Help me build a budget gaming rig.

spoony77 · 17 May 2013 at 13:22

Hi people
I have a max budget of £450 to buy a tower used mainly for gaming and video editing.
Only using a resolution of 720p so not too graphically intensive.
Need case, cpu, board, ram, hdd, gpu only.
Would like to run modern games full eye candy if possible.
Any help appreciated.

squarehead94 · 17 May 2013 at 13:31

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-185-MS GPU 161
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-172-AN PSU 36
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-132-CR RAM 39
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-BX case 32
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-103-SE&groupid=595&catid=671 HDD 45
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-555-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261 Board 77
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-366-IN&groupid=701&catid=6 CPU 90

Total: 470. little overbudget but i recommend a new PSU with a new build. Gpu is a good one.
Board allows you to go to a 2500k/2600k if you desire later on.
Apologies for lack of basket post, on public pc with no access to it

Idleman · 17 May 2013 at 13:48

What Psu do you currently have?

squarehead94 · 17 May 2013 at 13:59

Idleman said:
What Psu do you currently have?

Never thought of asking this, good point. because if you have an alright PSU atm, thats another 36 quid towards other parts. maybe grab a z77 board and if you can stretch to 500, you could get an i5 too.

spoony77 · 17 May 2013 at 14:24

No psu at the mo, starting from scratch.

Ethermaster · 17 May 2013 at 15:26

A Budget AMD build with SSD?

CPU is an AMD APU and gaming ready out of the box, it does alright in games (DX11) maybe a bit of let down in the video encoding dept tho.....

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD580KWOHJBOX) £91.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A2133C11R) £59.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £36.98
Total : £440.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Or an Intel (over budget I know but this socket will be dead in a few weeks), but it does offer much better performance overall.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £149.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £473.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Lemin · 17 May 2013 at 16:04

Why no dvd-rw ? do people not use them anymore.

PowerPie5000 · 17 May 2013 at 16:11

I'd put the largest part of that budget into the GPU... It doesn't matter what motherboard you get for a gaming rig as a £50 board is likely to perform similar to a £200 board at stock clocks (you won't notice any real world difference)... You obviously won't have as many features or OC capabilities, not that i'd recommend OC'ing with a budget board anyway. You'd be better off going for the cheapest 'value' type RAM you can find too, although faster RAM would be preferable if using an integrated GPU.

Idleman · 17 May 2013 at 16:28

Forgot you needed a hdd.

If you decide to get the Foxconn mobo, you need to ask OCUK to update the bios for the IB Cpu. Unless you have a SB cpu you can use to update the bios yourself.

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £129.95
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £92.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-257-SE) £45
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £40.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £39.95
1 x Foxconn H67M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £449.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Memory on today only special price.

Ethermaster · 17 May 2013 at 18:47

Lemin said:
Why no dvd-rw ? do people not use them anymore.

I haven't used an optical drive in years .... to be honest I don't know anyone that uses an optical anymore.

PowerPie5000 · 18 May 2013 at 00:16

Ethermaster said:
I haven't used an optical drive in years .... to be honest I don't know anyone that uses an optical anymore.

I still use them and currently have LG blu-ray drives in both my PCs... I still have quite a few games on disc and prefer to buy them on disc whenever i can.