like this so you can save a little there too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £588.85
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richthomuk said:
I would take a more powerful CPU and an SSHD than trying to squeeze in a small SSD and a hard drive. A 4gb Card will still be more than good enough for 1080p gaming on a build like this so you can save a little there too.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £588.85
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I could quite possibly give my friend my 980Ti as I will be looking into the 1080Ti when it's available from KFA2 in white. With that in mind is there anything could upgrade?

Thanks in advance.
 
Yeah give the 980ti to me :)

Joking aside, looks perfect but I'd change to a 1TB 7200rpm drive with a 120GB SSD next to it, you'll spend an extra £10 doing so but worth it imo. I'd also change the PSU to XFX/Corsair/Evga low tier rather than Kolink.
 
Doogles said:
Yeah give the 980ti to me :)

Joking aside, looks perfect but I'd change to a 1TB 7200rpm drive with a 120GB SSD next to it, you'll spend an extra £10 doing so but worth it imo. I'd also change the PSU to XFX/Corsair/Evga low tier rather than Kolink.
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if you are using a 980ti then you will want a more powerful PSU anyway, but Kolink wont be worse really than any budget XFX/Corsair/Evga PSUs.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £602.51
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There is really no need to skimp and buy a crappy Kolink or Cougar psu when that top quality Superflower that Danny has posted is just under £70. Never, ever skimp on the psu!!
 
richthomuk said:
if you are using a 980ti then you will want a more powerful PSU anyway, but Kolink wont be worse really than any budget XFX/Corsair/Evga PSUs.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

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You can save £22 by going with the i5 6500. Also that Seasonic psu is overpriced considering you can get the SF Leadex for the same price.
 
pastymuncher said:
There is really no need to skimp and buy a crappy Kolink or Cougar psu when that top quality Superflower that Danny has posted is just under £70. Never, ever skimp on the psu!!
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As much as I agree with you you, those PSU's where chosen when the budget had to include around 180 to 200 for a GPU and when the build could afford a lower Wattage power supply, but for sure spend more on the PSU if you can OP.

As for the seasonic being overpriced, they are some of the best built PSU's around, I find it funny how hypocritical some people are of PSU's :P Seasonic are overpriced, Kolink will burn your house down :P SuperFlower are the only worthy PSU company :P

My way of thinking is that if its good enough for OcUK and they continue to stock their products then they have a pretty big seal of approval as far as their products go for us budget PC builders :)
 
Seasonic power supplies are generally overpriced though. The XFX XTR is one example of how a Seasonic made unit is cheaper than an equivalent Seasonic G.

Also SuperFlower are easily as good as Seasonic when it comes to building power supplies.
 
lee32uk said:
Seasonic power supplies are generally overpriced though. The XFX XTR is one example of how a Seasonic made unit is cheaper than an equivalent Seasonic G.

Also SuperFlower are easily as good as Seasonic when it comes to building power supplies.
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XFX XTR's arnt made by Seasonic, just based on their design. Im not really saying SuperFlower are not as good, just saying how the PSU comments on OCUK are pretty funny at times, thats all :p
 
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richthomuk said:
XFX XTR's arnt made by Seasonic, just based on their design. Im not really saying SuperFlower are not as good, just saying how the PSU comments on OCUK are pretty funny at times, thats all :p
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Erm what ? Seasonic make all XFX units apart from the XT.
 
richthomuk said:
My bad, i thought it was the newer XTR2 / XTS2 models that were rebranded not the earlier ones. Either way, my point still stands, PSU snobbery is pretty funny on here :p
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The XFX XTR2 and XTS2 are the based off the Seasonic Prime units. I haven't seen pricing for these but no doubt they will be cheaper than the Seasonic Prime Gold/Titanium.

I personally don't have any biased towards a psu. As long as it is good quality and is fit for the purpose at hand then it doesn't matter on the brand.
 
richthomuk said:
As much as I agree with you you, those PSU's where chosen when the budget had to include around 180 to 200 for a GPU and when the build could afford a lower Wattage power supply, but for sure spend more on the PSU if you can OP.

As for the seasonic being overpriced, they are some of the best built PSU's around, I find it funny how hypocritical some people are of PSU's :p Seasonic are overpriced, Kolink will burn your house down :p SuperFlower are the only worthy PSU company :p

My way of thinking is that if its good enough for OcUK and they continue to stock their products then they have a pretty big seal of approval as far as their products go for us budget PC builders :)
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The Kolink is just garbage. A so called 500w psu that only has a 12v rail of 360w in this day and age is just pathetic. Any psu worthy of mention should have more or less all of it's power available on the 12v rail. Another thing is that there is no information on the Kolink psu's. We don't know who the oem is and there have been no reviews. If a psu is any good then the manufacturer itself would be putting the information out.

The Cougar GX-S series may be gold rated but the one review (500w version only) has been mediocre at best and only scored 8.1. I wouldn't stick a psu that scored less than 9/10 in any pc, no matter what spec it was. The psu is simply not the place to save money.

Seasonic are overpriced and overhyped these days. They have now been caught and passed by the likes of EVGA (mainly Superflower oem), Superflower and in many cases CWT. The suggested S12II 620w is only bronze rated, has dual 12v rails with a total of 576w, has fixed cables, a noisy fan and only a 3 year warranty. Why on earth would anybody buy that over the fully modular, gold rated Superflower that has a single 549w 12v rail, hybrid fan mode and 5 year warranty for the same price?

It's nothing to do with snobbery. It's all to do with not skimping on what is essentially one of, if not the most important component in a pc. If I spend my cash on some decent components I want a good quality psu to power them and not some cheap piece of crap that has been compromised to keep the cost down. Anybody who thinks any different is a fool and is taking unnecessary risks with their pc.

As for the reasoning that is OCUK stocks it then it can't be bad, that's just ridiculous. They have had a history of selling crap psu's. One time they rebranded Huntkey units to OCUK and they kept blowing up. Next was the abysmal Powercool units rebranded to OCUK but were forced to reword the descriptions of them after widespread condemnation on the forums because people were seeing 750w psu's (that in reality were nowhere near able to deliver that much) being bought by people and putting them in high end pc's. This came to light after several threads popped up with people wondering why their newly built pc's didn't work or the psu's failed. Now they have Kolink but have wisely decided not to brand them with the shops name. Sadly there is a market for these poor quality units because people that don't know any better see that a psu is listed as 500/600/750w for a bargain price and buy them so that they can spend more on other components. The reality is that if they had done some research or even took a look at the label they would have seen that these units cannot get anywhere near their total output power on the all important 12v rail or are unawre of the terrible quality components that are inside them. Skimping on the psu is a false economy. Buy a good one and it will last several years and through several upgrades.
 
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