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Luke Burton

Luke Burton

Luke Burton

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Hey guys/girls.

Im currently using a Macbook to play games on but it regularly feels like its overheating. So I have decided to invest in PC. Im wondering if its better to buy a pre-built one or in parts? Ive got monitor-keyboards and mouse so its just the computer itself. I play WoW and CS:GO so anything that can run them smoothly. I guess most can. I play tons of poker with about 12-18 tables at once online so be good to be able run that too.

My budget is £300-400. This possible?

Thanks in advance.

Luke
 
If you have a limited budget then building yourself will get you more for your money as you aren't paying someone else to do it.
I'm sure someone will be along soon with a list for you.
 
For that money you would be better building yourself otherwise ~20% of your budget will be for someone else building it.

Your budget could do with being a bit bigger really.

What monitor do you have ?
 
Done a AMD build:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11222-06-20G) £89.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £46.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £32.99
Total : £426.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Cheaper case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11222-06-20G) £89.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £46.99
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £32.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £30.95
Total : £417.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).



Intel:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11220-00-20G) £115.99
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 Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £46.99
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (100-B1-0500-KR) £43.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £30.95
Total : £418.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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Luke Burton said:
I have BENQ monitors. Would that budget not run them games smoothly then?
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What size monitor(s) and what res.

Yes the builds above would be more than adequate.
My lad has the R9 270 and its awesome for the money.

You could pair it with an athlon and cheaper board but the intel build would be best as you can easily drop a better cpu in when / if you decide to.
 
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI AMD ATI Radeon 7950 Twin FrozR BE 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card **REFURB 90 DAY WARRANTY** (R7950 (GX-274-MS) £79.99
1 x Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £55.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £41.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
Total : £415.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Hex core CPU.
Much better PSU made by Seasonic and has a 5yr warranty.
Much better case with more fans, better build quality etc.
 
stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI AMD ATI Radeon 7950 Twin FrozR BE 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card **REFURB 90 DAY WARRANTY** (R7950 (GX-274-MS) £79.99
1 x Antec TruePower Classic 550w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £55.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £41.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
Total : £415.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Hex core CPU.
Much better PSU made by Seasonic and has a 5yr warranty.
Much better case with more fans, better build quality etc.
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Im liking this one. Thanks.
 
One thing is the board supports maximum speed RAM of 2000Mhz, so the 2400Mhz kit will either downclock automatically if XMP is enabled, or run at 1333/1600Mhz out of the box.
 
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