help me spec: £400 first gaming rig

phatboy · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:13

Hi all,

Friend has asked me to help spec'ing up a £400 first gaming machine for his 14 year old nephew

Any help greatly received as always

So far I have put together a G3258 h81 based system with 4gb ram, 1tb drive. Superflower 550w and turbo duo 270x for literally £400 on the nose, could I have done better?

Ta

Ben

stulid · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:14

What parts are needed?

Tower/monitor/os?

phatboy · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:19

Sorry just the base unit without OS, that would have helped wouldn't it

Ta

stulid · 8 Oct 2014 at 23:23

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x "Xenon H81M" Configurable Intel Pentium / Core i3 / i5 Micro ATX Home PC Bundle £44.00
- 1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £62.99
- 1 x No Upgrade - Intel Stock Cooler (None overclocked systems) £0.00
- 1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
- 1 x Standard Build Laptops - Approximately 3 to 5 working days £0.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Arcadia Mid Tower USB 3.0 Case - White £24.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £434.90 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Going to keep playing around as I think there are loads of options.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270 TurboDUO 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £39.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
1 x Raijintek Arcadia Mid Tower USB 3.0 Case - White £24.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £405.85 (includes shipping : £8.00).

phatboy · 9 Oct 2014 at 06:56

Cheers stulid. Glad my thoughts weren't a million miles away, a lot of spec for not a lot of money in those 2 options