£500-£600 gaming rig

[danschouten]

Hey looking for a shopping basket for a gaming pc setup including an OS
Budget: £500-£600
Cheers.

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £65.99
1 x MSI 970A-G46 AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £64.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G1600HC9DC01) £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £44.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - White £29.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £656.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).




£56 over but a decently capable machine all the same

 

[ndaar]

That's a reasonable spec for the money. Really at that price range I think the fx6300 is the way to go. I might play around a bit more with the ram and stuff as there are a few other options out there.

 

[ExtremeIC3cream]

I would try and change the SSD and PSU to these:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £73.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
Total : £137.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



That crucial SSD Shivy spec is just slow and the the PSU above is gold efficiency

 

[ShivP]

Yeah I suppose the write speed is pretty bad, and yeah that PSU is probably a better choice too - good call