£600 Casual Gaming Rig

neekowinston99

neekowinston99

neekowinston99

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Hey folks new here and looking for some advice. Ive been looking through a lot of threads and there is just so much choice :eek: for builds.

Anyway what im looking for is a rig with plenty of room to expand on in the future. Im not looking to be able to play new games on their highest settings (not that I would be able to on this budget anyway) but it would be ace to be able to down the line if I wanted to spend more on and upgrade.

At the, moment ill be happy with just playing games on medium/low settings.

I already have a monitor and the OS so all good there. I currently have a brand new nvidia GT 630 GPU to start me off with as well.

Thanks folks.
 
Why dont you go for something like this. You can choose a few extras and can be upgraded at a later stage.


This system is allmost the same as mine in specs and I can play games like bf3 mw3 grid 2 on ultra settings with 30 - 40 fps at 1080p .
 
 
I'm just slightly over budget, but this is my suggestion. It get's you one of the latest generation Haswell Core i5's with a full size motherboard that should give plenty of space for future expansion.

I've included a couple of extra case fans as the case only looks to come with a single fan. As you cant really overclock the CPU on this spec I've just left it with the stock CPU cooler but you could always consider adding an aftermarket one later. This spec also gets you an SSD which will make a huge difference to the overall speed of the system. The 7850 will absoultely decimate your 630 and let you play most games on medium - high settings straight away.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with FREE GAMES £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x MSI H87-G43 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £51.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £43.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
2 x Arctic F12 PWM Case Fan - 120mm £4.39 (£8.78)
Total : £621.66 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
sell your gt630

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with FREE GAMES £119.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x MSI 990XA-GD55 AMD 990X Chipset (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £76.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £51.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A [BW] Performance CPU Cooler £24.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £601.80 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
Thank you for your suggedtions folks I really appreciate your time. With that being said I think I preffer the Intel option as ive generally heard better things for intel over amd. After some more possitive news today (i.e. premission from the mrs :D)I can strech the budget and extra £200, if I stick with the Intel suggestion what would you guys add/change?
 
 
 
neekowinston99 said:
Thank you for your suggedtions folks I really appreciate your time. With that being said I think I preffer the Intel option as ive generally heard better things for intel over amd. After some more possitive news today (i.e. premission from the mrs :D)I can strech the budget and extra £200, if I stick with the Intel suggestion what would you guys add/change?
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Still a small amount over budget but I've modified my origional spec to this. It's still the latest gen Intel Chip but now upto a 4670k with a Z87 board and a better CPU cooler so you can do some decent overclocking. I've also upped the GPU from a 7850 to a 7870 and put a slightly bigger PSU in there to cope with any future expansion.

I've also included a better case just to generally give you more room.

I didn't do a huge amount of reasearch on the CPU cooler so you could potentially save money on that by going for something cheaper bringing it back under budget. I'd personally mount the two extra fans so you have one on one of the side intake mounts and one in the roof. That way the case has a 140mm + 120mm intake, and 2 120mm exhausts. Should give good airflow and positive pressure.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x MSI HD 7870 Black Knight 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R7870-2GD5T) with FREE GAMES £145.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020060-UK) £62.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black £61.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £51.95
1 x Phanteks PH-TC12DX CPU Cooler - Black £44.98
2 x Arctic F12 PWM Case Fan - 120mm £4.39 (£8.78)
Total : £812.64 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with FREE GAMES £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £103.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £76.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £51.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A [BW] Performance CPU Cooler £24.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £815.76 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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