build a gaming pc for £450 - £500

[Jadarite]

Hi all i was just wondering if it was posable to build a gaming pc for £450 - £500 useing a sharkoon T9 case (white edition) £46.66 and if so what components would be your choice for this type of build?

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

i build my first rig for £350 xDD most parts were second hand, and i dont count monitor in as i used my hdtv originally.

 

[Master&Puppet]

I'd suggest a budget of £600 (+ case, monitors and peripherals) for a complete budget system with punch that will last. It would look like this:

CPU - AMD FX 4100 (£90)

MOBO - Gigabyte 990xa-ud3 (£90)

RAM - Corsair vengeance low profile 2x8gb 1600mhz (£40)

PSU - Corsair TX650 (£75)

GPU - AMD 7850 (£175)

SSD - Mushkin Chronos 60gb (£60)

HDD - 1tb WD caviar green (£70)

There is some wiggle room though but you have to make sacrifices.

You can save £45 by getting a gtx 560.

Save another £30 by getting a cheap (but this can be risky) psu.

Also you might not need all that storage space and might not need the feel of an SSD. In that case just get a small HDD (160-320gb) for £30-60 which saves another £70-100.

All those options take you as low as £425 but I'd definitely try keep the psu as a priority in those three options, then you want to have the best GPU you can get hold of and lastly worry about HDD/SSD speed. These are nice but make little impact in gaming.

There's also the secondhand market too which might save a few more £s.

 

[seumasbeathan]

This is what I would suggest

CPU - Intel i3 2120 (£90)

MOBO - MSI Z77A-G43 (£75 )

RAM - Corsair vengeance low profile 2x8gb 1600mhz (£40)

PSU - Corsair CX600 (£55)

GPU - AMD 7850 (£175)

HDD - 500gb WD caviar green (£50)

 

[SEBAR]

[sup]The best I could come up with for under 500.[/sup]

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For 550 you could have an I5-2500K system Of course you could choose similar products for a little less but not enough to make a big difference.

 

[shadowlewis]

id say go for an amd phenom II x4 cpu i have the 965 works for me then get an old 5770 that shouldnt cost too much hope it helps

 

[Master&Puppet]

CPU - Intel i3 2120 (£90)

MOBO - MSI Z77A-G43 (£75 )

The intel is better performance per core but you can overclock a 4100 to 4.2 ghz (maybe more) on stock volts and cooler and then it kicks the i3's ass. Only reason to go intel is if there a plan to upgrade to an i5 in which case there needs to be more spent on the mobo otherwise you end up buying 2 of those as well.

id say go for an amd phenom II x4 cpu i have the 965 works for me then get an old 5770 that shouldnt cost too much hope it helps

965 is good too although they are getting pretty hard to come by. The FX is everywhere and I'd choose it over the phenom because it overclocks so easily...

 

[Jadarite]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Thank you to eveyone for their suggestions as this has been a big help when compiling the following list, I am now wondering if anyone could suggest any alternatives to maximise this build list [/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 Socket AM3+ 7.1 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard £88.06[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]WD 500GB Caviar Green SATA-III 3.5" Hard Drive £55.00[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Sharkoon T9 Case - White Edition £46.66[/font]

AMD FX-4170 AM3+ 4.2GHz 12MB 125W £99.99 or ([font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]AMD FX-4100 AM3+ 3.6GHz 12MB 95W £84.98 and save £15.01)[/font]

Samsung SH-S223 22x DVD-RW SATA OEM (Black) £11.98

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Corsair 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU £49.99[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance Blue DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 LP £36.05[/font]

Sapphire Technology ATI Radeon 7770 HD 1120MHz 1GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI OC £95.35

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Delivery costs £0.99[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Total cost £484.07 (£469.06)[/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Or the same as above but with a Asus GeForce GTX 560 810MHz 1GB PCI-Express HDMI DirectCU £131.98 instead of the Sapphire 7770 OC[/font]

Total cost £520.70 (£505.69)

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Thank you[/font]

 

[SEBAR]

THis looks really good. The only thing you could do is upgrade the CPU but that would add to the cost.

 

[.Griff.]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Thank you to eveyone for their suggestions as this has been a big help when compiling the following list, I am now wondering if anyone could suggest any alternatives to maximise this build list [/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]AMD FX-4100 AM3+ 3.6GHz 12MB 95W £84.98[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 Socket AM3+ 7.1 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard £88.06[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]WD 500GB Caviar Green SATA-III 3.5" Hard Drive £55.00[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Sharkoon T9 Case - White Edition £46.66[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Corsair 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU £49.99[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance Blue DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 LP £38.98[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]MSI ATI Radeon 7770 HD 1020MHz 1GB PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI OC £137.98[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Delivery costs £0.99[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Total cost £502.64[/font]

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Thank you[/font]

I would definitely swap the GPU. The GTX560 can be found cheaper and it's also a more powerful card. A GTX560 Ti is only a few quid more as well.

 

[Jadarite]

ok so i've updated the list what do people think of it and is their any alternatives you could suggest?

 

[Master&Puppet]

Yea I'd go for a 560. They are a little more power hungry but noticably more powerful. I consider the 77xx series to be more like a multimedia card than a gaming card.

The fx4170 is a 4100. It is just that AMD have done the overclocking themselves. Save the £15 and do it yourself!

Otherwise perfect

 

[jamesriley94]

Agreeing with Master&Puppet, the 4170 is a 4100 that's been overclocked, so forget that.

The phenom 965 is currently on offer with overclockers though: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-253-AM

They always seem to have stock there!

Also, I think the 7770 is fine. You'll be able to game absolutely fine on it, and 2 of them crossfire really well, if you wanted to add another at a later date. The 560s may have issues in SLI with your power supply, whereas the 7770s probably wont.

Other than that, good build!