£500 build Spec me

[zak903]

Budget £500
Going to be mainly used for guild wars 2 and other light gaming.
Cpu either AMD fx 4300 or i3 2220
Would quite like to use corsair carbide 200r
already have a after market cpu cooler (freezer 7 pro)
keyboard mouse and screen not need but i do need a operating system

thanks for any help

 

[Fire_fly]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte B75M-D3V Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £42.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £28
Total : £497.48 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 

[zak903]

The only thing I'm not sure about is the b75 chipset will it affect performance in any way?

 

[TrojanWhore]

guild wars 2 is incredibly CPU intensive, so whilst fire fly's spec is really good for the money, and would be better in most games, if this is your main game, my preference would be the following system, £480 if you add windows 7 home premium:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-322-OE&groupid=43&catid=2385&subcat=1270
and then add in a mid range GPU in a month or 2 when you have the cash available (the HD4000 should be fine on low settings until then)

 

[zak903]

Is there any Amd alternatives instead of the 2700k thinking from a cost aspect and then use something like 7770 as I'm keen to try out amd's new drivers on there Gpu's!

 

[Fire_fly]

The only thing I'm not sure about is the b75 chipset will it affect performance in any way?

The motherboard won't cause a drop in performance. But you can't overclock on it ( but the CPU is not overclockable either). If you wanted a better board then you will have to save some money elsewhere.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £42.98
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £28
Total : £501.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Still can't overclock the CPU but you can drop an i5 3570K in as an upgrade later down the line.