Spec me a Minecraft PC!

Pulsedriver · 3 Jun 2015 at 17:50

Hey folks, this is for a friend that I will build for them, I have never played Minecraft so I am not sure what kind of spec it generally needs, let's assume highest quality details turned on etc.

Budget is ideally £350 or less

Regarding HD, SSD would be nice but depends on how it fits in spec price.

No OS, monitor, keyboard or mouse is required for this build, and the case is to be a small case (the cube shape style ones)

Thanks in advance!!

ginjaninja · 3 Jun 2015 at 18:11

does minefield require a pc even?

byo at this spec is hard to get value over off the shelf

ExRayTed · 3 Jun 2015 at 22:50

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deano-5 · 3 Jun 2015 at 22:53

I would consider a AMD apu for this

CEUOTC · 4 Jun 2015 at 00:06

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Kurgen · 4 Jun 2015 at 09:06

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Pulsedriver · 4 Jun 2015 at 15:21

Thanks guys,

I went with a custom build very similar to CEUOTC suggestion but with a i3 / r5 270 and mini itx setup, it was above the budget, but still ordered as impossible to get it lower.

Thanks for your help