Which Pre Built system to get.

[Kellogz]

My friend doesnt want to build a PC but i highly recommended him to OCUK he is stuck between the choice of 2 pre built systems and the difference is £50 can anyone expalin which system is superior and why. He wants to play The Sims 4 and FFXIV: ARR and Minecraft.

These are the 2 rigs hes stuck between:

1. Intel Option

2. AMD Option

 

[sweols]

What about mobo/cpu/heatsink and ram pre builds?

If that's not the case, I'd definitely choose a good motherboard and cpu as gpus are all in all easier to upgrade if he wants more lulul later.

Whats his budget?

 

[ShivP]

You can get a spec from someone and then OcUK charge around £60 to build that PC for him

 

[Kellogz]

wasnt aware they would do rig builds from pre specs, his budget is 500-550 he only needs a tower and no OS.

 

[ShivP]

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI AMD Radeon R9 285 Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £54.95
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £44.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Total : £472.39 (includes shipping : £8.00).




That's the lower end of the budget, add £60 on to that

Bit of an upgrade path with the Intel socket + CPU, so could drop a faster CPU and GPU into it in the future

AMD side, likely a bit quicker overall but less of an upgrade path

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £82.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £54.95
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £52.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £44.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01) £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Total : £507.40 (includes shipping : £8.00).




There's also the R9 285 vs 280, personally I'd go 280 for the extra VRAM but not hitting that VRAM limit which you shouldn't do at 1080p then the 285 is a faster card




or drop the SSD and get the fastest CPU out of these 3

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel Core i5 DIY Micro ATX Motherboard, CPU & RAM Bundle £224.98
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280 Gaming 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £54.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
1 x Xigmatek Mach Midi-Tower Black £24.95
Total : £507.41 (includes shipping : £8.00).



No optical drive either as Windows can be installed from a USB now

 

[Kellogz]

Thanks guys will relay this to him now.