Help me spec a full PC please

[spacedskunk]

Hi

My friend is looking to spec a tower for the sole purpose of play and twitch streaming PokerStars which is app/web-based. His initial budget is £200-300 but after convincing him this will be difficult considering it's a fresh build with no operating system he's pushing it to £350 JUST for the tower alone without OS. I spend that alone on my GPU so I'm literally not the right person to ask when it comes to budget.

I'm looking at an AMD APU build, but this was my preliminary thought. The A10-7870K is £110 which is right on the money and I assume would be capable of the task at hand?

I'm a bit stuck.

 

[sweols]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x "Recon Anniversary" Intel Pentium K G3258 @ 4.20GHz Dual Core Value Gaming Bundle= £210.00
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £39.95
• 1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £55.99
• 1 x Kolink Satellite Micro-ATX Cube Case - Black= £26.99

Total: £344.63
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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[snips86x]

You could drop the A8 and get a trinity CPU which would bring you under your £350 budget. Fast RAM will assist the GPU on the chip but if he's not gaming, this may not be required and could do the above (drop to the Trinity)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £39.95
• 1 x Kolink Satellite Micro-ATX Cube Case - Black= £26.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 AMD A68 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £39.95
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8)= £38.99
• 1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £55.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
• 1 x AMD Kaveri A8-7650K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail= £71.99

Total: £365.55
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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[spacedskunk]

You guys have given me some good ideas, thanks. Snips; yours actually has Windows in yours selection already so it's actually well in budget too. Choices, choices. Do you think the Intel CPU and it's intregrated graphics would cope with Twitch streaming and the poker game? In my head it isn't a massive task, I just have no experience when it comes to streaming.