Nor have I - but some people swear by them.
But then I only use a controller for driving games - otherwise i'm keyboard and mouse all the way. That's why my xbox is a glorified driving simulator... oh, and bomber man with the kids
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But then I only use a controller for driving games - otherwise i'm keyboard and mouse all the way. That's why my xbox is a glorified driving simulator... oh, and bomber man with the kids
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Thanks for the ideas guys. Are these prices for built systems that I can use straight away?
Unfortunately not. They're individual components i compiled which you would need to assemble yourself.
You would have to add on another £50-£100 for someone to build - unless you have a tech savvy friend.
you are better off buying used and heres some examples of why and what you could get.. i live in devon so these are within 100 mile radius, so they just for ideas.
Amd FX 6300 - 6 core running at 4ghz water cooled by corsair cooling loop
16gb Quad channel hyperX fury red DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte GTX 960 4gb windforce OC edition with back plate destroys every game with ease
256gb SSD drive super fast
MSI SLi Mobo usb3 ect
£400
.Gigabyte Ultra Durable Motherboard
.Intel I5-4670K quad core CPU (3.40 GHz)
.8GB DDR3 RAM
.AMD Radeon R9 200 series - 270x 2GB dedicated memory Graphics card
.500GB Hard drive and 240 GB SSD
. 64 bit Windows 10 Pro
£400
Case: Sharkoon VG5-W - £38
PSU: EVGA 500W (not pictured) - £39.99
Wifi Card: TP-LINK TL-WN781ND - £10
Graphics Card: GTX 960 - £120
RAM: 4gb x 2 (8) Corsair Vengeance - £59.98
CPU: i7 2600k - £117.00.
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth p67- £139.99
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo: £24.95
Total: £550
£400 list price.
I7 3770 3.4ghz
1tb hard drive.
12gb ddr3 memory 1600
Radeon r9 200 3GB DDR5 graphics card.
NZXT Phantom Gaming case.
Fresh installation of Windows 10 with office and a few clean up tools.
Displays 4k movies and plays games in 4k.
£375
4100 amd quad core @3.6ghz
760gtx graphics card
500gb hard drive
8Gb ddr3 1333hz
Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit
£300
Specs are:
Nvidia GeForce gtx 950
Windows 10
Amd Athlon II x4 640 processor
10 gb ram
£300
CPU Intel(R)Core(TM)i7CPU9503.07GHZ
Ram 16GB Dual Channel DDR3
Motherboard AsusTek Computer Inc Sabertooth X58
Graphics card 2048 MB Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
£250
theres more at lower priced and in between 300-400, but im not going to make a list that big for examples lol, you will find a lot of the 6 core AMD based builds and certain APU systems more than intel for the price unless you in a good area. neither of these will be better than the build suggested above, but for your budget they would do the job just fine. well as i look at again, maybe they will better in some cases, i know the haswell i5 be better than the pentium G
Amd FX 6300 - 6 core running at 4ghz water cooled by corsair cooling loop
16gb Quad channel hyperX fury red DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte GTX 960 4gb windforce OC edition with back plate destroys every game with ease
256gb SSD drive super fast
MSI SLi Mobo usb3 ect
£400
.Gigabyte Ultra Durable Motherboard
.Intel I5-4670K quad core CPU (3.40 GHz)
.8GB DDR3 RAM
.AMD Radeon R9 200 series - 270x 2GB dedicated memory Graphics card
.500GB Hard drive and 240 GB SSD
. 64 bit Windows 10 Pro
£400
Case: Sharkoon VG5-W - £38
PSU: EVGA 500W (not pictured) - £39.99
Wifi Card: TP-LINK TL-WN781ND - £10
Graphics Card: GTX 960 - £120
RAM: 4gb x 2 (8) Corsair Vengeance - £59.98
CPU: i7 2600k - £117.00.
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth p67- £139.99
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo: £24.95
Total: £550
£400 list price.
I7 3770 3.4ghz
1tb hard drive.
12gb ddr3 memory 1600
Radeon r9 200 3GB DDR5 graphics card.
NZXT Phantom Gaming case.
Fresh installation of Windows 10 with office and a few clean up tools.
Displays 4k movies and plays games in 4k.
£375
4100 amd quad core @3.6ghz
760gtx graphics card
500gb hard drive
8Gb ddr3 1333hz
Windows 8.1 pro 64 bit
£300
Specs are:
Nvidia GeForce gtx 950
Windows 10
Amd Athlon II x4 640 processor
10 gb ram
£300
CPU Intel(R)Core(TM)i7CPU9503.07GHZ
Ram 16GB Dual Channel DDR3
Motherboard AsusTek Computer Inc Sabertooth X58
Graphics card 2048 MB Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
£250
theres more at lower priced and in between 300-400, but im not going to make a list that big for examples lol, you will find a lot of the 6 core AMD based builds and certain APU systems more than intel for the price unless you in a good area. neither of these will be better than the build suggested above, but for your budget they would do the job just fine. well as i look at again, maybe they will better in some cases, i know the haswell i5 be better than the pentium G