£500-£550 build

Absorbentsolid

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Hey guys my uncle was looking for a new PC as he's using a PC from 2006 at the moment.

The things he wants to use the PC for are the following

Mainly Gaming
Managing Business on the side.

He's currently gaming on a Xbox One and of course i've convinced him to join the PC Master Race ;)

He'll be using it in the living room i believe using his 42 inch Samsung.

So no monitor needed.

We have OS, mouse and keyboard already.

Cheers folks!
 
 
Absorbentsolid said:
Hey, if we went the Intel Route, would the Intel
Pentium G3258 and a Asus
Z97M-PLUS be a good combo? i would overclock it of course.

Or just stick with AMD?
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If you went Intel you could do something like this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £57.59
1 x Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £55.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
Total : £541.61 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Added in a cooler so you can overclock the pants off the G3258, or spending a bit more could get you an i3

The Pentium K is a good option, the 6300 will likely get you better frame rates overall in games (that use multi-threads, single threads the Pentium K will win especially OC'd) however in the future should you want to upgrade, the Z97 board will take i3/i5/i7 easily - so in short, if you want best FPS now go for the 6300 which strictly speaking is better value for money, however if you want to upgrade in the future (only better thing the AM3+ socket will take is the 8320/8320E) go for Z97

The bgrade 280X is gone as well :(
 
Shivy011 said:
If you went Intel you could do something like this

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £57.59
1 x Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £55.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £19.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
Total : £541.61 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Added in a cooler so you can overclock the pants off the G3258, or spending a bit more could get you an i3

The Pentium K is a good option, the 6300 will likely get you better frame rates overall in games (that use multi-threads, single threads the Pentium K will win especially OC'd) however in the future should you want to upgrade, the Z97 board will take i3/i5/i7 easily - so in short, if you want best FPS now go for the 6300 which strictly speaking is better value for money, however if you want to upgrade in the future (only better thing the AM3+ socket will take is the 8320/8320E) go for Z97

The bgrade 280X is gone as well :(
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Okay i'll discuss this with him, It's okay we'll find another GPU at a nice low price hopefully.

Cheers!
 
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