Spec a PC please

citizenx13 · 4 Oct 2013 at 13:43

Hello all

A friend of mine (developer) is looking to build a all inclusive PC (except a mouse). +- £500 budget.

Monitor 24" and PC, he would like a Intel Chip, i was thinking of one of those water cooling all in one CPU heat sinks, a single GFX card MB with some overclocking capabilities and 8 gig of RAM. The case need not look fancy but have decent airflow and cable management, a SSD and a separate HDD around 1 TB finished off with a OK GFX card nothing fancy but want to try get him away from his console :cool:

and a PSU to hold it all together

All advice would be most welcome and greatly appreciated.

jonnyp1993 · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:06

Thats a lot to ask for 500 squid lol

But im sure somone on here will spec you up.

mickyflinn · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:38

If he goes Amd, they have great onboard graphics which you can game at a reasonable level and for that budget a better option with all your requirements.

joelk2 · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:06

im not shure anyone will manage that on the budget given.

maybe a non overclockable dual core cpu, no ssd and an air cooler you might be somewhere near

joelk2 · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:10

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £119.99
1 x Packard Bell Viseo 243D 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x ASRock B75M Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
Total : £515.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

citizenx13 · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:42

Thank you very much, i will pass this on and see if i can adjust the budget

much appreciated!!

Indie · 4 Oct 2013 at 16:37

You'd never fit Intel, dedicated GPU, SSD, HDD, Monitor and closed water cooler for CPU into a £500 budget.

The above build is probably the best anybody could come up with. Failing that, maybe the AMD APU's would be a better option.

Will he need an Optical Drive, Keyboard and OS too...?

EDIT: Managed to come up with this if its any good....
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £119.99
1 x Packard Bell Viseo 243D 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £49.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £561.22 (includes shipping : £24.45).

OR the AMD APU..

YOUR BASKET
1 x Packard Bell Viseo 243D 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £77.99
1 x Patriot Venom Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (PV38G240C0KRD) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS rev 2 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £41.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
Total : £526.25 (includes shipping : £17.85).