Budget Gaming PC

[mullerlight]

Hi,

I'm looking to build a budget gaming PC and have thrown some components together. If anyone could give me some advice/feedback on the build it would be much appreciated.

My budget is £700 so I have gone slightly over.

Many thanks,
Mullerlight


Case - In-Win 707 Full Tower - Black / Red £97.99

Power Supply - KL-500 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £32.99

Motherboard - MSI 970 Gaming AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £84.95

CPU - AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £139.99

GPU - Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with backplate £164.99

RAM - Team Group Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £38.99

HardDrive - Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003) £42.95

DVD Drive - OcUK Value OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Heatsink - Sapphire Vapour-X w/ Dual Fan 120mm CPU Cooler £42.95

OS - Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139) £86.99

Total - £750.78

 

[subbytna]

The Strix 970 is on offer today and it's a mad fast card for 1080p gaming

 

[subbytna]

You don't REALLY need a case at £100 do you?

If you're running the 8320 CPU you'd want a little beefier PSU...perhaps a 600W. Especially if you're overclocking the cpu.

You can get 2400RAM for similar price I think...Depends on if the MOBO can take it.

You can buy cheaper versions of Win 10 elsewhere....Download it and stick it on a USB stick yourself.

 

[RobK]

is there a reason you've picked a full tower case? It's taking up quite a lot of your budget and you don't need the space for the components you've chosen. Also the CPU cooler looks a bit excessive - maybe swap for an Aidos or similar?

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kingston 480GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/4= £89.99
• 1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600 3.30GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £209.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Case & Super Flower 450W FX 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply Bundle= £53.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £52.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £86.99
• 1 x Samsung SH-224GB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible= £12.95
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card= £199.99

Total: £754.88
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[subbytna]

^Job done^

 

[mullerlight]

Wow! that was fast replies, thanks a lot you guys.

 

[Quartz]

I haven't seen AMD CPUs recommended for gaming PCs in a long while.

And if you are going to get an optical drive, get an external USB model.