£600 build for everything

passey89 · 14 Aug 2014 at 07:21

A friend asked me last night to spec him a gaming build for his gf.

He has £600 to spend for everything.

Keyboard, Mouse, monitor, OS.

This is what I managed to come up with last night. Opinions? alterations?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 750K Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD750KWOHJBOX) £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £38.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - White £29.99
1 x Gigabyte K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £612.85 (includes shipping : ).

faceman123 · 14 Aug 2014 at 07:49

passey89 said:
A friend asked me last night to spec him a gaming build for his gf.

He has £600 to spend for everything.

Keyboard, Mouse, monitor, OS.

This is what I managed to come up with last night. Opinions? alterations?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 750K Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD750KWOHJBOX) £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £38.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - White £29.99
1 x Gigabyte K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £612.85 (includes shipping : ).

up the processor, its gonna bottlneck that 280 easy, ask you friend to up the budget to 650

tamzzy · 14 Aug 2014 at 07:51

go 2nd hand. you'll get more mileage for your £££

faceman123 · 14 Aug 2014 at 07:53

tamzzy said:
go 2nd hand. you'll get more mileage for your £££

This 2500k + board, you're laughing. 280 are about 100ish if you look carefully

passey89 · 14 Aug 2014 at 08:25

He doesn't want to go 2nd hand has to be all new stuff

passey89 · 14 Aug 2014 at 08:43

What would the performance difference between a 280 and a 270 be like?

This price drop would allow a better cpu mobo

passey89 · 14 Aug 2014 at 08:48

how about this

dropping the gpu a bit to afford a better cpu.

He said it doesn't need to play bf4 @ 1080p ultra 60fps

She just wants to be able to play games

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - White £29.99
1 x Gigabyte K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £603.85 (includes shipping : ).

faceman123 · 14 Aug 2014 at 08:51

passey89 said:
how about this

dropping the gpu a bit to afford a better cpu.

He said it doesn't need to play bf4 @ 1080p ultra 60fps

She just wants to be able to play games

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 265 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - White £29.99
1 x Gigabyte K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
Total : £603.85 (includes shipping : ).

i would get the 270 and call it a day with that build, bang on

faceman123 · 14 Aug 2014 at 08:52

faceman123 said:
i would get the 270 and call it a day with that build, bang on

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-169-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1982

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Aug 2014 at 09:39

I would get this PSU:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-143-NX

It uses better capacitors than the SuperFlower PSU but is a tad long.

tamzzy · 14 Aug 2014 at 20:15

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I would get this PSU:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-143-NX

It uses better capacitors than the SuperFlower PSU but is a tad long.

eh? it is the superflower psu! it's a nzxt rebrand of the golden green 550w psu

Svyper1 · 14 Aug 2014 at 21:56

why get a stock fx 6 they suck huge hairy ones...an i3 haswell is better vs stupid stock fx6
and that monitor is at nice price for "this week only" save yourself that and get what actually matters...

how about screw that future less garbage r7 will not support dx12...and get intel i5:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £151.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £101.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £76.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £35.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
Total : £605.86 (includes shipping : ).

or drop to i3 and get an SSD to speed things up A LOT

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £101.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4150 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £76.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x SanDisk Pulse 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDP-128G-G25) £50.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £35.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
Total : £594.84 (includes shipping : ).

ExRayTed · 14 Aug 2014 at 22:03

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I would get this PSU:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-143-NX

It uses better capacitors than the SuperFlower PSU but is a tad long.

I really wouldn't. Not only is it made by Superflower and will have exactly the same internals, but NZXT have frankly awful European support rendering any warranty worthless.

passey89 · 15 Aug 2014 at 07:25

Svyper1 said:
why get a stock fx 6 they suck huge hairy ones...an i3 haswell is better vs stupid stock fx6
and that monitor is at nice price for "this week only" save yourself that and get what actually matters...

how about screw that future less garbage r7 will not support dx12...and get intel i5:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £151.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £101.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £76.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £35.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
Total : £605.86 (includes shipping : ).

or drop to i3 and get an SSD to speed things up A LOT

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £101.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4150 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £76.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x SanDisk Pulse 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDP-128G-G25) £50.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £35.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
Total : £594.84 (includes shipping : ).

Don't really want to drop to 4GB RAM 8GB is standard now.

350W psu is limiting for the future for a good gpu upgrade / overclocking (possibility)

FX6 core isn't a bad processor. performs better than an I3 and can be overclocked if wanted in the future. Also will be more futureproof.

750ti performs worse than a R7 265 anyway.

That monitor only has a VGA input as well

This is teh build as it stands now

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £113.99
1 x BenQ DL2215 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £79.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/Blue £29.99
1 x Gigabyte M6880 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £10.99
1 x Gigabyte K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
Total : £602.89 (includes shipping : ).

Svyper1 · 15 Aug 2014 at 07:47

It's like talking to a wall >_>

1stly
no the haswelli3 is not worse than the fx6. The haswell i3 is a very very good processor and in fact performs better for the things a girl wants to do. More precisely single threaded is better and only when overclocked to extreme does the fx6 become "better" in which case why buy an fx6 when you can buy an i5 for better cost...

you want to oc later? we're talking about a girl - she won't care as long as it runs what she wants...

2ndly "performs worse than r7 265 anyway". That won;t matter when dx12 comes out and the r7 265 can't run <_<

3rdly the improvements to gfx and processors is going in the direction of lower power consumption (apart from AMD which are crappy old tech "clocked higher" to perform and so MORE power is used)

4thly the i3 build will perform much faster for the simple fact of SSD. a 1TB HDD takes forever to do anything...

5thly a 750ti and later generations perform better perfectly fine for 1080p and you will hardly notice a difference

6thly you can get 8GB ram if you look, i just simply didnt look around, only to show you that you can get a better build for the same money

if you still only want that - spend a fraction more and get a longer lasting cpu - the i5:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £151.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 750Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £101.99
1 x BenQ DL2215 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £29.99
1 x Zalman T4 Micro-ATX Case USB 3.0 - Black £22.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
Total : £609.86 (includes shipping : ).