Budget Gaming PC

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Planning on building a budget gaming PC for my brother in law for Christmas. I've already got a spare 600W BeQuiet PSU and a Case but can anyone please recommend a reasonable Motherboard, CPU, Ram and GPU for the build?

Thank you :)
 
Depening on cash u could get low level new gear or very high spec older gear for example my old set up which cost about 1800 quid 4 years ago for mobo ram and CPU is very capable
Of playing the latest games and is on eBay ATM .....

striker 2 mobo and Xms ram qx9770 extreme best socket 775 ever made
 
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Not sure about budget really. I was thinking around £300 tops. Obviously, it's gonna be no killer machine but the idea is to give him something he can then upgrade because his current Dell SFF pc isn't upgradeable at all. I'm gutted that we've decided to do this now and not a week ago because we've not long sold our old 3.33GHz i5 PC for £350 with 16GB Ram, etc :(
 
well either way. You need to rip out his harddrive as they are expensive .Find out his mobo and if any decent CPUs are compatible.

Perhaps you could look at an Am3 Athlon build With an upgrade route to 955 or 1090t.

Or an even better cheap i3 sandybridge build
 
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Or if you don't need an HDD (not sure?):


YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
Total : £312.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).




Which has a z68 Mobo in case you wanted to drop and i5 in at a later date. Slightly over, but can drop the motherboard down to a H67 or the CPU down to a pentium
 
beejjacobs said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6770 IceQ X Turbo 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD253GJ) £77.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
Total : £309.34 (includes shipping : £9.50).

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Can get a HD6850 for the same price as that HD6770 on this week only offer.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-174-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1866

Comparison:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/291?vs=296

5770 is just a rebaged 6770.

Edit: Nevermind you noticed :)
 
i3 2100/2120, H67 mobo, 4GB of Kingston RAM and the nvidia superclocked 460. It's actually dearer here than other places but I can't link to them sorry.

That 460 can be overclocked even further (850mhz is a safe expected OC) so you are looking at close to 6870 performance for less cash. The 6850 is actually worse than the 5850 which was the 460GTX main rival. I know it's complicated lol

If you want a Z mobo you really need to spend £100ish to get the SLI and Xfire done properly. That £85 gigabyte z-68 is £20 more than the H67 and if your only using an i3 you wont be overclocking it anyway. If you want to future proof the system get a good Z68 or just opt for the cheaper mobo and put the difference in price towards the GPU.

Any problems or questions let us know
 
Thanks for all the guidance guys.

I was just wondering whether the i3 2100 3.1GHz is any better or worse than the AMD FX4100 3.6Ghz for about the same money?
 
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Thanks for all the guidance guys.

I was just wondering whether the i3 2100 3.1GHz is any better or worse than the AMD FX4100 3.6Ghz for about the same money?
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For gaming better, although you can't overclock you've then got a much better upgrade path.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/362?vs=289

That's much faster (clock speed) than the i3, and yet it still matches it in many benchmarks. (I believe the FX series are similar to the Phenom and they're not on the benchmarks yet)
 
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