Home PC for £600?

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Hello Clockers, I am back and after your kind advice again please.
Looking to build a Windows 7 (64bit) machine for normal home use and the odd "normal tasks".

I would like the freedom to add GPU for gaming later on.

Can you help meet my budget please? Intel if possible, but no worries with AMD.

I will need everything including mouse, keyboard and monitor.

In essence I want to be able to transform this this machine to a reasonable gaming/ video editing rig just by adding GPU later. Thanking you in advance.

All costs for this build excluding GPU is £600.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung S22C300BS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Rose Black £99.95
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £86.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £41.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
1 x Gigabyte M6800 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £8.99
Total : £705.71 (includes shipping : £19.10).



its an intel build so a little over budget, but it should be good if you want to add a gpu for gaming however you may need a bigger psu if you ever add a second gpu
 
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hakank68 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung S22C300BS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Rose Black £99.95
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £86.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £41.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
1 x Gigabyte M6800 1600DPI Gaming Mouse £8.99
Total : £705.71 (includes shipping : £19.10).



its an intel build so a little over budget, but it should be good if you want to add a gpu for gaming however you may need a bigger psu if you ever add a second gpu
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thank you for that...looks very interesting as an option for sure
 
Personally for what you want I'd recommend AMD, purely to spend a bit less on the CPU.

With Intel, you're stuck at spending around 1/3 of your budget on a single component, in order not to be crippling yourself with a dual-core CPU.

From what I've read up, the AMD / Intel CPU's trade blows in performance tasks with AMD winning some and Intel winning others, at the same price point, up until it comes to games - where AMD gets somewhat destroyed by Intel.

So if you're building a gaming rig - get an i5! For a multipurpose rig, I'd recommend spending closer to £100-120 on AMD, and getting the benefit of reasonable graphics built-in.
This chip could be ideal for you:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-327-AM

Some of the reviews mention what games it'll play, without requiring an actual graphics card.
 
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