Get the absolute most out of £300 budget

[cfcboy77]

so ive got some friends and family who are interested in me building them their first desktops for home use.

They dont have to be power houses (obv wont be for £300) but would look for something to play most games at at least half decent settings.

Ive so far managed to just about squeeze in this build

Case - £25
Probably something in the region of a 7770 - roughly £90
PSU 500w (?) - £30
DVD R/w - £10
HDD 500gb 7.2k - £40
MEM - 4gb - £35

Leaves me roughly £70 to get a mobo/cpu?? Maybe pick up a mobo for £35 but cant see myself getting a half decent cpu for £35?? lol

Any suggestions on a build would be greatly appreciated.

 

[tamzzy]

you'd need an os as well
thought about going 2nd hand?

 

[cfcboy77]

ah man lol, how did i forget os !

Yes, 2nd hand would be fine as well. I can do the builds but just trying to get an expectation of budgets. Its 5 family members so far and they each said willing to pay £300.

They all coming from beat up old windows 95/vista boxes so they are looking for upgrades. They have kids around 10-13 so will be looking for some gaming capacity. Granted they wont be running Bf4 in ultra but want to give them some room for use.

I guess i want a good family generic build but with that added bit of kick for gaming...if that makes sense

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Second hard maybe something like my old build:

Phenom 965 build may be worth it, they can be picked up around £30-40.
Look at a 6950/6970 second hand, or 7850 region... £80?
Simple motherboard, I have an Asrock Extreme3 with my Phenom. £40?
450W or 550W PSU.

 

[snips86x]

Cheap & chearful, grab a 2nd hand OS:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus F2A85-M PRO AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £69.95
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EARS) £48
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £31.99
1 x Antec New Solution Series NSK-3180 Mini-Tower - Matte Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £286.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Faster RAM giving better results when gaming:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus F2A85-M PRO AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EARS) £48
1 x Antec New Solution Series NSK-3180 Mini-Tower - Matte Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £310.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 

[Tom B]

Do they already have a monitor?

 

[DaleTheWhale]

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £125.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Antec New Solution Series NSK-3180 Mini-Tower - Matte Black £29.99
Total : £309.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



If you can source a DVD drive & OS to use, this will be the most powerful.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x Antec New Solution Series NSK-3180 Mini-Tower - Matte Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £290.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Better APU & better/cheaper HDD from Snips spec, cheaper board as well.

 

[cfcboy77]

Will worry about screens a bit later, i think most already have something in place that will suffice.

Snips / Reaper, just going to go through your specs but so far they look very good mate! Cheers

 

[cfcboy77]

Also, how is the APU tech working out? Would these builds be able to run games like Thief, BF4 in some kind of capacity? Thanks again guys

 

[Milanolatino24]

**Removed**
No selling outside of the Members Market.

 

[snips86x]

.............

That's not something you should be advertising outside the MM, you'll end up with a holiday!! (suspension)

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Also, how is the APU tech working out? Would these builds be able to run games like Thief, BF4 in some kind of capacity? Thanks again guys

Youtube has plenty of videos showing these apu's in bf4. They are pretty good for the budget imo!

 

[snips86x]

Youtube has plenty of videos showing these apu's in bf4. They are pretty good for the budget imo!

If you ever pair with a discrete graphics card, you'll get better results!

 

[cfcboy77]

Yes agree there, gives them room to install a PCI card at a later date?

 

[Milanolatino24]

**Removed**
No selling outside of the Members Market.

to sell something i would have had to mention a price. i did not.

i was merely stating a fact

 

[Milanolatino24]

That's not something you should be advertising outside the MM, you'll end up with a holiday!! (suspension)

please read above

 

[snips86x]

to sell something i would have had to mention a price. i did not.

i was merely stating a fact

please read above

Mods/Doms didn't see it that way! You mentioned you had an item for sale, this is strictly forbidden outside the MM!

 

[Milanolatino24]

nightmare

 

[JohnnyG]

If you wish to sell something you have to do it via the Members Market - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/faq.php?faq=vb_user_maintain#faq_vb_use_cookies

This is to help protect both the buyer and the seller.