Need Help with a PC build roughly around £400-500

[Aakel]

My Friend recently has recently gotten into PC Gaming and has asked me to help her build a new system roughly around the £400 to £500 price margin, all it needs to do is run League of Legends, World of Warcraft and possibly some low spec games. Any thoughts?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Plec]

Is it just the base unit she needs for £500 - or are you after the whole kit-and-kaboodle - i..e. monitor, keyboard, windows?

 

[Aakel]

Is it just the base unit she needs for £500 - or are you after the whole kit-and-kaboodle - i..e. monitor, keyboard, windows?

She could probably get away with the base unit to be honest, then afterwards we can look at possibly upgrading her peripherals somewhere down the line.

 

[lltfdaniel]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £128.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium G4560 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £64.99
• 2 x Asus Prime B250M-K Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £64.99
• 1 x Cougar VTX 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply - Black= £41.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £43.99
• 1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24D5MT SATA ReWriter - Black (OEM)= £13.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS-102 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £22.99

Total: £533.53
(includes shipping: £11.70)




I know for certain that this build will be able to run League of Legends, World of Warcraft and low spec games, dota 2 etc, etc, etc.
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[Aakel]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1050Ti OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £128.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium G4560 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £64.99
• 2 x Asus Prime B250M-K Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £64.99
• 1 x Cougar VTX 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply - Black= £41.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £43.99
• 1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24D5MT SATA ReWriter - Black (OEM)= £13.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS-102 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £22.99

Total: £533.53
(includes shipping: £11.70)




I know for certain that this build will be able to run League of Legends, World of Warcraft and low spec games, dota 2 etc, etc, etc.
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Thanks a lot for that, i'll have a look into it and have a chat with her about it all

 

[mistersprinkles]

CPU
AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor
£95.99


Motherboard
Asus - PRIME A320M-K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
£56.69
Memory https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/5c8997ffc1fb1d8763283766c6d07ac7.256p.jpg
Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
£74.68
https://uk.************.com/mr/morecomputers/BYH48d
Storage https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/0ac8405623f759a935d6b83298c02f10.256p.jpg
Western Digital - Blue 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
£79.68

Video Card https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/b5085de8608652aaa8887a68642fcd36.256p.jpg
Palit - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB StormX Video Card £128.99

Case https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/f2826edd322942d3535117a360fe78ff.256p.jpg
Deepcool - TESSERACT SW RED ATX Mid Tower Case

£34.00 £34.00 [URL='https://uk.************.com/products/power-supply/']Power Supply https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/6ef8c3b4a071123523d11638584c2596.256p.jpg
Corsair - Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply[/URL]

Operating System https://cdn.************.com/static/forever/images/product/c9b365727400c92a7ffcb533826dd224.256p.jpg
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
£82.20

 

[Aakel]

Thank you everyone for your help i'll speak to her about everything and come to a conclusion

 

[lltfdaniel]

Good for £500 i am confident you will have the machine that suits your need here.

 

[Aakel]

Good for £500 i am confident you will have the machine that suits your need here.

Thank you very much! I appreciate your help

 

[ExoMale]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 Quad Core 1200 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £95.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-A320M-DS2 AMD A320 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £65.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (TDPRD48G3000= £79.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £43.99
• 1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24D5MT SATA ReWriter - Black (OEM)= £13.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 560 Pulse 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Bulk= £119.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
• 1 x Aerocool QS-240 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £29.99

Total: £496.62
(includes shipping: £11.70)





Haven't played wow since 2012 just as the panda expansion was realised, but up till then I used to play it all on not even half the performance of this computer and it was a laptop faultlessly on high settings, so you would have no problem running it or the other games.​

 

[Plec]

Tidy spec Exo - the Aerocool is a nice budget case but no optical bay

 

[Aakel]

Lovely, Much appreciated.

 

[Spankme]

Dont forget, if she has a monitor with a vga lead ( basically a flat screen monitor thats about 7 years old) , u will need an adapter to fit the gfx card,

VGA (female) to DVI (DVI-I/DVI-A) Monitor (male) Display Adapter

£3 from your favourite internet auction site

 

[Fire_fly]

I really would spend an extra £5 - £15 on a B350 motherboard. Even a mild overclock can net some decent gains in performance on that R3 1200 and the cooler that comes in the box is fine for a mild OC.

 

[Chaos666]

I really would spend an extra £5 - £15 on a B350 motherboard. Even a mild overclock can net some decent gains in performance on that R3 1200 and the cooler that comes in the box is fine for a mild OC.

i agree ...
Biggest selling point for ryzen 3 is ability to overclock ... why not use it?

 

[mistersprinkles]

I really would spend an extra £5 - £15 on a B350 motherboard. Even a mild overclock can net some decent gains in performance on that R3 1200 and the cooler that comes in the box is fine for a mild OC.

Agreed. I didn't realize until last night that A320 don't OC so much.

 

[ExoMale]

Tidy spec Exo - the Aerocool is a nice budget case but no optical bay

Ha cheers, it's quite handy of AMD to create those R3 1200 processors, ideal for these budget builds and I'm sure that quad is better than the older generations of 4c4t aswell.

Ha I didn't take notice the case didn't have a drive bay, I saw how nice and sleek it looked, but then I only added an optical because the other person did, op might not even need one.