Challenge: Build a Gaming PC under £200

[matthewsmith12]

At work, me and my colleagues set ourselves a challenge to build the best gaming pc under £200 and the winner (who ever gets the best score on 3D Benchmark and best average FPS on low on BF4) gets a Geforce GTX 980. Obviously I accepted, but have not got a basic idea of what to get.

Don't worry about
Monitors
Peripherals
DVD Drives
Operating System

Any suggestions or even better full lists would be much appreciated.

 

[tamzzy]

new or 2nd hand?

 

[Little*Freak]

Clearance items?

 

[savagesam117]

You'd be going second hand. Shouldn't this be in general not water cooling?

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

Not possible... that's before adding a GPU.

Unless you went for one of those horrific AMD APU's...

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z97M-D3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX (MB-499-GI) £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x **B Grade** TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G1600HC9DC01) £53.99
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £32.99
Total : £214.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[Little*Freak]

Using a mix of clearance and new stuff i'm over budget by £23 <--- Intel

Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz £42
**B Grade** Asus H81M-K Intel H81 £26
TeamGroup Elite 4GB 1333MHz £23
GPU B Grade 7850 £50
PSU EVGA 430W (1x PCI-E) £33
HDD B Grade 1TB £30
Case £20

My mistake, over budget by £24.

 

[savagesam117]

Not possible... that's before adding a GPU.

Unless you went for one of those horrific AMD APU's...

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z97M-D3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX (MB-499-GI) £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x **B Grade** TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G1600HC9DC01) £53.99
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £32.99
Total : £214.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

You save £1 by buying the RAM new
YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2133HC11ADC01) £52.99
Total : £61.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



Surely you'd get a better AMD build for this budget?

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Pick up a used X58 cpu/mobo/ram for sub £100 used.

Still tight getting a decent used GPU HDD and case with psu for under £200,

 

[matthewsmith12]

Ok, so my other colleagues were having trouble getting stuff within the budget as well, so we upped it £300
hopefully this would make it easier.

 

[matthewsmith12]

new or 2nd hand?

new preferably

 

[Sarah469]

surely you wouldnt techically need a case, you could have all the components out on the desk? or just fabricate something out of cardboard lol

 

[savagesam117]

What about something like this? Slightly over budget because of postage

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 250X Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £62.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £36.95
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black £14.99
Total : £312.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 

[tamzzy]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £47.99
1 x Antec VPF450 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.99
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £34.99
1 x Zalman T1 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
Total : £301.44 (includes shipping : £11.25).





right on budget. albeit using a b-grade gpu.
case, hdd included ;p

 

[savagesam117]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £47.99
1 x Antec VPF450 450W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £40.99
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £34.99
1 x Zalman T1 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
Total : £301.44 (includes shipping : £11.25).





right on budget. albeit using a b-grade gpu.
case, hdd included ;p

I totally forget about case and HDD! Thanks ahah

 

[ShivP]

If you went with a b-grade H81M-Plus you could then OC the pentium in tamzzy's spec and save some dolla

 

[matthewsmith12]

surely you wouldnt techically need a case, you could have all the components out on the desk? or just fabricate something out of cardboard lol

yeh we have do have test benches i think we do that instead. dont worry about a case

 

[Jas1975]

Linus and Luke from LinusTechTips did the same (sort of their budget was $300). Might help you pick up some tips. I'd still go secondhand though rather than new.

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