£500 Gaming build.

DotFifty89 · 2 Oct 2013 at 17:24

Id like to be able to play MMORPG games like wow, LoL, Dota 2, FF Reborn, Starcrafts. Those sort of games on moderate settings, can it be done with £500?

Only the machine is needed no o/s.

Would like a small case.

DotFifty89 · 2 Oct 2013 at 19:47

Bump?

ExRayTed · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:00

How small do you want the case?

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £47.99
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £485.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

pmc25 · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:03

If it's not something you're desperate to do immediately, you might be best off waiting for Kaveri (AMD's next gen APU) to launch in December. The money you'd save on buying CPU & GPU separately would put you a good way towards a half decent graphics card to upgrade the system with later (which would work in CF with the APU).

Otherwise, the FX-6xxx route is a good way to go, as suggested above.

gpuerrilla · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:15

pmc25 said:
...you might be best off waiting for Kaveri (AMD's next gen APU) to launch in December.

Agree on the advice, this maybe OT but have you heard or seen it being December? :confused:

DotFifty89 · 3 Oct 2013 at 00:48

Wont I need a cpu cooler? If so which should I get, I could stretch to another £40 for one.

ExRayTed · 3 Oct 2013 at 20:05

The CPU is retail and comes with a cooler. If you want an upgrade then the coolers below are good.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 140 CPU Cooler £34.99
1 x Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £31.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
Total : £104.47 (includes shipping : £8.75).

DotFifty89 · 5 Oct 2013 at 17:47

Will that build be able to handle my games I listed? Am I likely to get decent frames on medium to high?

ExRayTed · 5 Oct 2013 at 21:07

Without a doubt. I'd say very high