Really small budget build help

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Hi everyone,

I used to be a part of this forum years and years ago but completely forgot my login so started a new one.

I am only working a few hours a week ATM and to fill my spare time I'm hoping to build a PC for some VERY light gaming (Minecraft and DayZ standalone) I literally won't be using it for anything else.

I know what I need to build a computer but I've never really been able to learn what's what with how good things are.

I have come up with a spec which I hope is good enough for my needs, may need a little tweeting (with the help of you lovely people)

I have the pc case (ATX), OS, Keyboard, Mouse and will use my TV as a monitor until I can afford a proper one.

I am hoping to upgrade once I start working more hours again but not until another game is released that I want to play enough to upgrade.

I am not too fussed about high settings or anything but the higher the settings the better.

my spec is as follows:

Motherboard MSI A88X-G43 FM2+ AMD A88X DDR3 ATX
processor AMD A6-6400K 4.1GHz FM2 1MB Dual-Core Processor, Richland Core, AMD Radeon HD 8470D
HDD Sandisk 64GB SSD SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive
RAM Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) HyperX Fury White Series 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIM
Graphics card MSI GeForce GT 630 810MHz 4GB PCI-E 3.0 HDMI
power supply EVGA 430W White 80PLUS Certified PSU

This build comes to £280 inc. delivery, a little more than I was hoping to spend but I'm hoping it'll be worth the little extra.

I have only gone for 64GB of SSD as I will only have the OS, Minecraft and DayZ installed on it and have an external HDD for anything else I may need.


Any suggestions are welcome and thank you for your help in advance

Murray
 
Pretty much everyone who buys a 64GB SSD fills it and ends up buying a bigger one. At least go to 120GB.

I'm not really confident that spec will play DayZ smoothly - maybe someone else can confirm/deny.
 
why go AMD old cpu intel is better for dual core processors:

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x MSI GeForce GT 630 4096MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £49.99
1 x SanDisk Pulse 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDP-064G-G25) £36.98
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £29.99
Total : £281.53 (includes shipping : £8.00).



billysielu said:
Pretty much everyone who buys a 64GB SSD fills it and ends up buying a bigger one. At least go to 120GB.

I'm not really confident that spec will play DayZ smoothly - maybe someone else can confirm/deny.
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its totally fine for this game and 64 GB SSD is a good start and he said he has external HDD for everything else...
 
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thank you for your replies, I think I may go with your spec if you say intel is better, couple of questions;

Would it play Minecraft and DayZ ok on this?
If I put my budget up to £300 max, what would you put the extra £20 towards? (if it makes any difference, don't worry if not)

thank you very much for your help
 
 
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this may seem like a stupid question, the motherboard has on-board graphics and the CPU has integrated HD graphics, does this mean I could get away with not buying a graphics card for now? will the two games still work on low settings?

thanks :)
 
The integrated graphics on the G3258 are Intel HD, fine for Minecraft but won't cut it for DayZ.

This is a compromise build with integrated graphics on the CPU, I would have spec'd the A8 7600 but OcUK do not appear to stock it as it is £50 cheaper than the 7850k:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £124.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H AMD A88X Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £29.99
Total : £326.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Dayz SA isn't light gaming lol

mickyflinn said:
The 7770 destroys the 230 at gaming a larger SSd and a better psu.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £49.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £47.99
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
Total : £305.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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good build, you wont get much better for the price

NOTE : I had a 7770 it ran at 100% when playing dayzsa, with a amd fx6100 at stock, now have a r9 270x which runs at about 60% with cpu at 4Ghz
 
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