£350 challenge

arjgrundy

arjgrundy

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Hello guys.

I am currently after a spec costing no more than £350 excluding mouse, keyboard and monitor.

I am looking at building a PC for my godson that will be used for mainly light gaming such as fortnite and some others.

I know this isn't a big budget so if anyone can spec a build in this thread, this will help us out a lot.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Minibiker said:
Will be very difficult to do on that budget, Maybe look for a used prebuilt system on local ad sites etc... You could always try find a Dell OptiPlex i7 for around £250 then add a GPU with the spare cash
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Thanks. I know it's very hard with that budget. I just thought it was worth a go.
 
unless theres cheaper ram under the 2400, this is the best i could come up with in the terms of new prices.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £357.99 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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i played fortnite on low at 1366x768 with my current sempron apu and a 1050ti i had and ran fairly well, my cpu was seriously holding back so this is sort of the opposite way round though im sure the 1030 will run fine if you play around with the settings and the pentium is a 2core 4thread cpu that is stronger than my apu.

could buy a nice i5 quad system or ryzen 3 build on the used market.
 
Going to have to shop around for some options not available from OcUK, and also to penny pinch where possible.

Intel Pentium Gold G5400 3.7GHz (£47.99)
ASRock B360M-Pro4 motherboard (£64.99)
Patriot Viper Elite 2x4GB 2400 DDR4 memory (£77.94)
EVGA 450BT PSU (£28.49)
TeamGroup 240GB L5 LITE 3D SSD (£49.99)
R9 280 3Gb or GTX 680 2GB (£75 second-hand)

That's £344, and then a cheap case. Changing SSD to HDD would free up more pennies for case.

Also, for that budget, consider an older DDR3 system as well, DDR3 memory is cheaper than DDR4 and you can get hold of a little more CPU power.

i7-4770 (£115 second-hand)
Asus H81M-Plus Micro-ATX LGA 1150 motherboard (£45.95)
Patriot Viper 3 Black Mamba DDR3 1600 2x4GB (£55.99)
EVGA 450BT PSU (£28.49)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD or WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD (£35.80)
R9 280 3Gb or GTX 680 2GB (£75 second-hand)

£356 + a case. Or with i5-4570 second-hand it'd be £316 + a case.

I'm playing Fortnite on a custom 1920x1050 resolution no problem on a GTX 750 1GB + 4770K. On fullscreen 1920x1080 some textures wouldn't rez correctly (due to the low video memory), but windowed 1920x1050 fixed that. FPS is 80-ish when jumping out of the bus, and 70-ish on the ground for the most part with some dips to mid 50's here and there. So as far as handling Fortnite, don't worry, it's doable for £350 (without including Windows). Just a question of getting the best bang for buck and also thinking about any upgrades. If there's any major plans for the latter then I'd go with a DDR4 system even if slightly more expensive. But if it's just a new graphics card and/or an additional drive at some point, then not really an issue.
 
If he doesn't need a great deal of disk space then def go for an SSD over a HDD if possible, it's a night and day difference in terms of overall responsiveness.
 
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