New complete build around £600

[ade555]

Friend of mine asked me to help him build pc for his son, normal would be used for games, newer games like call of duty, assassins ect. but he is on tight budget £600 maybe little over but can't be much, will need everything apart from windows, what do you thing of this and would you change anything? I'm always Intel person so not keen on amd as I would be recommending this to him, the only thing I'm not sure is the cpu, can only gain if I overclock this and upgrade the cooling

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £61.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N960WF2OC-4GD)= £169.99
• 1 x Aerocool Cyclops Advance Midi Tower Gaming Case - Red= £29.99
• 1 x AOC E2250SWDAK 21.5" 1920x1080 TN Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £79.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £37.99
• 1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM= £14.99
• 1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK)= £48.95
• 1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £53.99
• 1 x MARS Gaming MCP0 Gaming Keyboard & Mouse - UK Layout= £14.99
• 1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01)= £31.99
• 1 x Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter= £18.95
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £35.99

Total: £614.50
(includes shipping: £14.70)
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[mickyflinn]

I would get this gpu as and a cooler for the same cost as your gpu, wait till Black Friday and get some deals and purchase then.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N960OC-4GD)= £155.99
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £14.99

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[ade555]

Thanks, I wanted to give him option with amd spec, as I'm not fun of them I never looked in to that but is the anything on market from amd that would touch that Intel chip?

 

[mickyflinn]

This is the cost equivalent AMD spec, the 4300 is a good budget option with for cores but the intel spec can be upgraded all the way to an I-7.

Remeber they are both entry level cpu's.

b]My basket at Overclockers UK:[/b]

• 1 x MSI 970A-G43 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £46.99
• 1 x AMD Piledriver FX-4 Quad Core 4300 3.80GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail= £59.99

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