PC spec for basic gaming

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Hi guys

Its been a while since I have played games on PC and want to buy a pre built 2nd hand or brand new basic setup costing not more than £300-£400. I want to know what specs will run games like BF4 & CSGO as I am not too worried about playing the latest games on high detail so just enough to cover playing general games at a smooth fps.

Systems I have seen generally tend to be an I5 Processor and GTX 660 or similar. I would like to know what minimum specs I should be looking for and which graphics cards are good to go for?


Thanks in advance
 
If basic gaming is all you are after, you should be golden really. Most advice would be spend a good wedge on a gpu but if you aren't that fussed you should be fine. Budget £25-40 for a case, £35-40 for a psu, £100 for a motherboard, £50 for a processor, £50 for RAM and the rest for GPU. You can pick up a 1TB HDD for £40 and a cooler should be no more than £35 really.

An example PC you could build might be something like this:

Case: Nova Midi £26.99
PSU: EVGA 500W 80 plus £36.95
Motherboard: Second hand x58 board £90-150
CPU: i7-930 or Xeon 5650 £30-65
Cooler: Second hand Megahalems or similar £35
RAM: 6gb triple channel or 8gb dual if supported £25-35
HDD: Free if you have a spare or £35 for a seagate 1tb
GPU: Second hand HD7970 £120

So £398.94 on the cheap end and a shade over £500 if you saved and spent a bit more. That's fairly conservative. If you tried hard I reckon you could take at least £50 of all those final costs. X-58 is still a really capable chipset. If you oc you won't run into any issues surrounding bottlenecking, even with the latest cards. Good luck whatever you decide however! :)
 
Thats handy to know thanks very much... is there a good website where I can see GPU benchmarks just to compare... because there are so many out there its hard to tell what will do a good job and what won't?
 
£100 quid for a motherboard, that seems a bit too much for a budget system imho.

That being said I agree with trying second hand with that budget but I'd probably go second hand with 4 times that budget too, that just me though :D
 
Stovepipes said:
£100 quid for a motherboard, that seems a bit too much for a budget system imho.

That being said I agree with trying second hand with that budget but I'd probably go second hand with 4 times that budget too, that just me though :D
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I agree, £100 is a lot, but that's what X-58 boards go for these days. Having said that, you can get a hex core Xeon for 60 quid to go with it, and where can you get that kind of power all in for that cheap? It's on a par with something like a 4970k for £160. Can't say fairer than that. Guess the cost of the mobos is just testament to how over designed x58 was! :)
 
Thanks for the input guys... just doing a lot of research before going ahead and buying so I don't end up with a pc that doesn't work like my last build haha. Wasted a lot of money and don't wish to do that again. Looking for a prebuilt preferably so just keeping my eye on what comes along.
 
Why prebuilt? with your budget you really want to assemble it yourself, every pound counts.

By the way what's wrong with your last build?
 
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