£450 Gaming PC

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 13:37

Hi All! New here!!

My old and well used PC has finally thrown in the towel.

So its about time I got a new system!

Budget is £450.

I understand how the basics of how to put the components together (other than a processer) but no clue on overclocking etc.

With that in mind i like the idea of this kit: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-234-OK&groupid=43&catid=2512&subcat=2693 Is it anygood/any better suggestions :confused:

I have monitor, keyboard, mouse etc. I have a Windows 7 key but no CD (how do i get round this)? So need everything else!

Hope that makes sense

Thanks!!

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 13:41

Which version of Windows 7 do you have? You can download it online then use your key

snips86x · 2 May 2014 at 13:42

Do you have a graphics card, HDD, case & PSU?

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 13:45

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £55.99
1 x Intel Pentium G3420 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Gigabyte H81M-D2V Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £16.99
Total : £444.44 (includes shipping : £8.00).

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 13:49

I do have a graphics card, psu and case. I’m at work on lunch at the moment so will check when I get home what graphics card (about 4-5 years old) and psu (is very budget if I remember correctly) so might be worth changing them? My case is very very old, so would ideally like to change this but am sure I scrape another £40 to get one on top of the £450.

Edit: Sorry I also have optical drives!

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 13:53

I doubt a GPU that old is going to suffice!

Also is the optical drive SATA or IDE? If you can spare some cash up then I would go down the AMD FX-6300 route

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 17:07

Drives are probably Ide (I think). How much do you think I would need for a build with the AMD fx6300?

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 17:26

£500 would be good

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 17:47

Yeah I can probably make that happen. A new case isn't essential

. Just gonna check the kit I got already to see if any of it's still ok

nicknack35 · 2 May 2014 at 17:52

Not si much if the kit is ok more of if its compatable with a new system

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 18:28

Ok so I have:

Nvidia GeForce 9800gtx+
2x AE 2gb DDR Ram
Hiper type M 630w psu
2 IDE opticals
Freezer pro 7 processor fan
Intel core 2 quad 2.83ghz processor

Told you it was old :eek:

, a friend built it for me for practically nothing many year ago!!

Let me know if anything is still relevant lol

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 18:31

J and j said:
Ok so I have:

Nvidia GeForce 9800gtx+
2x AE 2gb DDR Ram
Hiper type M 630w psu
2 IDE opticals
Freezer pro 7 processor fan
Intel core 2 quad 2.83ghz processor

Told you it was old , a friend built it for me for practically nothing many year ago!!

Let me know if anything is still relevant lol

irrelevant post mate

snips86x · 2 May 2014 at 18:34

J and j said:
Ok so I have:

Nvidia GeForce 9800gtx+
2x AE 2gb DDR Ram
Hiper type M 630w psu
2 IDE opticals
Freezer pro 7 processor fan
Intel core 2 quad 2.83ghz processor

Told you it was old , a friend built it for me for practically nothing many year ago!!

Let me know if anything is still relevant lol

I've seen worse!!

Martini1991 · 2 May 2014 at 18:44

snips86x said:
Start your own thread if you want help!!

This is his thread :confused:

snips86x · 2 May 2014 at 18:46

Martini1991 said:
This is his thread

Oh....haha. I must have posted in the wrong one!!

J and j · 2 May 2014 at 18:50

now I have established, what I have is irrelevant! I should be able to scrape £500. Any suggestions please (keeping in mind I don't know how to overclock)

Thanks for all the help so far people!!!

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 18:53

Yeah what I posted before but with the following CPU+MOBO instead

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-338-AM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-502-AS

nicknack35 · 2 May 2014 at 18:53

why not go for a system that is already built? maybe cost a little more then 500 but theres few on the site that is not much more

nicknack35 · 2 May 2014 at 18:55

this is £566 maybe little over budget

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-430-OE

dacads · 2 May 2014 at 18:57

nicknack35 said:
this is £566 maybe little over budget

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-430-OE

nicknack35 said:
why not go for a system that is already built? maybe cost a little more then 500 but theres few on the site that is not much more

Well because it works out more expensive and that suggestion has a GPU that is inferior to the R9 270X. OP wants to build himself which will be great fun and an experience so no point suggesting a pre-built