Cheap £500 build

Blinkz

Blinkz

Blinkz

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Howdy folks,

My brother has managed to kill his old PC, and it’s really old anyway so is looking to get a new one. His budget is £500-600 so has been looking at all the usual big brand cheap ready-made stuff from the usual highstreet stores. Mainly seems to be i3-7100 or i5-7400 with 8gb ram and AMD Gfx.

He just wants it for day to day surfing with only very occasional light gaming (mainly CS or TF2 and maybe some RTS)

I’ve not built anything for years and so aren’t up to date with what’s available, what sort of box could I build for his budget? He only needs the base, no screen, keyboard etc.

Thanks for any help!
 
@Blinkz

2400g from AMD has iGPU which is roughly between Nvidia gtx 1030 & 1050 for gaming power
4 cores and 8 threads so should last good while and platform will have a long shelf life .
SSD and HDD, though you'll need to sort out windows and a key for £30 odd

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £486.53 (includes shipping: £12.60)​
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For the money that is a great build.

However, I would change the case for a cheaper one without a glass side panel. There is nothing to see there so it is a needless "extravagance".

Either use the £26 (£13 under budget and you won't need to pay for shipping) and the case saving towards an additional 8GB of RAM or just pocket the entire amount.

If the original Windows is retail, you may able to re use the licence key (or put the money saved towards this).
 
Slightly over £500 - new coffee lake pentiums are quite good for some gaming as they are now dual core with hyper threading, should hugely outperform the system above in gaming, it has more ram, better gfx card, SSD, slightly weaker CPU, very cheapo chassis - re-use current chassis if it's an option.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £553.59 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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