Gaming Rig £350 Spec please

treefutom

treefutom

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I'm in need of a gaming rig for around £350

Will be mainly used to play teamfortress2 and blackops 2, I know It wont be able to play on ultra settings so just the best spec possible please.

Dont need keyboard, mouse or OS.

Do need Monitor and wireless.

thanks a lot
 
just paid more for a mb / ram and cpu, so price range and gaming rig might need to change title, for £350 a value setup at best would cost more, sorry.

at least a £100 out your budget would be for a monitor, so doesn't leave much at all

as you want a full system?
 
Something like this should be ok I think? however I will bow to anyone with greater knowledge than me (which tbh will be most people lol)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £79.99
1 x Benq G950A 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £59.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £54.98
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-DGS AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite Power 500W Power Supply £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
1 x Edimax EW-7722UTN 300Mbps Wireless-N Mini-Size USB Adapter £15.98
Total : £384.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
nice spec and good price tbh, u spent the time as i didn't for that lower budget, congrats. i sometimes forget that not everyone has money to burn on there hobiies :(

so sorry treefutom for that, spec above will be be good for the price, have fun with it and upgrade at a later date if needed
 
Sorry but, you would need about £450 to build a 'Decent' gaming rig, you're better to go for a console with that money.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Benq G950A 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £59.99
1 x Asus F2A55-M LK AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046) £36.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £19.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
1 x TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN781ND) £10.98
Total : £364.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).




This is my version of the build above with a few changes :)

Will do an intel build in a minute.

Cam.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £75.98
1 x MSI HD 7750 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
1 x Benq G950A 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £41.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046) £36.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £19.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN781ND) £10.98
Total : £433.48 (includes shipping : £10.50).



Intel Build. More expensive but more futureproof. This may be able to be tweaked to be even better and could do with a better PSU (both builds could) but I THINK they will be ok. However, if you can stretch, it is worth getting a better PSU for your build :)

Hope this helps,
Cam.
 
I just don't think you can get a full gaming PC for that money. A decent CPU, mobo, memory cost me like 300. Plus gfx card plus tft plus all the rest of the gubbins. Its going to be difficult to build a good PC that can play newish games on half decent settings and get half decent fps.
 
Since my idea of playing on a console seemed to get brushed to one side here are a couple of quick builds.

Intel Build:YOUR BASKET
1 x PNY GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £59.99
1 x Benq G950A 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £41.99
1 x MSI H61M-P31-G3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £34.99
1 x Antec VP350P 350W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £23.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
1 x Tenda W311MI Wireless USB Network Interface Card – Nano Dongle – 150 Mbps £6.49
Total : £364.88 (includes shipping : £11.25).




AMD Build:
YOUR BASKET
1 x PNY GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £59.99
1 x Benq G950A 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £59.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 740 3.20GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD740XWOHJBOX) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £41.99
1 x Antec VP350P 350W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £32.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £23.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
1 x Tenda W311MI Wireless USB Network Interface Card – Nano Dongle – 150 Mbps £6.49
Total : £379.88 (includes shipping : £11.25).





Notes

There is only one of those graphics cards in stock and it is refurbished (but does come with 1yr warranty). If it goes out of stock you will need to go to the 768mb version or switch to the HD 7750

You may also want to consider a slightly larger case like the Xigmatek Helios so you have a bit more space to work inside the case.

If you don't have a DVI to VGA cable for the monitor then you'll need one like THIS

You may be able to find the odd part cheaper elsewhere but OCUK is the cheapest for everything in one go because the RAM, GPU and monitor are all absolute bargains.
 
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