school/light gaming £500

adey · 15 May 2014 at 09:40

A friend of mine wants me to build his son a school/light gaming rig for £500

He has a 1080p tv in his room so needs everthing else inc drives and OS.

I have been looking at a AMD 6300/R270 setup or APU based systems but cant decide which way to go, any ideas?

adey · 15 May 2014 at 19:39

seems the budget has dropped to £400

Just done a quick spec around a A10-6800k with a 1tb hdd and win7 mini ATX for £389. (i think will work but i'm not up on APU's)

Can anyone do any better?

adey · 15 May 2014 at 21:49

Thank you, I was really unsure where APU's are concerned.

adey · 15 May 2014 at 22:48

hmm after looking at your build i scraped togther a fx 4300 build together for £400 on the nose, would you that be prefered to the intel chip?

adey · 17 May 2014 at 15:51

thanks tammzy, i went with your build (or close to it) as i could always drop a quad core in at a later date