£600 build for everything

[passey89]

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 : ).

 

[passey89]

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

 

[passey89]

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

This price drop would allow a better cpu mobo

 

[passey89]

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 : ).

 

[passey89]

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 : ).