pc build for £500

Menthis · 14 Jan 2014 at 15:41

Hi all,

Friend has asked me to help him spec a PC and just asking for some of your guidance really. PC will be primarily used for Video/photo editing and slight bit of gaming. Does not need to include a monitor or mouse/keyboard. Has a budget of £500 to spend. Obviously if the price is lower then more than happy

Thanks all.

stulid · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:30

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270 "BF4 Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £56.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x AeroCool Sixth Element Full Tower Case - Black/Blue £39.95
1 x Akasa AK-CC4013EP01 Nero 3 V2 Premier CPU Cooler £25.99
Total : £517.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

If he needs an OS then you can get a 90 day Win8.1 trial.

Or up the cpu to an eight core (with a better board to handle it) and use a clearance GFX card,

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x **B Grade** MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-188-MS) £79.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x AeroCool Sixth Element Full Tower Case - Black/Blue £39.95
1 x Akasa AK-CC4013EP01 Nero 3 V2 Premier CPU Cooler £25.99
Total : £510.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

SiDeards73 · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:37

Surely you may aswell just buy the new top of the range AMD APU Stulid? as it comes with a 270 built into the chip?

cheesyboy · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:39

SiDeards73 said:
Surely you may aswell just buy the new top of the range AMD APU Stulid? as it comes with a 270 built into the chip?

It's more like a 7750 (the not-so-good DDR3 version)

SiDeards73 · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:41

ahhh ok, thought it was better than that

stulid · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:42

Its not goreat and a FX eight core Piledriver will smash it at these tasks.

Another option is the six core FX and GTX650 Black Knight card with a bigger 2TB HDD,

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £63.95
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £56.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CW) - Blue Light £55.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x AeroCool Sixth Element Full Tower Case - Black/Blue £39.95
1 x Akasa AK-CC4013EP01 Nero 3 V2 Premier CPU Cooler £25.99
Total : £484.26 (includes shipping : £17.85).

GFX card change as per below post.

Danny75 · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:52

I'd go for Stulid's second build. By the time your friend upgrades the video card he'll have a more solid foundation in place.

Just noticed that the MSI 650 is same price new as B-Grade, by the way:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99