£650 Gaming PC

[BloodOmen]

Nephew is now 15 and wants to venture into the world of PC gaming, his mother had give him a budget of £650 for his first gaming PC, that doesn't include monitor/mouse/keyboard costs.

Give me your suggestions for that price, not a £1 over, it 100% must be £650 as she's rather strict with him

Needs to be some what future proof, able to run battlefield 4, call of duty and what not.

 

[Moriath]

Just the base ?

Try config on www.cougar-extreme.co.uk

 

[Litmus]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-XF

just build it around that. . 4670k and 8gb team should do. . And if the gfx card is to expencive get a 280x or smt

 

[BloodOmen]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-XF

just build it around that. . 4670k and 8gb team should do. . And if the gfx card is to expencive get a 280x or smt

can't really build around a 290 with a £650 budget, i've tried, i came up with this but not sure what it'd do for him. It should in theory run everything that's out atm on near max settings.

Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card£149.99
(£124.99)£149.99
(£124.99)

AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail£117.95
(£98.29)£117.95
(£98.29)

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B)£74.99
(£62.49)£74.99
(£62.49)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733)£73.99
(£61.66)£73.99
(£61.66)

EVGA SuperNova NEX 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply£59.99
(£49.99)£59.99
(£49.99)

Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD£56.99
(£47.49)£56.99
(£47.49)

MSI 970A-G43 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard£45.95
(£38.29)£45.95
(£38.29)

Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW)£44.99
(£37.49)£44.99
(£37.49)

Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM

£638 total

 

[Gwadien]

Get the SDHD you told me to get mate, it's worth it, for a very similar price.

 

[ECA]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/k2mBzy

£644 with no OS ( assuming you can acquire one for him ).

Pretty fucking beast pc as well, that haswell refresh cpu is £127, but outperforms a 2500k, so its cheap but a beast

Downsides - stock cpu cooler - not really a problem, but extensive video encoding would suck

I wouldn't bother with an optical drive. Havn't used mine in years.

Will easily run any current game @1080p @ ultra.

 

[Scouse]

@BloodOmen have a look here for ideas.

 

[BloodOmen]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/k2mBzy

£644 with no OS ( assuming you can acquire one for him ).

Pretty fucking beast pc as well, that haswell refresh cpu is £127, but outperforms a 2500k, so its cheap but a beast

Downsides - stock cpu cooler - not really a problem, but extensive video encoding would suck

I wouldn't bother with an optical drive. Havn't used mine in years.

Will easily run any current game @1080p @ ultra.

Aye looks solid, as for me "Acquiring" an OS for him, I don't do that game anymore i'm totally legit these days. Seems to boil down to the same parts though, ones you linked or the ones I linked, doesn't seem like much give with £650 budget.

 

[ECA]

If you compromise on much from those specs you'll see a big performance drop unfortunately. I'm sure you could save £15-20 on the case/psu, but that still leaves you £30-40 short for a legit copy of windows 8.1

 

[Hawkwind]

Student version of 8.1 is 49.99 direct from MS Store. So build your PC for 600.

 

[Litmus]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bbcbzkv92c6ci8/Untitled.png

bit of spare cash. . But no o/s, and get a free ssd with that gfx card atm

 

[BloodOmen]

Cheers chaps, it does indeed look like the 8350 / 280 combos are the ones thats doing it, told her what to buy for him. Hopefully it last him a few year before he has to worry about upgrading it.

 

[Litmus]

They going to get this spec pc? Thinking getting my brother something simular for Christmas

 

[BloodOmen]

he's going to get it aye, no idea how future proof it is and frankly I couldn't give a rats arse, its his mothers money

 

[Litmus]

its as future proof as poss imo unless you want to spend an extra £400 on cpu/gpu. But that's the best you can get for the money

 

[Gwadien]

its as future proof as poss imo unless you want to spend an extra £400 on cpu/gpu. But that's the best you can get for the money

Aye, my policy is if you're going for 'budget' get a good CPU and a average GPU and then you can alternate the upgrades, which should effectively save you money in the long run.

 

[Litmus]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-to-release-three-new-fx-processors-for-september.html


Might be worth waiting until price drops

 

[Rubric]

Lose the monitor and keyboard on this change the processor for an I5 and add a gfx card. Job done.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/rubric/saved/Tjdrxr

 

[caLLous]

Aye, my policy is if you're going for 'budget' get a good CPU and a average GPU and then you can alternate the upgrades, which should effectively save you money in the long run.

I agree with you (good CPU and lesser graphics card if on a budget) but along with a CPU upgrade you have to factor in the possibility that you will need new motherboard and RAM as well. And honestly a "good" current CPU is never going to be a bottleneck. So get the best CPU you can afford (because it will last as long as the rest of the machine) and scimp on the graphics card if necessary then bung a better one in when have the money.