pc capable of light gaming for £300?

shatpank81 · 20 Jun 2014 at 21:27

Hi
Looking to build a cheap and cheerful pc capable of playing TWD, Football manager, the wolf among us etc.
Would prefer the pc to be as small as possible
I already have ssd, hdd, mouse, keyboard and a windows 7 licence
Will be played on a tv so no monitor either

Can it be done for £300?

Jinxter · 20 Jun 2014 at 21:53

So you're after a barebones mini pc with graphics on chip perhaps HD4000? Something like an Intel NUC D34010WYKH HDD i3 Haswell Barebone Mini PC might suffice for your requirements and budget.

Jinxter · 20 Jun 2014 at 21:55

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-008-IN

This is more powerful with the i5 - either way you'd have to also buy some sodimm memory modules...

shatpank81 · 20 Jun 2014 at 22:46

Just after a small pc that is capable of playing like i stated
Perhaps small was wrong word, i am happy to have like a htpc case or even a case similar in size to the xbox one etc
Do u think one of these nuc pc's would be suitable for playing any type of game?

Jinxter · 20 Jun 2014 at 22:55

shatpank81 said:
Just after a small pc that is capable of playing like i stated
Perhaps small was wrong word, i am happy to have like a htpc case or even a case similar in size to the xbox one etc
Do u think one of these nuc pc's would be suitable for playing any type of game?

Probably not anything too graphically demanding unless they're older titles or games you're willing to compromise on with lower settings. But for the games you mentioned the onboard should be adequate.

jamiehavok · 21 Jun 2014 at 11:37

You could probably fit in a haswel pentium dual core and a decent gpu like a radeon 265 or nvidia 750ti in for that budget, would give uch better performace for light gaming than say a 7850k apu

edit ok nearer 400 as you need an expensive cube case to fit a gfx card and still be small, you can cut a fair bit off with a standard tower case tho!

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 750Ti OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N750Ti-2GD5/OC) £107.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus M Micro ATX - Black £72.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-D2V Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £42.95
1 x Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £41.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
Total : £385.31 (includes shipping : £11.25).

if you can stretch to 400 though something like this is worth it imo.