1st build

EBY · 24 Nov 2018 at 21:35

Hi.
Looking to build a pc for college and university work that will last me for a few years and hopefully upgrade it as time goes on. Budget is £500 . Dont need monitor, mouse, keyboard and windows.

Looking for any reccomendations please. Preferably intel.

Thanks

Jamin280672 · 24 Nov 2018 at 22:18

EBY said:
Hi.
Looking to build a pc for college and university work that will last me for a few years and hopefully upgrade it as time goes on. Budget is £500 . Dont need monitor, mouse, keyboard and windows.

Looking for any reccomendations please. Preferably intel.

Thanks

Personally, with your budget, and you wanting something to easily upgrade in the future, AMD is the way to go, especially with Intel's constant socket changes, Intel is way over priced at the moment too, for AMD, the next 2 generations of CPU's should drop straight into this board too with a bios update.

CPU and RAM upgrade couldn't be easier on this board and throw in a GPU in the future and you have an instant gaming machine.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £52.99
1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS M (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £83.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 2400G VEGA Graphics AM4 CPU w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler= £149.99
1 x be quiet! Pure Power 10 500W CM 80 Plus Silver Modular Power Supply= £58.99
1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £56.99
1 x Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM006)= £55.99
1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case - Black Window= £44.99

Total: £515.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)

Minibiker · 24 Nov 2018 at 22:44

Take a look at the link below.. This is around the £500 mark and is pretty damn good, you could get some idea from it and change bits you want... It's just over budget but not by much

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/pc-building-advice.18838278/

EBY · 24 Nov 2018 at 23:29

Thanks

WantoN · 25 Nov 2018 at 14:25

Personally I’d go second hand, but as new the suggested build is excellent.