£300-£350 budget

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Hello, I've been looking at buying my daughter a pc for Christmas, from the normal high street seller's but after finding this site, I'm wondering if anyone could spec me a pc, I'm on a really tight budget of £350 max, the only item I have is a monitor, keyboard and mouse isn't to important as there cheap as chips, I know it's not going to be winning any awards, but I'm sure it'll be slightly better than the pre built pc's I've been looking at, the system will be used for school homework and light gaming e.g minecraft, sims, any help would be much appreciated, if I'm honest I haven't a clue about computers, but looking forward to building one,
many thanks
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £109.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £56.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H AMD A88X Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £35.99
Total : £348.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).



APU so CPU & GPU in one, will handle Minecraft/Sims without an issue (Make sure you use Optifine Mod on Minecraft & NRAAS Plugins on Sims for performance boosts).

Fast RAM to pair with the APU as it likes very fast RAM.
Case can be knocked down to a smaller Micro-ATX if you want a smaller case.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
Minecraft will suffer as it uses a lot of CPU, as will The Sims.
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Pretty sure Minecraft only (or very predominantly) uses one core. In which case, the 370k would be better than the 7700k, since it has a higher clock speed (4.0ghz vs 3.4).

Given its system requirements (low speed dual core), I'd doubt Sims 4 is particularly heavily threaded either, and a fast dual core would be fine.
 
Thanks a lot guys, I still need to buy windows doh, maybe i could push £400 but this would have to include windows in the budget,
 
Bought this lot for a friend who asked me to build her son a gaming PC for under £350

Powercolor Radeon R9 270
Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
EVGA 500W 80 Plus Power Supply
Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
GeIL Black Dragon 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Single Module
Aerocool V2X Orange Edition Midi-Tower - Black / Orange
LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

£346.88
 
I really appreciate what your all doing, but maybe my budget is a little to low, which I can't go over 400, the 2 top pc specs don't include windows or a dvd re-writer
 
 
I have all the items that stulid has recommended in my basket, before I press buy, do you think this is the best I can buy on my budget, or would I be better off buying a pre built one and upgrading when needed
 
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