Building a PC for £400

Drake5 said:
This comes in at around £450 or am I looking at it wrong
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £296.61
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Then add a GPU of your choice

Edit: i have really confused matters here sorry i though the case has fans... its been long day

Dannys spec nails it tho :)
 
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With dannys spec though there is only single channel ram, wont this affect performance ..... I should have some fans laying around so i can leave them out for now
 
 
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Sorry for another post but I'm waiting to buy this asap :D I have a feeling I've missed something from the build above but not sure

Can someone please take a look over it and see if it all looks good..... Wow the graphics card is now out of stock
 
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Drake5 said:
Sorry for another post but I'm waiting to buy this asap :D I have a feeling I've missed something from the build above but not sure

Can someone please take a look over it and see if it all looks good..... Wow the graphics card is now out of stock
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Yes, if you don't mind blower style card. Should be a bit faster, and probably noisier.
 
Just annoying it's out of stock now - This really messes my budget up because if I went for the next 470 up it'll take me to about £475
 
Only thing i can think of is the memory that motherboard has dual channel architecture so you might be better of with 2 sticks of ram. I would give OCUK a call for some advice before making the purchase.
 
ak22 said:
Only thing i can think of is the memory that motherboard has dual channel architecture so you might be better of with 2 sticks of ram. I would give OCUK a call for some advice before making the purchase.
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I did mention that earlier on someone said it wouldn't make a difference in performance
 
I put my brother a low cost gaming PC together and the only thing I really insisted on was a quality 650W PSU. I did this as it means it would power any single chip GPU so later upgrades would not need a better PSU.
 
At this price point there really is not much between the £130-£150 bracket GPU's, apart from DX12, and power draw.

With the low wattage PSU I would be tempted with a GTX 960 in this price bracket, as it consumes less power via a single 6pin cable than the R9 380 which has two 6pin and a 190 TDP. Less power also means less heat = quieter usually.

No point getting a 500gb drive when a 1tb is a couple of quid more.

No point in single stick ram in case you upgrade, I doubt you will ever need more than 8gb at this price bracket and applications requirement. I also doubt the exact same specification of single stick ram may be available or what it may cost when you do decide 16gb is better cause bigger. From what I remember its around 10% better performance with dual channel.

Right now I run 8gb of ram, I cannot find another 8gb of my ram for my system in stock, last I seen it was £95, and a brief moment of £63. I can buy 2x8gb for £68 or less new.

I would choose an i3 over a Pentium, just for the four thread performance.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £422.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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sastusbulbas said:
No point in single stick ram in case you upgrade,
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Try around 2% difference, which you claw back when you add another 8GB stick anyway, and it doesn't have to be identical as they can just run JEDEC 2133MHz on that board if not XMP or manual speed/timings, and you save a nice chunk of money in doing so.

The main benefit of dual channel (10%+/-) is for running iGPU. Some tasks actually benefit from single channel so it evens out.


sastusbulbas said:
I doubt you will ever need more than 8gb at this price bracket and applications requirement.
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If modern games will be played at some point, some of them already reserve, if not actually use, more than 8GB. In combination with other start-up programs and a browser window or two open.

So yes, you might squeeze out a tiny bit more performance right now, but to say there isn't any point isn't accurate.
 
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