£600 build for sons xmas.

0ctane · 20 Nov 2013 at 20:33

Hi OCUK,

I would like to build a PC for my son for xmas and have managed to squeeze santa'ess for a budget of £600

Now this is for the whole shooting match.....monitor, chassis, psu, ram, hardrive, gfx card and all the goodies that goes within.

Keyboard and mouse is the only starting point I can give him

The games he loves are civilization and football manager.

What can you do for me with whats available?

Thanks

stulid · 20 Nov 2013 at 20:57

Can you build a system yourself?

tnx · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:00

I was not trying to sell owt.

Sorry.

0ctane · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:01

Cant see the thread, although I do feel I could inherit someone else's problems or have a well worked machine.

At least with new, you have protection and warranty should worse case scenario happen....2nd hand will be sold as seen and if it broke after a week there is not much I could do about it.

Yeah i can build it myself if required, that wont be a problem and operating system he can have my windows 7 as I went to 8 which I regret buying.....I dont like change :/

tnx · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:02

0ctane said:
Cant see the thread, although I do feel I could inherit someone else's problems or have a well worked machine.

At least with new, you have protection and warranty should worse case scenario happen....2nd hand will be sold as seen and if it went **** up after a week there is not much I could do about it.

Yeas, good point. Never thought of that.

stulid · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:04

It wasnt that you trying to sell something yourself, it was the suggestion itself.

The only place 2nd hand PC parts are bought and sold is in the MM.

stulid · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:10

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x AOC E2450SWDAK 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £53.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £598.74 (includes shipping : £19.10).

0ctane · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:30

thanks for that, would ditching the rewriter and putting the £18 towards upgrading one of the other components help?

stulid · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:33

YOUR BASKET
1 x msi hd 7850 oc 2048mb gddr5 pci-express graphics cards £119.99
1 x aoc e2450swdak 24" widescreen led monitor - black £109.99
1 x amd piledriver fx-6 six core 6300 black edition 3.50ghz (socket am3+) processor - retail £89.99
1 x patriot intel extreme masters 8gb (2x4gb) ddr3 pc3-12800c9 1600mhz dual channel kit (pvi38g160c9k) £53.99
1 x gigabyte 970a-ds3p amd 970a (socket am3+) ddr3 motherboard £53.99
1 x bequiet pure power l8 500w '80 plus bronze' power supply - with 120mm silent wing fan built in £53.99
1 x seagate barracuda 7200rpm 1tb sata 6gb/s 64mb cache - oem (st1000dm003) hdd £45.95
1 x nzxt source 210 elite midi tower case - black £39.95
total : £590.75 (includes shipping : £19.10).

the 7850 comes with a silver ticket for some free games.

its faster than the r7 260x - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/amd/r7_260x/26.html

stulid · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:35

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 "BF4 Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x AOC E2450SWDAK 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £53.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
Total : £610.75 (includes shipping : £19.10).

BF4 with this card.

Josh · 20 Nov 2013 at 21:35

Think Stulids build is good for sub £600.

6300 CPU is a cracking bang for buck processor. Plays some of the new top end titles well.

If you want to drop the DVD drive spend the extra on a better GPU if you can for that sort of money.

Josh

Edit, just seen the revised 270 build. This!

ndaar · 24 Nov 2013 at 00:49

stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 "BF4 Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x AOC E2450SWDAK 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £53.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
Total : £610.75 (includes shipping : £19.10).

BF4 with this card.

Im trying to come up with a budget build I can make for my other half for under £600 for Christmas as well. I came up with very similar to you apart from didn't need a monitor so added in an ssd and an aftermarket CPU cooler. I think its probably the best bang for buck at the minute. Although I had a different PSU as it was on offer the EVGA 500Watt @ £39.95