Gaming PC for £600

JamesU2005 · 10 Dec 2017 at 19:33

Been out of the PC building game for over 5 years now, so now have no idea what the best CPU or GFX Cards are anymore

Can anyone spec me a budget Gaming PC for £600? Don't need a monitor at this stage.

Would need everything included in the price i.e. heatsink, extra fans, case etc.

Thank you!

EDIT: Also if it's worth waiting a few weeks for anything i.e new CPU/GPU release then let me know.

marco.da.man · 10 Dec 2017 at 19:45

there this for you then later you can upgrade ram etc, alittle over budget but you could always go for cheaper case

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99
1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Window= £64.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99
1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1050Ti Expedition OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDPGD48G300= £98.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £89.99

Total: £691.13 (includes shipping: £13.20)

JamesU2005 · 10 Dec 2017 at 20:11

Looking like a good start. A little over budget though. Where would you save costs?

orbitalwalsh · 10 Dec 2017 at 20:24

Not as strong GPU wise as above but £600 , leads to adding i5/i7 K in the future

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z370P D3 Intel Core Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £119.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £91.99
1 x Hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS250G32TND-N1A0A)= £79.99
1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £31.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 D5 Mini 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £119.99

Total: £604.23 (includes shipping: £12.30)

orbitalwalsh · 10 Dec 2017 at 20:29

JamesU2005 said:
Looking like a good start. A little over budget though. Where would you save costs?

Drop case to £24-35 one, drop ram to team group Vulcan and that's £40 saved . Dropping Samsung to £10 cheaper brand brings you up to £50 .
Couldn't drop to Ryzen 1200 as Intel i3 coffee lake is now quad core and i3 8100 can keep up with Ryzen 3 when gaming , beat in no heavy thread related games

marco.da.man · 10 Dec 2017 at 20:40

JamesU2005 said:
Looking like a good start. A little over budget though. Where would you save costs?

as orbitalwalsh has suggested above, you could maybe cheaper gpu too

4K8KW10 · 10 Dec 2017 at 20:42

JamesU2005 said:
Been out of the PC building game for over 5 years now, so now have no idea what the best CPU or GFX Cards are anymore

Can anyone spec me a budget Gaming PC for £600? Don't need a monitor at this stage.

Would need everything included in the price i.e. heatsink, extra fans, case etc.

Thank you!

EDIT: Also if it's worth waiting a few weeks for anything i.e new CPU/GPU release then let me know.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
1 x MSI B350M Pro-VDH AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £71.99
1 x Hynix SL308 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS120G32TND-N1A0A)= £49.99
1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £57.95
1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
1 x Raijintek Arcadia Mid Tower USB 3.0 Case - White= £26.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £91.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 560 Pulse 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail= £115.99

Total: £645.18 (includes shipping: £12.30)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
1 x MSI B350M Pro-VDH AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £71.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 570 Pulse ITX 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £194.99
1 x Hynix SL308 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (HFS120G32TND-N1A0A)= £49.99
1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £57.95
1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
1 x Raijintek Arcadia Mid Tower USB 3.0 Case - White= £26.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £91.99

Total: £725.08 (includes shipping: £13.20)

orbitalwalsh · 10 Dec 2017 at 21:39

marco.da.man said:
as orbitalwalsh has suggested above, you could maybe cheaper gpu too

If OP can stick with Ti as much as possible

JamesU2005 · 10 Dec 2017 at 22:57

Thanks for the options here guys.

Quick questions:

What do you mean by Ti?

Also do you think I'll need an aftermarket CPU cooler for this build?

Quartz · 10 Dec 2017 at 23:21

JamesU2005 said:
Been out of the PC building game for over 5 years now,

What do you have right now? The Intel i5-2xxx CPUs are still decent, especially if overclocked. It may be that all you need is a new GPU.

orbitalwalsh · 11 Dec 2017 at 08:59

JamesU2005 said:
Thanks for the options here guys.

Quick questions:

What do you mean by Ti?

Also do you think I'll need an aftermarket CPU cooler for this build?

sorry, gtx 1050ti if you can afford it in budget - is worth the stretch over gtx 1050/rx 560

Tom898 · 12 Dec 2017 at 02:59

marco.da.man said:
there this for you then later you can upgrade ram etc, alittle over budget but you could always go for cheaper case

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte GA-AB350-Gaming 3 AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £86.99

1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Window= £64.99

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £139.99

1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99

1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1050Ti Expedition OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99

1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDPGD48G300= £98.99

1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £89.99

Total: £691.13 (includes shipping: £13.20)

Good spec for the price, probably worth slightly stretching as this is a really solid build

Depending on how much you value the looks/price of the case, perhaps could switch to something like this to bring it down to ~£650

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £31.99

Total: £43.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)

John Guilas · 12 Dec 2017 at 06:17

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