Ziggy455 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 I'm looking to finally build a gaming PC. I'm quite new to the whole thing, so I guess coming here is the smart move. I have a budget of around £400/450 max. I'm looking for something that doesn't have to run top of the line games at max settings. Preferably if it can run Battlefield 4 decent enough I'd be happy with that. I'm wondering if £450 is a decent enough budget? Thanks, in advance. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMcSame Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) £450 just for the machine or does that include peripherals and the os? Edited March 5, 2015 by TheMcSame Ziggy455 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067063957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy455 Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 £450 just for the machine or does that include peripherals and the os? Just the machine. I already have most peripherals and a Windows 8 OS. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067063988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMcSame Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Something like this should do. PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Rn2T3C Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Rn2T3C/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor (£92.34 @ Aria PC) Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£58.52 @ Scan.co.uk) Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£22.84 @ CCL Computers) Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£22.84 @ CCL Computers) Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£139.98 @ Amazon UK) Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£33.85 @ Scan.co.uk) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£39.98 @ Novatech) Total: £449.35 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-05 23:57 GMT+0000 If there's any delivery charges then it'll go over budget a bit but I can't really trim the list down. There's a few pennies that can be saved by getting a Seagate Barracuda but my experience with Seagate (and Samsung HDDs (effectively rebranded Seagate drives)) has been pretty poor. Ziggy455 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067064067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy455 Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Something like this should do. PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Rn2T3C Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Rn2T3C/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor (£92.34 @ Aria PC) Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£58.52 @ Scan.co.uk) Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£22.84 @ CCL Computers) Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£22.84 @ CCL Computers) Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£139.98 @ Amazon UK) Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£33.85 @ Scan.co.uk) Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£39.98 @ Novatech) Total: £449.35 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-05 23:57 GMT+0000 If there's any delivery charges then it'll go over budget a bit but I can't really trim the list down. There's a few pennies that can be saved by getting a Seagate Barracuda but my experience with Seagate (and Samsung HDDs (effectively rebranded Seagate drives)) has been pretty poor. This is great. Thankyou for taking the time to help, mate. Being an absolute amateur, I'm wondering if this setup will play games at a decent rate? This seems like a pretty good setup for 450, and I'll take your word on the Seagate Barracuda though. It's funny you mentioned that because it was my original choice for a hard-drive. I'm curious. What was your issues with it? EDIT: I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte GTX 750 2GB GDDR5 Dual-Link DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card instead of the original Radeon WINDFORCE video card but I'm not sure of its capability compared to the Radeon. Edited March 6, 2015 by Ziggy455 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067064113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMcSame Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 This is great. Thankyou for taking the time to help, mate. Being an absolute amateur, I'm wondering if this setup will play games at a decent rate? This seems like a pretty good setup for 450, and I'll take your word on the Seagate Barracuda though. It's funny you mentioned that because it was my original choice for a hard-drive. I'm curious. What was your issues with it? I haven't used the Barracuda, however, I've had quite a few hard drives fail in laptops that I've owned in the past. Most of which were either Seagate hard drives or Samsung hard drives. The errors mainly consisted of the drives suddenly failing or completely lousy performance, granted 5200 rpm drives aren't fast but it go to the point that it was causing Windows to crash. I still have one of the old drives as I intended to use it as a media drive and it's impossible to look through the drive because it makes Windows explorer crash. I doubt the barracuda suffers from the same faults but it's not something I'm willing to find out. Anyway, I've got to go and do some stuff and then I'll probably be off to bed so I might not respond for a while. Ziggy455 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067064183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) EDIT: I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte GTX 750 2GB GDDR5 Dual-Link DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card instead of the original Radeon WINDFORCE video card but I'm not sure of its capability compared to the Radeon.GTX750 is far slower, GTX760/GTX960 would be an alternative to R9-280. Here's my suggestion: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.94 @ Aria PC) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£47.84 @ Scan.co.uk) Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.90 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC) Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 270 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£110.72 @ Scan.co.uk) Case: Zalman Z3 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case (£26.99 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Antec 550W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.32 @ More Computers) Total: £464.05 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-06 06:42 GMT+0000 Compared to the previous rig it has better CPU and power supply, but also a slower graphics card. ST1000DM003 is a decent hard drive, one of the fastest in its price range. Haven't heard much wrong about it. Edited March 6, 2015 by yojo2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/770773-building-a-gaming-rig-need-help/?do=findComment&comment=1067065323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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