£600-£700 Budget (Gaming)

Bluehell

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Hey,

I want to build my own PC and I have a budget of £600-£700 for the Tower only.

I'm not sure what stuff I'll need.
I'd like to be able to play games on in it.

Stuff I have;

Corsair - 8GB (2x4GB) - XMS3
Vantage Gamers Case - Angel (White, X11)
DVD Drive

I'd like to keep it close to £600 as possible, but would push higher to get the better performace. If what I've already got, sucks then I don't mind replacing any either.

Thank you,

Luke
 
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If you were willing to spend more towards the upper end of the budget we could build you a complete system like this

My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Kinetic A1 - AMD AM3+ Configurable Piledriver Micro ATX DDR3 Gaming PC = £680.89
    • Case:Kolink KLM-001 Micro-ATX Case - Black
    • Memory:Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)
    • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
    • Optical Drive **Not Compatible with Kolink Victory Case**:Unwanted
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
    • Warranty:OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
    • Processor:AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
    • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Samsung 500GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive
    • Security Software:Unwanted
    • Graphics Card:XFX Radeon RX 470 Core Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Total: £694.99
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £710.80
(includes shipping: £0.00)


Found this in another thread, posted by Armageus.

If I removed the Case, and ram and used the 8GB (Corsair - 2x4GB - XMS3) I already own. Would it connect to the motherboard? and still run well?​
 
The ram you have is ddr3 where as the H110 motherboard uses ddr4, you could remove the case but if you intended on getting everything else in that basket you would need to buy ddr4 ram
 
I would probably suggest going for something like this

The power supply isn't something you should really try to cost cut on, considering it's supplying your system with the juice it needs to run. This might be more than you were expecting to pay but it's seriously worth the money going for a PSU that will last a long time.
 
Hey,

I ordered everyting and the PSU suggested. Going with this:

[*] 1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £188.99

[*] 1 x Asus H110-Plus Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £59.99

[*] 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £59.99

[*] 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card= £185.99

[*] 1 x = £79.99

[*] 1 x [url=https://www.overclockers.co.uk/samsung-250gb-750-evo-ssd-2.5-sata-6gbps-solid-state-drive-hd-224-sa.html]Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99

[*] 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £42.95

I'm stuck with the build itself, It's the first time I've tried putting one together.

I've connected everything up, and went to test it. Everything lights up and seems to work except the motherboard and the fan above the intel chip.

All fans on the case work, the Graphics card lights up, theres an orange light on the lower part of the motherboard but not towards the top.

http://imgur.com/a/zugsX - Images of what I mean.

Any help would be really appreciated.
 
Bluehell said:
Hey,

I ordered everyting and the PSU suggested. Going with this:

[*] 1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £188.99

[*] 1 x Asus H110-Plus Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £59.99

[*] 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £59.99

[*] 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card= £185.99

[*] 1 x = £79.99

[*] 1 x [url=https://www.overclockers.co.uk/samsung-250gb-750-evo-ssd-2.5-sata-6gbps-solid-state-drive-hd-224-sa.html]Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99

[*] 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £42.95

I'm stuck with the build itself, It's the first time I've tried putting one together.

I've connected everything up, and went to test it. Everything lights up and seems to work except the motherboard and the fan above the intel chip.

All fans on the case work, the Graphics card lights up, theres an orange light on the lower part of the motherboard but not towards the top.

http://imgur.com/a/zugsX - Images of what I mean.

Any help would be really appreciated.
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Looking at that picture, have you got the CPU fan plugged into a Chassis fan header?

Try plugging the CPU fan into the CPU fan header which is visible just above the CPU.
 
Ah, yeah. Thank you! That worked. The fan spins now!

I have two other questions as well.

I have some spare connections from the PSU, I may have missed where they go in the tutorials I've watched. Does the CP wire connect next to where I've just connected the CPU Fan?

And my Hard Drive only has a SATA connection. I cant find any other wires that will fit next to it to link it with the Motherboard. Will it still work with just the SATA from the PSU I have?

http://imgur.com/a/M65U9 - Update images.
 
I assumed I'd have spare wires from the PSU, I poured the 4 pin CP one into the motherboard.

Went to test the system and I can't get a display onto either my monitor or a tv through a HDMI cable to the graphics card.

Any help, would be appreciated. I'm stressing! Thank you.
 
Your motherboard should have the long 24pin and the 4pin connected for power. Your GPU will have one 8pin (6+2) to power it. The power for the SSD and DVD drive will be the same connector type. After all of this you may have spare cables from the PSU as it will have extras to support more components.


If you have a small motherboard speaker like this
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then plug it in and you can debug the problem from the beep codes.
 
I have all that connected. I am getting beeps in a pattern

1 beep followed by 2 beeps, first beep is slightly longer than the others, over and over again.
 
That's a video error. Try unplugging the gpu completely and make sure you're seating it in the 1st pci-e socket (Grey one on your mobo) and then re-plug the GPU power cable ensuring it's the GPU one (6+2pin)
 
I've figured out that the beep was for the ram not being in correctly.
It turned on and the only beep I heard was kinda like a turning on beep. I see ASUS on my monitor and then it goes after 2 seconds and says 'HDMI is not available'
 
HDMI is plugged into the GPU and not the motherboard right?

Or you may have to plug it into the motherboard, set up the BIOS to display via the GPU and then change back. See if you can boot the PC without the GPU in from the motherbaord display
 
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