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Freakster

Freakster

Freakster

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Ive been asked to build a Meduim Build Gaming PC for someone. But he has a budget of about £600 (Just for system) with upgrade potential.

What does everyone class as a medium build Gaming pc these days?
And is it possable to have a good medium build for that price?

btw I have my doubts lol
thx
 
Easy.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
Total : £596.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The rig should be perfect for gaming..

Overclock the CPU for more performance and upgrade the GPU over time. :)

Future upgrades:

  • Add an SSD
  • Upgrade the GPU, the PSU will take near enough anything.. Single cards only (not a 7990)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 WindForce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412S CPU Cooler £28.99
Total : £664.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The only advantage apart from being intel is the SLI board.

The GTX 660 is a chunk worse of than the 270X.. The 660 is similar to the 7850 while the 270x is a 7870(XT).
 
You could probably find yourself a used GTX 660ti or maybe even new for slightly more if you wanted that extra powa, and if you didn't need SLI a slightly cheaper board as well (Z87-HD3 from Gigabyte etc, MSI have some cheap ones too.)
 
The reason I didn't pick the HD3 as it doesn't over clock well.

The SLI does a better job and offers SLai too, as the name suggests. :).

You can pick up much better cards secondhand. You can easily get a 7950/gtx 670/680 for £100-£150 secondhand.
 
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