£500 - £600 mini gaming pc...

James1954 · 28 Dec 2012 at 20:15

Hi, as of recently I've been quite interested in steam's big picture and thought a mini case / media pc would be ideal.

I've had a quick look about and found some fairly suitable parts but needing help whether they will all come together!

Hopefully looking to be able to get games like battlefield 3 / far cry 3 running at at fairly high standard, but I'm not sure if I can expect them to be maxed out!

I'd like to use a case like this or very similar: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-073-BX

then would these parts be suitable / any alternatives ? Thanks!

cpu-http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-361-IN
gpu-http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-283-MS
memory-http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-SA
HD -http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-024-CS
motherboard - ?
power supply - ?

Doomedspeed · 28 Dec 2012 at 22:46

Half your links a broke mate.

Something like this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £161.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £155.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £89.99
1 x ASRock B75M-ITX Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ITX Motherboard £71.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £38.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
Total : £634.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Have you got/need a BIG HDD?

It's over budget, anything we could cut back on?

James1954 · 29 Dec 2012 at 01:13

ah my bad, the gpu was linked to a reduced 2gb hd6970, but chances of that fitting in may be slim!
and I won't be needing much space as I will mostly be running steam's big picture which saves on space!

and for a possible cut back, are there any AMD processors worth looking at. On the whole they seem cheaper but Im not sure how much this could affect performance ?

Doomedspeed · 29 Dec 2012 at 09:43

James1954 said:
ah my bad, the gpu was linked to a reduced 2gb hd6970, but chances of that fitting in may be slim!
and I won't be needing much space as I will mostly be running steam's big picture which saves on space!

and for a possible cut back, are there any AMD processors worth looking at. On the whole they seem cheaper but Im not sure how much this could affect performance ?

Not even the 8350 comes near the 3570 in performance terms. It is better at video encoding as it has more cores but the i5 beats it in everyday tasks and gaming..

Luffy · 29 Dec 2012 at 10:45

That is a nice spec for the money Doomedspeed. It is worth finding the extra ££ to get Intel i5 and SSD James if you can. You could maybe save a tenner or so on the memory.
Did your 500 - 600 also need to cover the cost of Monitor, Keyboard and mouse?

James1954 · 29 Dec 2012 at 14:01

yea, currently just seeing what options are on, and just looking for the pc as monitor, keyboard mouse are covered!

But as for spec, i'd be most happy with a pc like that and for the price, its not terrible if it's slightly over, but trying to keep it within boundaries!