£450 Gaming PC

Thanks guys!!! I'll let you know how it goes, I'm looking to build it myself :)

With the alternative board and processor it comes out at £505, so spot on :p
 
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Hi all,

Thanks again for you advice.

Unfortunately my budget has reduced to £350 as my car needed some work :mad:. Will I still be able to have a decent build for this :(:confused:
 
Put simply, for decent gaming, no :( You will be able to get something very basic, but still able to play most games at low settings :)

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1 x AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £131.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £25.99
1 x Raijintek Rhea Heatpipe CPU Cooler - PWM - 92mm £12.95
Total : £363.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 
That APU should be fine for gaming, tbh I was a bit harsh, may be able to get med-high settings on some games, but I'd wait for a while for more funds? :)
 
What you can do is get a basic i3 rig going with no discrete graphics then add a gfx card in when funds become available.
 
Np, I can't currently do a spec but I can't imagine it being much more than £350 for an I3 + h87 mobo etc
 
J and j said:
Hi all,

Thanks again for you advice.

Unfortunately my budget has reduced to £350 as my car needed some work :mad:. Will I still be able to have a decent build for this :(:confused:
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You have a Q9550 which is not too bad TBF and is still worth a reasonable amount on the famous auction site.

What games do you intent to play??
 
May's well just lump a GPU into what he has now and overclock.
Going to be the best way really.

Say an R9 270X.

My mate's gaming on a stock Q6600 with a 7770 :p
 
Kind of lost me a little :D

At the moment there is certainly issues somewhere in my kit I have at the moment. I would like to replace the hard drives because they are only small and old. I think the issues are in the motherboard or hard drives? (my guess, sometimes wont even start up, just get a series of beeps).

Well if I can sell my currently processer for £50. That will bring me up to £400...

I play a lot of different games really, LoL, Minecraft, COD, CS GO, CS, Dayz, WoW, Elder Scrolls, Various racing games, bunch of other stuff on steam too.
 
400 pound isn't a great sum of money though, and your Q9550 can still play games.

If you could fault find for example, you'd likely end up with the great gaming performance from your Q9550 with an R9 270X and then an SSD.

An FX4300/Kaveri Quad is faster than your CPU, but not massively ahead.
 
So if i could stretch to the below set up, would it be a decent system?

Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99

Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99

TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £55.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99

Zalman Z3-Plus Midi-Tower - Black £39.95

SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £31.99

Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49


Total :£503.98
 
Yes, very decent, probably able to play BF4 at ultra with little hiccups. Increase that PSU size though, and maybe drop the DVD-RW to compensate.
 
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