Looking for best rig for gaming (£400 - £500)

[lukerill]

Hey all! Looking for some rigs from overclockers that are the best for gaming for their price that include Windows 10 (£400 - £500)

Want to play all new games without lag or changing graphics settings (Medium/Default)

Dont need anything else except monitor

Will also need a monitor that is quite cheap (£80 or below) that can handle 1080p at 1920 x 1080

Thanks all!!

 

[mickyflinn]

Is the budget to include the monitor and will you be building the pc ?

 

[lukerill]

Budget does not include monitor and i'd prefer not to build it but i can.

 

[lukerill]

Id also like to have atleast 2tb storage

 

[mickyflinn]

At that budget and all your requirements you wont get anything from overclockers, take a look.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-systems/configurator/gaming-pc

 

[mickyflinn]

Now if you build it yourself you get a lot more.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA200)= £53.99
• 1 x Silverstone Strider Essential Bronze - 500W (SST-ST50F-ESB)= £39.95
• 1 x Zalman T1 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black= £19.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
• 1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible= £14.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00C= £31.99
• 1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £41.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £85.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon R7 370 Dual-X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11240-06-20G)= £109.99

Total: £490.57
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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[lukerill]

Was thinking about getting this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tita...o-atx-gaming-pc-fs-149-og.html#t=b3c1d1f6j0k5

What games could it run and on which quality?

 

[cheesyboy]

Was thinking about getting this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tita...o-atx-gaming-pc-fs-149-og.html#t=b3c1d1f6j0k5

What games could it run and on which quality?

It's alright, but I would downgrade to 8Gb Ram, and upgrade to a R9 280. You'll get much more gaming mileage from a better GPU than from more memory.

I'd also downgrade to a fx-6300 (you can easily overclock it to match the 6350), and increase budget slightly to get a primary 120GB SSD and have the 2TB drive as secondary.

With all that, you'd be looking at medium setting for most new games at 1080p. Games tend to default to a recommended setting for your hardware, so you shouldn't have to fiddle too much. You'll always have to mess about a bit if you want to optimise performance to your preferences (do you favour smooth frame rates, or eye-candy; do you insist upon a good level of AA over other graphical effects etc etc) - it's a budget system so compromises will be necessary.

 

[mickyflinn]

Dam hit the configarator selection and then gaming, apologies lukerill, Good advice from cheesyboy but i think he means R9 380 not 280 just a type error.

 

[cheesyboy]

Dam hit the configarator selection and then gaming, apologies lukerill, Good advice from cheesyboy but i think he means R9 380 not 280 just a type error.

Good spot, you're right

It was less a typo, though, and more a brain-fart. Difficult to move on from prior years' nomenclatures

 

[lukerill]

Ok, is there anything I can build myself that is equivelent to

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tita...y0@slPy0VslQy1+smby25slRy1$slSy1?slTy1/smay1w

but is cheaper?

Thanks