Hi Guys - been reading the other gaming PC posts some solid ideas there
My son's after a Gaming PC for when he's at his mum's. He has £1150 total to spend (thats with me adding £500 so as to get a decent one so can not go over budget) but that needs to include a monitor (recomendations appreciated) keyboard & mouse and gaming headset (Not bothered about speakers) case, thermal paste, wireless adapter, basically everything. I'll do the building for him.
Don't need an operating system I've got windows 7 pro. Don't need an optical drive I have a few spare of those lying arround. But do eveything else. An SSD solid state would be a bonus but not a necessitary, as I believe it would not enhance the actual games just the loading times, so I could always add one for christmas if we can't afford it in the initial build. But it would be nice to include if we could...
Ideally he'd love an intel i7 build but I think thats beyond his budget.
So I was thinking in the slightly cheaper range, Is an intel i5 ..say 4670k 3.4Ghz better than an AMD FX8 8350 4Ghz?
Plus Graphics cards I'm torn between
AMD R9 270x 4GB MSI gaming
AMD R9 280 3GB MSI Gaming
-and-
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB MSI Gaming
Plus he doesn't want to wait for the june chip releases if I could build this yesterday that wouldn't be soon enough for him LOL so what ever is available now please.
I really appreciate any help or suggestions. Please and thank you.
My son's after a Gaming PC for when he's at his mum's. He has £1150 total to spend (thats with me adding £500 so as to get a decent one so can not go over budget) but that needs to include a monitor (recomendations appreciated) keyboard & mouse and gaming headset (Not bothered about speakers) case, thermal paste, wireless adapter, basically everything. I'll do the building for him.
Don't need an operating system I've got windows 7 pro. Don't need an optical drive I have a few spare of those lying arround. But do eveything else. An SSD solid state would be a bonus but not a necessitary, as I believe it would not enhance the actual games just the loading times, so I could always add one for christmas if we can't afford it in the initial build. But it would be nice to include if we could...
Ideally he'd love an intel i7 build but I think thats beyond his budget.
So I was thinking in the slightly cheaper range, Is an intel i5 ..say 4670k 3.4Ghz better than an AMD FX8 8350 4Ghz?
Plus Graphics cards I'm torn between
AMD R9 270x 4GB MSI gaming
AMD R9 280 3GB MSI Gaming
-and-
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB MSI Gaming
Plus he doesn't want to wait for the june chip releases if I could build this yesterday that wouldn't be soon enough for him LOL so what ever is available now please.
I really appreciate any help or suggestions. Please and thank you.
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