Relatively budget gaming (To play BF1, Civ6 etc)

[4p]

Having been out of the 'game' for so long I'm searching here for advice.

Last PC I built must have been 7-8 years ago!

Having a look around I like to look of

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forc...i5-i7-nvidia-gtx-lan-gaming-pc-fs-023-og.html

Used to love mATX cases, can't fathom how a 350W PSU powers it though. Last one I built had at least 700w!

Anyway, rough parameters:

1. Play BF1/Civ6
2. SSD
3. £600 ish budget
4. Future ish proof

 

[Gibliotech]

How about something like this? You can have a mess with the options if you do or don't need something for example I wasn't sure if you needed a copy of windows, or if you did want to spend more money for better performance you could upgrade the graphics card.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x OcUK Kinetic H2 - Intel H110 Configurable Skylake Micro ATX DDR4 Gaming Cube = £638.95
  • Case:Kolink Satellite Micro-ATX Cube Case - Black
  • Memory:Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-17000C13 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK8GX4M2A2133
  • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Unwanted
  • Optical Drive **Please check case support**:Unwanted
  • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
  • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
  • Warranty:OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour)
  • Processor:Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
  • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Samsung 500GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive
  • WIFI:Unwanted
  • Security Software:Unwanted
  • Graphics Card:Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Nitro+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Total: £653.05
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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[mistersprinkles]

Don't buy an i3 for hardcore games. BF1 is definitely a hardcore game. You want a quad core. Haswell quad cores such as the 4460 are cheap right now. H97, 4460, 8GB of DDR3, a decent GPU, and a cheap SSD will get you where you need to go. Yes, it will be a bit over budget, but we are talking about the line between a machine which is not good enough, and a machine which is.

OP the machine you linked with an i5 6500 and a GTX 1060 comes out just over 700. I would suggest a more powerful PSU.