Basic gaming PC for £350?

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Hi all.

My nephew has saved up £350 to get a new pc base unit with keyboard and mouse and my brother has asked me for advice. My problem is trying to find a practica balance at that budget when I struggle with anything remotely mid range, so I hoped some of you wonderful OCers might help point me in the right direction.

After a bit of discussion I have found it boils down to a high chance of being used for Minecraft and possibly WoW and then maybe other stuff later on (as he has a 360 too).

My advice for that budget was to perhaps just get a semi decent cpu/igpu based system to cover Minecraft and general pc/homework use and add a dedicated gpu later.

To which end I was thinking along the lines of a H/B chipset 1150 board with i3 processor, 8gb memory, a decent 450w psu, Bitfenix Merc case or similar, 1Tb WD Blue, dvd-rw and a basic Gigabyte Kb&mouse set.

I haven't ruled out AMD but I am not really sure where the best starting point would be. Thankfully a monitor and OS isn't needed. Any advice welcome, thanks.
 
Here is my try for £11 over budget and using your OCUK free delivery.

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I opted for a 4GB machine with a decent AMD piledriver quad core CPU and a decent 900 series board that can accommodate an 8 core in future. The GTX 750 is a realtively cheap card - but if you look here it does pretty well in games.
 
Your i3 build idea sounds fine, and it will just about fit into the budget.

You could also fish around on the Members Market if he doesn't second hand components.
 
The members market is a good shout, picking up a well loved i7 920 + X58 bundle for £100 and a HD 7850 card for £70 will make for the basis of a cracking system within budget.
 
 
Cheers guys, some good suggestions here. I will bounce some of the ideas back with my brother and see what he thinks.

I have steared clear of 2nd hand for the build as the PC will be some distance away with my nephew's mother and that could add to any support problems.
 
A litle over, but if you can push the budget this should play just about anything at med-high settings for a good while yet.

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 750Ti OC "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (75IGH8HX9KXZ) £99.95
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £82.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £26.99
1 x Zalman T3 Micro -ATX Case USB 3.0 - Black £20.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
1 x Arctic F12 PWM Case Fan - 120mm £4.39
Total : £399.77 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
You dont need 450/550 psu unless you are using a grfx card that needs 150w +

Summary
  • i3-4130 (3.4Ghz)
  • 4GB 1600Mhz DDR3 ram
  • GTX 750
  • DVD RW
  • Keyboard + Mouse
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £82.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 750 OC "Low Profile" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (75NGH8HX9KXZ) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.95
1 x MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £33.95
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £26.99
1 x Zalman T2 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
Total : £360.38 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
 
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