Building a PC for £400

Drake5

Drake5

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Is it possible to build a mid range gaming PC for £400? The only thing I'll need is a desktop, no keyboard mouse os or monitor

Would be looking to do some gaming on the PC like WoW. I wouldn't mind skipping an SSD for now if it allowed me to get a better CPU/GPU
 
You could get quite a decent pc for that if you used second hand parts from the MM. You could get a 2500k/Z77 motherboard and 8 Gb memory for around £150-170. You should also get a GTX970 for around £120 leaving £110-130 for a case/psu hdd. Brand new you won't get much for your money due to the ridiculous pricing of cpu's and gpu's these days.
 
Just about.

AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor. Should be able to hit over 4Ghz.
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-DS2
Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 8GB) 1333mhz cas 9. Should do 1866Mhz cas 11
Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4096MB
Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case
XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
 
pastymuncher said:
You could get quite a decent pc for that if you used second hand parts from the MM. You could get a 2500k/Z77 motherboard and 8 Gb memory for around £150-170. You should also get a GTX970 for around £120 leaving £110-130 for a case/psu hdd. Brand new you won't get much for your money due to the ridiculous pricing of cpu's and gpu's these days.
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MM is a good idea. I was thinking of maybe getting a used GPU to save cash

jigger said:
Just about.


AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor. Should be able to hit over 4Ghz.
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-DS2
Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 8GB) 1333mhz cas 9. Should do 1866Mhz cas 11
Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4096MB
Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case
XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
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This looks decent but ideally I'd want an intel build as I'd like to upgrade the CPU and I'm not to sure about AMD's
 
I3 and 460

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £388.81
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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G4400 and 470

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £412.85
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I really like that 2nd one I think I'll go for that, is that about as good value as I can get

Also I'll be needing all parts to be instock really, the 470 is out of stock is there anything else to go for
 
 
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My basket at Overclockers UK:
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£420 really would be the maximum I can spend this comes to £445 is there anything I can change. 1TB hdd's are so expensive, I won't really need anything that big yet as I'll be getting an SSD in a couple of weeks. Can I go for a 500GB hdd is it much cheaper
 
Drake5 said:
£420 really would be the maximum I can spend this comes to £445 is there anything I can change. 1TB hdd's are so expensive, I won't really need anything that big yet as I'll be getting an SSD in a couple of weeks. Can I go for a 500GB hdd is it much cheaper
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Ignore what i said you don't need another fan for that case, what games are you looking to play?
 
 
 
Thanks for that but now that my budget can go to £450 I might aswell spend up to that :) Don't really want to get anything b grade
 
 
You could buy a used GPU form members market ? Ignore the last one linked it had the old price as I had it saved to a sticky on build i was planing. Maybe swap the i3 out for the Pentium?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £296.61
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Drake5 said:
I'm a bit confused the spec you created which went to about £450 isn't priced right ?
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Yea sorry about that I made that a while back and saved it to desktop the prices changed a bit look at the last one i posted, I did not add a GPU as im don't no much about the new RX 460/470.
 
Can have fans (case brings no fans) too if you go for cheaper RAM and HDD.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £451.92
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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