Need Gaming PC for £400

uzairzaidi

uzairzaidi

uzairzaidi

Associate
Joined
31 Jan 2013
Posts
105
Hi guys,

I'm looking to build a gaming pc for a friend of mine.

The PC will require everything including accessories (keyboard, mouse, monitor).

I plan on playing Counter Strike Global Offensive competitively and need a good PC to help me keep up to par with the competition. I plan on playing CS GO at minimum graphics settings and at 1024 x 768 resolution therefore I don't require eye candy but do require it to run at high FPS (200+).

I would greatly appreciate your help here!

Regards,
Uzair
 
uzairzaidi said:
Hi guys,

I'm looking to build a gaming pc for a friend of mine.

The PC will require everything including accessories (keyboard, mouse, monitor).

I plan on playing Counter Strike Global Offensive competitively and need a good PC to help me keep up to par with the competition. I plan on playing CS GO at minimum graphics settings and at 1024 x 768 resolution therefore I don't require eye candy but do require it to run at high FPS (200+).

I would greatly appreciate your help here!

Regards,
Uzair
Click to expand...

Are you aware of a monitor in your price range that supports 200fps? Normal TV programs are 24-29fps. Console gaming is 60fps. 90% of monitors support up to 60fps. 60fps is considered High anyway. Ill spec you for 60fps
 
 
uzairzaidi said:
I think you're thinking 60Hz - which is fine.

I'm talking about in game FPS which I believe does not depend on the monitor. I could be wrong do.
Click to expand...

Either way the monitor would only be able to put out 60fps, so having the gaming running at 200fps would be pointless as the frames physically would not be shown.
 
Also 60hz would be the refresh rate, so for it to display more than 60 images a second it would have to refresh more than 60 times a second which it cannot do.
 
Revised to add Keyboard+Mouse

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x **B Grade** Asus VH192D 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £49.99
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 £43.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £387.86 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
A 60hz monitor refreshes the screen 60 times per second. Therefore, a 60hz monitor is only capable of outputting 60fps. It can still feel smoother to play at a higher framerate than your monitor can display however, because input lag with your mouse will be reduced. You might also start to see tearing though, which happens when your videocard is rendering frames faster than your monitor can display them.
 
Screen tearing looks like this
PJC0iIF.jpg


Its when a higher framerate than your monitor can display is sent to the monitor and it takes the top of one frame, bottom of another.
 
Thanks a lot for your advice and your spec. Also if I use my old LCD monitor is there any significant upgrades we can make in performance for that extra 60 quid?
 
Do you ever build the PC's you say you will?

You mention this is for a friend and then go on to tell us what games you will be playing...
 
uzairzaidi said:
Thanks a lot for your advice and your spec. Also if I use my old LCD monitor is there any significant upgrades we can make in performance for that extra 60 quid?
Click to expand...

What resolution is the monitor? and possibly a Dual Graphics solution. Not the best, but gives decent performance!
 
Here you go;

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x MSI HD 6670 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £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 £43.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £397.86 (includes shipping : FREE).




Run the iGPU and the card together in Dual graphics to get a decent performance boost!

A friend of mine has this setup and it copes with Battlefield 3 on medium at 1920*1080 with 40fps
 
uzairzaidi said:
Thank you so much for the list at the end with the dual graphics card solution. Order has been placed by my mate!

Cheers! :)
Click to expand...

I'd have gone with......

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £45.00
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.95
1 x Gigabyte M6900 3200DPI Gaming Mouse £16.99
Total : £399.89 (includes shipping : £11.75).



The A10K APU is pretty capable, especially if you are at low res. The 6670 even in Hybrid Xfire isn't great value. Considering you can get 2nd hand GPUs like the 1GB 460 or AMDs 6850 for ~£50 that smash it......I really wouldn't buy the 6670.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom