£600-£650 gaming PC spec

[ElliottC420]

I am looking at buying a gaming PC for around £600-£650, I don't have a monitor so I'd like the monitor to be included in the price, any recommendations?

I've been looking at the R9 280 but I'm not sure if that would be the best card for my budget. This is the case that I want http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-167-BX&groupid=2362&catid=1850

Replies greatly appreciated.

 

[ExRayTed]

YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D Radeon R9 280 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AOC E2470SWHE 23.6" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £54.98
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £47.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £42.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/Blue £29.99
1 x Deepcool GAMMAXX 200 CPU-Cooler - 92mm £12.98
Total : £649.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[CinderzFTW]

really... 2666mhz... you'll be lucky!

I know. I have that DS3P board in my rig and it supports MAX 2000mhz... id drop the memory to 1866mhz and he will be fine

PLUS get a 550/600W PSU as well... that 450w won't leave much headroom for overclocking

 

[pandem0nium]

Why not go for faster ram if it's the same price?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £104.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Gold Window £33.95
Total : £659.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[CinderzFTW]

reason being... the board does not support that memory... it will just downclock it...

 

[pandem0nium]

but...that's...not..a..bad..thing. You'd have about the same end result.
The cheapest 1866 ram is £7 more expensive.

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x AOC E2470SWHE 23.6" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £109.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4350 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x Avexir Gold Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331104G-2CEY) - Yellow/Gold Light £65.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £652.82 (includes shipping : ).




My money definitely wouldn't be on AMD CPUs anymore

There's no upgrade paths from an 8320/8370E as a pose to the upgrade paths from this i3, with which you could whack in an i5/i7 in the future
Even though the AMD CPUs have excellent price/performance, there's literally no point in getting AMD due to AM3+ effectively being a dead socket

 

[Sasahara]

Do you need an OS?

 

[ExRayTed]

reason being... the board does not support that memory... it will just downclock it...

Indeed and exactly my intention when speccing it.

It was £6 cheaper which allowed me to keep the build within budget - so why pay more just to get memory that won't downclock?