Hi,
I'm going to be building a low budget gaming PC for around £350-£400 and I'm wondering whether this will give me some OK speed. I don't need anything fancy, just a reliable PC that will run at a good speed.
Here is what I could find.
AMD A8 5600k Socket FM2 3.9GHz 4mb Cache. £74
AsRock FM2A75M-DGS Motherboard 6xSATA. £45
Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer RAM 4GB 1866MHz £24
Toshiba 3.5" 1TB SATA Hard Drive £49
Liteon iHOS BD-ROM £27
Corsair Builder Series 430w 80+ PSU £35
Fractal Design Core 1000 mATX Case £25
I will also be adding Windows 7/8 for £70
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Will this give me OK FPS or should I go for an AMD Atholn/Phenom and get a REALLY cheap GPU?
Thanks, Richard.
* AMD A8 5600k is 3.6GHZ not 3.9GHz
Looks ok mate.
Whereabouts were you looking at buying from so we can check what they have on offer?
Thanks. Amazon.co.uk and Ebuyer were the sites I used, all of the prices I used were from Amazon UK because they have free one day delivery at the moment.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/191ln (£390 it will blow away a APU)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£39.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7790 1GB Video Card (£119.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£34.97 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHOS104-06 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Drive (£24.99 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £390.30
Thanks. Is there any graphics card about £50 cheaper? As I forgot to mention the OS is included in my budget... Looks great though.
How about this? its a little over £404 with windows
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/191rh
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£59.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£23.00 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.00 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card (£84.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Force 500 ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply (£34.97 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHOS104-06 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Drive (£24.99 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £404.31
That PC looks really good mate thanks. Seems worth spending that little bit more for the quality parts.
Also is it worth overclocking?
You can overclock a little with that mobo if you get a extra cooler but i have used a Phenom II X4 965 before at stock and it runs great there isent realy a need to.
Thanks a lot for your help mate:)