Hello, I have a friend whos looking at getting his first PC but he only has about £400 available to spend, he has a screen and peripherals and has a copy of windows. What could be a good entry level Gaming setup which he could start to upgrade when he can upgrade down the line?
Budget Build £300-400
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there's this option for your mate, good mobo with forum rep and uk rma available and also room for upgrading
My basket at Overclockers UK:
or if he wanted to come below the £400 budget he could use slighty cheaper ram and ryzen which is below, but a lot will say go for faster ram as ryzens work better with faster ram
My basket at Overclockers UK:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
- 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £31.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD4= £99.95
- 1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
- 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
Total: £451.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)
or if he wanted to come below the £400 budget he could use slighty cheaper ram and ryzen which is below, but a lot will say go for faster ram as ryzens work better with faster ram
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1300X 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £109.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £89.99
Total: £209.88 (includes shipping: £9.90)
go with this build if you don't want to use it at all =)there's this option for your mate, good mobo with forum rep and uk rma available and also room for upgrading
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
- 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £31.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD4= £99.95
- 1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
- 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £41.99
Total: £451.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)
or if he wanted to come below the £400 budget he could use slighty cheaper ram and ryzen which is below, but a lot will say go for faster ram as ryzens work better with faster ram
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1300X 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £109.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £89.99
Total: £209.88 (includes shipping: £9.90)
fyi ryzen has no inbuilt gpu
Yes, this one:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Kaveri A10-7890K Wraith 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores)= £139.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01)= £59.99
- 1 x Aerocool V2X Orange Edition Midi-Tower - Black / Orange= £24.95
- 1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
- 1 x Hynix SL308 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS120G32TND-N1A0A)= £49.99
- 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £39.95
- 1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2 AMD A78 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £43.99
Total: £410.05 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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i forgot to add a cheap graphics card sorry was eating dinner at time
@marco.da.man I guessed lol. I made the statement in jest 
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Hiya, you can get a Ryzen 3 1300X based system, 8GB 3000MHz dual channel kit, ok psu, 1TB Seagate HDD, MSI A320M Pro-VH Plus, Aero cool case &
a Palit GT 1030 for about £420 + delivery costs.
Link to MB data https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/A320M-PRO-VH-PLUS/Specification *check it carefully!
OcUk has Ryzen 3 1200 out of stock right now, that's why the 1300X. You would need to add £53 to get to the cheapest GTX 1050 that they have in stock right now.
You could save a little on the PSU but i picked this XFX https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-xt-series-500w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-ca-022-xf.html
over the EVGA 450BT cause i find the cheaper EVGA's super noisy after awhile, like a year or 18 months. As you said your friend wanted to upgrade it over
time you would be better served by spending more on a good Gold rated PSU but i really understand the budget problems. Had them myself recently.
If you want to overclock the CPU then u need a B350 board which is more money....
Also i checked the clearance gpu section in case you wanted to go down that route but there is only 1 card under £100, that's an AMD R7 360 2GB for £90, i think
the GT 1030 has the legs on that (being much newer tech), but am not sure.
Wish i could do better for you, hope mickyflinn see's this thread, he really helped me out the other week.
Ahh 1 other thing! Phone Overclockers & ask them what they can come up with for £400 (if it is a hard limit) or maybe post in the customer service section.
Good luck.
a Palit GT 1030 for about £420 + delivery costs.
Link to MB data https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/A320M-PRO-VH-PLUS/Specification *check it carefully!
OcUk has Ryzen 3 1200 out of stock right now, that's why the 1300X. You would need to add £53 to get to the cheapest GTX 1050 that they have in stock right now.
You could save a little on the PSU but i picked this XFX https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-xt-series-500w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-ca-022-xf.html
over the EVGA 450BT cause i find the cheaper EVGA's super noisy after awhile, like a year or 18 months. As you said your friend wanted to upgrade it over
time you would be better served by spending more on a good Gold rated PSU but i really understand the budget problems. Had them myself recently.
If you want to overclock the CPU then u need a B350 board which is more money....
Also i checked the clearance gpu section in case you wanted to go down that route but there is only 1 card under £100, that's an AMD R7 360 2GB for £90, i think
the GT 1030 has the legs on that (being much newer tech), but am not sure.
Wish i could do better for you, hope mickyflinn see's this thread, he really helped me out the other week.
Ahh 1 other thing! Phone Overclockers & ask them what they can come up with for £400 (if it is a hard limit) or maybe post in the customer service section.
Good luck.