£400 - £500 Computer

Rukenzar

Rukenzar

Rukenzar

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Hello there, I was wondering if you helpful member could help me with the specs of a computer (without peripherals) worth around £400 - £500. If you have experience with both processor systems, I would like an AMD AND and Intel version if possible. If you have to have an i3 for the Intel build, then please include a motherboard which is upgrade-able to a quad core in the future please? Thanks. The case can be as cheap as possible to try and fit in a decent graphics card in the budget. Oh, and a disk drive and operating system is not needed in the price :)

Can you also recommend any upgrade options to the build specified please?

I will be using this computer to play games such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, Skyrim, Fallout and Far Cry 3 (plus more new games that come out) on medium to high settings at 60 (medium) or 30 (high) frames per second.

Edit: I don't mind B grade, either.
 
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Intel build, slightly over budget:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785Q2G2M) £161.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x Thermaltake Smart M550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
Total : £586.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).




But..

You do get £150 worth of free games with the card you can sell and bring it back into budget, or just play. :)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18524378

AMD:

Overcudget again but free games, you don't really want anything less than the 83**'s the 6***'s are not worth it..

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785Q2G2M) £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart M550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
Total : £582.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The intel build still beats this. i'd go with intel. :)
 
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snips86x said:
Do you need everything? Mouse/KB/Monitor/OS?
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I don't need: OS, KB, Mouse, Montor or disk drive.
Doomedspeed said:
Intel build, slightly over budget:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785Q2G2M) £161.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x Thermaltake Smart M550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
Total : £586.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).




But..

You do get £150 worth of free games with the card you can sell and bring it back into budget, or just play. :)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18524378

AMD:

Overcudget again but free games, you don't really want anything less than the 83**'s the 6***'s are not worth it..

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785Q2G2M) £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Thermaltake Smart M550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27
Total : £582.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The intel build still beats this. i'd go with intel. :)
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Hey this is a pretty good build which I don't mind going a little over budget for, but do you think you could spec me one for the price I specified anyway so I could try to compare. I'm trying to get a good build which can play games at a decent speed at this level but the main idea is upgradeability in the future (so if you do an i3 then hopefully the mobo will be able to take a quad core in the future). I'm more worried about the gfx card than the processor, it should be as good as possible within the price, if possible. Thanks :)
 
 
 
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