Gaming PC - £550 Budget

edGfaCTor · 7 May 2014 at 16:56

A friend of mine after many years of saying he will be getting a gaming PC has finally put up £550 for one.

He for now will only need the base unit with intention to run these games

Fifa
Football Manager
Total War series
Flight simulator games
Heart Of Iron series

Thanks in advance for any help

edGfaCTor · 7 May 2014 at 17:25

dacads said:
Are OS, monitor & peripherals required?

No he already purchased Windows 7 long time ago when there was deals on web for £35 thinking it would go on his very old laptop.

I am loaning him a monitor/mouse/keyboard for time being.

Plimax said:
If this is for pre-built he wont be getting a good pc for that price

It's me building it for him.

Two nice builds there Stulid are they better then this bundle I spotted on net for £410?

2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda 7200.14 SATA 3 6GB/s 7200rpm 64MB Cache 8ms OEM NCQ
430W Corsair Builder Series CMPSU-430CXV2UK, 80%+ BRONZE Eff' Quiet Fan, ATX v2.3, PSU
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V
Corsair Carbide Series 200R Compact Mid Tower Performance Case with USB 3.0 w/o PSU
Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3, Intel Z87, S 1150, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub (VGA) DVI-D HDMI, ATX
Intel Core i5 4670K, S 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 3.8GHz Turbo, 1200MHz GPU, 34x Ratio, 84W, Retail

edGfaCTor · 7 May 2014 at 18:31

stulid said:
Yes the will be as I dont see a gfx card listed above, only the CPU's built-in gfx.

bundle didn't include graphics card but at £410 I thought that gives £140 for one if that was a better deal.

edGfaCTor · 7 May 2014 at 19:54

Shivy011 said:
That PSU may be a wee bit tight for a GPU though (the £410 bundle)

OK that's a shame looking at separate prices for those parts that bundle did look very good price

I spoke to him and he said he may be able to add bit more so £550-650 budget now for just base unit if that will make a difference.

thanks again for suggestions so far from everyone

edGfaCTor · 7 May 2014 at 21:12

No intel builds in that price range?

edGfaCTor · 8 May 2014 at 00:03

How about this for £650?

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
Powercolor Radeon R9 270X "PowerBank" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive
TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01)
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid Tower Gaming Case (CC-9011050-WW)
Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler
LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

edGfaCTor · 8 May 2014 at 10:33

stulid said:
Looks ok apart from the heatsink uses a small 92mm fan get the next model up.

This any good got £25 to spend on a cooler, needs to go in Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid Tower Gaming Case?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-RT

edGfaCTor · 8 May 2014 at 11:35

I was bit worried corsair site showed it only takes 150mm and that coolers 157mm

edGfaCTor · 8 May 2014 at 13:43

Dazzo said:
I have that cooler on a 8320 in a asus m5a97 evo r2.0 currently using an antec 300 case.

Great temps with the set up as well, really pleased for the price of the cooler!

Shame it doesn't appear to fit the case and I don't know which other case option to choose for around £43 mark