Sub £400 mid-range Gaming Pc..Possible?

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Hi everyone,

Nice one. It's been years since I've built a PC but my son would like an upgrade to his system. He has all the usual bits and bobs; mouse, monitor, keyboard, etc, so I'm on the lookout for a new unit for him to play his steam games.

I'm looking for something like this spec.

AMD Athlon 4.30GHz
2 GB Radeon R9 270X
1 TB HDD
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
DVD/CD Writer

If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would love to hear them.
Thanks in advance.;)
 
At that budget, drop the DVD drive. I know they are cheap but they are also pointless these days :)

What processor do you have listed there?
 
Nice one. There is hope.

Thanks for the replies.
Obviously it is doable then.

£250 is brilliant cyanide, and it gives me hope of getting a fairly decent budget PC for £400.

The processor is an AMD Athlon II X4 750K 4.00GHz Quad Core Processor, rtho782. I suppose I could drop the DVD drive and install windows from usb.

Cheers.
 
 
 
FixupSellon said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £404.59
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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What a strange choice of parts.

So you would rather spend more on a case+PSU and compromise the CPU+GFX card performance?
 
He plays (or tries to play) whatever's on the go. He recently bought Fallout 4 (who didn't) and his PC really struggled. It didn't even entertain Arma III.
 
Delboyoyo said:
He plays (or tries to play) whatever's on the go. He recently bought Fallout 4 (who didn't) and his PC really struggled. It didn't even entertain Arma III.
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ArmaIII sucks anyway and is poorly optimized.

Fallout4 runs fine on an i5 and if you avoid using ultra quality GFX settings you may find the 750Ti copes, but try and get the best card you can afford.
 
stulid said:
What a strange choice of parts.

So you would rather spend more on a case+PSU and compromise the CPU+GFX card performance?
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it was an alternative and a suggestion of a small form factor and modular power supplies are better more so and from what ive read the r7 360 is better? i wasnt trying to be biased because i have the gtx 750(non ti like you specced) myself along with the 4160..

maybe a cheaper case and r7 370?

by all means if i5 in budget then get that and not to say the 360 be any better, but from online analysis my computer would only run Fallout 4 on average, so i wouldnt have thought the i5 improve much ;)
 
FixupSellon said:
it was an alternative and a suggestion of a small form factor and modular power supplies are better more so and from what ive read the r7 360 is better? i wasnt trying to be biased because i have the gtx 750(non ti like you specced) myself along with the 4160..

maybe a cheaper case and r7 370?

by all means if i5 in budget then get that and not to say the 360 be any better, but from online analysis my computer would only run Fallout 4 on average, so i wouldnt have thought the i5 improve much ;)
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http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html

i5 3470 (same core speed) is nicely ahead of the i3 CPUs in Fallout4 and thats just one game;)

Also looking at the 1080P gfx results the 750Ti is similar to a 270X which as we know was renamed into the R7 370;)

Modular PSU are handy when dealing with larger wattage units that have 10+ cables coming of them, not lower end ones which do tend to have less cables+connectors.
 
 
 
stulid said:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html

i5 3470 (same core speed) is nicely ahead of the i3 CPUs in Fallout4 and thats just one game;)

Modular PSU are handy when dealing with larger wattage units that have 10+ cables coming of them, not lower end ones which do tend to have less cables+connectors.
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and rightly so, but that results is using a 980ti not a car thats like 4 times cheaper and weaker ;)..

tbh only psu ive had that was modular and came with computer was the HX1000, but that was huge and in a huge case, dealing with many sff type systems, a modular wouldve been better than a normal due to space and air flow, so i personally wouldnt suggest such a ball ache lol.


edit: i didnt see the 2nd page, tbh looking at the list, regardless of budget i would feel disappointed spending the money for below 40 fps and a fairly priced game, mean i know you cant please every game, but still..
 
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FixupSellon said:
added the TI version and cheaper case


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £420.08
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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That cheaper ASUS board doe not have an internal USB3.0 header making that feature on the case unusable;)
 
stulid said:
That cheaper ASUS board doe not have an internal USB3.0 header making that feature on the case unusable;)
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lol my bad, but then i suppose i would just choose for the majority that dont use usb 3 ;). i have the M-Plus version which does have the usb 3 ports, but i only use the front one(only 1 on my case) because my enclosure has usb 2 and usb 3 connections and i have a wireless adapter in the 2.0 otherwise i wouldnt even bother..
 
FixupSellon said:
lol my bad, but then i suppose i would just choose for the majority that dont use usb 3 ;). i have the M-Plus version which does have the usb 3 ports, but i only use the front one(only 1 on my case) because my enclosure has usb 2 and usb 3 connections and i have a wireless adapter in the 2.0 otherwise i wouldnt even bother..
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I use USB3.0 all the time anything else is just painfully slow;)

At least Cyanide added something useful (increased GFX power+small SSD) with the reduced i3 CPU;)
 
stulid said:
I use USB3.0 all the time anything else is just painfully slow;)

At least Cyanide added something useful (increased GFX power+small SSD) with the reduced i3 CPU;)
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my build wasnt useless, it just obviously wasnt the best of the bunch ;) and tbh ssd on that build budget seems pointless, best off with a nice big hdd and spending more on gpu..

i know the 950 is new and cost more, but i didnt think it be any better than the 750ti?


edit: usb2 not that bad really, but other than this enclosure i have nothing nor see anything useful to me to use usb3 until everything goes usb3.
 
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